Publications

Unsupervised Multivariate Time-Series Transformers for Seizure Identification on EEG. Yıldız Potter, İ., Zerveas, G., Eickhoff, C., & Duncan, D. (2023). arXiv e-prints, arXiv-2301.

Data Archive for the BRAIN Initiative (DABI). Duncan, D., Garner, R., Brinkerhoff, S., Walker, H. C., Pouratian, N., & Toga, A. W. (2023).Scientific Data, 1(1), 83. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01972-z

A Novel Threshold-Based Segmentation Method for Quantification of COVID-19 Lung Abnormalities. Khan A, Garner R, La Rocca M, Salehi S Duncan D. Signal, Image, and Video Processing. 2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-022-02183-6

Functional connectivity alterations in traumatic brain injury patients with late seizures. La Rocca M, Barisano G, Garner R, Ruf SF, Amoroso N, Monti M, Vespa P, Bellotti R, Erdoğmuş D, Toga AW, Duncan D. Neurobiology of Disease. 2023 Apr 1;179:106053. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106053

Manual Lesion Segmentations for Traumatic Brain Injury Characterization. Bennett A, Garner R, Morris MD, La Rocca M, Barisano G, Cua R, Loon J, Alba C, Carbone P, Gao S, Pantoja A, Khan A, Nouaili N, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Frontiers in Clinical Neuroimaging. 2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fnimg.2023.1068591

Molecular and antigen tests, and sample types for diagnosis of COVID-19: a review. Zhang, Y., Garner, R., Salehi, S., Rocca, M. L., & Duncan, D. (2022). Future Virology17(9), 675-685. https://doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2021-0256

Interdisciplinary K-12 Control Education in Biomedical and Public Health Applications. Duncan D, Garner R, Bennett A, Sinclair M, Ramirez-De La Cruz G, Pasik-Duncan B. Proceedings: 13th Symposium on Advances in Control Education. 2022. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.286

Efficient and visualizable convolutional neural networks for COVID-19 classification using Chest CT. Garg A, Salehi S, Rocca ML, Garner R, Duncan D.  Expert Syst Appl. 2022;195:116540. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116540

Unsupervised seizure identification on EEG. Yıldız İ, Garner R, Lai M, Duncan D.  Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2022;215:106604. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106604

Key Radiological Features of COVID-19 Chest CT Scans with a Focus on Special Subgroups: A Literature Review. Nouaili, N., Garner, R., Salehi, S., Rocca, M., & Duncan, D. (2022). Current Medical Imaging. doi.org/10.2174/1573405618666220620125332

Global impact of COVID-19 on healthcare systems. Bruckhaus AA, Eibschutz LS, Bennett A, Sackett C, Dave K, Cherukury S, and III Smith CM. In Ali Gholamrezanezhad and Michael Dube, editors, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Clinical Guide. Wiley, 2022. doi:https://doi-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/10.1002/9781119789741.ch29

COVID-19: Risk Stratification. Duncan D, Garner R, Zhang Y. In Ali Gholamrezanezhad and Michael Dube, editors, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Clinical Guide. Wiley, 2022. doi:https://doi-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/10.1002/9781119789741.ch8

Post-lockdown infection rates of COVID-19 following the reopening of public businesses. Bruckhaus A*, Martinez A*, Garner R, La Rocca M, Duncan D. Journal of Public Health, 2021; fdab325

COVID-19 Vaccination Dynamics in the US: Coverage Velocity and Carrying Capacity Based on Socio-demographic Vulnerability Indices in California. Bruckhaus AA, Abedi A, Salehi S, Pickering TA, Zhang Y, Martinez A, Lai M, Garner R, Duncan D. J Immigrant Minority Health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01308-2

Association between ABO blood types and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), genetic associations, and underlying molecular mechanisms: a literature review of 23 studies.  Zhang Y, Garner R, Salehi S, La Rocca M, Duncan D.  Ann Hematol. 2021 Mar 8:1–10. doi: 10.1007/s00277-021-04489-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33686492; PMCID: PMC7939543.

