Samir Sahli (سمير صحلي)

• Industry Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University
• National Digital Data & AI Specialist, Microsoft Canada

• Ph.D. in Physics – Laval University, Quebec, Center for Optics Photonics and Lasers (COPL); COPL-Ulaval
  
• M.Sc. in Physics – Laval University, Quebec, QC, Universite Laval, COPL;
  
• Master degree in Physics – Condensed Matter, Optics, Image – Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNSA), France;
  
• Bachelor of Sciences (B.Sc.) – Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, (UNSA), France;
  
  

Samir's main research interests include, but not limited to, the development of compact bedside healthcare solutions for early detection and monitoring pathologies; but also biomedical signal and image processing, system design and optics/photonics.

• ”Google street view” for the colon. The description of this project appeared in NATIONAL POST

• Hyperspectral image analysis of skin erythema after radiation therapy with AYIN team at the INRIA

• Early detection of cancerous cells in Barett's esophageal and Photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment

• Smart home and Medical Compliance Monitoring in community dwelling seniors

• International Scholarship of SPIE in Optics and Photonics, 2012 (SPIE website)

• International Scholarship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009 (JSPS/NSERC)

• Doctoral Research Scholarship (B2), Fonds Québécois Recherche Nature et Technologies, 2008-2010 (FQRNT)

• Award for student social implication, (AÉLIES), 2008

• Admission Scholarship for Ph.D program, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2008

• Scholarship from French Minister of Research, 2004-2005

2014

• Samir Sahli, Roy C.C. Wang, Aparna Murthy, David Armstrong, M. Jamal Deen, and Qiyin Fang, “A 360 Degree Side View Endoscope for Lower GI Tract Mapping”, Physics In Canada (in Press)

• Shu-Chi Allison Yeh, Samir Sahli, David W. Andrews,Michael S. Patterson, David Armstrong, John Provias, and Qiyin Fang, “5-ALA induced PpIX as a Fluorescence Marker for Quantitative Image Analysis of High-Grade Dysplasia in Barrett’s Esophagus Cellular Models”, Submitted to Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2014,(in revision)

• Qiyin Fang, Simon Thibault, Samir Sahli, Pierre Desaulniers, Patrice Roulet, Jocelyn Parent, Hu Zhang, David Armstrong, “A 360 degree view endoscope using miniaturized panomorph optics for 3-D colon mapping”, Photonics West BIOS, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic and Surgical Guidance Systems XIII (accepted)

2012

• S. Sahli, D. A. Lavigne and Y. Sheng, “Saliency region detection in aerial imagery using Multiscale SLIC segmentation”, International Conference on Image Processing . IPCV’12, 647-653

• S. Sahli, D.A. Lavigne and Y. Sheng , “Salient region selection in large aerial imagery using Multiscale SLIC segmentation”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VIII, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8360

2011

• Y. Ouyang , S. Sahli, Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust component-based car detection in aerial imagery with new segmentation techniques”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8020

• S. Sahli, Y. Ouyang , Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust vehicle detection in aerial images based on salient region selection and superpixel classification”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol.8020

2010

• D.A. Lavigne, S. Sahli, Y. Ouyang , Y. Sheng , “Unsupervised classification and clustering of image features for vehicle detection in large scale aerial images”, International Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion2010, Scotland, UK

• S. Sahli, Y. Ouyang , Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust vehicle detection in low-resolution aerial imagery”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol.7668

• Y. Ouyang , S. Sahli, Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust component-based car detection and counting based on the mean-shift colour space clustering”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol.7668

2008

• S. Sahli and Yunlong Sheng, Multiscale beamlet transform application to airfield runway detection, Optical Pattern Recognition XIX, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6977
  
  

Technical reports for Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC-Valcartier)

• S. Sahli and Y. Sheng, Spatial Relationships, Detection of cars in aerial images by combining scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) descriptor and supervised learning machine algorithm (SVM) Internal Report No. 1 Image Science Group, COPL, University Laval, (2009)

• S. Sahli and Y. Sheng, Spatial Relationships, Internal Report No. 3 Image Science Group, COPL, University Laval, (2009)

• S. Sahli and Y. Sheng, Using context to enhance detection of objects in aerial images, Internal Report No. 4 Image Science Group, COPL, University Laval, (2009)
  
  

Communications and posters

• Y. Sheng, S. Sahli, Yueh Ouyang and Daniel A. Lavigne, “Object detection: from optical correlator to intelligent recognition surveillance system”, SPIE Newsroom. (Published Online: October 21, 2013)
  

• Y. Sheng, S. Sahli, Yueh Ouyang and Daniel A. Lavigne, “Robust object detection in aerial imagery”,(invited), 11th Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics (WIO),p 4321-4324, 2013
  

• S. Sahli, S. Fissette and X. Maldague, “Infrared Image Processing for Online Quality Control in Laser Welding”, 10th Conference on Quantitative Infrared Thermography (QIRT), Quebec, Canada, (2010) [poster]
  

• S. Sahli, K. Kotani and Y. Sheng, “Physics-based models for color image processing applied to picture quality evaluation”, Shonan Village Center, Sokendai, Japan, 21 June 2009 [poster]