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  • AS Karunajeewa, U.R. Abeyratne and C. Hukins , "Silence-breathing-snore classification from snore-related sounds", Physiological Measurement, Institute of Physics, UK, vol. 29, pp.227-243, 2008. 
  • Takahiro Emoto, Udantha R. Abeyratne, Masatake Akutagawa, Shinsuke Konaka and Yohsuke Kinouchi, Linear Neural Networks for Spectral Envelope Estimation, IEICE Electronics Express (ELEX), Japan, 2010, (accepted on 27/04/2010)
  • Swarnkar, V., U.R. Abeyratne, C. Hukins and B.Duce, "A STATE TRANSITION-BASED METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING EEG SLEEP FRAGMENTATION", Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, UK, 0.1007/s11517-009-0524-2, in press, August 13, 2009.
  • Karunajeewa AS, Cervena K, Adjivon B, Herrmann FR, U.R. Abeyratne,Sforza E (Sforza, E.), "Autonomic correlates of arousal from sleep in patients with sleep disorders",  Journal Of Sleep Research,   vol.: 15  (Suppl. 1), pp. 33-34, 2006.    
  • Takahiro Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, Shaminda de Silva, Masatake Akutagawa, Shinsuke Konaka and Yohsuke Kinouchi, "Segmentation of snore-related signals", Chugoku-Shikoku Chapter, Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering,  Okayama, Japan, October 2008, pp.17.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Balancing Hands-on Vs. Theory in Biomedical Engineering and Informatics,  International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics (ISSN (Print): 1755-0653),  Indersceience Publishers, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2008, pp.18-38.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, "A Framework for Information Processing in the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea", in Encyclopedia   of  Healthcare Information Systems (ISBN: 978-1-59904-889-5), 2007.
  • A.K.Ng , T.S. Koh , K. Puvanendran, U.R. Abeyratne, Snore Signal Enhancement and Activity Detection via Translation-Invariant Wavelet Transform, IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering, in Press (accepted on March 18, 2008).
  • A K Ng, T S Koh, E Baey, T H Lee, U.R. Abeyratne, K Puvanendran, "Could formant frequencies of snore signals be an alternative means for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea?", Sleep Medicine, Elsevier Publishers, in press (Accepted on 18/07/2007, doi:10.1016/j.Sleep.2007.07.010)    
  • Swarnkar, V., U.R. Abeyratne and C. Hukins, "Inter-hemispheric asynchrony of the brain during events of apnea and EEG arousals", Physiological Measurement, UK, vol. 28(8), pp.869-880, 2007.    
  • D Xiao, WS Ng, Charles B Tsang, U.R. Abeyratne, "A region and gradient based active contour model and its application in boundary tracking on anal canal ultrasound images", Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, vol. 40(12) pp.3522-3539, 2007.               
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.S. Karunajeewa and C. Hukins, "Mixed-Phase Modelling in Snore Sound Analysis", Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, UK, vol.45(8), pp.791-806, 2007.               
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Xiao Yang, "Ultrasound scatter-spacing based diagnosis of focal diseases of the liver", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol.2, Elsevier Publishers, pp. 9-15, 2007.  
  • U.R. Abeyratne, "Learning How to Learn Medical Signal Processing: A Case Study", Int. J. of Engineering Education, in press (accepted on 15/10/2007).          
  • T.Emoto, M. Akutagawa, U.R. Abeyratne, H.Nagashino and Y.Kinouchi, "Neural Network Weight-Space Representation of a Nonlinear, Non-stationary Signal with Applications in EEG Signal Processing", Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Official J. of the International Federation of Medical & Biological Engineering, UK, vol. 26, pp. 779-798, 2005.                
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, and Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, "Multi-Gradient Filed Active Contour for Multilayer Detection of Ultrasound Rectal Wall Image", SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, 14(3), 2005, pp 033010-1 to 13.  
  • Rathnayake, Suren I.; U.R. Abeyratne, "Prediction of Respiratory Measurements based on Cross Embedding Techniques", Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference (IEEE-EMBS 2007), Lyon, France, 22-26 Aug. 2007, pp:47 - 50.
