Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Khan Iftekharuddin

1105D ENGINEERING SYSTEMS BUILDING
NORFOLK, 23529

Dr. Iftekharuddin obtained his B.Sc. degree from Bangladesh Institute of Technology in 1989. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. both in electrical engineering from the University of Dayton in 1991 and 1995 respectively.

Dr. Iftekharuddin was a principal research engineer at Timken Research, Canton, OH before joining to NDSU. There he was involved in research in signal and image processing, neural networks applications, time-frequency analysis, sensors and embedded system design. Prior to Timken, Dr. Iftekharuddin was a senior systems engineer at BDM Federal in Dayton, OH. There he was involved in software development, software process improvement, and automatic target recognition (ATR) research.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Dayton, (1995)

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Dayton, (1991)

B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh Institute of Technology, (1989)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Quantitative Image Modeling for Brain Tumor Analysis and Tracking" $1,600,000. Federal. May 2016 - April 2020
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Graph-based representations and multifidelity machine learning for anthropometrics-based human identity recognition" $450,000. Federal. April 2017 - March 2020
Xin, C., Li, J., He, W. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. "REU Site: Cybersecurity Research in a Multidisciplinary Environment" $360,000. Federal. March 1, 2017 - February 29, 2020
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Quantitative Image Modeling For Brain Tumor Analysis And Tracking" $400,000. Federal. June 1, 2016 - February 29, 2020
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Estimating Road Inundation Levels Due to Recurrent Flooding from Image Data" $150,000. May 2017 - August 2018
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Automation & Testing of In-Situ Tool Wear Prototype" $41,850. Other. March 1, 2017 - December 28, 2017
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "LiDAR for Air Quality Measurement" $200,000. June 2014 - September 2017
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "REU Supplement to Collaborative Research: High Performance Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent" $8,000. Federal. August 2015 - May 2017
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Collaborative Research: High Performance Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Network based Pattern Recognition" $400,000. Federal. June 2013 - May 2017
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "CCAM In-Situ Tool Wear Measurement" $66,725. Other. February 9, 2016 - February 28, 2017
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Development of In-situ Tool Wear Measurement" $83,000. State. August 2015 - October 2016
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Full Motion Video Analysis for Human Characterization and Activity Analysis" $44,070. September 2013 - August 2016
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Mapping Experimental Flight-Test Results Using Sub-Scale Aerial Vehicles to Full-Scale NAS Operational Environment" $249,999. September 2014 - June 2016
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "REU Supplement to Collaborative Research: High Performance Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Network based Pattern Recognition" $16,000. Federal. June 2014 - May 2016
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Collaborative Research: Development of Super-Resolution and Real-time Optical Nanoscopy for Biomedical Research" $38,000. Â鶹¹ú²úAV. January 2015 - December 2015
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "3D facial expression and visual stimuli analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Multidisciplinary Seed Funding" $48,000. Â鶹¹ú²úAV. January 2014 - June 2015
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Transportation for Livability by Integrating Vehicles and the Environment (TransLIVE)" $3,500,000. January 2012 - January 2015
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Chatman, M. "Breast Mammogram Segmentation and Visualization Research, Mentored Research for Undergraduate student" $2,500. Â鶹¹ú²úAV. 2013 - 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Overhead Image Segmentation and Labeling" $63,000. Federal. May 2013 - September 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Digital Receiver Technology" $142,776. September 2012 - August 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Wind River's System's University Partner Program: Workbench Developers Toolkit 2.2.2 Linux Edition" $500,000. August 2010 - August 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. " A proposal for brain tumor research grant development" $2,000. Â鶹¹ú²úAV. August 2012 - July 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Innovative Computing in Engineering and Medicine Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program" $5,000. Â鶹¹ú²úAV. August 2012 - July 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Multiresolution-Fractal Modeling of Brain Tumor" $425,714. Federal. July 2010 - June 2013
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "High Power Laser Radar System for atmospheric research" $90,000. Federal. June 2012 - 2012