Predicting brain age with complex networks: From adolescence to adulthood. Bellantuono L, Marzano L, La Rocca M, Duncan D, Lombardi A, Maggipinto T, Monaco A, Tangaro S, Amoroso N, Bellotti R.Neuroimage. 2021 Jan 15;225:117458. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117458. Epub 2020 Oct 21.PMID: 33099008

Multiplex Networks to Characterize Seizure Development in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients.La Rocca M, Garner R, Amoroso N, Lutkenhoff ES, Monti MM, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D.Front Neurosci. 2020 Nov 30;14:591662. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.591662. eCollection 2020.PMID: 33328863

Early brain biomarkers of post-traumatic seizures: initial report of the multicentre epilepsy bioinformatics study for antiepileptogenic therapy (EpiBioS4Rx) prospective study. Lutkenhoff ES, Shrestha V, Ruiz Tejeda J, Real C, McArthur DL, Duncan D, La Rocca M, Garner R, Toga AW, Vespa PM, Monti MM; EpiBioS4Rx Study Group.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020 Nov;91(11):1154-1157. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-322780. Epub 2020 Aug 26.PMID: 32848013

Imaging biomarkers of posttraumatic epileptogenesis.Garner R, La Rocca M, Vespa P, Jones N, Monti MM, Toga AW, Duncan D.Epilepsia. 2019 Nov;60(11):2151-2162. doi: 10.1111/epi.16357. Epub 2019 Oct 8.PMID: 31595501

Using Virtual Reality to Improve Performance and User Experience in Manual Correction of MRI Segmentation Errors by Non-experts.Duncan D, Garner R, Zrantchev I, Ard T, Newman B, Saslow A, Wanserski E, Toga AW.J Digit Imaging. 2019 Feb;32(1):97-104. doi: 10.1007/s10278-018-0108-5.PMID: 30030766

Harmonization of pipeline for preclinical multicenter MRI biomarker discovery in a rat model of post-traumatic epileptogenesis.Immonen R, Smith G, Brady RD, Wright D, Johnston L, Harris NG, Manninen E, Salo R, Branch C, Duncan D, Cabeen R, Ndode-Ekane XE, Gomez CS, Casillas-Espinosa PM, Ali I, Shultz SR, Andrade P, Puhakka N, Staba RJ, O’Brien TJ, Toga AW, Pitkänen A, Gröhn O.Epilepsy Res. 2019 Feb;150:46-57. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2019.01.001. Epub 2019 Jan 7.PMID: 30641351

The epilepsy bioinformatics study for anti-epileptogenic therapy (EpiBioS4Rx) clinical biomarker: Study design and protocol.Vespa PM, Shrestha V, Abend N, Agoston D, Au A, Bell MJ, Bleck TP, Blanco MB, Claassen J, Diaz-Arrastia R, Duncan D, Ellingson B, Foreman B, Gilmore EJ, Hirsch L, Hunn M, Kamnaksh A, McArthur D, Morokoff A, O’Brien T, O’Phelan K, Robertson CL, Rosenthal E, Staba R, Toga A, Willyerd FA, Zimmermann L, Yam E, Martinez S, Real C, Engel J Jr.Neurobiol Dis. 2019 Mar;123:110-114. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.07.025. Epub 2018 Jul 23.PMID: 30048805

Big data sharing and analysis to advance research in post-traumatic epilepsy.Duncan D, Vespa P, Pitkänen A, Braimah A, Lapinlampi N, Toga AW.Neurobiol Dis. 2019 Mar;123:127-136. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.05.026. Epub 2018 Jun 1.PMID: 29864492

Analytic Tools for Post-traumatic Epileptogenesis Biomarker Search in Multimodal Dataset of an Animal Model and Human Patients.Duncan D, Barisano G, Cabeen R, Sepehrband F, Garner R, Braimah A, Vespa P, Pitkänen A, Law M, Toga AW.Front Neuroinform. 2018 Dec 20;12:86. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2018.00086. eCollection 2018.PMID: 30618695

DETECTING FEATURES OF EPILEPTOGENESIS IN EEG AFTER TBI USING UNSUPERVISED DIFFUSION COMPONENT ANALYSIS.Duncan D, Vespa P, Toga AW.Discrete Continuous Dyn Syst Ser B. 2018 Jan;23(1):161-172. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018010.PMID: 30369835

Regional and network relationship in the intracranial EEG second spectrum.Joshi RB, Gaspard N, Goncharova II, Duckrow RB, Duncan D, Gerrard JL, Spencer DD, Hirsch LJ, Zaveri HP.Clin Neurophysiol. 2016 Nov;127(11):3485-3491. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.09.003. Epub 2016 Sep 10.PMID: 27692590

Classification of Alzheimer’s disease using unsupervised diffusion component analysis.Duncan D, Strohmer T.Math Biosci Eng. 2016 Dec 1;13(6):1119-1130. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2016033.PMID: 27775370