  • Takahiro Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, Masatake Akutagawa, Hirofumi Nagashino and Yohsuke Kinouchi, "Feature Extraction for Snore Sound via Neural Network Processing", 29th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference (IEEE-EMBS 2007), Lyon, France, Aug. 2007, pp.5477-5480.
  • U.R. Abeyratne;  Swarnkar, V; Rathnayake, Suren I; Hukins, C; "Sleep-Stage and Event Dependency of Brain Asynchrony as manifested through surface EEG",  Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference (IEEE-EMBS 2007), Lyon, France, 22-26 Aug. 2007, Page(s):709 - 712
  • Masato Katayama, Masatake Akutagawa, U.R. Abeyratne, Yoshio Kaji, Fumio Shichijo, Hirofumi Nagashino and Yohsuke Kinouchi: Localization of an Inert Region in the Brain using Modified Levenberg Marquarts Neural Network, 29th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, pp.4098-4101, Lyon, France, Aug. 2007.
  • Takahiro Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, Masatake Akutagawa, Hirofumi Nagashino and Yohsuke Kinouchi, "Feauture Extraction of Obstructive Sleep Apnea via Time Delay Neural Network Processing",Chugoku-Shikoku Chapter,Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering,  Yamaguchi, Japan, October 2007, pp.13.
  • Takahiro Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, Tetsuya Kusumoto, Yusuke Suzuki, Daisuke Hagiwara, Masatake Akutagawa, Shinsuke Konaka and Yohsuke Kinouchi, "Inspecting OSA patients for signs of Apnea using the snore sound analysis", IEICE Technical Report, MBE2008, Okayama,Japan,July 2008,vol.108, No.126, pp.11-14, (2008)
  • S.I. Rathnayake and U.R. Abeyratne, "Prediction of Polysomnographic Measurements",  Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AI07, Gold Coast, Australa, Lecture Notes on Artificial  Intelligence, Springer-verlag, 4830, pp. 130-139, 2007.
  • AS Karunajeewa, U.R. Abeyratne, SI Ratnayake and V. Swarnkar, "Dynamic data Analysis in Obstructive sleep apnea", Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference (IEEE-EMBS 2006), New York, USA, 2006 (28): pp. 4510-4513. 
  • Swarnkar, V., U.R. Abeyratne, and A.S Karunajeewa, Left-Right Information flow in the Brain during EEG arousals, Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference (IEEE-EMBS 2006),  New York, USA 2006 (28): pp. 6133-6136.
  • Masato Katayama, Masatake Akutagawa, U.R. Abeyratne, Yoshio Kaji, Fumio Shichijo, Hirofumi Nagashino and Yohsuke Kinouchi : Some Limitations of Localizing Inert Region from EEG, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, pp.180-185, Singapore, Dec. 2006.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Ajith S. Wakwella , and Craig Hukins , "A Snore Sound Based Method for the Mass Screening of Sleep Apnea", Physiological Measurement (Official Journal of the following organizations: Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik, European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics and International Organization for Medical Physics), vol. 26, pp.779-798, 2005.
  • T. Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, M. Akutagawa, H. Nagashino, Y. Kinouchi, "Neural Networks for the Novel Diagnosis Method based on Clinical Snoring Sound Analysis in Apnea", proceeding of World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, pp836-840, Seoul,Aug., 2006.
  • Takahiro Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, Masatake Akutagawa, Hirofumi Nagashino and Yohsuke Kinouchi, "Development of Novel Diagnosis Method for Obstructive Sleep Apnea based on Snore Sound Analysis", IEICE Technical Report, MBE2006 vol.106, No.162, pp.29-31, Okayama, July, 2006 (in Japanese).
  • Karunajeewa, AS, Cervena, K, Adjivon, B, Herrmann, FR, U.R. Abeyratne,  Sforza, E,  "Autonomic correlates of arousal from sleep in patients with sleep disorders", Journal of Sleep Research, vol. 15, pp: 33-34, 2006.
  • Vinayak Swarnkar and U.R. Abeyratne, "STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF EEG AROUSALS IN SLEEP APNOEA SYNDROME", IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Austria, Feb. 2006.
