Robert D. Sidman
Professor (retired)

Contact:
E-mail: rds7637@louisiana.edu
Home page: not available

Degrees:
Ph.D. 1968 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. 1963 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A.B. 1961 Harvard University

Statement:
My main research interests are applications of mathematics to problems in the neurosciences, and collaborating with neurologists and neuropsychologists. Mathematical techniques related to these interests include, both well-posed and ill-posed boundary-value problems, optimization, asymptotic and perturbative techniques, and the use of wavelets for editing and compression of large datasets.

Selected research publications:

• A method, with applications, for analyzing co-registered EEG and MRI data (with M.C. Erie and C.H. Chu), Special volume of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (2001): 349-356.
• Temporal progression of the cortical potential distribution for the AEP P300 component in mild traumatic brain injury (with Lan Ke and M.R. Ford), In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, L.R. Gleitmen and A.K. Joshi (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, (2000), 901-906
• Visualization of the cortical potential field by medical imaging data fusion (with M.C. Erie and C.H. Chu), in Visual Information and Information Systems, D.P. Huijsmans and A.W.M. Smeulders (Eds.), Springer, Amsterdam, June (1999):809-816
• Source localization and bioelectric imaging as it relates to continuous waveform analysis (with H. Chu and K. Efe), R.M. Dasheiff and D.J. Vincent (Eds), Frontier Science in EEG: Continuous Waveform Analysis (EEG Suppl. 45), Elsevier Science B.V., (1996),9-21
• The effect of reference-electrode choice on the spatial resolution of topographical potential maps in the discrimination of deep cerebral sources (with J.S. Semel, T. Lagerlund, and M.R. Ford), Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 68(2), (1996), 175-184.
• Optimal electrode placements for adequate spatial sampling of auditory evoked potentials (with M.R. Ford and G. Ramsey) , Brain Topography, 6 (1994), 227-230
• Spatio-temporal progression of the AEP P300 component using the cortical imaging technique (with M.R. Ford and G. Ramsey), Brain Topography, 6 (1993), 43-50
• Experimental tests of the cortical imaging technique - applications to the response to median nerve stimulation and the localization of epileptiform discharges (with D. J. Vincent, D.B. Smith and L.Lee), IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 39 (1992), 437-444
• The CIT scan (with C. D. Hill), Wave Propagation and Inversion (1991), W.E. Fitzgibbon and M.F. Wheeler (Eds), SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 34-45
• A method for simulating intracerebral potential fields: The cortical imaging technique, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 8 (1991), 432-441.
• Age-related features of the resting pattern-reversal visual evoked response using the dipole localization method and cortical imaging technique (with D.J. Major, M.R. Ford, G.Ramsey and C. Schlichting), Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 37 (1991), 27-36.
• A new use of singular value decomposition in bioelectric imaging of the brain (with D. J. Major), SVD and Signal Processing II, Algorithms, Analysis and Applications, R.J. Vaccaro (Ed), Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1991: 497-512
• Numerical tests of a method for simulating electrical potentials on the cortical surface (with R. B. Kearfott, D.J. Major, and C.D. Hill), IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 38(1991), 294-299
• Development and application of mathematical techniques for the non-invasive localization of the sources of scalp-recorded electric potentials (with R.B. Kearfott, D.J. Major, C.D. Hill, M.R. Ford, D.B. Smith, L. Lee and R. Kramer), Biomedical systems Modelling and Simulation, Vol.5 (1989) of the IMACS Transactions on Scientific Computing, J. Eisenfeld and D.S. Levine (Eds), J.C. Baltzer, A.G. Basel, 133-157
• Localization of the neural generators of scalp-recorded potentials by means of mathematical models (with D. B. Smith), Modelling of Biomedical Systems, J. Eisenfeld and M. Witten (Eds), Elsevier Science Publishers,(North-Holland), (1986), 205-211