Mathematical methods in systems biology.Kashdan E, Duncan D, Parnell A, Schattler H.Math Biosci Eng. 2016 Dec 1;13(6):i-ii. doi: 10.3934/mbe.201606i.PMID: 27775369

Reply to about the electrophysiological basis of resting state networks.Duncan D, Duckrow RB, Pincus SM, Goncharova I, Hirsch LJ, Spencer DD, Coifman RR, Zaveri HP.Clin Neurophysiol. 2014 Aug;125(8):1713-4. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.12.098. Epub 2013 Dec 22.PMID: 24440225

Identifying preseizure state in intracranial EEG data using diffusion kernels.Duncan D, Talmon R, Zaveri HP, Coifman RR.Math Biosci Eng. 2013 Jun;10(3):579-90. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2013.10.579.PMID: 23906137

Intracranial EEG evaluation of relationship within a resting state network.Duncan D, Duckrow RB, Pincus SM, Goncharova I, Hirsch LJ, Spencer DD, Coifman RR, Zaveri HP.Clin Neurophysiol. 2013 Oct;124(10):1943-51. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.03.028. Epub 2013 Jun 19.PMID: 23790525

Conference Papers, Abstracts and Poster Presentations:

Automatic detection of EEG epileptiform abnormalities in traumatic brain injury using deep learning. Faghihpirayesh R, Ruf S, La Rocca M, Garner R, Vespa P, Erdogmus D, Duncan D. In: Sacristan E, Azpiroz J, Lavarello R, editors. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; 2021 Nov 1-5; Virtual.

Machine learning classification of post-traumatic seizures using different diffusion MRI preprocessing pipelines. Akbar MN, Ruf S, La Rocca M, Garner R, Barisano G, Cua R, Vespa P, Erdogmus D, Duncan D. In: Proceedings of the MICCAI 2021 International Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI; 2021 Oct 1; Virtual.

The effects of filtering on high frequency oscillation classification. Liu J, Garner R, La Rocca M, Bae EK, Duncan D. In: Barros FJ, Hu X, Kavak H, Del Barrio AA, editors. Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Conference for the Society for Modeling and Simulation; 2020 May 19-21; Fairfax, VA. San Diego (CA): Society for Computer Simulation International; c2020. Article 59, p. 1-11.

Prediction of epilepsy development in traumatic brain injury patients from diffusion weighted MRI. Akbar MN, La Rocca M, Garner R, Duncan D, Erdogmus D. In: Makedon F, editor. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA); 2020 Jun 30-Jul 3; Corfu, Greece. New York (NY): Association for Computing Machinery; c2020. Article 87, p. 1-2.

A computational diffusion MRI framework for biomarker discovery in a rodent model of post-traumatic epileptogenesis. Cabeen RP, Immonen R, Harris NG, Grohn O, Smith G, Manninen E, Garner R, Duncan D, Pitkanen A, Toga AW. In: Jacob M, Chul Ye J, Liebling M, Greenspan H, editors. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); 2020 Apr 3-7; Iowa City, IA. Piscataway (NJ): Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); c2020. p. 1013-1017. 

Machine learning model to characterize seizure development in traumatic brain injury patients. La Rocca M, Garner R, Duncan D. In: Findeisen R, Hirche S, Janschek K, Mönnigmann M, editors. Proceedings of the 21st International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress; 2020 Jul 11-17; Berlin, Germany. Elsevier Ltd; 2020. 53(2): p. 2231-2236.

A machine learning model to predict seizures susceptibility from resting-state fMRI connectivity. Garner R, La Rocca M, Barisano G, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. In: Del Barrio AA, Lynch CJ, Barros FJ, Hu X, D’Ambrogio A, editors. Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Conference for the Society for Modeling and Simulation; 2019 Apr 29-May 2; Tucson, AZ. San Diego (CA): Society for Computer Simulation International; c2019. p. 1-11.

Characterizing phenotypic variability in the Epilepsy Bioinformatics Study for Antiepileptogenic Therapy (EpiBioS4Rx): establishing ground-truths for automated lesion segmentation [abstract]. Garner R, Sharma A, La Rocca M, Barisano G, Cua R, Bennett A, Nouaili N, Vesialou E, Khan A, Vespa P, Duncan D on behalf of the Epibios4Rx investigators. Poster session presented at: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting; 2021 Nov 13-16; Chicago, IL.

