Publications

Journal Papers

• Istepanian, R. S. H.‘ m-health; A decade of evolution and impact on services and global health’, British Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol.20, 7, pp. 334-337, 2014.
• Haddad N S, Istepanian, R. S. H., Philip N., Khazaal F. A.K., Hamdan A T, Pickles T.,5 Amso N., and Gregory J. W, ‘ A Feasibility Study of Mobile Phone Text Messaging to Support Education and Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Iraq’, Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics, Vol. 16, 6, pp. 454-459, 2014.
• Debono C. J. , Micallef, B., Philip, N., , AliNejad A, Istepanian R. S. H., and Amso, N.’ Cross Layer design for optimised region of interest of Ultrasound Video data over Mobile WiMAX ’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, 16,6, pp. 1007-1014.2013.
• Mulvaney D J, Woodward B, Datta S, Harvey P D, Vyas A L, Thakkar B, Farooq O, Istepanian R S H (2012), Monitoring heart disease and diabetes with mobile internet communications, Int J Telemed & Appl, 2012; ID195970, DOI 10.1155/2012/195970
• Istepanian, R. S. H. and Y.T. Zhang, ‘4G health: The Long Term evolution of m-health’, Guest Editorial to the special section: 4G health, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine Special issue on 4G health, 16, 1, pp.1-5, 2012.
• AliNejad A., Philip, N., Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Cross Layer Ultrasound Video Steaming over Mobile WiMAX and HSUPA Networks’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, 16, 1, pp. 31-39, 2012.
• Istepanian, R. S. H, Sungoor, A., and Nebel, J. C., ‘Comparative Analysis of genomic signal processing for microarray data clustering’, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience,10, 4, pp. 225-238, 2011.
• Earle, K., Istepanian, R. S. H., Zitouni, K., Sungoor, A., B. Tang, ‘Mobile Telemonitoring for achieving tighter targets of blood pressure control in patients with complicated diabetes: A Pilot Study’, Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics, 12, 7, pp.575-579, 2010.
• Martini, M. Istepanian, R. S. H., Mazzoti, M. and Philip, N., ‘Robust Multi-layer control structures for enhanced medical video streaming’, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9,1, pp. 5-16, 2010.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., Philip, N. and Martini, M., ‘Medical QoS Provision Based on Reinforcement Learning in Ultrasound Streaming over 3.5G Wireless Systems’, IEEE Journal on Selected areas in Communications Vol.27, 4, pp.566-574, 2009.
• Istepanian R. S. H., Zitouni, K., Harry, D., Moutosammy, N., Sungoor, A., B. Tang and K., Earle, ‘Evaluation of a mobile phone telemonitoring system for the intensification of glycaemic control in patients with complicated diabetes mellitus’, J. Telemedicine and Telecare, 15, pp. 125-128, 2009.
• Garciao, , Trigo, J. D., A. Alesanco, Serrano P. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Design and evaluation of a wireless decision-support system for heart rate variability study in haemodialysis follow-up procedures’, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 88, pp. 273-282, 2007.
• Alvaoro, S. Olmos, Istepanian, R. S. H., and J. Garcia, ‘Enhanced Real-Time ECG Coder for Packectised Telecardiology Applications’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol.10, 2, pp. 229-236 April, 2006.
• Ganz, A., Istepanian, R. S. H, and Tonguz, O, K, ‘Advanced Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications’ – Editorial Paper, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 271-272, Jan. 2006.
• Zou, Y., Istepanian, R. S. H. , Wang, X, Geake, T., ‘Design and Implementation of Universal Mobile Diabetes Management System’, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 273-284, Jan. 2006.
• Garawi, S. A, Istepanian, R. S. H., and Abu-Rgheff, M.A., ‘3G Wireless Communications for Mobile Robotic Tele-Ultrasonography Systems’, IEEE-Communications Magazine, Vol.44, no. 4, pp. 91-96, 2006.
• Loizou C. P., Pattichis C. S., Christodoulou C. I., Istepanian, R. S. H., Pantziaris M., and Nicolaides A., ‘Comparative Evaluation of Despeckle Filtering In Ultrasound Imaging of the Carotid Artery’, IEEE Trans. Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 1653, Oct. 2005.
• Wang, X, and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘A feasibility study of a personalised, Internet-based compliance system for chronic disease management’, Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, vol.11, no. 5, pp. 559-566, 2005.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Jovanov, E. and Zhang, Y.T., ‘m-health: Beyond Seamless Mobility for Global Wireless Healthcare Connectivity-Editorial Paper’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.8, 4, pp. 405-414, Dec. 2004.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Microarray Image Processing: Current Status and Future Directions’, Editorial Paper, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience, Vol.2, 4, pp. 173-175, Dec. 2003.
• Wang, X.H., Istepanian, R.S.H. and Song, Y.H., ‘Microarray Image Enhancement by Denoising using stationary wavelet transform’, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience, Vol.2, 4, pp. 184-189, Dec. 2003.
• Wang, X.H., Istepanian, R.S.H. and Song, Y.H., ‘Application of Wavelet Modulus Maxima for Microarray Spot Recognition’, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience, Vol.2, 4, pp. 190-192, December 2003.
• Pattichis, C. S., Kyriacou E., Voskarides S., and Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Wireless Telemedicine Systems: An Overview’, IEEE Antennas and Propagation, Vol.44, 2, pp.143-153, 2002.