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Collaborative Network for Bio-motivated Smart Vision and Pattern Recognition (SVPR) Systems" $5,140. July 2011 - June 2012
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Analysis of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Data for Glaucoma Discrimination" $66,624. January 2009 - October 2011
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Integration of Radar Data with Various Sensory Modalities for Robust Identification and Decision Support" $100,968. July 2010 - June 2011
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Wind River's System's University Partner Program: VxWorks Developers Toolkit 2.2.1, VxWorks Edition" $457,000. August 2007 - August 2010
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Complex Warfare Systems" $200,000. July 2008 - June 2010
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Visual Pattern Recognition for Biometric and Biomedical Applications" $6,500. August 2008 - June 2009
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Grid-to-grid neural networks for innovative pose invariant face recognition" $115,199. Federal. April 2007 - September 2008
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Improving Medical Utility of Fractal-Based Techniques in Detecting Small Cancerous and Hard-to-detect Abnormalities" $6,500. July 2007 - June 2008
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Robot Vision: A Proposal for Object Characterization in Autonomous Tug Project" $59,268. May 2006 - June 2008
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Improving sensitivity and specificity of fractal-based brain tumor and abnormality detection" $80,000. July 2005 - December 2006
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "A multiresolution wavelet-fractal approach to abnormal tissue identification in brain MR images" $202,501. January 2002 - June 2005
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Developing Effective Strategies and Performance Metrics for Automatic Target Recognition" $66,811. October 2001 - April 2004
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Wind River's System's WindLink(TM) University Partner Program" $258,500. January 2001 - January 2004
Swenson, O., Campiglia, A., Rogers, D., Patterson, F. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Optics for Scientists and Engineer Laboratory Course" $74,016. April 2001 - March 2003
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Virtual Computer Organization Laboratory" $5,000. July 2001 - June 2002
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "A biologically inspired model for distortion-invariant recognition" $20,834. May 2001 - June 2002
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Infrastructure Development for Intelligent Image Recognition Research" $15,000. April 2000 - April 2002
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Effect of parametric variations in synthetic radar imagery" $25,847. July 2001 - December 2001
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Content based Image Alignment for x-ray Images" $6,000. June 2001 - December 2001
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Applicability of digital watermarking for satellite imagery" $15,000. June 2000 - February 2001
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Design and test of a Repeater for connecting 2 CAN network links" $400. January 2000 - 2000
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "High temperature SiC pressure sensor research" $2,920. March 2000 - 2000
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Motorola PowerPC boards" $7,500. October 2000 - 2000
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Data analysis and algorithm development for smart bearings - phase I" $59,516. January 1999 - December 2000
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Data Analysis and Algorithm Development for Smart bearings - phase II" $43,888. January 2000 - August 2000
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Laboratory configuration for enhanced student learning" $1,000. January 2000 - June 2000
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "A travel grant for research initiation on microsensor application in ice detection" $1,000. August 1999 - April 2000
Marsh, R. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. "An unconventional non-invasive approach to cancerous tumor detection: 3-dimentional fractal geometry" $5,000. February 1999 - March 2000
Marsh, R. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. "A proposal for cross-compilation-based lab development" $2,000. February 1999 - 1999
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Project #0011611, Rolling mills sensorization" $145,000. 1998 - 1999
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Applications of neural networks in traffic analysis - phase I" $10,972. April 1999 - September 1999
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "A proposal for cross-compilation integration in improvement of the course: Computer Organization (COMP/EE 374)" $1,500. January 1999 - June 1999
Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Project #0010126, Data collection and prototype algorithm development for conditioning monitoring of automotive bearing - phase I" $100,000. 1997 - 1998
Glower, J. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. "Serial-parallel interface bus monitor II" $400. February 1998 -

Research Interests

Research interest: Signal and image processing, neural networks applications, time-frequency analysis, sensors and embedded system design, cybersecurity

