News & Publications

Press Releases:

Conferences:

  • 2008 AES Annual Meeting
    • December 5-9, 2008 in Seattle, Washington
    • Deng-Shan Shiau, PhD presented two abstracts titled:
      • “Automated Detection of Epileptic Seizures Based on Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Scalp EEG Signals” “Ictal Dynamics in scalp EEG”

  • Florida Venture Forum Early Stage Venture Capital Conference
    • May 16, 2008 in Orlando, Fl
    • Ryan T. Kern, MD, presented "Optima Neuroscience"

  • CIMIT/NIO Epilepsy Innovation Summit
    • May 7, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts
    • J. Chris Sackellares, MD presented lecture titled “Seizure Prediction and Monitoring”

  • University of Florida Technology Showcase
    • March 25, 2008 in Gainesville, Fl
    • Ryan T. Kern, MD, presented "Optima Neuroscience"

  • Southeast BIO (SEBIO) Investor Forum
    • November 7-8, 2007 in Pinehurst, NC
    • Ryan T. Kern, MD, presented in the "Early Stage Company Shootout"

  • Seizure Prediction Workshop
    • September 29 - October 2, 2007 in Freiburg, Germany
    • Kevin M. Kelly, MD, PhD presented "Testing a Prediction Algorithm: Assessment of Performance" on behalf of J. Chris Sackellares, MD

Selected Publications:

Selected Completed Publications in (Peer Reviewed) Scientific Journals
1. Iasemidis LD, Shiau DS, Chaowolitwongse W, Prasad A, Veeramani B, Sackellares JC, Pardalos PM, Carney PR, and Tsakalis K. Adaptive Epileptic Seizure Prediction System. IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering, 15 (5): 616-627, 2003.
2. Iasemidis LD, Shiau DS, Sackellares JC, Pardalos PM, and Prasad A. Dynamical resetting of the human brain at epileptic seizures: application of nonlinear dynamics and global optimization techniques. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 51 (3): 493-506, 2004.
3. Pardalos PM, Chaovalitwongse W, Iasemidis LD, Sackellares JC, Shiau DS, Carney PR, Prokopyev OA, and Yatsenko VA. Seizure warning algorithm based on optimization and nonlinear dynamics. Mathematical Programming, Ser. B, 101 (2): 365-385, 2004. Paper award: The 2004 William Pierskalla best paper award for research excellence in health care management science, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2004.
4. Iasemidis LD, Shiau DS, Pardalos PM, Chaovalitwongse W, Narayanan K, Prasad A, Tsakalis K, Carney PR, and Sackellares JC. Long-Term Prospective On-Line Real-Time Seizure Prediction. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116 (3): 532-544, 2005.
5. Chaovalitwongse W, Pardalos PM, Iasemidis LD, Carney PR, Shiau D-S, Suharitdamrong W, and Sackellares JC. A robust method for studying the dynamics of the intracranial EEG: Application to epilepsy. Epilepsy Research, 64: 93-113, 2005.
6. Sackellares JC, Shiau DS, Principe JC, Yang MCK, Dance LK, Suharitdamrong W, Chaovalitwongse W, Pardalos PM and Iasemidis LD. Predictability Analysis for an Automated Seizure Prediction
7. Nair SP, Pardalos PM, Yatsenko VA, Optimization in control and learning in coupled map lattice systems. (to appear in) J. Optimization Theory and Applications. Vol. 133, No. 2, 2007.
Papers submitted to Peer Reviewed Scientific Journals
1. Nair SP, Shiau DS, Principe JC, Iasemidis LD, Pardalos PM, Norman WM, Carney PR, Kelly KM and Sackellares JC. EEG dynamics in an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Submitted to Epilepsia.
2. Shiau DS, Nair SP, Principe JC, Iasemidis LD, Pardalos PM, Norman WM, Carney PR, Kelly KM and Sackellares JC. A Seizure warning method using a dynamical EEG feature in an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Submitted to Epilepsy Research.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
1. Shiau, DS., Nair, S.P., Iasemidis, L.D., Carney, P.R. , Norman, W.M., Principe, J.C., Pardalos, P.M., Suharitdamrong, W., Cho, J., Sackellares, J.C. Seizure warning and dynamic response to electrical stimulation in a rodent model of chronic limbic epilepsy. in IFMBE Proceedings of 3rd European Medical and Biological Conference, Prague, Czech Republic: Vol. 11, 2005.
2. Nair SP, Sackellares JC, Shiau DS, Norman WM, Dance LK, Pardalos PM, Principe JC and Carney PR. Effect of Acute Hippocampal Stimulation on EEG Dynamics. Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, 2006.
 
       
 
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