Aleksandar Miladinović

Aleksandar Miladinović
IRCCS Ospedale Infantile Burlo Garofolo | Ospedale Burlo

Doctor of Philosophy

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November 2017 - present
University of Trieste
Position
  • PhD
February 2016 - October 2017
TU Wien
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • Content provider for the course: Selected Topics in Computer Systems - Cognitive Control Systems https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/course/courseDetails.xhtml?windowId=c05&courseNr=384139&semester=2016S
October 2014 - November 2017
TU Wien
Position
  • Research Assistant
Education
November 2017 - April 2021
University of Trieste
Field of study
  • Biomedical Engineering
October 2015 - October 2017
University of Vienna
Field of study
  • Cognitive Science
October 2008 - July 2012
RAF Belgrade
Field of study
  • Computer Engineering

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Publications (68)
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Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are promising tools for motor neurorehabilitation. Achieving a balance between classification accuracy and system responsiveness is crucial for real-time applications. This study aimed to assess how the duration of time windows affects performance, specifically classification accuracy and the false positive rate, to...
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BACKGROUND Ocular following responses (OFRs), small amplitude short-latency reflexive eye movements, have been used to study visual motion processing, with potential diagnostic applications. However, they are difficult to record with commercial video-based eye trackers, especially in children. OBJECTIVE We aimed to design and develop an eye tracke...
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Background: The ability to merge the two retinal images to perceive depth (stereopsis) plays an important role in human vision. Its proper development requires binocular alignment and good visual acuity in both eyes during childhood. Because treatments are more effective when applied early, early diagnosis is important. Unfortunately, assessing ste...
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Motor and cognitive systems are largely involved in producing handwriting that develops with age becoming more and more personalized until it reaches a style proper to the subject. This fact has led graphologists to assert that by examining the handwriting it is possible to somehow trace the personality of the writer. Many studies have been carried...
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The improvement in life expectancy has led to a corresponding increase in people suffering from chronic illnesses as well as in subjects at high risk of falling. Various scales exist in literature to evaluate fall risk in ambulatory settings among which the Tinetti Test is the most used. However, only trained healthcare professionals can conduct th...
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Ocular following responses (OFRs) are reflexive eye movements triggered by sudden motion of textured patterns in the visual field. OFRs have been extensively studied in both humans and non-human primates and are mediated by cortical neurons sensitive to disparity. Recent studies have demonstrated that OFRs can be recorded non-invasively using a vid...
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Distinguishing between Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and Non-Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) can often be difficult without invasive coronary angiography, especially in patients with Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) ranging from 40 to 50%. Moreover, although it is rare, some healthy subjects (HC) can have an LVEF of about 50% and must...
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Background Neuromuscular dysfunction is common in older adults and more pronounced in neurodegenerative diseases. In Parkinson's disease (PD), a complex set of factors often prevents the effective performance of activities of daily living that require intact and simultaneous performance of the motor and cognitive tasks. Methods The cross-sectional...
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A new system based on binary Deep Learning (DL) convolutional neural networks has been developed to recognize specific retinal abnormality signs on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images useful for clinical practice. Images from the local hospital database were retrospectively selected from 2017 to 2022. Images were labeled by two retinal specia...
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Background: Neuromuscular dysfunction is common in older adults and more pronounced in neurodegenerative diseases. In Parkinson's disease (PD), a complex set of factors often prevents the effective performance of activities of daily living that require intact and simultaneous performance of the motor and cognitive tasks. Methods: The cross-sectiona...
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder with known brain abnormalities but no biomarkers to support clinical diagnosis. Recently, EEG analysis methods such as functional connectivity have rekindled interest in using EEG for ADHD diagnosis. Most studies have focused on resting-state EEG, while connectivity durin...
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The differential diagnosis between Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) can often be challenging, because only invasive, and not largely available exams can provide a definite diagnosis. The echocardiographic left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and global longitudinal strain (GLS) as well as ECG heart rate variability...