Articles

Witherow, M. A., Elbakary, M. I., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Cetin, M. (2018). Analysis of crowdsourced images for flooding detection. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics 27 , pp. 140-149.
Samad, M. D., Diawara, N., Bobzien, J., Harrington, J. W., Witherow, M. A. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). A feasibility study of autism behavioral markers in spontaneous facial, visual, and hand movement response data. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
Hawes, A. H. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). An improved silhouette for human pose estimation. SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Shboul, Z. A., Reza, S. M. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Quantitative MR image analysis for brain tumor. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics 27 , pp. 10-18.
Vidyaratne, L. S. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Real-time epileptic seizure detection using EEG. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering 26 (11) , pp. 2146-2156.
Ahmed, S., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Vossough, A. (2011). Efficacy of Texture, Shape, and Intensity Feature Fusion for Posterior-Fossa Tumor Segmentation in MRI. 15 , pp. 206-213.
Kozma, R., Wang, L., Iftekharuddin, K. M., McCracken, E., Khan, M., Islam, K., Bhurtel, s. R. and Bhurtel, R. M. (2011). Multi-Modal Radar-Enabled Sensor System Integrating COTS Technology for Surveillance and Tracking.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2011). Transformation Invariant On-Line Target Recognition. Networks, , pp. 906-918.
Tivive,, F. H., Bouzerdoum, A., Phung, S. L. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2010). Adaptive Hierarchical Architecture for Visual Recognition. 49 , pp. B2.
Awwal, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A., Neifeld, M. and Stork, D. A. (2010). Convergence in Optical and Digital Pattern Recognition. 49 , pp. DPR1.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Julia, F. and Islam, A. (2010). Dialog Act Classification Using Acoustic and Discourse Information of MapTask Data. 9 (4) , pp. 289–311.
Ren, Y., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and White, E. (2010). Large-Scale Pose Invariant Face Recognition Using Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Network. 49 (B92).
Shaik, J. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2009). Automatic Detection and Tracking of Targets in Infrared Images. 4 , pp. 832–842.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Zheng, J., Islam, M. A. and Ogg, R. J. (2009). Fractal-based Brain Tumor Detection in Multimodal MRI. 207 , pp. 23-42.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Frigui, N. (2008). A Robust Spatial Domain Binary Signature Watermarking Technique. 11(W09) , pp. 13- 34.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Li, Y. and Siddiqui, F. (2007). Biologically inspired computational model for automatic target recognition. 5 (1) , pp. 7-10.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Razzaque, M. A. (2005). Analytical derivation of distortion constraints and their verification in a learning vector quantization-based target recognition system. 44 , pp. 067202.
Zook, J. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2005). Statistical analysis of fractal-based techniques in brain tumor detection. 23(5) , pp. 671-678.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Jia, W. and Marsh, R. (2003). A fractal analysis of tumor in brain MR images. 13 , pp. 352-362.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2003). Detection and tracking of rotated and scaled targets by use of Hilbertwavelet transform. 42 , pp. 4718-4735.
Awwal, A. S., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Juday, R. D. (2003). Optical pattern recognition algorithms, architectures and applications: introduction to feature issue.. 42 , pp. 4647-4687.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2002). Harmonic wavelet joint transform correlator: analysis, algorithm and application to image de-noising. 41 , pp. 3307-3315.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S. and Salam, M. A. (2001). A Signed Digit Adder Using Electronically Addressable Spatial Light Modulator. Optical Engineering 40 (11) , pp. 2442 – 2445.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Awwal, A. A.S. (2001). Optical Computing Systems, Materials and Devices. 40 , pp. 2369 – 2370.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2000). Orthogonal wavelets in nonlinear speckle reduction for improved target recognition. 39 , pp. 1211-1217.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Awwal, A. A.S.. (2000). Optical Computing Arithmetic and Systems. 38 , pp. 389 – 390.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Awwal, A. A.S. (1999). A Graphical Approach for Multiple Valued Logic Minimization. 38 , pp. 462-467.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S. and Chowdhury, A. M. (1999). Characterization of Intensity-Coded Multivalued Logic Circuit Implementation. 38 , pp. 508-513.
Karim, M. A., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Diab, S. (1998). Scale and translation-invariant detection of targets varying in fine details. 37 , pp. 876 - 883.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Das, K. (1997). Heterodyne detection using hexagonal pixel geometry. 36 , pp. 7023 -7027.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Ahmed, F. and Karim, M. A. (1996). Amplitude-coupled MACE for automatic target recognition applications. 35 , pp. 1009-1014.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A., Eloe, P. W. and Awwal, A. A.S. (1996). Discritized amplitude-modulated phase-only filter. 28 , pp. 93-100.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Awwal, A. A.S. (1996). Optimization of Amplitude-Modulated Inverse filter. 24 , pp. 103-112.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Tuthill, T., Karim, M. A. and Jemili, K. (1996). Wavelet pre-processed amplitude modulated phaseonly filter for recognition applications . 35 , pp. 2088-2093.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Schechinger, T., Karim, M. A. and Jemili, K. (1995). A feature-based wavelet neural net for optical character recognition. 35 , pp. 3143 - 3150.
Alam, M. S., Karim, M. A., Zheng, S. H. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (1995). Study of field-of-view overlap for night vision. 8 , pp. 190-193.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1994). Butterfly interconnection network: design of multipliers, flip-flop and shift register. 33 , pp. 1457-1462.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Jemili, K. and Karim, M. A. (1994). Comparison between optical interconnection processors: Folded perfect shuffle and 3-D butterfly. 26 , pp. 265 - 270.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Detection of noise-free and noisy signal: effect of different staring focalplane-array pixel geometry. 32 , pp. 2649-2656.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Gaussian-to-bessel beam transformation using a split refracting system. 32 , pp. 2252-2256.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Heterodyne detection using a diffraction-free beam: background noise effect. 32 , pp. 3144-3148.
Alam, M. S., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Polarization-encoded optical shadow casting: edge detection using Roberts operator. 6 , pp. 190-193.

