Dr. Stephen Faul B.E.,Ph.D.

Digital Signal Processing Research Group: Real Time Seizure Detection In Newborn Infants

My details

Qualifications:	BE (Elec) 2:1 Honours, awarded 2002, University College Cork
	Ph.D., awarded August 2007, University College Cork
Thesis Title:	Automated Neonatal Seizure Detection
Current position:	Postdoctoral Researcher: Low Power Biomedical Devices and Algorithms
Research areas:	Biomedical signal processing including the areas of: Independent Component Analysis, Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory, Neural and Bayesian Networks, Information Theory, Time-frequency Analysis, Complexity Analysis, Gaussian and AR Modelling
Supervisor:	Dr. W. Marnane

Patents

• ''A Method for the Real-time Identification of seizures in an Electroecephalogram (EEG) Signal''
  S. Faul, A. Temko, W. Marnane, G. Lightbody and G. Boylan
  WO 2010/115939 A2
  Filed April 2010

Awards

• Winner of the 2009 Purdy-Lucey Invention of the Year Commercialisation Award for the patent outlined above

• Co-author of the winning paper of the MIDAS Ireland Outstanding Research Publication Award 2010

• Awarded the title of College Scholar in 1999 based on performance in examinations

Publications and Lectures

• ''Respiration Rate Calculation Using Low Power DSP Processor and SpO2 Sensor''
  Alessandro Canu, Massimiliano Canu, Stevan Marinkovic, Stephen Faul and Emanuel Popovici
  Accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), May 30 – 31, 2011, Bari, Italy.
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• ''Dynamic, Location-Based Channel Selection for Power Reduction in EEG Analysis''
  Stephen Faul and William Marnane
  Submitted to Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, October 2010
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• ''Dynamic Channel Selection to Reduce Power Consumption in Seizure Detection''
  Stephen Faul
  Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC 2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010, pp 6365-6368
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• ''Energy Efficient On-Sensor Processing in Body Sensor Networks''
  W. Marnane, S. Faul, C. Bleakley, R. Conway, E. Jones, E. Popovici, M. de la Guia Solaz, F. Morgan, K. Patel
  Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC 2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010, pp 2025-2029
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• ''Automatic Detection of EEG Artefacts Arising from Head Movements''
  Simon O'Regan, Stephen Faul, William Marnane
  Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC 2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010, pp 6353-6356
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• ''EEG Compression Using JPEG2000: How Much Loss is Too Much?''
  Garry Higgins, Stephen Faul, Robert McEvoy, Brian McGinely, Martin Glavin, William Marnane and Edward Jones
  Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC 2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010, pp 614-617
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• ''REACT: Real-time Seizure Detection with a DSP Microprocessor''
  R. McEvoy, S. Faul and W. Marnane
  Proceedings of the 32^nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS (EMBC 2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010, pp 2443-2446
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• ''REACT: Real-time EEG Analysis for Seizure Detection''
  A. Temko, R. McEvoy, D. Dwyer, S. Faul, G. Lightbody, W. Marnane
  Proceedings of the First AMA-IEEE Conference on Medical Technology Devoted to Individualized Healthcare, Washington, March, 2010
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• "Energy-Efficient Low Duty Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks"
  Stevan J. Marinković, Emanuel M. Popovici, Christian Spagnol, Stephen Faul and William P. Marnane
  IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 13, Num. 6, pp 915-925, 2009
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• "On the Effect of Reduced Sampling Rate and Bitwidth on Seizure Detection"
  Daniel Kelleher, Stephen Faul, Andrey Temko and William Marnane
  2009 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP'09), August 2009, Budapest, Hungary, pp 153-156
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• "Age-Independent Seizure Detection"
  Stephen Faul, Andriy Temko and William Marnane
  Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 09), Minneapolis, September 2009, pp 6612-6615
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• "Low Power Real-Time Seizure Detection for Ambulatory EEG"
  Patel, K., Chua, C.P., Faul, S. and Bleakley, C.J.
  3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009, April 2009, London, U.K.
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• "A Comparison of Quantitative EEG Features for Neonatal Seizure Detection"
  B.R. Greene, S. Faul, W.P. Marnane, G. Lightbody, I. Korotchikova and G.B. Boylan
  Clinical Neurophysiology, vol 119, issue 6, June 2008, Pages: 1248-1261
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• "Automated Neonatal Seizure Detection"
  Stephen Daniel Faul
  Ph.D. Thesis, University College Cork. August 2007.
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• "Gaussian Process Modelling of the EEG for Detection of Neonatal Seizures"
  Stephen Faul, Gregor Gregorcic, Geraldine Boylan, William Marnane, Gordon Lightbody and Sean Connolly
  Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, Vol 54, Issue 12, Dec 2007, Pages: 2151-2162, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TBME.2007.895745
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• "An EEG-Based Neonatal Seizure Detection System"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Liam Marnane, Gordon Lightbody and Sean Connolly
  7th European Congress on Epileptology, Helsinki, Finland, July 2006
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• "Gaussian Process Modelling as an Indicator of Neonatal Seizure"
  Stephen Faul, Gregor Gregorcic, Geraldine Boylan, William Marnane, Gordon Lightbody and Sean Connolly
  Proceedings of the third IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPPRA 2006), Innsbruck, Austria, Feb 2006, pp 177-182
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• "A comparison of EEG entropy (using SE/RE indices) and predefined EEG parameters as monitors of sedation depth in ASA 1 or 2 adult patients receiving low dose propofol"
  P. Mahon, E. Khan, E. Lynch, S. Faul, G.Boylan, B. McNamara and G. Shorten
  South of ireland association of Anaesthetists, Autumn Scientific Meeting, Killarney, Oct 2005
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• "Chaos Theory Analysis of the Newborn EEG: Is it Worth the Wait?"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  2005 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP '05), Faro, Portugal, Sept 1, 2005, pp 381-386
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• "A Novel Automatic Neonatal Seizure Detection System"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  IEE Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2005, (ISSC '05), Dublin City University, Ireland, Sept 2005, pp 377
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• "An Evaluation of Automated Neonatal Seizure Detection Methods"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 116 (7), pp 1533-1541, July 2005 (also discussed in "eNeonatal Review", Vol.3, No.8, presented by The John Hopkins University School of Medicine, http://www.hopkinscme.org/ofp/eneonatalreview/Newsletters/0406.html#article5
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• "A Method for the Blind Separation of Sources for use as the First Stage of a Neonatal Seizure Detection System"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '05), Philadelphia, March 2005, vol 5, pp 409-412
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• "Computer-aided Seizure Detection in Newborn Infants"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  ISSC 2004, Proc. IEE Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Belfast, pp 428-433
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• "Automated Algorithms for Seizure Detection in Neonates"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  Meeting of the British Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists, London, Oct 2004
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• "Computer-aided Seizure Detection for Newborn Infants"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  IPEM,IEEE,IEE,ACPIN Symposium on Signal Processing in Clinical Neurophysiology, York, Feb 2004
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• "An Automatic Seizure Detection System for Newborn Infants"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  Cork University Hospital Faculty of Medicine and Health Research Day, June 2003
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• "Computer-aided Seizure Detection System for Newborn Infants"
  Stephen Faul, Geraldine Boylan, Sean Connolly, William Marnane and Gordon Lightbody
  Brain Research Meeting, Cork, Dec 2003
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Stephen Faul, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland.