Dr Mahmood Akhtar

Profile

Research Interests

• Public Health Bio-Surveillance Modeling
• Genomic Signal Processing
• DNA Sequence Analysis, microarray analysis
• Speech, Audio, and Image Processing

Publications

• Mahmood Akhtar, Julien Epps, and Eliathamby Ambikairajah (2008), "Signal processing in sequence analysis: advances in eukaryotic gene prediction," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Genomic and Proteomic Signal Processing, vol. 2, no. 3, pp 310-321.
• Mahmood Akhtar (2005), "Comparison of gene and exon prediction techniques for detection of short coding regions," International Journal of Information Technology, Special Issue on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Systems, vol. 11, no. 8, pp 26-35.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2008), "Digital signal processing techniques for gene finding in Eukaryotes," in Proc. ICISP'08, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, A. Elmoataz et al., Eds., vol. 5099. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 144-152.
• Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Mahmood Akhtar (2008), "An integer period DFT for biological sequence processing," in Proc. IEEE 6th International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (Phoenix, Arizona, USA), June 8-10.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2008), "Optimizing period-3 methods for eukaryotic gene prediction," in Proc. IEEE 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA), March 30 - April 04, pp. 621-624.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2007), "Comprehensive autoregressive modeling for classification of genomic sequences," in Proc. IEEE 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (Singapore), December 10-13.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Julien Epps, and Eliathamby Ambikairajah (2007), "Paired spectral content measure for gene and exon prediction in eukaryotes," IEEE International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies (Karachi, Pakistan), July 6-7, pp. 127-130.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2007), "GMM-based classification of genomic sequences," IEEE 15th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (Cardiff, UK), July 1-4, pp. 103-106.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Julien Epps, and Eliathamby Ambikairajah (2007), "On DNA numerical representations for period-3 based exon prediction," in Proc. IEEE 5th International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (Tuusula, Finland), June 10-12.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Julien Epps, and Eliathamby Ambikairajah (2007), "Time and frequency domain methods for gene and exon prediction in eukaryotes," IEEE 32nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (Hawaii, USA), April 15-20, pp. 573-576.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2006), "A hybrid method for the recognition of acceptor splice sites," IEEE 13th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (Nice, France), December 10-13, pp. 565-568.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2005), "Detection of period-3 behavior in genomic sequences using singular value decomposition," IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (Islamabad, Pakistan), September 17-18, pp. 13-17.
• Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Julien Epps, and Mahmood Akhtar (2005), "Gene and exon prediction using time domain algorithms," IEEE 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (Sydney, Australia), August 28-31, pp. 199-202.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2005), "Comparison of gene and exon prediction techniques for detection of short coding regions," International Conference on Intelligent Computing (Hefei, China), August 23-26, pp. 1361-1370.
• Mahmood Akhtar, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, and Julien Epps (2005), "Gene and exon prediction using time-domain techniques," 3rd Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (Singapore), January 17-21, p. 43.
• Javed Akhtar, Muhammad Younus Javed, and Mahmood Akhtar (2004), "Implementation and analysis of wavelet image decomposition and SPIHT algorithm," IEEE 8th International Multi-topic Conference (Lahore, Pakistan), December 24-26, pp. 97-101.