| Simon Fraser Univesrity Engineering Science Graduate Fellowship (ENSC-GF)The Graduate Fellowship (GF) is a one-term award normally valued at $6,500 (effective Fall 2015). Academic units, however, have the option of awarding partial GFs (.5) valued at $3,250 (effective Fall 2015). Applicants may be eligible to receive up to a maximum of two full GFs, or four partial GFs, during an academic year (September 1–August 31). | Scientific Excellence - Leadership | 2019-09-13 | Karam Elabd |
| Consultations for Ehealth PaperConsulted with experts in the field of ehealth via telephone and email for ehealth scoping review. Simon Fraser University | Networking and Partnerships | 2018-02-16 | Anastasia Korol, Mei Fang, Ellie Siden |
| A hyper-viscoelastic constitutive model for non-human primate spinal cord white matter | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-04-01 | Shervin Jannesar, Sparrey CJ |
| Association between paraspinal musclemorphology, clinical symptoms and functional status in patients with cervicalspondylotic myelopathy Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2016-02-01 | Fortin M*, Dobrescu O, Matthew Courtemanche, Carolyn Sparrey, Fehlings M, Weber MH |
| Defining the stability limits of a manual wheelchair with adjustable seat and backrest | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-06-01 | Thomas L*, Sparrey CJ, Borisoff J |
| Effect Of Loading Patterns On The Creep Response Of Juvenile Porcine Lumbar Intervertebral Discs Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-03-01 | Carolyn Sparrey, "Sarah Romani" |
| Heidegger: Interpretable Temporal Causal DiscoveryTemporal causal discovery aims to find cause-effect relationships between time-series. However, none of the existing techniques is able to identify the causal profile, the temporal pattern that the causal variable needs to follow in order to trigger the most significant change in the outcome. Toward a new horizon, this study introduces the novel problem of Causal Profile Discovery, which is crucial for many applications such as adverse drug reaction and cyber-attack detection. This work correspondingly proposes Heidegger to discover causal profiles, comprised of a flexible randomized block design for hypothesis evaluation and an efficient profile search via on-the-fly graph construction and entropy-based pruning. Heidegger's performance is demonstrated/evaluated extensively on both synthetic and real-world data. The experimental results show the proposed method is robust to noise and flexible at detecting complex patterns. Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-05-24 | "Mehrdad Mansouri,", Ali Arab, "Zahra Zohrevand", Martin Ester |
| Objective quantitative assessment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy severity using preoperative MRI and machinelearning | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-03-01 | Courtemanche MJ*, Fortin M*, Fehlings MG, Weber M, Sparrey CJ |
| Quantifying the effects of “on the fly” seating configuration changes on manual wheelchair stability | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-07-01 | Thomas L*, Borisoff J, Sparrey CJ |
| If you fall, reading this story might help ensure you’ll get upThis newspaper article in the Chicago Sun-Times interviewed Steve Robinovitch and other other experts on the cause and prevention of falls and injuries in older adults. Simon Fraser University | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2017-09-19 | Steve Robinovitch |
| Predicting falls before they happenThis story on the website of the Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada (http://www.nce-rce.gc.ca/Research-Recherche/Stories-Articles/2016/PredictingFalls-PredireChutes_eng.asp) profiled the research of WP5.2 leads Steve Robinovitch and Fabio Feldman on their AGE-WELL supported research on the cause and prevention of falls and injuries from falls in older adults. Simon Fraser University, Fraser Health | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2017-05-01 | Steve Robinovitch, Fabio Feldman |
| The Falling Dummy: Understanding falls, head injury, and protective equipmentPoint of Care Health Technologies (PCHT) research forum presentation at the Brock House Society gathering on February 6th, 2019. end-of-year HQP report | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2019-02-06 | Karam Elabd |
| Association Between Paraspinal Muscle Morphology, Clinical Symptoms, and Functional Status in Patients With Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-02-01 | M. Fortin, O. Dobrescu, Matthew Courtemanche, C. J. Sparrey, C. Santaguida, M. G. Fehlings, M. H. Weber |
| Automation of CT-based haemorrhagic stroke assessment for improved clinical outcomes: study protocol and designHaemorrhagic stroke is of significant healthcare concern due to its association with high mortality and lasting impact on the survivors’ quality of life. Treatment decisions and clinical outcomes depend strongly on the size, spread and location of the haematoma. Non-contrast CT (NCCT) is the primary neuroimaging modality for haematoma assessment in haemorrhagic stroke diagnosis. Current procedures do not allow convenient NCCT-based haemorrhage volume calculation in clinical settings, while research-based approaches are yet to be tested for clinical utility; there is a demonstrated need for developing effective solutions. The project under review investigates the development of an automatic NCCT-based haematoma computation tool in support of accurate quantification of haematoma volumes. Simon Fraser University, Fraser Health | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2021-05-24 | "Betty Chinda", "George Medvedev", " William Siu", Martin Ester, Ali Arab, "Tao Gu", Sylvain Moreno, "Ryan C N D’Arcy", Xiaowei Song |
| Compressive mechanical characterization of non-human primate spinal cord white matter | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-10-10 | Shervin Jannesar, Allen AM, Lockwood S, Gibbons A, Bresnahan JC, Salegio EA, Sparrey CJ |
| Design and performance analysis of a 3-RRR spherical parallel manipulator for hip exoskeleton applicationsAziz O, Klenk J, Schwickert L, Chiari L, Becker C, Park EJ, Mori G, Robinovitch SN:
Validation of accuracy of SVM-based fall detection system using real-world fall and non-fall
datasets. PLoS One. 12(7): e0180318 (11 pages), 2017 Simon Fraser University | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-05-16 | Soheil Sadeqi, Shaun Bourgeois, Ed Park, Siamak Arzanpour |
| Detecting white matter activity using conventional 3~Tesla fMRI : An evaluation of standard field strength and hemodynamic response function Simon Fraser University, Fraser Health | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-04-01 | Matthew Courtemanche, Carolyn Sparrey, Xiaowei Song, Alex MacKay, Ryan D'Arcy |
| Quantifying the effects of on-the-fly changes of seating configuration on the stability of a manual wheelchair | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-01-01 | L. Thomas, J. Borisoff, C. J. Sparrey |
| How to fall to your death and live to tell the taleMosaic is a magazine dedicated to exploring the science of life, published by the UK-based Wellcome Trust. This article, written by Neil Steinberg, interviewed Dr. Robinovitch and other experts on the physics of falls and injuries. Simon Fraser University | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2017-06-06 | Steve Robinovitch |
| Visting Scholar, Tel Aviv UniversityVisting Scholar, Tel Aviv University, Sourasky Medical Centre Simon Fraser University | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-02-01 | Steve Robinovitch |
| Visiting Scholar, New York UniversityVisiting Scholar, New York University Simon Fraser University | Networking and Partnerships | 2017-10-15 | Steve Robinovitch |
| OBDAF Wearable Sensors for Balance and Movement Summer SchoolFrom August 12th to August 16th the OBDAF Cluster hosted our first summer school on Wearable Sensors for Balance and Movement. The event was organized by Drs. Jean-Sébastien Blouin, Michael Hunt, Laurent Bouyer and Mark Carpenter. With 40 students registered and 12 guest speakers from across Canada and various backgrounds, it was a week filled with exciting talks and learning opportunities. The goal of this weeklong summer school was to educate and train the students on how to use various types of wearable sensors such as including inertial measurement units (IMUs), motion capture, GPS, ultrasound, eye tracking and electromyography (EMG). We also had the pleasure of partnering with companies such as Plantiga, Headcheck, Delsys, Sparkun and Adafruit which kindly contributed to our event with interactive demonstrations and equipment for our group projects. We couldn’t have had such a successful summer school without these companies!
The format of our summer school was for the students to be educated and exposed to various topics related to wearable sensors in the morning through the form of seminars. On the first afternoon, we invited companies to come give interactive demonstrations on equipment such as ECG’s and recording insoles. Using the knowledge gained, in the following afternoons, the students were placed in groups of 6-8 students had to work together to design and implement a project involving wearable sensors on a variety of topics and applications. Topics ranged from sensor tracking of postural responses to validation of sensors with motion capture and more! The event concluded with groups presenting their findings and experiences in front a panel of speakers as well as their peers. Congratulations to our two group project winners- Most Innovative Award went to Dr. Jean- Sébastien Blouin’s group on “Open- field Tracking of Human Navigation” and Best Presentation Award went to Dr. Calvin Kuo’s group on “Sensor Tracking of High Impact Events During Daily Activities”. | HQP Training | 2019-08-16 | Karam Elabd |
| Systems and method for guiding motions of passive 3-DOF rotational joint Simon Fraser University | KTEE - Commercialization | 2017-01-16 | Siamak Arzanpour, Soheil Sadeqi, Shaun Bourgeois, Ed Park |
| CSA Express Document on Hip Protectors (EXP08-17)Wearable hip protectors are used to reduce the risk of hip fracture in the event of a fall. This Express Document addresses the need for a method to measure the protective value of hip protectors in the laboratory setting. We review practical issues related to the use of hip protectors and describe a method for measuring the reduction in force applied to the bone provided by hip protectors during a simulated fall. Simon Fraser University, Fraser Health | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2017-04-17 | Steve Robinovitch, Fabio Feldman |
| ISPGR BlogInternational Society for Posture and Gait - World Congress BLOG | KTEE - Knowledge Mobilization | 2017-07-01 | Kim VanSchooten |
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