Fully-automated MRI-based machine learning classification of patients with and without epileptic seizures following traumatic brain injury [abstract]. Yildiz I, Garner, R, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting; 2021 Nov 13-16; Chicago, IL.

Diffusion weighted imaging acquired at 30-days post injury is most sensitive for PTE classification in rodent preclinical model of traumatic brain injury [abstract]. Sharma A, Cabeen R, Garner R, Grohn O, Harris N, Immonen R, Tohka J, Smith G, Manninen E, and Duncan D on behalf of the EpiBioS4Rx investigators. Poster session presented at: American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting; 2021 Dec 3-7; Chicago, IL.

Characterization of posttraumatic epilepsy development in traumatic brain injury patients from cortical thickness structural MRI [abstract]. Alba C, Sharma A, Garner R, and Duncan Don behalf of the Epibios4Rx investigators. Poster session presented at: American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting; 2021 Dec 3-7; Chicago, IL.

Machine learning of diffusion weighted imaging for prediction of seizure susceptibility following traumatic brain injury [abstract]. Sharma A, Garner R, La Rocca M, Alba C, Lee Y, Yang K, Brawer-Cohen M, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference; 2021 Jul 19-22; Virtual.

Using machine learning to assess seizure susceptibility after traumatic brain injury [abstract]. Garner R, La Rocca M, Barisano G, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: Pacific Rim Neuroimaging Conference; 2020 Feb 3-5; Oahu, HI. 

Quantitative methods to study posttraumatic epilepsy [abstract]. La Rocca M, Garner R, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: Pacific Rim Neuroimaging Conference; 2020 Feb 3-5; Oahu, HI. 

Machine learning of multimodal MRI to predict the development of epileptic seizures after traumatic brain injury [abstract]. La Rocca M, Garner R, Jann K, Kim H, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: 2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning; 2019 Jul 8-10; London, United Kingdom. 

A novel approach to detect early-stage epileptogenesis via nonlinear analysis [abstract]. Liu J, Garner R, La Rocca M, Toga AW, Vespa P, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting; 2019 Dec 6-10; Baltimore, MD.

Lesion volume in traumatic brain injury patients is related to seizure development [abstract]. La Rocca M, Barisano G, Bennett A, Garner R, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: American Epilepsy Society (AES) Annual Meeting; 2019 Dec 6-10; Baltimore, MD.

Multimodal signal analysis for post-traumatic epilepsy [abstract]. Duncan D, Garner R, La Rocca M, Erdogmus D. Poster session presented at: International Federation of Automatic Control Advances in Control Education (IFAC-ACE) Meeting; 2019 Jul 7-9; Philadelphia, PA.

Study of brain connectivity changes to characterize epileptic seizures after traumatic brain injury [abstract]. La Rocca, M, Barisano G, Garner R, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 25th Annual Meeting; 2019 Jun 9-13; Rome, Italy.

Analysis of automatically extracted structural features to describe traumatic brain injury severity [abstract]. La Rocca, M Barisano G, Cabeen R, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Poster session presented at: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 27th Annual Meeting; 2019 May 11-16; Montréal, QC.

Efficient MRI segmentation of traumatic brain injury data using active learning [abstract]. Duncan D, Garner R, Erdogmus D. Poster session presented at: Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 25th Annual Meeting; 2019 Jun 9-13; Rome, Italy.

Developing potential quantitative tractography biomarkers of epileptogenesis following experimental traumatic brain injury [abstract]. Cabeen RP, Duncan D, Braimah A, Immonen R, Ndode-Ekane X, Grohn O, Wright D, Ali I, Brady R, Shultz S, Jones N, Casillas-Espinosa P, Santana-Gomez C, Staba R, Harris N, Smith G, Pitkanen A, O’Brien TJ, Engel J, Toga AW. Poster session presented at: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting; 2018 Nov 3-7; San Diego, CA.

Disrupted default mode network connectivity following traumatic brain injury: a resting-state fMRI study [abstract]. Barisano G, Garner R, Zhao L, Xu J, Patel P, Sepehrband F, Duncan D, Law M, Zimmerman L, Willyerd F, Monti M, Vespa P, Toga AW. Poster session presented at: 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology; 2018 Oct 15-17; Coronado, CA.

Paravascular spaces in post-traumatic epilepsy patients [abstract]. Duncan D, Barisano G, Toga AW, Law M. Poster session presented at: Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 25th Annual Meeting; 2018 Jun 17-21; Singapore.