  • V. Swarnkar and U.R. Abeyratne, ``"Inter-Hemispheric Asynchrony of the Brain during EEG Arousals in Sleep Apnoea'', Physiological Measurements, UK, under revision fro re-submission (2006)
  • Ravindra Koggalage, K. Chomsuwan, S. Yamada, M. Iwahara , and U.R. Abeyratne, "Giant Magnetoresistance Based Eddy-Current Sensor for High-Speed PCB Defect Detection", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Automation, December 15-18, 2005, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 6-pages.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A. Wakwella and S. Karunajeewa" Sleep Apnoea: a Serious Public Health Concern with Tough Information Processing Challenges", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Automation, December 15-18, 2005, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 6-pages.  Vinayak Swarnkar and U.R. Abeyratne, "Inter-Hemispheric Asynchrony of the Brain during Apnea Related EEG Arousals", International Conference on Information and Automation, December 15-18, 2005, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 6-pages.  
  • Takahiro Emoto,U.R. Abeyratne, Masatake Akutagawa, Hirofumi Nagashino, Yohsuke Kinouchi , "Neural networks for the novel diagnosis method based on clinical snoring sound analysis in apnea", accepted for publication at World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2006), August 26-September 1, Seoul, Korea, 2006.
  • T Emoto, M Akutagawa, Y Kinouchi, U.R. Abeyratne, H Nagashino, "The feature extraction of the sleep state in obstructive sleep apnea using the connection weight vectors of the neural networks", The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)  15th Fuzzy,artificial intelligence, neural networks and computational intelligence Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, September 2005, pp.321- 324.
  • Takahiro Emoto, Masatake Akutagawa, U. R Abeyratne†, Hirofumi Nagashino, Yohsuke Kinouchi, "A Comparison of Neural Network and Fast Fourier Transform-based Approach for the State Analysis of Brain", International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain, Beijing, China, October 2005, pp. 94-99.
  • Takahiro Emoto, Masatake Akutagawa,U.R. Abeyratne, Hirofumi Nagashino, Yohsuke Kinouchi , "Tracking the States of a Nonlinear System in the Weight-Space of a Feed-Forward Neural Network", International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Canada, 2005.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Samantha Karunajeewa and Craig Hukins, "Speech-Like Processing of Snore Sounds Towards a Home-Based Apnoea Monitor", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, (Invited Paper), under review 2005.
  • Takahiro Emoto, U.R. Abeyratne, Masatake Akutagawa, Hirofumi Nagashino, Yohsuke Kinouchi , "Neural Networks for Snore Sound Modeling in Sleep Apnea", 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Italy, 2005.
  • X.Tang and U.R. Abeyratne, "Ultrasound Scatterer-Spacing Based Diagnosis of Focal Diseases of the Liver", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, (Journal of the National Biomedical Research Foundation, New York, USA), (under review), 2004. 
  • Takahiro Emoto, Masatake Akutagawa,U.R. Abeyratne, Hirofumi Nagashino, Yohsuke Kinouchi , "Analysis of a Nonlinear System via Internal-State of a Neural Network", EEE/EURASIP International Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Sapporo, Japan, 2005 (accepted on 02/17/2005). 
  • "Snore Based Systems for Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnoea", Provisional Patent Application, Australia, 2004.  
  • "Estimating Total Airway Response and its uses in diagnosing obstructive sleep apnoea", Provisional Patent Application, Australia, 2004.   
  • Asela S. Karunajeewa, U.R. Abeyratne, and Craig Hukins, "Mixed-Phase Modeling of Snore Sounds within a Nonlinear Framework for Component Identification", IEEE/EURASIP International Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Sapporo, Japan, 2005.
  • A.S. Wakwella, U.R. Abeyratne,and Craig Hukins, "Snore Based Systems for the Diagnosis of Apnoea: A Novel Feature and its Receiver Operating Characteristics for a Full-night Clinical Database", IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 1-3 Dec. 2004, Page(s):S2/3 - S5-8. 
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne,and Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, "Multi-Gradient Filed Active Contour for Multilayer Detection of Ultrasound Rectal Wall Image", Journal of Electronic Imaging, (Official J. of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), USA,  and The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)), accepted, December 14, 2004. 