Book Chapters

Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Ahmed, S. (2011). Efficacy of Texture Features for Brain Tumor Segmentation Horizons in Cancer Research Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Olusegun George, E. and Russomanno, D. J. (2008). CNS Tumor Prediction Using Gene Expression Data Part I Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence IGI Global.
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Olusegun George, E. and Russomanno, D. J. (2008). CNS Tumor Prediction Using Gene Expression Data Part II Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence IGI Global.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Li, Y. and Siddiqui, F. (2007). A biologically inspired dynamic model for object recognition Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness Springer.

Conference Proceeding

Elbakary, M. I., Abdelghaffar, H. M., Afrifa, K., Rakha, H. A., Cetin, M. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Aerosol detection using lidar-based atmospheric profiling SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Vidyaratne, L., Alam, M., Anderson, J. K. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Constrained versus unconstrained learning in generalized recurrent network for image processing International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
Dolph, C., Alam, M., Shboul, Z., Samad, M. D. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Deep learning of texture and structural features for multiclass Alzheimer's disease classification International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
Pei, L. S., Reza, S. M., Li, W., Davatzikos, C. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Improved brain tumor segmentation by utilizing tumor growth model in longitudinal brain MRI (pp. 10134 - 10134 - 9) Orlando, Florida: Proc. SPIE 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis.
Alom, M. Z., Alam, M., Taha, T. M. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2017). Object recognition using cellular simultaneous recurrent networks and convolutional neural network International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Ahmed, S. and Hossen, J. (2011). Multiresolution Texture Models for Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference Boston, MA:.
Patti, S. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2011). Analysis of gene expression variation in GBM recurrence Summit on Systems Biology 2011 Molecular Networks and Disease Richmond, VA:.
Gunvant, P., Kim, P. Y., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Essock, E. A. (2011). Identifying Glaucoma with Multi-fractal Features from Optical Coherence Tomography Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2011 Orlando, FL:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Anderson, J. K. (2010). Image registration under affine transformation using cellular simultaneous recurrent networks Proc. of 55th SPIE Annual Meeting San Diego, CA:.
White, W., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Bouzerdoum, S. (2010). Improved Dynamic Learning in the Maze Traversal Problem via Clustering Proc. Of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’10) Barcelona:.
Kozma, R., Wang, L., Iftekharuddin, K. M., McCracken, E., Khan, M., Islam, K. and Demirer, R. M. (2010). Multi-Modal Sensor System Integrating COTS Technology for Surveillance and Tracking IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR2010 Washington DC:.
Gunvant, P., Kim, P., Tóth, M., Holló, G., Essock, E. A. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2010). Predicting Visual Field Loss in Glaucomatous Patients Using Fast–Fourier Analysis (FFA) of GDx-VCC Scanning Laser Polarimetry Annual Meeting of ARVO/International Society for Imaging in the Eye Fort Lauderdale, Florida:.
Slack, S. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2010). Wide Angle IR detection Through a Conical Mirror: Some Preliminary Results Proc. of Optical Society of America Topical Meeting in Digital Image Processing and Application Tucson, AZ:.
Kim, P. Y., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Gunvant, P., Tóth, M., Holló, G. and Essock, E. A. (2010). Efficacy of Fractal Analysis in Identifying Glaucomatous Damage Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2010 San Diego, CA:.
Anderson, K., Iftekharuddin, K. M., White, E. and Kim, P. (2009). Binary Image Registration using Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Networks IEEE Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing, CIMSVP'09. IEEE Symposium (pp. 61 - 67).
Anderson, K., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Kim, P. (2009). Gray Scale Image Registration Using Cellular Simultaneous Recurrent Neural Networks Proc. of 54th SPIE Annual Meeting (pp. 74420 C1 – C12) San Diego, CA:.