• Tachkara, S., Istepanian, R.S.H., and Wang, H., ‘Mobile E-Health; the Unwired Evolution of Telemedicine’, Telemedicine and E-Health Journal, Vo.9, 3, pp. 247-257, 2003.
• Istepanian, R.S. H., Kyriacou E., Pavlopoulos, S. and Koutsouris, D., ‘Wavelet Compression Methodologies for Efficient Medical Data Transmission in Wireless Telemedicine System’, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol.7, Supp.1, pp.14-16, 2001.
• Banitsas, K., Istepanian, R.S.H. and Tachkara, S., ‘Applications of Medical Wireless LAN (MedLAN) Systems’, Int. Journal of health Marketing, Vol. 2, Number 2, pp.136-142, 2002.
• Woodward, B., Istepanian, R. S. H., and Richard, C., ‘Design of a telemedical system using a mobile phone’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.5, 1, pp. 13-15, 2001.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., Hadjileontiadis, L., and Panas, S., ‘ECG data compression using wavelets and higher order statistics methods for telemedical applications’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.5, 2, pp. 108-115, 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S. H., and Woodward, B., ‘The Design and Evaluation of a Programmable Underwater Acoustic Biotelemetry system for Diver Monitoring’, ACTA Acustica, Vol.89, pp. 95-104, 2003.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., and Laxminaryan, S., ‘UNWIRED, The next generation of Wireless and Internetable Telemedicine Systems- Editorial Paper’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.4, 3, pp.189-194, Sept. 2000.
• Istepanian, R.S.H. and Pertrossian, A, ‘Optimal Wavelet-based ECG data compression for mobile telecardiology system’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.4 , 3, pp.189-194, Sept. 2000.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., and Nikogossian, H. A., ‘Telemedicine in Armenia: A Perception of Telehealth Services in the Former Soviet Republics’, J. Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol.6, pp. 268-272, 2000.
• Istepanian, R.S. H., J. Wu, and J. F. Whidborne, ‘Controller realizations of Teleoperated Dual-Wrist assembly system with Finite Word Length considerations’, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, Vol.9,4, pp.624-629, 2001.
• Whidborne, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., and Wu, J., ‘Controller fragility reduction by pole sensitivity minimization’, IEEE Transactions Automatic Control, Vol.46, 2, pp.320-325, 2001.
• Song, T., Collins, E. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Improved closed-loop stability for fixed-point controller realization using the delta operator’, Int. J. Robust and Non-Linear Control, Vol.11, pp.41-47, 2001.
• Wu, S. Chen, G. Li, Istepanian, R.S.H., and J. Chu, ‘An improved closed-loop stability related measure for finite-precision digital controller realizations’, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 46, 7, pp. 1162-1166, 2001.
• D’Andrea, R. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Design of Full state feedback finite Precision Controllers’, Int. J. of Robust and Non-Linear Control, 12, pp. 537-553, 2002.
• Whidborne, J., and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘A Genetic Algorithm approach to designing finite-precision controller structures’, IEE Proceedings-D, Control Theory and Applications, 148, 5, pp.377-382, 2001.
• Chen, S, Istepanian, R. S. H., Wu, J., Chu, J., ‘A comparative study on optimizing closed loop stability bounds of finite-precision controller structures with shift and delta operators’, Systems and Control Letters, 40, 3, pp. 153-163, 2000.
• Chen S., Wu, J., Li, G., Istepanian, R. S. H. and Chu, J., ‘Shift and Delta Operator realizations for digital controllers with finite-word-length considerations’, IEE Proceedings-D, Control Theory and Applications, Vol.147,6, pp. 664-672, 2000.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Chen, S., Wu, J., and Whidborne, J.F. ‘Optimal finite-precision controller Realization of Sampled Data Systems’, Int. J. Systems Science, Vol.31, No.4, pp.429-438, April 2000.
• Whidborne, J., Wu, J. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Comments on ‘ On the Structure of Digital Controllers with Finite-Word-Length Consideration’, IEEE Transactions Automatic Control, Vol. 45, 2, pp. 344, 2000.
• Whidborne, J., Wu, J. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Finite word length stability issues in an l1 framework’, Int. J. Control, 73, 2, pp.166-177, 2000.
• Chen, S., J. Wu and Istepanian, R S. H., ‘Optimizing stability bounds of Finite-Precision PID controller structures’, IEEE Transactions Automatic Control, Vol.44, 11, pp.2149-2153, Nov.1999.
• Istepanian, R.S. H., ‘Telemedicine in the United Kingdom, Current Status and Future Prospects’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.3, 1, pp.158-159, 1999.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., and Petrosian, A. A., ‘Wavelet Zonal Coding for ECG Data Compression’, Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol.37, Suppl.1, pp.369-370, 1999.
• Richards, C., Woodward, B. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Exploiting mobile telephone technology for telemedicine applications’, Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol.37, Suppl.1, pp.110-111, 1999.
• Istepanian, R S. H., B. Woodward, P. Balos S. Chen, and B.Luk, ‘The comparative performance of mobile telemedical systems using the IS-54 and GSM cellular telephone standards’, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol.5, 2, pp.97-104, 1999.
• Istepanian, R S. H., and B. Woodward, Gorilas, E. and Balos, P., ‘Design of mobile telemedicine systems using GSM and IS-54 cellular telephone standards’, J. Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol.4, Suppl.1, pp.80-82, 1998.