  • Ajith Wakwella, U.R. Abeyratne,and Yohsuke Kinouchi, "Automatic Segmentation and Pitch/Jitter Tracking of Sleep Disturbed Breathing Sounds", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2004 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2004, p 936-941.
  • Asela S. Karunajeewa, U.R. Abeyratne, and Craig Hukins, "Towards a Home Apnea Monitor: A New Method of Extracting Speech and Voiced-Snore Segments from Noisy Respiratory Sounds",  IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 1-3 Dec. 2004, Page(s):S2/5 - 13-16.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Asela S Karunajeewa and Craig Hukins, "Higher-Order Spectra for the Estimation of Total-Airway-Response (TAR) in Snore-Based Diagnosis of Apnoea", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2004 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2004, p 925-930.
  • Takahiro Emoto, Masatake Akutagawa, Yohsuke Kinouchi, U.R. Abeyratne, ``Detection of Biological System Deviation by BPNN", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2004 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2004, p 931-935.
  • Multi Dipole Source Identification from EEG/MEG Topography, Zhuoming Li, Xiaoxiao Bai, Qinyu Zhang, Masatake Akutagawa, Fumio Shichijo, Yohsuke Kinouchi, U. R. Abeyratne - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2004 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2004, p 953-957.
  • Yang Xin and U.R. Abeyratne, `` A Monte Carlo Simulation Study on Extra-neural Stimulation of Nerve Fibers: The Effects of Inherent Randomness and the Number of Electrodes", World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney,  August 2003.
  • Yang Xin and U.R. Abeyratne, ``"Temperature and Nonlinear Effects in Selective Extraneural Stimulation of Nerve Fascicles" , International Congress on Biological and Medical Engineering, Singapore, December 2002 (OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD).
  • U.R. Abeyratne,and Xin Yang, ``An Inverse Technique for Excitation Design in Nerve Fascicle Activation", IEEE Transactions of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, under second review, 2004.
  •  T.H.Lee, U.R. Abeyratne, K.Puvanendran and K.L.Goh, ``Formant Analysis of Snoring for the Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea'', IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, under review, 2002. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, T.H.Lee, C.K.K.Patabandi, K.Puvanendran and K.L.Goh, ``Snore Instrumentation Alone is Sufficient for Detecting Sleep Apnea?'', IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, under review, 2002.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, K.Puvanendran, ``Instrumentation and Signal Processing for the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnoea" , World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney,  August 2003.  
  • X.Tang and U.R. Abeyratne, ``Wavelets for Discontinuity Detection in Ultrasound Images'', IEEE Transactions of Ultrasonics,Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, under review, 2002. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Soh Yeng Chai, S.M. Krishnan, David Khoo, K. Puvanendran, `` Selective Recording, Stimulation and Signal Processing Techniques in Functional Electrical Stimulation", Final Report on ARC (Large Grant) ARC 04/98, Singapore (300 pages), 2002. 
  • Teddy S. Gunawan and U.R. Abeyratne, ``Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Fatigue in Flexor Carpi Radialis Muscle: Instrumentation and Analysis Based on a 2D EMG Array'', Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2002, Singapore, p 1192-1197. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne,and Xin Yang, ``Selective Stimulation of Nerve Fascicles in Neuroprosthetic Systems '', Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2002, 2002, Singapore,  pp. 584-589.
  • D. Xiao, W.S. Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, C. B . Tsang, ``Muscular Layer Boundary Detection from Anal Ultrasound Image by Active Contour Method '', Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2002, 2002, p 548-553.
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, ``Rectal tumor boundary detection by unifying active contour model'', Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4684 III, 2002, p 1415-1426
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, ``Prototype of rectal wall ultrasound image analysis system'', Proceedings of SPIE -The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4684 III, 2002, p 1427-1438
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, ``Hardware and Algorithm Design for Rectal Wall Ultrasound Image Acquisition and Analysis'', International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Kuala Lumpur, June 2002. (BEST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD) 
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, ``A Unifying Active Contour Model For Rectal Structure Tracking'', International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Kuala Lumpur, June 2002. 
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, Charles B. Tsang and Seow Chen, ``Rectal Wall Structure Delineation and Broken Layer Recognition by Multigradient Field Active Contours'', The Seventh Australian and New Zealand Intelligent Information Systems Conference (ANZIIS'2001) Perth, Australia, November 2001.
  • Hua, TP; Goh, D; Hoole, PRP; Abeyratne, UR, "Synthetic aperture antennas and imaging", in Smart Antennas And Signal Processing For Communications, Biomedical And Radar Systems, Wit Press, Ashurst, England, pp. 191-220,  2001.
  • U.R. Abeyratne, G.Zhang and P. Saratchandran ``EEG Source Localization: A Comparative Study of Classical and Neural Network Methods'', International Journal of Neural Systems , vol. 11(4), 2001, pp.349-359. 
  • Tan Pek Hua, Goh Seow Hee, P.R.P. Hoole and U.R. Abeyratne, "Inverse Synthetic Aperture Antennas and Imaging", Chapter 6, in Antennas, Signal processing and Smart Antennas in Telecommunication and Imaging Systems, WIT Computational Mechanics Publishers, UK, 2001. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, C.K.K. Patabandi and K.Puvanendran, "Pitch-Jitter Analysis Snoring Signals in the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea", 23-rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC2001) , Istanbul, Turkey, 2001. 
  • Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, U.R. Abeyratne, Charles Bih-Shiou Tsang, "Multigradient Field Active Contour for Multilayer Detection of Ultrasound Rectal Wall Images", 23-rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC2001) , Istanbul, Turkey, vol.3, pp 2645-2648, 2001. 
  • X. Yang and U.R. Abeyratne, ``An Inverse Problem Approach for Generating Arbitrary Activation Patterns within a Nerve Trunk'', Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, and, The 6th Triennial Conference on Neural Prostheses: Motor Systems, (IFESS-2000 and NP2000) , Aalborg, Denmark, June 2000, pp. 241-244. 
  • T.H. Lee , U.R. Abeyratne and K. Puvanendran, Signal Acquisition and Classification in the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Proceedings of the 6-th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, paper #502 (6-pages), Singapore, December 2000. 
  • X. Tang and U.R. Abeyratne, Wavelet Transforms in Ultrasound Tissue Characterization, Proceedings of the 6-th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, paper #503 (5-pages) Singapore, December 2000. 
  • G. L. Zhang, U.R. Abeyratne,and T. H. Lee, ``A Systematic Comparison of Classical and Neural Network Techniques in EEG Source Localization'', Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering- 3 , J. Middletion, M.L. Jones and G.N. Pande (eds.), Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherland, 2000. 
  • S.M. Krishnan, O. Chutatape, U.R. Abeyratne, S.C. Tjin, K.L. Chan and M.C. Wong "Engineers Work With Doctors to Solve Medical Poblems'' Electrical and Electronic Engineering Research, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, January 2000, pp. 01-03. 
  • Xiaoyan Tan and U.R. Abeyratne, "Wavelet Transforms in Scatterer Spacing Estimation from Ultrasound Echos", Ultrasonics, vol. 38(1-8), Elsevier Science B.V., Netherlands, 2000, pp. 688-692. 
  • T.H. Lee, U.R. Abeyratne, K. Puvanendran and K.L. Goh, "Formant-Structure and Phase-coupling analysis of Human Snoring Sounds for the Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea" Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering- 3 , J. Middletion, M.L. Jones and G.N. Pande (eds.), Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherland, 2000. 
  • U. R. Abeyratne and S.M Adnan, "A Novel Scheme for the Selective Stimulation of Nerve Fibers Using Nonlinear Properties of Action Potentials", Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering , Begell House, Inc., New York, USA, pp. 243-249, 2000 (in press). 
  • Saman S.Abeysekera, U.R. Abeyratne,and S.B.Goh, , "Spectral information changes in obtaining heartrate variability from tachometer R-R Interval Signals", Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering , Begell House, Inc., New York, USA, pp. 297-303, 2000 (in press). 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, "Blind Reconstruction of non-Minimum Phase Systems from 1-D Oblique Slices of the Bispectrum", IEE Proceedings in Vision, Image and Signal Processing , vol. 146(5), pp. 253-264, October 1999. 