Ren, Y., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and White, E. (2009). Recurrent Network-Based Face Recognition Using Image Sequences IEEE Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing, CIMSVP '09 (pp. 41 - 46).
Ahmed, S., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Ogg, R. J. and Laningham, F. H. (2009). Efficacy of texture, shape and intensity features for robust posterior-fossa tumor segmentation in MRI Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2009: Computer-Aided Diagnosis San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Li, Y. (2008). A Biologically-Inspired Computational Model for Transformation Invariant Target Recognition Proc. Of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’08) (pp. 1050-1057) Hong Kong:.
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and George, E. O. (2008). Class Specific Gene Expression Estimation and Classification in Microarray Data Proc. Of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’08) (pp. 1679-1686) Hong Kong:.
Julia, F. N. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2008). Dialog Act Classification using Acoustic and Discourse Information of MapTask Data Proc. Of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’08) (pp. 1473-1480) Hong Kong:.
Anderson, K., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Montgomery, B. (2008). Single Camera Based Object Detection and Tracking for Mobile Robots Proc. of 53rd SPIE Annual Meeting San Diego, CA:.
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Ogg, R. J., Laningham, F. H. and Sivakumar, B. (2008). Multifractal modeling, segmentation, prediction and statistical validation of posterior fossa tumors Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2008: Computer-Aided Diagnosis San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Li, Y. and Siddiqui, F. (2007). A Biologically Inspired Neural Network Model to Transformation Invariant Object Recognition Proc. of 52nd SPIE Annual Meeting (pp. 66950O-1 – 66950O-12) San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Li, Y. (2006). A reinforcement learning approach in rotated image recognition and its convergence analysis Proc. of 51st SPIE Annual Meeting San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Zheng, J., Islam, M. A., Ogg, R. J. and Lanningham, F. (2006). Brain Tumor Detection in MRI: Technique and Statistical Validation IEEE Proc. On Fortieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (pp. 1983 – 1987).
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and George, E. O. (2006). Gene Expression Based CNS Tumor Prototype for Automatic Tumor Detection IEEE Proc. On Fortieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (pp. 846 –850).
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Russomanno, D. J. (2006). Visualizing Differentially Expressed Genes Proc. of 51st SPIE Annual Meeting San Diego, CA:.
Siddiqui, F. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2006). Multiresolution Object Recognition using Dual Heuristic Programming Proc. Of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’06) (pp. 8378 – 8384) Vancouver, Canada:.
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Russumanno, D. R. (2006). Marker Gene Selection Evaluation Using Parallel Coordinates Proc. of the Bioinformatics (pp. 302 – 306) Las Vegas:.
Julia, F. N. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2006). Detection of Emotional Expressions in Speech Proc. of the IEEE SoutheastCon (pp. 307 – 312).
Islam, A., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Salem, S. M. (2006). Learning an Image Lexicon Proc. of the IEEE SoutheastCon (pp. 302 – 306).
Azhar, H., Iftekharuddin, K. M., Kozma, R. and Admala, A. (2005). Natural Image Classification in Non Linear Network Model Proc. of 50th SPIE Annual Meeting (pp. 59070P-1 – P11).
Azhar, H., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Kozma, R. (2005). A Chaos Synchronization-Based Dynamic Vision Model for Image Segmentation Proc. Of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’05) Montreal:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Islam, M., Shaik, J., Parra, C. and Ogg, R. (2005). Automatic Brain-Tumor Detection in MRI: Methodology and Statistical Validation SPIE Medical Imaging (pp. 2012-2022) San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Shaik, J. (2004). Probabilistic detection and tracking of IR targets Proc. of 48th SPIE annual meeting in Photonic Devices and Algorithms San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Widjanarko, T. (2004). Reinforcement Learning in Multiresolution Object Recognition Proc. Of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’04) (pp. 1085-1090) Budapest, Hungary:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Sun, Y. and Azhar, H. (2004). A Fractal Based Medical Image Analysis Interface for Tumor Detection Joint BECON/BISTIC Symposium, Biomedical Informatics for Clinical Decision Support, NIH.
