Publications
I will be moving to Philips Netherlands in Feb 2012 to take up a post as a senior scientist in patient care solutions and won't be maintaining this page. For any info, please use my Philips email.
2012
Can Pervasive Sensing Address Current Challenges in Global Healthcare? L. Atallah, B.Lo and G-Z. Yang accepted for publication in Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.
2011
Validation of an Ear-Worn Sensor for gait monitoring using a Force-Plate Instrumented Treadmill L. Atallah, A. Wiik, G.G. Jones, B. Lo, J. Cobb, A. Amis and G-Z Yang,
in Gait and Posture 2011. Online version
Effect of acute exacerbations on skeletal muscle strength and physical activity in cystic fibrosis , J. Wiebold, L. Atallah, J, Kelly, D. Shrikrishna, K. Gyi, B. Lo, G-Z. Yang, D. Bilton, M. Polkey and N. Hopkinson to appear in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis.
Pervasive sensing for athletic training B.P.L. Lo, L. Atallah, B. Crewther, A.M. Spehar-Deleze, S. Anastasova, P. Conway, C. Cook, S. Drawer, P. Vadgama, and G-Z Yang,
in Delivering London 2012: ICT Enabling the Games, The IET special interest publication,
Nov 2011, pages 53-62.pdf
Detection and Analysis of Transitional Activity
in Manifold Space
R. Ali, L. Atallah, B. Lo and G-Z. in IEEE Transactions
of IT in Biomedicine, Aug 2011.pdf
Sensor
positioning for activity recognition using wearable accelerometers
L. Atallah, B. Lo, R. King and G-Z. Yang in IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol.5, no.4, pp.320-329, Aug. 2011.
pdf
Direction Sensitive Fall Detection Using a Triaxial Accelerometer and a
Barometric Pressure Sensor, M. Tolkiehn, L. Atallah, B. Lo and
G-Z. Yang. in EMBC 2011 in Boston, USA. pdf
Observing Recovery from Knee-Replacement Surgery by using Wearable
Sensors, L. Atallah, G.J. Jones, R. Ali, J. Leong, B. Lo and
G-Z. Yang.
in BSN 2011 in Dallas, Texas. pdf
Energy
expenditure prediction using a miniaturised ear worn sensor, L.
Atallah, J. Leong, B. Lo and G-Z. Yang. in Medicine and Science in
Sport and Exercise July 2011 - Volume 43 - Issue 7 - pp 1369-1377 link.
Ear-worn Body Sensor Network Device: An Objective Tool for Functional
Post-operative Home Recovery Monitoring, O. Aziz, L. Atallah, B.
Lo, E. Gray, T. Athanasiou, A. Darzi and and G-Z. Yang.
in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
18:156-159, 2011. link.
2010
Comparison of a novel ear worn sensor (e-AR) with an armband sensor for
physical activity monitoring in COPD, Shrikrishna D, Atallah L,
Lo B, Parker T, Patterson J, Kelly JL, Polkey MI, Yang GZ, Hopkinson
NS. accepted as a poster presentation in the annual congress of the
European Respiratory Society ERS
2010 in Barcelona, Spain 18-22 Sep 2010.
Deployment of Wireless Sensors for Remote Elderly Monitoring, M.
Bennebroek, L. Atallah, B. Lo, G-Z. Yang, in the workshop on Ambient
Assisted Living (AAL) service platforms, part of IEEE Healthcom '10
in Lyon France, July 2010.
Distributed
Inferencing with Ambient and
Wearable Sensors L. Atallah, D. McIlwraith, S. Thiemjarus, B.
Lo and
G-Z. Yang in
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2010.
Remote
Elderly Care Monitoring through Wireless Accessible Sensor Populations
(WASP) - project overview presentation, M. Bennebroek, L.
Atallah, B. Lo, G-Z. Yang, EWSN2010, February 19 2010.