  • Syed M. Adnan and U.R. Abeyratne, "Position Selective Stimulation of a Multifascicular Nerve", the 21-st Annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference, Atlanta, USA, 1999. 
  • Zhang Guanglan, U.R. Abeyratne, Ang Kian Tun, Nah Teck Lye, P. Saratchandran, "Comparing RBF & BPN Neural Networks in Dipole Localization", the 21-st Annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference, Atlanta, USA, 1999. 
  • T.H. Lee and U.R. Abeyratne, "Analysis of Snoring Sounds for the Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea", Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 37, suppl. 2, Nov. 1999, pp. 538-539. 
  • Pang Li Sing, Yue Kwok Wai, W.S. Wijesoma, and U.R. Abeyratne, "Automatic on-line Signature Verification Based on a Statistical-Fuzzy Nethod", 2nd Int. Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS'99) , Singapore, 1999. 
  • Tang Xiaoyan and U.R. Abeyratne, "Estimating Mean Scatterer Spacing and Detecting Tumors Based on Wavelet Transform", World Congress on Ultrasound , Denmark, July 1999. 
  • Tan Pek Hua, Dennis Goh, P.R.P. Hoole and U.R. Abeyratne, "Aircraft Flight Angle Estimation Using Radar Returns", Proceedings of the MINDEF-NTU Joint R&D Seminar, Singapore, 1999. 
  • Ang Kian Tun, Nah Teck Lye, Zhang Guanglan, U.R. Abeyratne, P. Saratchandran, "RBF Networks for Source Localization in Quantitative Electropysiology", 18-th Southern Biomedical Engineeing Conference, Clemson, USA,1999. 
  •  Tan Pek Hua, Dennis Goh, P.R.P. Hoole and U.R. Abeyratne, "Scattered Electromagnetic Field Based Computation of Aircraft Pitch Attitude", 8-th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation , Tuscon, Arizona, USA, 1998. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, "System reconstruction from bispectrum slices in biomedical applications," IEEE Nordic Signal Processing Symposium , Vigso, Denmark, 1998. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, "On the identification of Non-minimum phase systems from arbitrary slices of higher-order spectra, 24-th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON98), Aachen, Germany, 1998, pp. 1376-1381. 
  • M. Saxena and U.R. Abeyratne, "Correlating Scalp-Recorded EEG Signal with Modeled Neural Activations in the Brain", NURP Congress , Singapore, 1998. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, "Low-complexity techniques for signal restoration from higher-order statistics," 8-th IEEE DSP Symposium, Bryce Canyon, Utah, USA, 1998. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu, T.Golas, J.M. Reid, E.Conant, F.Forsberg, Higher-Order Vs. Second-Order Statistics in Ultrasound Image Deconvolution'', IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 44(6), November 1997, pp.1409-1416. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne and A.P. Petropulu, Higher-Order Statistics for Tissue Characterization from Ultrasound Images", IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics , Canada, July 1997, pp. 72-76. 
  • A.P. Petropulu, U.R. Abeyratne, System Reconstruction from Higher-Order Spectra Slices, IEEE Transactions on signal Processing , 45(9), September 1997, pp. 2241-2251. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu and J.M. Reid," On modeling the tissue response from ultrasound images , " IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 14(4), August 1996, pp.479-490. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu and J.M. Reid," Higher-Order Spectra Based Deconvolution of Ultrasound Images," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 4 2(6), November 1995, pp.1064-1075. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Y. Kinouchi, H. Oki, J.Okada, F. Schichijo and K. Matsumoto, "Artificial Neural Networks for Brain Electric Source Localization", Brain Topography , Vol. 4(1), Human Sciences Press, NY, Dec. 1991, pp. 3-21. 
