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  Susan Whitney
Rolf Jacob
Patrick Loughlin
Margaretha Casselbrant
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Patrick J. Loughlin, PhD
Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering.

ACADEMIC HISTORY
Dr. Loughlin earned his BS in 1985 from Boston University in Biomedical Engineering. In 1988, he earned his MS in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He received a PhD from University of Washington, Seattle in Electrical Engineering in 1992.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Time-Varying Properties of Postural Sway
Aging and Vestibular Disorders

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  O'Connor KW, Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS, Sparto PJ: Postural adaptations to repeated optic flow stimulation in older adults. Gait and Posture. 2008 Mar 7.
  Mahboobin A, Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS, A model-based approach to attention and sensory integration in postural control of older adults. Neuroscience Letters. 429(2-3):147-51, 2007 Dec 18.
  Mahboobin A, Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS, Sparto PJ: Sensory re-weighting in human postural control. Experimental Brain Research, 167:260-267 2005 .
  Musolino MC, Loughlin PJ, Sparto PJ, Redfern MS (2005) Spectrally similar periodic and non-periodic optic flows evoke different postural sway responses. Gait and Posture, (in press)
  Sparto PJ, Jasko JG, Loughlin PJ (2004) Detecting postural responses to sinusoidal sensory inputs: a statistical approach. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 12:360-366.
  P. Loughlin, M. Redfern and J. Furman, "Nonstationarities of Postural Sway: The Utility of Time-Frequency Analysis in Studying Human Balance," in M. Akay (ed.), Advances in Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Methods for Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Wiley, to appear 2002.
  P. Loughlin, M. Redfern and J. Furman, "Nonstationarities of Postural Sway: The Utility of Time-Frequency Analysis in Studying Human Balance," in M. Akay (ed.), Advances in Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Methods for Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Wiley, to appear 2002.
Loughlin PJ, Redfern MS: Spectral characteristics of visually-induced postural sway in healthy elderly and healthy young subjects. IEEE Trans Rehabilitation Engineering 9(1):24-31, 2001.
  Loughlin P and Davidson K: Modified Cohen-Lee time-frequency distributions and instantaneous bandwidth of multicomponent signals. IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 1153-1165, 2001.
  Cakrak F and Loughlin P: Multiple window time-varying spectral analysis. IEEE Trans. Sig. Process., vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 448-453, 2001.
  Cohen L, Loughlin P and Vakman D: On an ambiguity in the definition of the amplitude and phase of a signal. Signal Processing, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 301-307, 1999.
  Loughlin P: Cohen-Posch (positive) time-frequency distributions: development and applications. Applied Sig Process 4:122-130, 1997.
Loughlin P, Redfern M, Furman J: Time-varying characteristics of visually-induced postural sway. IEEE Trans Rehab Engr 4(4):416-424, 1996.
  Loughlin P, Pitton J, Atlas L: Construction of positive time-frequency distributions. IEEE Trans Sig Process 42(10):2697-2705, 1994.

 

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