Azhar, H. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2004). Biology Inspired Automatic Segmentation of Brain Images with Chaos Synchronization 2nd International Conference of Computational Harmonic Analysis Nashville, TN:.
Parra, C., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Kozma, R. (2003). Automated brain data segmentation and pattern recognition using ANN Proc. Of 2nd Intl. Cong. On Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS’03) Singapore:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Zook, J. and Rendon, D. (2003). An automated statistical analysis of fractal-based algorithms for brain tumor detection 2003 BMES Annual Fall Meeting Nashville, TN:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Medapally, P. (2003). Segmentation of Brain Tissue and Tumor Area from 2D MRI Images, Using Pulse Coupled Neural Network 2003 BMES Annual Fall Meeting Nashville, TN:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Shaik, J. (2003). Distorted IR target detection and tracking using composite filters SPIE 47th annual meeting in Photonic Devices and Algorithms (pp. 73-84) San Diego, CA:.
Alam, M. S., Kettani, H., Huq, M., Khan, J., Awwal, A. A.S.. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2003). Fringe-adjusted JTC Based Target Detection and Tracking Using Subframes from a Video Sequence SPIE 47th annual meeting in Photonic Devices and Algorithms San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Parra, C. (2003). Multiresolution-fractal feature extraction and tumor detection: analytical modeling and implementation Proc. of SPIE 47th annual meeting in wavelets (pp. 801-812) San Diego, CA:.
Shaik, J. S. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2003). Automated Tracking and Classification of Infrared Images Proc. Of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’03) Portland, OR:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Parra, C. and Rendon, D. (2003). Wavelet-based computation of the fractal dimension on fBm images Proc. of 1st IEEE EMBS conference on Neural Engineering Capri Island, Italy:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Prajna, M., Samanth, S. and Indhukuri, M. (2002). Mega voltage image segmentation and ambient noise removal Proc. of 2nd Joint Conf., of IEEE EMBS-BMES.
Awwal, A. A.S.., Gudmundsson, K. S., Tabrez, M., Rahman, M., Alam, M. S. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2002). New metric for 3D optical pattern recognition system Proc. of SPIE (pp. 183-190) Seattle, WA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Malhotra, R. (2002). Role of multiresolution attention in automated object recognition Proc. Of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (pp. 2255-2260) Honolulu, Hawaii:.
Gregga, J. B., Power, G. J. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2002). Correlators for rank order shape similarity measurement Aerosense Orlando:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Power, G. (2001). A biological model for distortion-invariant target recognition Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’01) (pp. 559 –564) Washington DC: IEEE Press.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2001). Intra-class classification of tumor in brain MR images SPIE Annual Meeting San Diego, CA:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Pyda, R. N. (2001). Image search over the net International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance education (pp. 62-67) Fargo, ND: John Wiley & Sons.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Dani, A. (2000). An Efficient Target Recognition System for Rotated Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE) ’00 Proceedings, ASME Press Series St.Louis, MO:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Jia, W. and Marsh, R. (2000). A fractal analysis approach to identification of tumor in brain MR images Proc. Of Eng. Med. Biol. Soc., Proc. of the 22nd Annual. Intl. Conference of the IEEE (pp. 4:3064–3066).
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Razzaque, M. A. (2000). Constraints in distortion invariant target recognition system simulation SPIE’s International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation Proceedings San Diego, CA:.
Razzaque, M. A. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (2000). Characterization of joint harmonic wavelet transform (JHWT) in image de-noising SPIE Proceedings on Optical Pattern Recognition IX Orlando, FL:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Rentala, C. (1999). Determination of the exact angle of rotation in target recognition applications Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE) ’99 Proceedings, ASME Press Series St.Louis, MO:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Obowa, S. (1999). An integrated visual workbench for sensor signal analysis International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education (ISIMADE'99) Proceedings Baden-Baden:.