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Ocular Following Responses (OFRs) are reflexive eye movements that help process visual motion and stabilize gaze. They are sensitive to various stimulus properties and can potentially be used for visual processing in humans, as well as a diagnostic tool for identifying stereodeficencies. However, recording OFRs can be challenging as they are typica...
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A new system based on binary Deep Learning (DL) convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been developed to recognize specific retinal abnormality signs on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images useful for clinical practice. Images from the local hospital database were retrospectively selected from 2017 to 2022. Images were labeled by two retinal...
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Background: Neuromuscular dysfunction is common in older adults and more pronounced in neurodegenerative diseases. In Parkinson's disease (PD), a complex set of factors often prevents the effective performance of activities of daily living that require intact and simultaneous performance of the motor and cognitive tasks. Methods: The cross-sectiona...
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Cognitive impairment is one of the most prevalent symptoms of post Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome COronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) state, which is known as Long COVID. Advanced neuroimaging techniques may contribute to a better understanding of the pathophysiological brain changes and the underlying mechanisms in post-COVID-19 subjects. We aimed at in...
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There is conflicting evidence about how interference control in healthy adults is affected by walking as compared to standing or sitting. Although the Stroop paradigm is one of the best-studied paradigms to investigate interference control, the neurodynamics associated with the Stroop task during walking have never been studied. We investigated thr...
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The utilization of a non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) as an input sensor is a common approach in the field of the brain–computer interfaces (BCI). However, the collected EEG data pose many challenges, one of which may be the age-related variability of event-related potentials (ERPs), which are often used as primary EEG BCI signal features. T...
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Ocular following eye movements have provided insights into how the visual system of humans and monkeys processes motion. Recently, it has been shown that they also reliably reveal stereoanomalies, and, thus, might have clinical applications. Their translation from research to clinical setting has however been hindered by their small size, which mak...
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The differential diagnosis between Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM), particularly in the early stages of the diseases, can often be difficult. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and heart rate variability (HRV) analysis are shown to be helpful tools for diagnosing several cardiac diseases. There is a growing inte...
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Introduction Tremor is one of the motor impairments of Parkinson’s disease (PD). To date, kinetic tremor in PD is barely examined and there is lack of information on the relation between its severity and scales related to specific motor deficits [1]. In this study, we aimed at investigating the correlation between handwriting-related kinetic tremor...
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Prosthetic devices that replace a lost limb have become increasingly performant in recent years. Recent advances in both software and hardware allow for the decoding of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals to improve the control of active prostheses with brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Most BCI research is focused on the upper body. Although BCI res...
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Diagnosis of etiology in early-stage ischemic heart disease (IHD) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients may be challenging. We aimed at investigating, by means of classification and regression tree (CART) modeling, the predictive power of heart rate variability (HRV) features together with clinical parameters to support the diagnosis in the ear...
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Outcome prediction in wake-up ischemic stroke (WUS) is important for guiding treatment strategies, in order to improve recovery and minimize disability. We aimed at producing an interpretable model to predict a good outcome (NIHSS 7-day<5) in thrombolysis treated WUS patients by using Classification and Regression Tree (CART) method. The study enco...
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Circadian heart rate (HR) is influenced by hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors particularly smoking, obesity and dyslipidemia. Until now, to evaluate the HR changes due to presence of these risk factors, a single HR office measure or a mean evaluated on day time or night time or 24h was used. However, since HR shows a circadian behav...
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The accurate measurement of blood pressure (BP) is an important prerequisite for the reliable diagnosis and efficient management of hypertension and other medical conditions. Office Blood Pressure Measurement (OBP) is a technique performed in-office with the sphygmomanometer, while Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is a technique that mea...
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Over the years motor deficit in Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients was largely studied, however, no consistent pattern of relations between quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) and motor scales emerged. There is a general lack of information on the relation between EEG changes and scales related to specific motor deficits. Therefore, the study...
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Brain electrical activity in acute ischemic stroke is related to the hypoperfusion of cerebral tissue as manifestation of neurovascular coupling. EEG could be applicable for bedside functional monitoring in emergency settings. We aimed to investigate the relation between hyper-acute ischemic stroke EEG changes, measured with bedside wireless-EEG, a...