Sensor
Placement for Activity Detection using
Wearable Accelerometers, L. Atallah, B.Lo, R. King and G-Z. Yang
in
2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2010) June 7
- 9, 2010 Biopolis, Singapore. pdf
Elderly Risk Assessment of Falls with BSN, R. King, L. Atallah,
F. Miskelly and G-Z. Yang in
2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2010) June 7
- 9, 2010 Biopolis, Singapore. pdf
Validation of an Ear Worn Sensor for
Activity Monitoring in COPD, L. Atallah, J-F. Zhang, B.Lo, D.
Shrikrishna, J.L. Kelly, A. Jackson, M.I. Polkey, G-Z. Yang, N.S.
Hopkinson in Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 181: A1211 pdf
2009
Real-time Activity Classification Using
Ambient
and Wearable Sensors, L. Atallah, B. Lo, R. Ali, R. King and
G-Z. Yang in IEEE Transactions of IT in Biomedicine, 2009
Nov;13(6):1031-9 pdf
The
use of Pervasive Sensing for
Behaviour Profiling - a Survey, L. Atallah and G-Z. Yang in
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Volume 5, Issue 5, October 2009, Pages
447-464 link
Development of a
Wireless Sensor Glove for
Surgical Skills Assessment R. King, L. Atallah, B. Lo and G.Z.
Yang in IEEE Transactions of Information Technology in Biomedicine 2009
Sep;13(5):673-9. link
Detecting
Walking Gait Impairment with
an Ear-worn Sensor, L. Atallah, O. Aziz, B. Lo and G-Z. Yang in
Body Sensor Networks 2009, San Fransisco, USA pdf
Transitional
Activity Recognition with
Manifold Embedding, R.Ali, L. Atallah, B.Lo and G-Z. Yang in
Body Sensor Networks 2009, San Fransisco, USA. pdf
An Integrated Multi-Sensing Framework for Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring. M.ElHelw, B.Lo, J. Pansiot and L. Atallah in Pervasive Health 2009, London, UK. (Best paper award)
2008
Functional
prefrontal reorganization accompanies
learning-associated refinements in surgery: A manifold embedding
approach D. Leff, F. Orihuela-Espina, L. Atallah, T. Athanasiou,
J.
Leong, A. Darzi & G-Z. Yang, Computer Aided Surgery, November 2008;
6(13): 1-15
From Computers to
Ubiquitous Computing by 2010, O.
Aziz, B. Lo, J. Pansiot, L. Atallah, G.Z. Yang and A. Darzi in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society -A. link
Variations in prefrontal activation support technical performance improvements in surgical novices. Leff D; Leong J; Orihuela-Espina F; Atallah L; Elwell C; Delpy D; Yang GZ; Darzi A. (Jul 2008). BRIT J SURG. 95:936-936.
Investigation of
Partial Directed Coherence for
Hand-Eye Coordination in Laparoscopic training, J. Leong, L.
Atallah,
M. Nicolaou, D. Leff, G.Z. Yang and A. Darzi in MIAR 08 in
Tokyo, Japan. pdf
Pattern Mining for
Routine Behaviour Discovery in
Pervasive Healthcare Environments. R. Ali, M. ElHelw, L.
Atallah, B. Lo
and G.Z. Yang in the 5th International Conference on
Information Technology and Application in Biomedicine (ITAB 2008), Hong
Kong, China pdf
Gaussian Process
Prediction for Cross Channel
Consensus in Body Sensor Networks. L. Atallah, A. Elsaify, B.
Lo, N.
Hopkinson and G.Z. Yang To appear in the 5th International Workshop on
Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2008, Hong Kong,
China pdf
Wirelessly
Accessible Sensor Populations (WASP)
for Elderly Care Monitoring. L. Atallah, B. Lo, GZ Yang and F.
Siegemund. In the workshop on Ambient Technologies for Diagnosing and
Monitoring Chronic Patients, part of Pervasive Health 2008 in Tampere,
Finland, Jan 2008 pdf
Changes In Prefrontal Cortical Behaviour Depend Upon Familiarity On A Bimanual Co-ordination Task: An fNIRS Study. D. Leff, F. Orihuela-Espina, L. Atallah, C. Elwell, D. Delpy, A. Darzi, and G-Z. Yang, NeuroImage 39(2):805:13, 2008.