• Istepanian, R S. H., and B. Woodward, ‘Microcontroller based ECG underwater telemetry system’, IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol.1, 2, pp.150-154, 1997.
• Istepanian, R S. H., and B. Woodward, ‘Use of neural networks in telemedical monitoring of divers’, J. Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol.3, Supp.1, pp.70-72, 1997.
• Woodward B, and Istepanian R S. H., ‘Physiological monitoring by underwater ultrasonic biotelemetry’, J. Soc. Underwater Technology, Vol. 18, 1, pp.34-44, 1992.
• Wu, Istepanian, R. S. H. and S. Chen, ‘Stability issues of finite precision PID controller structures for sampled data system’, Int. Journal of Control, Vol.72, 5, pp.1331-1342, 1999.
• Chen S., Wu, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., Chu, J. and Whidborne, J.F., ‘Optimizing stability bounds of finite-Precision controller structures for sampled-data systems in the delta operator domain’, IEE Proceedings-D, Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 146, 6, pp.517-526, 1999.
• Istepanian, R S. H., G. Li, Jun Wu, and J. Chu, ‘Analysis of Sensitivity Measures of Finite- Precision Digital Controller Structures with Closed-loop Stability Bounds’, IEE Proceedings-Control Theory and Applications, Vol.145, 5, pp.472-478, 1998.
• Istepanian R S. H., Habib H Sh and Majeed B, ‘Experimental Self-Location Vehicle Based on Ultrasonic wave Guided System’, Int. Journal Elect. Eng. Educ., Vol.30, 3, pp.224-235, 1993.
• Istepanian R S. H. and Habib H Sh, ‘Microcomputer based variable structure control of reduction of torsional vibration’, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.155, 3, pp.403-411, 1992.
• Istepanian R S. and Habib H Sh, ‘Design of Discrete control System for a Solar Heating Model’, Solar and Wind Technology, Vol.7, 5, pp.607-610, 1990.
• Al-Shara K H and Istepanian R S. H., ‘an approach to the formulation of high frequency ferrite hysteresis loss’, Modelling, Simulation & Control Part-A, Vol. 18, 1, pp.1-8, 1988.
• Istepanian R S. H. and Al-Nouman Q AN H, ‘Microcomputer based liquid flowrate control system’, Int. Journal of Electronics, Vol. 65, 1, pp. 117-125, 1988.

 

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

• Alanzi T. M. , Istepanian R. S. H. , and Philip N.,‘ An Integrated Model for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mobile Diabetes Self-Management System’, 36th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago, USA, pp. 5393-5396, 26-30 August, 2014.
• Istepanian R. S. H., Mousa A., Haddad N., Sungoor A., Hammadan, T., Soran, H., Al-Anzi, T., ‘The Potential of M-Health Systems for Diabetes Management in Post Conflict Regions: A Case Study from Iraq’, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago, USA, pp. 3650-3653, 26-30 August 2014.
• Rehman, I. U., Philip, N. and Istepanian, R.S.H.,‘ Performance Analysis of Medical Video Streaming over 4G and Beyond Small Cells for Indoor and Moving Vehicle (Ambulance) Scenarios’, 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MOBIHEALTH 2014), November 3–5, 2014 Athens, Greece.
• Alotaibi, M., Sungoor, A. Istepanian, R. S. H., Philip, N., ‘An intelligent mobile diabetes management and educational system for Saudi Arabia: System architecture’. 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Valencia, Spain; 1-4 June 2014, pp. 29-32, 2-14.
• Alanzi, T, Istepanian, R. S.H, Philip N., Usability study of mobile social networking system among Saudi Type 2 diabetes patients (SANAD), 2014 Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME),

17-20 Feb. 2014, Doha Qatar, pp. 297-300, 2014

• Istepanian, R. S.H., A. Good and N. Philip, N., ‘ Smart Social Robotics for 4G health Applications, MEDICON 2013, XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Seville , Spain, pp. 1919-1922, In IFMBE Proceedings Laura Roa Romero (Ed.). Vol.41, Springer International Publishing. 2014.
• Alinejad, A., N. Philip, N. and Istepanian, R. S. H.,’ Medical Quality of Service Analysis of Ultrasound Video Streaming over LTE Networks’, MEDICON 2013, XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Seville, Spain, pp. 1915- 1918, In IFMBE Proceedings Laura Roa Romero (Ed.), Vol.41, Springer International Publishing, 2014.
• Alanzi, T, Istepanian, R. S.H, Philip N., and Sungoor A.,’A Study on Perception of Managing Diabetes Mellitus through Social Networking in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’, MEDICON 2013, XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013, pp. 1907-1910. In IFMBE Proceedings Laura Roa Romero (Ed.), 41, Springer International Publishing, 2014.
• Alanzi, T. M., Istepanian R. S. H. and Philip N.,’ SANAD: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Smart Mobile Diabetes Management System Embedding Social Networking Platform’, In The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC’ 13), Doha, Qatar, 2013.
• Alanzi T. M., Istepanian R. S. H. and Philip N., Mobile Diabetes management system embedding social networking in the gulf countries: the current status and potential impact, 7th International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes, Austria, (2014).
• Alanzi T. M., Istepanian R. S. H. and Philip N., A Novel Smart Approach for Social Behavioral Change Intervention and Management for Saudi Diabetic Patients, 7th International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes, Austria, (2014).