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Blood Pressure (BP) and Heart Rate (HR) provide information on clinical condition along 24 h. Both signals present circadian changes due to sympathetic/parasympathetic control system that influence the relationship between them. Moreover, also the gender could modify this relation, acting on both control systems. Some studies, using office measurem...
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The accurate measurement of blood pressure (BP) is an important prerequisite for the reliable diagnosis and efficient management of hypertension and other medical conditions. Office Blood Pressure Measurement (OBP) is a technique performed in-office with the sphygmomanometer, while Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) is a technique that mea...
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Over the years motor deficit in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients was largely studied, however, no consistent pattern of relations between quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) and motor scales emerged. There is a general lack of information on the relation between EEG changes and scales related to specific motor deficits. Therefore, the study...
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There is growing research interest on identification of CT Perfusion (CTP) parameters that predict the outcome in acute ischemic stroke patients. The aim of this study is to produce the model, based on core-penumbra related parameters assessed by CTP processing and commonly used clinical prediction factors, to predict the final infarct volume in th...
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Owing to the large inter-subject variability, early post-stroke prognosis is challenging, and objective biomarkers that can provide further prognostic information are still needed. The relation between quantitative EEG parameters in pre-thrombolysis hyper-acute phase and outcomes has still to be investigated. Hence, possible correlations between ea...
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The human central nervous system integrates different sensory modalities with the visual information to produce a coherent mental representation of our own body, making us capable not only to process sensory events but also to plan and executes movements in the surrounding space. The basis of Mirror Therapy (MT) is the use of a mirror to create a v...
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Blood Pressure (BP) and Heart Rate (HR) provide information on clin-ical condition along 24h. Both signals present circadian changes due to sympa-thetic/parasympathetic control system that influence the relationship between them. Moreover, also the gender could modify this relation, acting on both con-trol systems. Some studies, using office measur...
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Blood Pressure (BP) is a biological signal related to the cardiovascular system that inevitably is affected by ageing. Moreover, it is also influenced by the presence of cardiovascular risk factors. To evaluate how the relationship be-tween BP and age changes with the presence of risk factors in hypertensive and normotensive subjects, we analyzed 8...
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The use of office measurement of Blood Pressure (BP) as well as of the mean on day-time, on night-time or on 24h does not accurately describe the changes of the BP circadian rhythm. Moreover, several risk factors affect this rhythm but until now possible alterations, due to the presence of such risk factors considered separately, were not been yet...
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There is a growing research interest towards the use of wireless IMU sensors to assess disability, monitor progress and provide feedback to patients on range of motion and movement performance during upper body rehabilitation. The quality of movement in patients with adhesive capsulitis and relative treatment efficacy has not yet been studied using...
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The study reports the performance of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients to operate Motor-Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface (MI-BCI) and compares three selected pre-processing and classification approaches. The experiment was conducted on 7 PD patients who performed a total of 14 MI-BCI sessions targeting lower extremities. EEG was recorded duri...
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Motor-Imagery based BCI (MI-BCI) neurorehabilitation can improve locomotor ability and reduce the deficit symptoms in Parkinson's Disease patients. Advanced Motor-Imagery BCI methods are needed to overcome the accuracy and time-related MI BCI calibration challenges in such patients. In this study, we proposed a Multi-session FBCSP (msFBCSP) based o...
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Background and Objective The input data distributions of EEG-based BCI systems can change during intra-session transitions, due to nonstationarity caused by features covariate shifts, thus compromising BCI performance. We aimed to identify the most robust spatial filtering approach, among most used methods, testing them on calibration dataset, and...
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Motor-imagery based brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCI) have the potential to become ground-breaking technologies for neurorehabilitation, the reestablishment of non-muscular communication and commands for patients suffering from neuronal disorders and disabilities, but also outside of clinical practice, for video game control and other entertainmen...
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Prognosis in Wake-up ischemic stroke (WUS) is important for guiding treatment and rehabilitation strategies, in order to improve recovery and minimize disability. For this reason, there is growing interest on models to predict functional recovery after acute ischemic events in order to personalize the therapeutic intervention and improve the final...
