Prof.
Rezaul K Begg
Professor, Victoria
University
B.Sc. Eng (BUET;
First Class Hons, University Gold Medal), M.Sc. Eng,
PhD Biomedical Engineering (The University of
Aberdeen), IEEE Senior Member
Contacts
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Office:
Footscray Park Campus (Room PB201)
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Address:
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Tel:
+61 3 9919 1116
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Fax:
+61 3 9919 1242
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Email:
rezaul.begg@vu.edu.au
Rezaul Begg
researches in Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanics areas. The main focus of his
research is to advance understanding of locomotor control patterns in humans,
and to find out how these control patterns and dynamic balance are modified due
to disease states and across the lifespan. Various modeling, statistical and
artificial intelligence approaches (e.g., artificial neural networks, support
vector machines) as well as biomedical instrumentation are used to address
these issues. He has published over 150 research papers in these areas in
Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has also published 4 Books and 12 Book
Chapters.
Research Interests
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Gait
and Movement Analysis
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Biosignal
Processing
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Computational
Intelligence
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Sensor
Technologies in Healthcare
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Biomedical
Instrumentation
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Foot
Pressure Sensors, Sensor Design
Recent
ARC grants
Recent Books
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Begg
RK, Lai
DTH & Palaniswami M (2008) Computational Intelligence in Biomedical
Engineering, Taylor & Francis Books Inc, Boca Raton, Florida,
USA (392 pages), ISBN: 9780849340802.
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Lai D, Begg RK &
Palaniswami M (editors) (2012) Healthcare Sensor Networks: Challenges Toward Practical Implementation. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Books
Inc, Boca Raton, Florida, USA (439 pages), ISBN-978-1439821817.
Selected Recent Publications
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Levinger
P, Lai D, Menz H, Feller J, Begg RK (2012) Swing limb
mechanics and minimum toe clearance in people with knee osteoarthritis. Gait and Posture 35(2):
277-281.
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Karmakar
C, Khandoker AH, Begg RK and Palaniswami M (2012) Understanding ageing effects
using complexity analysis of foot-ground clearance during walking. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. Available online 30/1/2012.
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Nagano
H, Begg RK, Sparrow WA, Taylor S (2011) Ageing and
limb dominance effects on foot-ground clearance during treadmill and overground walking. Clinical
Biomechanics 26(9), 962-968.
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Lai DTH, Taylor S,
Begg RK (2011) Prediction of foot clearance parameters as a precursor to
forecasting the risk of tripping and falling. Human Movement Science -
doi:10.1016/j.humov.2010.07.009.
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Barrett R, Mills P,
Begg RK (2010). A systematic review of the effect of ageing and falls history
on minimum foot clearance characteristics during level walking. Gait and Posture 32(4), 429-435.
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Mehdi AM, Zayegh A, Begg RK (2010) GK
based fuzzy clustering for the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia. International Journal
of Computational Intelligence and Applications, 9(2), 105-123.
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Hassan R, Hossain M,
Begg RK, Kotagiri R, Morsi Y (2010) Breast-Cancer
identification model using HMM-Fuzzy model. Computers
in Biology and Medicine, 40(3), 240-251.
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Khandoker
AH, Lynch K, Karmakar C, Begg RK and Palaniswami M (2010) Toe Clearance and Velocity profiles of Young and Elderly during
Walking on Sloped Surfaces. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 7:18.
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Lai
D, Levinger P, Begg RK, Gilleard W & Palaniswami M (2009) Automatic
recognition of gait patterns exhibiting patellofemoral
pain syndrome using a Support Vector Machine approach. IEEE
Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
13(5), 687-702.
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Lai
D, Begg RK & Palaniswami M
(2009) Computational Intelligence in Gait Research: A perspective on current
applications and future challenges. IEEE Transactions
on Information Technology in Biomedicine 13(5), 810-817.
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Levinger
P, Lai D, Begg RK, Webster K & Feller J (2009) The application of Support
Vector Machines for detecting recovery from knee replacement surgery using spatio-temporal gait parameters. Gait
and Posture 29, 91-96.
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Zhang
B-L, Zhang Y and Begg RK (2009) Gait classification in children with cerebral
palsy by Bayesian approach. Pattern Recognition
42(4), 581-586.
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Sparrow
WA, Begg RK & Parker S
(2008) Variability in the foot-ground clearance and step timing of young and
older men during single-task and dual-task treadmill walking. Gait and Posture 28, 563–567.