• Alanzi T. M., Istepanian R. S. H. and Philip N., Usability Study of Mobile Social Networking System among Saudi Type 2 Diabetes Patients (SANAD), 2^nd Middle East Conference on Biomedical engineering (MECBME), Doha, Qatar, (2014).
• Istepanian, R. S.H., Woodward, B., Mulvaney, D., Woodward, B. Datta, S., P. Harvey. and O. Farooq, ‘ The potential of Machine-To-Machine Communications for developing the next generation of Mobile Device Monitoring Systems’, MEDICON 2013, XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Seville, Spain, pp. 1903- 1906, In IFMBE Proceedings Laura Roa Romero (Ed.), Vol.41, Springer, 2013.
• Easton, C., Philip, N., Aleksandravicius A., Pawlak, J., Domene, P. and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Validity of Smart Phone Accelerometers for Assessing Energy Expenditure during fast running’, MEDICON 2013, XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Seville, Spain, pp. 1911-1914, In IFMBE Proceedings Laura Roa Romero (Ed.), Vol.41, Springer, 2013
• Chen, Y. , Darwazeh, I, Philip, N. and Istepaian, R. S. H., ‘End-to-end Delay Distributions in Wireless Tele-ultrasonography Medical Systems’ , IEEE  Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom), 2013, 9-13 December,  Georgia, USA, pp. 2592-2597, 2013 .
• Alinejad, A., N. Philip, N. and Istepanian, R S. H, ‘Dynamic sub-frame allocation for mobile broadband m-health using IEEE 802.16j mobile multihop relay networks’, 33th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, pp. 284-287, 2012.
• Mulvaney, D., Woodward, B. Datta, S., Philip, N. And Istepanian, R. S.H.,’ Development of m-health monitoring systems in India and Iraq’, 33th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, USA, pp. 288-291 2012.
• Alinejad, A., N. Philip, N. and Istepanian, R S. H, ‘Mapping of multiple parameters m-health scenarios to Mobile WiMAX QoS Variables’, 32th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, USA, pp. 1532- 1535, 2011.
• Istepanian, R S. H, Hu, S., N. Philip, Sungoor, A., ‘The potential of m-health Internet Things (m-IOT) for non-invasive glucose level sensing’, 32th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, USA, 2011
• Istepanian, R S. H, Sungoor, A., Faisal, A. And Philip, N. ‘Internet of m-health Things (m-IOT)’, Proceeding IET Assisted Living 2011 Conference, London, 6 April, 2011.
• Alinejad, A., N. Philip, N. And Istepanian, R S. H, ‘Performance analysis of Medical Video streaming over mobile WiMAX’, 31th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3471- 3474, 2010.
• Istepanian R. S. H., Jara A. , Philip, N., Sungoor A., ‘Internet of Things for m-health applications (IoMT)’, First AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference on Individualized Healthcare, March 21-23, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 18., 2010
• Alinejad, A., N. Philip, N. And Istepanian, R S. H , ‘Reinforcement learning algorithm for optimised cross layer medical video streaming over WiMAX networks’, 7^th IEEE International Symposium on Communication systems, Networks and Digital signal processing, Jul 21 – 23, Newcastle, U.K., pp. 862-866, 2010.
• Alinejad, A., N. Philip, N. And Istepanian, R S. H, ‘Effectiveness of Wireless Broadband Technologies for Remote Ultrasound Video Imaging and Diagnostics’, BSGI Annual Scientific Meeting and Workshops, April 15-16, London, UK, 2010.
• Istepanian, R S. H., and Philip, N., ‘Provision of Medical Quality of Services for HSDPA and Mobile WiMAX in Healthcare Applications’, 30^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minnesota, USA, pp. 6584-6587 2009.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Sungoor, Ala and Earle, K., ‘Technical and Compliance Issues of Mobile Diabetes Self Monitoring using Glucose and Blood Pressure Measurements’, 30^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minnesota, USA, pp. 5130-5133, 2009.
• Seto, E., Istepanian, R S. H, Caffazo, J., Seto, E., A. Logan, and Sungoor, A., ‘UK and Canadian Perspectives of the Effectiveness of Mobile Diabetes Management Systems’, 30^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minnesota, USA, pp. 717-720, 2009.
• Istepanian, R S. H., and Philip, N., ‘Healthcare Inspired Cognitive Radio Systems’ , Paper and presentation at the IET Assisted Living 2009 Conference, London, March 24-25, 2009.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Philip, N., Martini, M., Amsou N. And Shovron, P. ‘Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment in Wireless Ultrasonography Imaging’, Proceeding of the 30^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada , 20- 24 August, pp.5346- 5349, 2008.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Sungoor, Ala, and J.C. Nebel, ‘Fractal Dimension and Wavelet Decomposition for Robust Microarray Clustering’, Proceeding of the 30^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, Canada , 20- 24 August, pp.4106-4019, 2008.
• Istepanian, R S. H, ‘WiMAX for mobile healthcare applications’, WiMAX London 2007, IET Conferences, London, IEEE-Xplore; ISBN: 978-0-86341-796-2, pp.1-43. 2007.
• Philip, N. And Istepanian, R S. H., ‘Medical Quality of Services for Wireless Ultrasound Streaming in Robotic Tele-ultrasonography System’, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control – ICNSC-07, London, 15-17 April pp.245-250, 2007.