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The use of office measurement of Blood Pressure (BP) as well as of the mean on daytime , on night-time or on 24h does not accurately describe the changes of the BP circadian rhythm. Moreover, several risk factors affect this rhythm but until now possible alterations, due to the presence of such risk factors considered separately, were not been yet...
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There is a lack of multi-session P300 datasets for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). Publicly available datasets are usually limited by small number of participants with few BCI sessions. In this sense, the lack of large, comprehensive datasets with various individuals and multiple sessions has limited advances in the development of more effective d...
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The study reports the performance of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients to operate Motor-Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface (MI-BCI) and compares three selected pre-processing and classification approaches. The experiment was conducted on 7 PD patients who performed a total of 14 MI-BCI sessions targeting lower extremities. EEG was recorded duri...
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Objective: Advanced neuroimaging has proved to be pivotal in the management of acute ischemic stroke. The use of CT perfusion (CTP) core and penumbra parameters to predict the outcome in wake-up stroke (WUS) patients in everyday clinical scenarios has not yet been investigated. The aim of our study was to investigate the predictive power of CTP pa...
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EEG has a central role in the diagnosis of epileptiform abnormalities helpful in diagnosing epilepsy. Since irregularities are random and sporadic events, easily activated in the initial phase of sleep but difficult to observe in a standard EEG examination, sleep deprivation is a frequent condition to be used. Thus, in this study the EEG monitoring...
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The study reports the performance of stroke patients to operate Motor-Imagery based Brain-Computer Interface (MI-BCI) in early post-stroke neurorehabilitation and compares three different BCI spatial filtering techniques. The experiment was conducted on five stroke patients who performed a total of 15 MI-BCI sessions targeting paretic limbs. The EE...
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Motor-imagery based brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCI) have the potential to become groundbreaking technologies for neurorehabilitation, the reestablishment of non-muscular communication and commands for patients suffering from neuronal disorders and disabilities, but also outside of clinical practice, for video game control and other entertainment...
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The diagnosis of heart diseases is a difficult task generally addressed by an appropriate examination of patients' clinical data. Recently, the use of heart rate variability (HRV) analysis as well as of some machine learning algorithms, has proved to be a valuable support in the diagnosis process. However, till now, ischemic heart disease (IHD) has...
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Neuroimaging is crucial for stroke diagnosis and to establish the feasibility of reperfusion therapy, but is not practical for the assessment of continuous evolution of brain ischemia. Electroencephalography (EEG) in the early phase of brain ischemia could be a feasible instrument of functional monitoring. In this context, it would be of great rese...
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In the present study, 30 right-handed participants randomly performed one of three motor neurorehabilitation paradigms: action observation (AO), motor imagery (MI) and combined action observation and motor imagery (AO+MI) of the right arm and hand movement. Resting state electroencephalography (EEG) was acquired for 5 min before and immediately aft...
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Detecting P300 slow-cortical ERPs poses a considerable challenge in signal processing due to the complex and non-stationary characteristics of a single-trial EEG signal. EEG-based neurofeedback training is a possible strategy to improve the social abilities in Autism-Spectrum Disorder (ASD) subjects. This paper presents a BCI P300 ERPs based protoc...
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In this study, we examined the effect of neurofeedback on EEG changes due to immobilization of the dominant hand. Desynchronization of the sensorimotor rhythms during motor imagery was used as a tool to investigate brain activity. The study is based on 8 healthy subjects who underwent immobilization of the dominant hand for 24 hours. The electrical...
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In line with empirical evidence from seminal research, we assume that emotions and social norms play a key role in consumers’ decisions. To this end, we develop a socio- cognitive agent to examine the psychological and sociological factors influencing consumer decision-making. The underlying assumptions are operationalized in a decision model t...
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To examine the impact factors and mechanisms of the decision to switch to green electricity, we develop a socio-cognitive agent-based simulation. Following seminal research in the field of decision making we focus on emotion and social norms as core mechanisms in consumer decisions. A survey of possible consumers provides the information how to cal...

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