Brian Lithgow's Research Page (under construction)

RESEARCH PERSONNEL

Neurological and Neurodegenerative Disorders 

Neural Diagnostics Industry Partners

DIRECTORS

Chairman

Charles Hider.                LLB (Melb)

Chief Executive Officer

Roger Edwards              BSc (Hons), Mech. Eng (Surrey), PhD (Strathclyde)

Non-Executive Directors

Michael Dalling AM       M.Agr.Sc. (Melb), PhD (Illinois).

Len Walker.                     BE, PhD (Cantab.), MBA (Melb.)

Auditory Signal Processing

Patents

1. Patent "A neural event process" Inventor Lithgow, B.J. (PCT/AU2005/001330, priority date 1st September 2004)

(International patent publication WO 2006/024102).

2. Patent “Speech Analysis System” Inventors Orr, M and Lithgow, B., PCT/AU2006/000889 23-6-06, priority date 24-June-05.

3. Patent "A neural response system" Inventor Lithgow, B.J. (PCT/AU2007/xxxxxxx, priority date jUne 2007)

Books.

 
1. "A TMS320C6xxx DSP Laboratory Course," Lithgow, B.J. Mi-tec Publishing, Melbourne. ISBN 1 875925 52 X, 120pgs. 2001.

2. "Biomedical Engineering in 2001, “Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Victorian Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine

and Biology Society. Eds. B. Lithgow and I. Cosic. Monash Printing, Melbourne, ISBN 0-9578686-0-X, 227pgs. 2001.

3. "A Texas instruments 2005 TMS320C6xxx Laboratory Course," Lithgow, B.J. Mi-tec Publishing, Melbourne. ISBN 1 875925 60 O, 218pgs. 2005.

Book chapters.

1. *"A novel dual adaptive approach to speech processing," (2002) Orr, M.C., Lithgow, B.J., Mahony, R., and Pham, D.S., in Advanced signal 

processing for communication systems, Eds. T. Wysocki, M. Darnell, and B. Honary: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002., 47-58.

Journal Articles.

1. *"Time scale analysis of transients for circuit breaker fault detection." (2003) Lee, D., Lithgow. B.J. and Morrison, R. 

IEEE Trans. Power Vol 18 No 2 pgs 454-459.

2. “The accuracy of the Foldes—Biro equation for measurement of oxygen uptake during aneasthesia: A laboratory study”. (2004

Stuart-Andrews, C., Peyton, P., Robinson, G.  and Lithgow, B., Aneasthesia, 59, pgs 541-544.

3. *“A vestibular diagnostic response”. (2004) Shoushtarian, M. and Lithgow, B., J.APESM., 27(4), 189-198.

4. *“Higher order statistical analysis of /x/ in male speech”, (2005) Orr, M. and Lithgow, B., J. APESM., 28(1), pgs 56-9.

5. *“Modelling the vestibular head tilt response”. (2005) Heibert, D. and Lithgow, B., J.APESM., 28(1), 37-42.

6. “Biomedical Engineering: Impressions of developing areas in Australia” (2005). Lithgow, B. J.APESM., 28, 60-65.

7. “Continuous indirect calorimetry—a laboratory simulation of a new method for non invasive metabolic monitoring of patients

under aneasthesia or in critical car”. (2006) Stuart-Andrews, C., Peyton, P., Robinson, G.  and Lithgow, B., Physiol. Meas. 27, 155-164.

8. “Are first year Engineering students “Mature” enough to use web based teaching?” (2006) Lithgow, B., Abachi, H., 

Int. J. Sci. Res. 16. 4 pgs.

9. “Pilot investigation of the effect pulsed extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-PEMFs) have on humans:  

Part I-  heart rate variability (HRV).” (2006) Baldi. E, Baldi, C. and Lithgow, B.J., Bioelectromagnetics. , 28, no.1, pgs64-68..

10. "Effect of alcohol on the vestibular response and the frontal brain asymmetry ratio" Neimiec, A.,  Lithgow, B. 
Int. J. Sci. Res. 16 4 pgs

11. “Non-invasive metabolic monitoring of patients under anaesthesia by continuous indirect calorimetry--an in vivo trial of a 
new method” (2006) Stuart-Andrews. C., Peyton, P., Robinson,G., Terry, D., O'Connor, B., Van der herten, C. and Lithgow, B., 
British Journal of Anaesthesia. 98, no.1, pgs 45-52.

12. In Vivo Validation of the M-COVX Metabolic Monitor in Patients under Anaesthesia. (2007) Stuart-Andrews. C. et al.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 35, no. 3, 398-405.