• Martini, M., Istepanian, R S. H., Mazzotti, M. And Philip, N., ‘A Cross-Layer Approach for Wireless Medical Video Streaming in Robotic Ultrasonography’, Proceeding of the 29^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, 23- 26 August, pp.3082-3085, 2007.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Amsou, N. And Philip, N., ‘The Potential of Mobile Robotic Teleultrasound System for Medical Diagnostic and Training’, Proceeding of the 21^st International Conference on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery- CARS- 2007’, Berlin, Germany, June 27-30, 2007.
• Alvaoro, S., J. Garcia, Serrano, P, Ramos, L. And Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Clinical Quality Quarantee in real-time ECG compression’, Proceeding of the 29^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, 23- 26 August, pp. 39-42, 2007.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Sungoor, Ala, and J.C. Nebel, ‘Linear Predictive Coding and Wavelet decomposition for Robust Microarray Clustering’, Proceeding of the 29^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, 23- 26 August, pp. 4629-4632, 2007.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Sungoor, Ala, and J.C. Nebel, ‘Linear Predictive Coding for Enhanced Microarray Clustering’, IEEE International Conference on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, GENSIP’07, Finland, 2007.
• Tan, Y. E., Philip, N. And Istepanian, R S. H., ‘Fragility Issues of Medical Video Streaming over 802.11e WLAN m-health environments’, Proceedings of the 28^th. Annual International of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, New York, 30^th. August -3^rd September, pp. 6316-6319, 2006.
• Alesanco, A. Garcia, J., P. Serrano and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘On the Guarantee of Reconstruction Quality in ECG Wavelet Codec’, Proceedings of the 28^th. Annual International of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, New York, 30^th. August -3^rd September, pp. 6461-6464, 2006.
• Zou, Y., Istepanian, R. S. H and W. Hunag, ‘Performance Analysis of a GPRS/Blutooth Diabetes Management System’, 3^rd IEE International Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing, Glasgow, UK, 17- 19 July 2006.
• Philip, N., H. Wang,  and Istepanian, R. S. H and Geake, T., ‘Medical Complaints: A Solution based on the Internet’, 3^rd IEE International Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing, Glasgow, UK, 17- 19 July 2006.
• Philip, X. Wang, Istepanian R.S.H. , T. Geake and W. Huang, ‘Medical Complaints: A Solution based on the Internet’, 3^rd International IEE Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal, and Information Processing, Glasgow, UK, 17-19 July 2006.
• Prag, N. A., Yeghiazarian, A., and Istepanian, R. S. H, ‘Telemedicine Business Models Focusing on Emerging Mobile Technologies for Chronic Disease Management; UK Perspective’, Proceedings of the 1^st. IEEE Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2) Conference, Arlington, Virginia, April 2-4, pp.133-136, 2006.
• Philip and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Optimisation Issues of High Throughput Medical Data and Video Streaming Traffic in 3G Wireless Environments’, In Medical and Care Compunrtics-2, Bos, L., S. Laxminaryan and Marsh, A. (Eds.), IOS Press, pp.125-131, 2005.
• Choi, M.,J., Istepanian R. S. H., Alesanco, A. And Wang, H., ‘Hardware Design and Compression Issues in Compact Bluetooth Enabled Wireless Telecardiology System’, 2^nd International Conference on Broadband Networks, 3-7 October, pp. 1014-1015, 2005.
• Alvaoro, A., Istepanian, R. S. H., and J. Garcia, ‘The Effects of Transmission Errors in ECG real-time wavelet Compression Codecs’, Computers in Cardiology, September 25-28, pp.45-48, 2005.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Wireless Security for Personalised and Mobile healthcare services’, IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2005), 26-28 July, pp.86, Vol.2, 2005.
• Istepanian R. S. H., S. Garawi, N. Philip and F. Courreges, ‘UMTS Traffic Analysis of Wireless Tele-Echography Robotic system’, Second Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics (MECHCI 2005), April, Dubai, 2005.
• Garawi, S. A., Courreges, F., Istepanian, R S. H., Zisimopoulus, H., and Gosset, P., ‘Performance Analysis of a Compact Robotic Tele-Echography E-Health System over Terrestrial and Mobile Communication Links’, Proceeding of the 5^th. IEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies – 3G 2004, London, 18-20, October, pp.118-122, 2004.
• Zhou, Y., Istepanian, R. S. H. And Bain, S., ‘Policy Driven Mobile Agents for Ubiguitous Medical Diagnosis Assistant System’, Proceedings of the IEEE- IDEAS Workshop on Medical Information Systems: The Digital Hospital (IDEAS-DH’04), Bejing- China, September 1-5, pp. 3-7, 2004,
• Courreges, F., Istepanian, R.S.H. and Garawi, A.S., ‘Wireless Challenges for Mobile Robotic Tele-Echography System’, Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Smart home and health Telematics-ICOST04, Sept 2004, Singapore, In ‘Toward a Human – Friendly Assistive Environment, Zhang, D. And Mokhtari M. (Eds.), IOS Press, pp.15-22, 2004.
• Alesanco, A. Istepanian, R. S. H. , Olmos, S., and Garcia, J., ‘Comparative Performance Analysis of ECG Coding for 3G Wireless Telecardiology System’, Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Smart home and health Telematics-ICOST04, Sept 2004, Singapore, In ‘Toward a Human–Friendly Assistive Environment, Zhang, D. And Mokhtari M. (Eds.), IOS Press, pp. 237-244, 2004.