  • N. Ekenayake and U.R. Abeyratne, "Efficient Differential Detection of Digital FM Signals in Bandwidth Restricted Channels", IEE Proceedings-I. Special Issue on Satellite Communications, Vol. 136, No. 1, pp 64-70, February, 1989 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu, and J.M. Reid, E. Halpern and F. Forsberg, "Higher-Order Statistics Based Approaches for Estimating Scatterer Periodicity and Correlation Structure of Tissue.", 21st International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Arlington, VA, June 1996. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne and A.P. Petropulu, " Estimating Weighted Higher-Order Cumulant Projections via Second-Order Correlations" 30-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1996, pp. 1161-1165. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne and A.P. Petropulu, "alpha-Weighted Cumulant Projections: a Novel Tool for System Identification", 29th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, California, October 1995, pp. 1482-1486. 
  • A. Zerva, A.P. Petropulu and U.R. Abeyratne, "Blind deconvolution of seismic signals in site response analysis," Proc. of 5th Intern. Conference on Seismic Zonation, France, October 1995, pp. 1245-1253. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu, J.M. Reid and T. Golas, "Estimating Imaging Distortions and Tissue Response From Ultrasonic Images", 20th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization, Arlington, VA, June 1995. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu and J.M. Reid, "Higher-Order Spectra based deconvolution of Ultrasound images," IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Neos Marmaras, Greece, June 1995, pp. 539-542. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, A.P. Petropulu and J.M. Reid, "Blind deconvolution of ultrasound images," SPIE International Symposium on Optics, Imaging and Instrumentation, San Diego, July 24-29, 1994, pp. 191-200. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, B. Nabet and W.K.Krebs, "Processing Ultrasound and Night-Vision Images by the Boundary Contour-Feature Contour Model of Biological Vision", Proceedings of the INNS World Congress on Neural Networks , San Diego, California, Vol. IV, pp. 307-313, 1994. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Y. Kinouchi, T.Soga, J.Okada, F. Schichijo and K. Matsumoto, "Artificial Neural Networks for Single Dipole Localization: on the accuracy of estimations" International Congress on Brain Electromagnetic Topography, Toronto, Canada, August 1991. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Y. Kinouchi, T.Soga, J.Okada, F. Schichijo and K. Matsumoto, "Artificial Neural Networks for Multiple Dipole Localization: a feasibility study" International Congress on Brain Electromagnetic Topography, Toronto, Canada, August 1991. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Y. Kinouchi, H. Oki, J.Okada, F. Schichijo and K. Matsumoto, "Artificial Neural Network Methods in Brain Electric Source Localization", (FINALIST: YOUNG INVESTIGATORS' COMPETITION) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering , (Digest available in "Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing", vol. 29, supplement parts I and II), Kyoto, Japan, 1991. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Y. Kinouchi, H. Oki, J.Okada, F. Schichijo and K. Matsumoto, "Neural Networks for Source Localization in Human Brains", Spring National Convention, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, , Tokushima, March 1991. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne, Y. Kinouchi, H. Oki, J.Okada, F. Schichijo and K. Matsumoto, " A New Dipole Localization Method Using a Back Propagation Neural Network", (PRESIDENT's PRIZE WINNER), International Congress on Brain Electromagnetic Topography , Proceedings available in "Brain Topography", Human Sciences Press, pp. 221, 1990, NY. 
  • H. Oki, J. Okada, F. Shichijo, K. Matsumoto, U.R. Abeyratne,and Y. Kinouchi "Studies on the Origin of Premovement Component of Movement Related Cortical Potentials", International Congress on Brain Electromagnetic Topography , Osaka, Japan 1990. 
  • J. Okada, H. Oki, J. Okada, F. Shichijo, K. Matsumoto, U.R. Abeyratne,and Y. Kinouchi, "Rotatory Shift of the Current Dipole Source for N20-P20 Components of SSSP", International Congress on Brain Electromagnetic Topography , Osaka, Japan 1990. 
  • U.R. Abeyratne,  Yohsuke Kinouchi and Hirofumi Nagashino, A Neural-Net Approach for Placing 'M' Points on a N-Dimensional Unit Hypercube Maximizing the Minimum Distance among Selected Vertices, Shikoku-shibu Gakkai Conference , Kochi, Japan, 1989.