2007
HMM assessment of
quality of movement trajectory
in laparoscopic surgery. JH Leong,M. Nicolaou, L. Atallah, G. P
Mylonas, A Darzi, GZ Yang, Computer Aided Surgery 12(6): 1-12, 2007.
Enhancing the
Visualisation of Functional Near
Infrared Spectroscopy Data in Novice and Expert Surgeons - a Manifold
Embedding Approach. D.R. Leff, F. Orihuela-Espina, L. Atallah,
A.Darzi,
and G-Z. Yang. Miccai '07.
An HMM Framework
for Optimal
Sensor Selection with Applications to BSN Sensor Glove Design.
R.C.
King, L. Atallah, G.Z. Yang and A. Darzi. EmNets 2007 (The Fourth
Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors) in Cork, Ireland pdf
Open Surgical
Knot-Tying Induces a Lateralised
Prefrontal Brain Response in Surgical Novices. D.Leff, J.Leong,
L.
Atallah, T. Athanasiou, P. Hui Koh, C. ElWell, D. Delpy, GZ. Yang and
A. Darzi in HBM 2007 (13th meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain
Mapping), Chicago, Illinois.
A Pervasive Body
Sensor Network for Measuring
Post-Operative Recovery at Home. O. Aziz, L. Atallah, B. Lo, M.
ElHelw,
L. Wang, G. Z. Yang, and A. Darzi. Surgical Innovation, Vol. 14-2, June
2007 pages 83-90.
Real time pervasive
monitoring for post operative
care.
B. Lo, L. Atallah, O. Aziz, M. ElHelw, A. Darzi, GZ. Yang in BSN 2007,
Aachen, Germany. pdf
Behaviour
profiling with ambient and wearable
sensing. L. Atallah, M. El Helw, J. Pansiot, D.Stoyanov, L.
Wang, B. Lo
and GZ. Yang in BSN 2007, Aachen, Germany. preprint pdf
2006
The effect of depth
preception on visual motor
compensation in Minimal Invasive Surgery, M. Nicolaou, L.
Atallah, A.
James, J. Leong, A. Darzi and GZ Yang, in MIAR 06, Shanghai China pdf
HMM Assessment of
Quality of Movement
Trajectory in
Laparoscopic Surgery, JH Leong,
M. Nicolaou, L. Atallah, G. P Mylonas, A Darzi, GZ Yang, in MICCAI 06,
Copenhagen
2005
Investigating the
Effects of Scale in MRF (Markov
Random Field) Texture Classification, SJ Blunsden and L.
Atallah,
accepted for publication in VIE2005 (Glasgow UK) preprint pdf
Object detection
and classification at different
resolutions in archaeological side-scan sonar images. L.
Atallah,
C Shang and CR Bates, accepted for Oceans 05 (
preprint pdf
Can bathymetric data be used in the classification of high-frequency underwater surveys? L. Atallah and PJ Smith, to appear in the proceedings of Underwater Acoustics measurements in Crete, Greece 2005 preprint pdf
2004
2003
Using
Wavelet analysis to
classify and segment sonar signals scattered from underwater sea
beds.
L. Atallah and PJ Smith
International Journal of Remote Sensing Vol 24 (21), Nov 2003, pages
4113-4128.pdf
Learning from data for the
classification of underwater seabeds
DPhil Thesis -
2002
Using Wavelet analysis to classify and segment sonar signals scattered from underwater sea beds. L. Atallah and PJ. Smith. Proceedings of the sixth European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, ECUA'2002, Gdansk, Poland.
Using Wavelet
analysis to classify and segment
sonar signals scattered
from underwater sea beds.
L. Atallah and PJ. Smith Acta Acustica united with Acustica.
volume 88, number 5, pages: 615-618
2000
Phonebanking System
L.
Atallah B. Merheb and R.
Youssef
MEng Project in the Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering 2 -
Roumieh- Lebanon
Supervised by Dr. G. Ballouz and K. Bayrakdar
Sponsored by Mideast Data Systems- Lebanon