• Courreges, F., Vieyres, P. And Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Advances in Robotic TeleEchography Services . The OTELO System’, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS, San Francisco, CA, USA September 1-5, pp. 5371- 5374, 2004.
• Loizou, C.P., Pattichis, C.S., Istepanian, R. S. H., Pantziaris, M. And Nicolaides, A., ‘Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque Segementation’, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS, San Francisco, CA, USA • September 1-5, pp.1403- 1406, 2004.
• Narasima, S., R. Gollol, Anthony , J., Jamadani, R., Istepanian, R.S. H., and Laxminarayan,S. ‘Status of Mobile Computing in Health Care: An Evidence Study’, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS , San Francisco, CA, USA September 1-5, pp.3274- 3277, 2004.
• Wang, X.H. and Istepanian, R.S.H. and Geake, T., ‘Error Control Coding in Microarray Data Analysis’, GENSIPS 04, International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, May 26-27, 2004.
• Garawi, S., Istepanian, R.S.H., Wertheim, D., Vieyers, P. And Geake, T., ‘A Wireless Tele- Echography System on GPRS Links’, Proceeding of MEDICON and Health Telematics 2004 Conference,Italy, 31 July- 5 August, 2004.
• Istepanian R. S. H. , Philip N. , Wang X. H., Laxminarayan S. , ‘Non-telephone healthcare: the role of 4G and emerging mobile systems for future m-health systems’, Studies in health technology and informatics (Stud Health Technol Inform), Vol.103,pp.465-470, 2004.
• Wang, X.H. and Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Web based patient Compliance Telemdical System’, Proceedings of the 25^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 17-21 September 2003, Cancun, Mexico.
• Istepanian, R S. H. And Lacal, J., ‘Emerging Mobile Communication Technologies for Health: Some Imperative notes on m-health’, Proceedings of the 25^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 17-21 September 2003, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 1414-1416, 2003.
• Alesanco, A. , Olmos, S., Salcedo, J., Istepanian, R. S. H. , Garcia, J., ‘A Real-time Multilead ECG Compression and De-noising method for Mobile Telecardiology System’, International Congress on Computational Bio-Engineering, Zaragosa, Spain, Sept.24-26, pp.237-242, 2003.
• Alesanco, A. , Olmos, S., Istepanian, R. S. H. , Garcia, J., ‘A Novel real-time Multilead ECG Compression and de-noising method based on the Wavelet Transform’, Computers in Cardiology, Thessloniki, Greece, Sept 21-24, pp. 593-596, 2003.
• Wang, X.H, Istepanian, R.S.H.; Song, Y.H on., May, E.E., ‘Review of application of coding theory in genetic sequence analysis’, Proceedings – 5^th International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 2003., Healthcom 2003., pp. 5-9, June 6-7, 2003.
• Li, M. And Istepanian, R S. H., ‘3G Network Oriented Mobile Agents for Intgelligent Diabetes Management: A Conceptual Model’, Proceedings of the 4^th. International IEEE_EMBS Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Birmingham, UK, pp. 31-34, 24-26 April, 2003.
• Wang, X.H., Istepanian, R.S.H. and Song, Y.H., ‘Microarray Image Denoising using stationary wavelet transform’, Proceedings of the 4^th. International IEEE_EMBS Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Birmingham, UK, pp. 15-18, 24-26 April, 2003.
• Yao, W., Istepanian, R.S.H., Salem, Z., Zisimopoulo, H., and Gosset, P., ‘Throughput Performance of a WCDMA System Suporting Tele-Echography Services’, Proceedings of the 4^th. International IEEE_EMBS Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Birmingham, UK, pp. 310-313, 24-26 April, 2003.
• Loizu, C., Pattichis, C., Istepanian, R.S.H., Pantziaris, M., Kyriackou, E., and Tyllis, T., ‘Ultrasound Image Quality Evlauation’, Proceedings of the 4^th. International IEEE_EMBS Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Birmingham, UK, pp. 138-141, 24-26 April, 2003.
• Voskarides, S., Pattichis, C., Istepanian, R.S.H., Michaealidis, C. And Schizas, C., ‘Practical Evaluation of GPRS use in a Telemedical System in Cyprus’, Proceedings of the 4^th. International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Birmingham, UK, pp. 39-42, 24-26 April, 2003.
• Wang, X.H., Istepanian, R.S.H. and Song, Y.H., ‘Review of Application of Coding Theory in Genetic Sequence Analysis’, Proceeding of the 5^th.IEEE International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and computing in Healthcare Industry- HealthCom2003, pp.5-9, 6-7 June 2003, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
• Loizou, C. Pattichis, Istepanian, R.S.H., M. Pantziaris, ‘Plaque segmentation in ultrasound of the carotid artery’, To be presented at the 2^nd EFOMP Mediterranean Conf. On Medical Physics, 28-30 April 2004, Limassol, Cyprus.
• Loizou, C. Pattichis, Istepanian, R.S.H., M. Pantziaris, ‘Segmentation of carotid artery by using snakes’, IEEE International Conference Medicon, 2004, July 31-August 5, Ischia, Naples-Italy, X Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, “Health in the Information Society”.
• Loizou, C. Pattichis, Istepanian, R.S.H., M. Pantziaris, T. Tyllis, A. Nicolaides, ‘Quality Evaluation of Ultrasound Imaging in the Carotid Artery’, IEEE International Conference (MELECON), May 12-15, Dubrovnik-Croatia, 2004.