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Khandoker
AH, Taylor S, Karmakar C, Begg RK
&
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Lai
D, Begg RK, Taylor S &
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Best
RJ & Begg RK (2008) A method for
calculating the probability of tripping while walking. Journal
of Biomechanics 41, 1147-1151.
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Khandoker
AH,
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Khandoker
AH, Lai D, Begg RK &
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Begg RK, Best RJ, Taylor S & Dell'Oro L (2007) Minimum
foot clearance during walking: Strategies for the minimization of trip-related
falls. Gait and Posture
25, 191-198.
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Kamruzzaman
J & Begg RK (2006) Support
vector machines and other approaches to the recognition of cerebral palsy gait.
IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Engineering 53(12), 2479-2490.
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Begg RK & Sparrow WA (2006) Ageing effects on
knee and ankle angles during major events and phases of the gait cycle. Journal of Medical Engineering
and Technology 30(6), 382-389.
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Begg RK (2006). Neural Network-based prediction of
missing key features in vertical GRF-time recordings. Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology 30(5), 315-322.
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Sparrow WA, Begg RK
& Park S (2006) Ageing effects on visual reaction time in a single task
condition and when treadmill walking. Motor Control, 10,
201-211.
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Begg RK &
Kamruzzaman J (2006) Artificial neural networks for
movement pattern recognition. Australasian
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 29(2), 188-195.
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Begg
RK, Palaniswami M & Owen B (2005) Support vector machines for automated
gait classification. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 52(5), 828-838.
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Begg
RK & Kamruzzaman J (2005) A machine learning
approach for automated recognition of movement patterns using basic,
kinetic and kinematic gait data. Journal of Biomechanics
8, 401-408.
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Dr Tony Sparrow
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Dr Amity Campbell
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Dr Oren Tirosh
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Dr Pazit Levinger
Postgraduate Research Supervision
Current
Research students
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Braveena Santhiranayagam
(PhD) – Sensors and actuators in gait rehabilitation
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Hanatsu
Nagano (PhD) – Understanding foot trajectory control during locomotion
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Simon
Taylor (PhD) - Foot
clearance dynamics in gait
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Baharuddin
Mustapha (PhD - with A/Prof Aladin Zayegh) – Sensor design for obstacle
detection
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Abdul
Hadi Abdur Razzak (PhD - with A/Prof Aladin Zayegh) – Foot
pressure sensor system design
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Linah
Wafai ((PhD - with A/Prof Aladin Zayegh) – Early detection of pressure pattern
changes in diabetic foot
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Ferdous Wahid (PhD – with Prof Saman
Halgamuge) – Automated gait pattern recognition
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Adam
Larcom (MSc) – Effect of
balance training on AFL
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Tom
Quine (Hons) – Reflexive foot control during slipping
Past
Research Students
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Lisa Dell'Oro
(PhD)
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Yufriddin Wahab
(PhD)
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Noel
Lythgo (PhD)
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Jimmy
Cai (MSc) - ACHPER Award
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Subhash Basumatary
(MSc) - ACHPER Award
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Joel
Martin (Hons)
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Lisa
Dell'Oro (Hons)
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Simone
Lewis (Hons)
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Amanda
Johns (Hons)
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Kate
Lynch (Hons)
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Hanatsu
Nagano (Hons)
Journal
Editorial Board Member
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Sensors
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Journal
of Computer Networks and Communications
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Biosensors
Guest Editor
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Special Issue on Sensors in Biomechanics and Biomedicine,
Sensors.
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Special
Issue on Biomedical Signal Sensing and Intelligent Information Processing,
International Journal of Computational
Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA).
Journal Reviewer
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Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine
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Experimental
Brain Research
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Gait
and Posture
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Human
Movement Science
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IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
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IEEE
Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
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Journal
of Biomechanics
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Physiological
Measurements
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Sensors
Grant Assessor
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ARC
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NH&MRC
Conferences
(Technical Program
Committee, Organizing Committee, Session Chair, etc)
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IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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IEEE World Congress
on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, 2008.
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International
Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2008), Cap
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Falls
Prevention Conference,
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International
Conference on Intelligent Sensor, Sensor Networks & Information Processing
(ISSNIP), Melbourne
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International
Conference on Intelligent Sensor & Information Processing (ICISIP),
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International
Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP)
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Internet,
Processing, Systems, and Interdisciplinary (Research) –IPSI
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International
Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE),
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Modelling & Simulation
Conference,
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International
Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications,
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Fourth
Australasian Biomechanics Conference,
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Special
session on Biomedical Diagnostics, Melbourne
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Special
Session on Biometrics,