Conference Papers

1. *“Speech perception based algorithm for the separation of overlapping speech signal.” (2001) Lithgow, B.J., Orr. M., Pham, D.S. 

and Mahony, R. ANZIIS IEEE Conference Perth (Invited paper) .

 2. “Biomedical engineering curriculum:- a comparison between the USA, Europe and Australia.”. (2001) Lithgow. B.J., Proceedings 

of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, Turkey 4 pgs, (CD Rom).

3. “Enhanced Modiolar Stimulation Effects in the Inferior Colliculus.” (2001) Lithgow. B.J., Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International 

Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul, Turkey 4 pgs, (CD Rom).

4. “Investigation of an Optical Fibre Sensor for detecting lower limb location.” Chung, J. and Lithgow, B.J., Proceedings of the 2nd conference 

of the Victorian chapter of the IEEE EMBS. February 2001, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. pgs 103-107.

5. “A Modiolar Stimulation Map measured in the Inferior Colliculus.” Lithgow, B.J., Proceedings of the 2nd conference of the Victorian chapter

of the IEEE EMBS. February 2001, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. pgs 10-12.

6. *”A practical approach to real-time application of speaker recognition using wavelets and linear algebra” Duc-Son Pham, M. Orr, B. Lithgow, 

and R. Mahony.. 6th International Symposium on DSP for Communication Systems, Sydney, DSPCS-2002, 2002.

7. *"Reduction of the cocktail party effect for hearing impaired patients by time-frequency signal processing," Orr, M.C., Lithgow, B.J, and Mahony, R., 

presented at International Hearing Aid Research Conference - ICHON 2002, Lake Tahoe, California, USA. Pg.44.

8. *"Speech features found in a continuous high order statistical analysis of speech," Orr, M.C., Lithgow, B.J, and Mahony, R., presented at 24th Annual 

International Conference of the EMBS, Houston, Texas, USA, 2002. CD Rom 4 pgs.

9. "Stochastic responses from electrically driven Inferior Colliculus units," Lithgow, B.J., presented at 24th Annual International Conference of the EMBS,

Houston, Texas, USA, 2002. CD Rom 4 pgs.

10. “Biomedical Engineering Curriculum: should it be the Bioengineering curriculum?” Lithgow, B.J., presented at 25th Annual International Conference of 

the EMBS, Cancun Mexico, 2003.CD Rom 4pgs.

11.*“Tinnitus Classification and Suppression”, by Neimic, A., Chin, Y., Dixon, I., Lithgow, B.,The Second IASTED International Conference on Biomedical 

Engineering BIOMED  2004 Innsbruck, Austria. 4pgs.

12.*“Vestibular Diagnostics: The Sp/Ap Ratio”, by Shoushtarian, M. and Lithgow, B., Proceedings of the 2nd international Conference on Advances in Biomedical 

Signal and Information Processing, 2004, Malta G. C., pgs 62-66.

13. *“A vestibular diagnostic: Balance platform”. (2005) Warner, C., Lithgow, B. and Engstrom, B. The IASTED International Conference on Biomedical 

Engineering BIOMED  2005 Innsbruck, Austria. 4pgs.

14. *“Effects of alchohol on the vestibular response and the frontal brain asymmetry ratio”. (2005) presented at 26th Annual International Conference of 

the EMBS, Beijing, China, CD Rom. 4pgs.

15. “Continuous indirect calorimetry—a laboratory simulation of a new method for non invasive metabolic monitoring of patients under aneasthesia”. (2005) 

Stuart-Andrews, C., Peyton, P., Robinson, G., Terry, D., O’Connor, B., Lithgow, B. and Miles, P. ASA 2005—64th National Scientific Congress, 

Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, 24-27th Sept 2005. 

16. “ElectroVestibuloGram (EVestG): The separation of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and Meniere’s Disease” by B. Lithgow, M. Shoushtarian,

and D. Heibert. MedSip2006, Glasgow, UK. CD Rom 4 pgs.

17. “The relationship between Electrovestibulography (EvestG) and Parkinson’s Disease” by  M. Shoushtarian, B. Lithgow. MedSip2006,

Glasgow, UK. CD Rom 4 pgs.

18. "The Relationship Between Electrovestibulography and Parkinson’s Disease Severity", by  M. Shoushtarian and B. Lithgow, (2007) 

Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Lyon France 4 pages (accepted).

19. "Electrovestibulography (EvestG): The “DC” potential used to separate Meniere’s Disease and BPPV" (2007)  by  A .Garrett, D.Heibert

and B. Lithgow, Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Lyon France 4 pages (accepted).