• Loizou, C. Christodoulou, C. Pattichis, Istepanian, R.S.H., M. Pantziaris, A. Nicolaides, ‘Speckle Reduction Ultrasound images of Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque’. DSP-2002, 14^th International IEEE Conference on Digital Signal Processing, pp. 525-528, July 1-3, Santorini, Greece, 2002.
• Voskardis, C. S., Pattichis, C., Istepanian, R. S.H., Kyriacou, E. And Schizas, C., ‘Mobile Health Systems: A Brief Overview’, Proceedings of SPIE AeroSense 2002: Digital Wireless Communications IV, Ed. By Rao, R.M., Dianat, S.A., Zoltowski, M.D., Vol.4740, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 124-131, 2002.
• Yao, Wenbing, and Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘3G Mobile Communications for Wireless Tele-Echography Robotic System’, Proceedings of the 6^th. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatis-SCI2002 Conference XV: Mobile/ Wireless Computing and Communications Systems III, Ed. By Callaos, N., Duale, A. And Benedicenti, L., Orlando, Florida, USA , pp.138-142, 14-18 July 2002.
• Kyriacou, E. , Voskardis, C. S., Pattichis, C., Istepanian, R. S.H., and Schizas, C., ‘Telemedicine in Cyprus’ Proceeding of the 4^th.IEEE International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and computing in Healthcare Industry-HealthCom2002, 6-7 June 2002, Nancy, France.
• Istepanian, R. S. H. , Woodward B. And Richards, C.I, ‘Advances in telemedicine using mobile communications’, Proceedings of the 23^rd.  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp. 3556- 3558, 25-28 October 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Banitsas, K., Istepanian, R. S. H. & Tachkara, S., ‘Modelling issues of Wireless LANs for Accident and Emergency hospital Wards’, Proceedings of the 23^rd.  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.3540-3543, October 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Banitsas, K. And Tachkara, S. And Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Operational Parameters of a Medical Wireless LAN: Security, Range and Interference Issues’, Proceedings of the 24^th. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp. 1889-1990, 23-26 October 2002, Houston, Texas, USA.
• Owens, T., Banitsas, K., Tachkara, S. And Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Securing Medical Wireless LAN System’, Proceedings of the 23^rd. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp. 3552-3555, 25-28 October 2001, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Ambrosiadou,V., Shankararaman, V. And Panchal, T., ‘E-Care using agent based mobile systems –An Example for Diabetes Management’, Proceeding of the 3^rd. IEEE International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and computing in Healthcare Industry-HealthCom2001, pp.163-168, L’Aquila , Italy,. June-1^st. July 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Banitsas, K. And Tachkara, S., ‘Health and Mobility, Current Status and Future Paradigms’, Proceeding of the 3^rd. IEEE International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and computing in Healthcare Industry-HealthCom2001, pp.77-79, L’Aquila, Italy, June-1^st. July 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., and Tseng, A., ‘Diabetes management using advanced mobile technologies for cost-effective, real-time patient monitoring’, Proceedings of the 3^rd Conference in the Delivery of Care- E-Health; a Future Prospective, E. Carson, F. Harvey and Mike Hughes (Eds.), pp. 139- 143, City University , London, 4-6 April 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Tachakra, S. And Banitsas, K., ‘Medical Wireless LAN Systems (MedLAN): State of Art, Challenges and Future’, Proceedings of the 3^rd Conference in the Delivery of Care- E-Health; a Future Prospective, E. Carson, F. Harvey and Mike Hughes (Eds.), pp. 43-49, City University, London, 4-6 April 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Ambrosiadou,V., Shankararaman, V. And Trushar , P., ‘Diabetes E-Care using agent based mobile Systems’, Proceedings of the 3^rd Conference in the Delivery of Care- E-Health; a Future Prospective, E. Carson, F. Harvey and Mike Hughes (Eds.), pp. 145-150, City University , London, 4-6 April 2001.
• Sivathasan, S., Istepanian, R.S.H., Cecelja, F. And Balachandran, W., ‘An Intelligent decision support system for telecardiology’ Proceedings of the 3^rd Conference in the Delivery of Care- E-Health; a Future Prospective, E. Carson, F. Harvey and Mike Hughes (Eds.), pp. 151-155, City University, London, 4-6 April 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Pavlopoulos, S.,Kyriacou,E. And KoutsourisD., ‘Effect of Wavelet Compression Methodologies on medical data transmission of Multi-Purpose Wireless Telemedicine System’, Proceedings of International Telemedicine Conference-Telemed 2001, pp. 14-18, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 15-16 Jan. , 2001.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., and Sibson, L., ‘Unwired Nurse: The Impact of new wireless telecommunication systems on home telehealth care’, Proceedings of International Telemedicine Conference-Telemed 2001, pp. 74-75, London, 15-16 Jan., 2001.
• Bauer, P., M. Sichitiu and Istepanian, R.S.H. ‘The Mobile patient: Wireless Distributed sensor networks for patient monitoring and care’, Proceeding of the Joint IEEE-EMBS Third International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB-ITIS2000), Virginia, USA, pp. 17-21, November 9-10, 2000.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., Whidborne, J.F. and Bauer, P., ‘Stability analysis of block floating point digital controllers’, Proc. UKACC International Conference on Control 2000, (Cambridge, UK), 4-7 Sept. 2000, CD- ROM, 6 pages.