Rentala, C. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (1999). Detection of targets varying in fine details, rotation and translation SPIE’s International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation Proceedings Denver, CO:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (1999). A harmonic wavelet joint transform correlator for improved target recognition Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology (CISST'99) Las Vegas, NV:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (1998). Nonlinear speckle reduction using orthogonal wavelets SPIE Proceedings on Wavelet Applications Orlando, FL:.
Das, K., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1996). Heterodyne detection using hexagonal pixel geometry Proceedings OSA Rochester, NY:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Diab, S. and Karim, M. A. (1996). Smart detection of targets varying in fine details Proceedings of Optical Society of America (OSA) Rochester, NY:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Das, K. (1996). Heterodyne Detection for Staring Hexagonal Detector Array Proceedings of National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON) Dayton, OH:.
Brekka, L. T., Maksimovic, V., Picardel, C. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (1996). Risk Management and System Engineering Discipline Proceedings of NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Tuthill, T. and Karim, M. A. (1996). Wavelet packet-based nonlinear speckle reduction in optical synthetic aperture radar image analysis SPIE Proceedings on Wavelet Applications-II Orlando, FL:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Purpura, M. and Karim, M. A. (1995). A radial basis wavelet neural net for character recognition purposes Proceedings of OSA Portland, OR:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Jemili, K. and Karim, M. A. (1995). A neural-wavelet feature-based character recognition system Proceedings of NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Jemili, K. (1995). Wavelet pre-processed amplitude-modulated phase-only filter for target recognition SPIE Proceedings on Wavelet Applications-II Orlando, FL:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Awwal, A. A.S. (1994). Performance analysis of trinary amplitude binary phase only filter NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S. and Karim, M. A. (1993). A robust feature extracted Amplitude-Modulated Phase-Only filter-based character recognition system Proceedings of OSA Toronto, Canada:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S., Cherri, A. K. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Generalized technique for laser beam diameter measurement using an aperiodic-periodic ruling Proceedings of OSA Toronto, Canada:.
Ahmed, J. U., Awwal, A. A.S., Karim, M. A. and Iftekharuddin, K. M. (1993). Practical implementation of an Amplitude- Modulated Phase-Only filter Proceedings of OSA Toronto, Canada:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S. and Karim, M. A. (1993). The performance analysis of the Amplitude-Modulated Phase-Only filter Proceedings of OSA Toronto, Canada:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Acquisition of noise-free and noisy signal: effect of different pixel geometry Proceedings of NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Jemili, K. and Karim, M. A. (1993). Comparison between optical interconnection processors: Folded perfect shuffle and 3-D butterfly Proceedings of NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1992). Design of 2x2 bit multiplier and nxn bit PIPO shift register using butterfly interconnection network Proceedings of OSA Albuquerque, NM:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S. and Karim, M. A. (1992). Design of some computational building blocks using soliton based GEO module Proceedings of OSA Albuquerque, NM:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Alam, M. S. (1992). Edge-detection using polarization based optical shadow casting Proceedings of OSA Albuquerque, NM:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1992). Effect of background radiation noise on heterodyne detection efficiency using diffraction-free beam Proceedings of OSA Albuquerque, NM:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Karim, M. A. and Awwal, A. A.S. (1992). A systematic approach to find the possible minimum minterms in MSD binary addition Proceedings of NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Alam, M. S., Zheng, S. H., Iftekharuddin, K. M. and Karim, M. A. (1992). Study of field-of-view overlap for night vision application Proceedings of NAECON Dayton, OH:.
Iftekharuddin, K. M., Awwal, A. A.S. and Karim, M. A. (1991). Design of refracting system for generating a diffractionfree beam Proceedings of OSA San Jose, CA:.

Presentations

Iftekharuddin, K. M. (November , 2013). Role of texture in brain tumor segmentation and classification Oral Presentation .
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (September , 2013). NIH Funding: Faculty Panel and Workshop Oral Presentation Â鶹¹ú²úAV Office of Research Faculty Workshop Norfolk, VA.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (July , 2013). Human Characterization in Full Motion Video Oral Presentation Riverside, OH.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (May , 2012). Brain Tumor Detection, and Prediction Oral Presentation Paris, France.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (July , 2011). Bio-inspired Automatic Target Recognition Oral Presentation Workshop on Homeland Security .
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (April , 2011). Brain tumor Growth: Computational Simulation Oral Presentation Bioinformatics Seminar Series Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (April , 2011). Distortion invariant face recognition Oral Presentation Paris, France.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (March , 2011). Statistical methods in brain tumor segmentation Oral Presentation Denver, CO.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (October , 2010). Detection, Prediction and Statistical Validation of Pediatric Brain Tumor Oral Presentation Livermore, CA.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (August , 2010). Bio-motivated Face Recognition Oral Presentation Dayton, OH.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (April , 2010). Efficacy of texture, shape and intensity features in PF tumor segmentation Oral Presentation Bioinformatics Seminar Series Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (November , 2009). Challenges in face recognition and a few promising techniques Oral Presentation Cognitive Science Seminar Series Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (April , 2009). Modeling of Gene Expression Based -Tumor Prototype for Automatic Tumor Prediction Oral Presentation Bioinformatics Seminar Series Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (February , 2009). Detection of posterior fossa brain tumor Oral Presentation Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (July , 2008). Bio-motivated Computing Oral Presentation University of Wollongong, Australia.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (November , 2007). Biologically Inspired ATR in Distortion Oral Presentation AF Workshop on Intelligent Sensory Data Processing and Imaging in Dynamic Battlefield Scenarios Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (October , 2006). Automatic Target Recognition Oral Presentation Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (February , 2006). Reinforcement Learning Oral Presentation Learning Technology Seminar Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (October , 2003). Fractal analysis of brain tumor Oral Presentation Memphis, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (December , 2002). Progress in neural ATR Oral Presentation Mobile, AL.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (July , 2002). Brain tumor analysis Oral Presentation .
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (November , 2001). Neural and Synthetic Techniques in ATR Oral Presentation Mobile, AL.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (March , 2001). Speckle reduction using orthogonal wavelets Oral Presentation Image Science and Machine Vision Group Oak Ridge, TN.
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (November , 2000). Intelligent Systems and Image Processing Research Overview Oral Presentation .
Iftekharuddin, K. M. (October , 2000). A fractal analysis approach to identification of tumor in brain MR images Oral Presentation Department of Biomedical Imaging, St. Jude Research Hospital.
  • Research in Optical Retinopathy,
  • 2017: Certificate for Mentoring and Advising Undergraduate Scholarly Research, Undergraduate Research Program, Â鶹¹ú²úAV
  • 2015: Ranked 4th among 15 teams in Global Competition for MICCAI Stroke Lesion Segmentation Competition, MICCAI
  • 2014: Ranked 3rd among 11 teams in Global Competition for NIH/MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation, NIH/MICCAI
  • 2014: Researcher of the Year, Â鶹¹ú²úAV
  • 2013: Certificate for Mentoring and Advising Undergraduate Scholarly Research, Undergraduate Research Program, Â鶹¹ú²úAV
  • 2013: Senior Member, Optical Society of America,
  • 2011: Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering and Technology, University of Memphis
  • 2009: Charter Member, NIH BCHI panel
  • 2008: 2nd place winner, 20th Annual University of Memphis Student Research Forum
  • 2006: Who’s who in Medicine and Healthcare, Marquis Who's Who
  • 2004: Elected Fellow, Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), The International Society for Optical Engineering
  • 2003: Who’s who in America, Marquis Who's Who, 57th Ed.
  • 2002: Biomedical Engineering Research Award, The Whitaker Foundation
  • 2002: Senior Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
  • 2000: Researcher of the Year Award, College of Engineering and Architecture, North Dakota State University
  • 1998: Best Paper Presentation Award at AeroSense 1998, Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
  • 1996: Star Award, BDM Federal Inc.
  • 1994: New Focus Grant,
  • 1994: Research Fellowship,
  • 1993: Research Fellowship,