• Chen, S., Wu, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., and Li, G., ‘Optimal Finite-Precision digital controller realizations based on an improved closed –loop stability measure’, Proc. UKACC International Conference on Control 2000, (Cambridge, UK), 4-7 Sept. 2000. CD- ROM, 6 pages.
• Wu, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., Chu, J. Whidborne, J.F., Chen, S. And Li, G., ‘Stability issues of finite precision state estimate feedback controller realizations for discrete time systems’, Proceeding 2000 American Control Conference, (Chicago, IL), pp.4189-4193, June 28-30, 2000.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., Wu, J., and Chen, S., ‘Sparse consideration for optimal finite precision teleoperation controller structures’, Proceedings 2000 American Control Conference, (Chicago, IL), pp. 687-691, June 28-30, 2000.
• Tang, K.S., Man, K.F. and Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Teleoperation controller design using hierarical genetic algorithms’, Proceedings IEEE International conference on Industrial Technology 2000, pp.707-711, Goa, India, Jan. 19-22, 2000.
• Chen, Istepanian, R. S. H. And J. Wu, ‘Optimizing Stability Bounds of Finite-Precision PID controllers using adaptive simulated annealing’, Proceedings 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, pp. 4316-4320, June 2-4, 1999.
• Song, T., Collins, E. And Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Improved closed loop stability for fixed-point controller implementation using the delta operator’, Proceedings 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, pp. 4328-4332, June 2-4,1999 .
• Li, G., Istepanian, R. S. H. And Mei, W.,‘Finite Precision digital system with stability and roundoff noise considerations’, Proceedings 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, pp.4333-4337, June 2-4, 1999.
• Wu, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., Chu, J., Whidborne, J. And Chen, S., ‘Stability Issues of finite precision controller Structures using delta operator formulation’, Proceedings 14^th IFAC World Congress-1999, Vol.Q, pp. 417-422, Bijing, 1999.
• Whidborne, J. And Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Optimal Finite-Precision PID Controller Structures Using Genetic Algorithms’, Proceedings 14^th IFAC World Congress-1999, Vol.F., pp.181-186, Bijing, 1999.
• Chen, Istepanian, R. S. H. And Luk, B., ‘Signal Processing Applications using adaptive simulated Annealing’, Proceedings of 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC’99, Washington, pp. 842-849, July 6-9, 1999.
• Istepanian, R. S. H. And Chandran, S., ‘Enhanced telemedicine applications with next generation of wireless systems’, Proceedings of the first Joint BMES/ EMBS IEEE International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.708, Atlanta, October 1999.
• Istepanian, R. S. H. And Petrossian, A., ‘Application of Wavelet compression for wireless telecardiology systems’, Proceedings of the first joint BMES/EMBS IEEE International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.701, Atlanta, October 1999.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Hybrid signal processing technologies for next generation wireless telemedicine systems’, Proceedings of the joint meeting of the 2^nd International conference on telemedical information society/2^nd International conference on information technology applications in biomedicine ITIS-ITAB’99, Amsterdam, Holland, pp.21-23, 12-13, April 1999. Also published in The Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine, February 2000.
• Chen, Istepanian, R S. H., and Luk, B, ‘Postprocessing for image coding applications using neural network visual model’, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for signal processing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 557-566, Aug.31- Sept 3, 1998.
• Istepanian, R S. H., ‘Modelling of GSM–based Mobile Telemedical System’, Proceedings 20^th. IEEE Annual International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Hong Kong, November, 926-930, 29Oct-1 Nov.1998.
• Econompoulos, E., Hadjileontiadis, L., Istepanian, R. S. H., and Panas, S., ‘Robust ECG coding using wavelet analysis and higher order statistics’, Digest of IEE colloquium on Intelligent methods in health care and medical applications, IEE publication 98/514, York, UK, pp.15/1- 15/6, 20^th. Oct. 1998.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Performance Analysis of Mobile GSM-based telecardiology System’, Proceedings International Conference on Telemedicine and Telecare- Telemed’98, London, pp.256-257, Nov. 25-26, 1998.
• Istepanian, R S. H., B. Woodward, E. Gorilas, and P. Balos, ‘Design of Mobile Telemedical Systems using GSM and IS-54 Cellular standards’, Proceedings International Conference on Telemedicine and Telecare-Telemed’97, London, pp. 134-138, Nov. 1997.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., M. Brien, P. Smith and N. Mohasses, ‘Modelling of PPG Mobile Telemedicine system’, Proceedings of the 19^th. IEEE Annual International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, pp.987-990, Chicago, 1997.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Woodward, B., ‘Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability during Scuba Diving’, Proceedings 18^th. IEEE Annual International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 430-432, 1996.
• Istepanian R S H. And Woodward B., ‘Underwater acoustic telemetry of complex analogue signals in a multipath channel’, In Subsea Control and Data Acquisition, Andrianssen, L., Phillips, R., Rees C., and Cattanach J. (eds.), Mechanical Engineering Publications Ltd., London, pp.171-181, 1996.
• Woodward, B. And Istepanian, R S. H., ‘The use of Underwater Acoustic Biotelemetry for monitoring of ECG of a swimming patient’, Proceedings of 1^st. Regional Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, New Delhi, India, Vol.4, pp.100-108, 1995.
• Woodward, B. And Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Progress in Underwater Biotelemetry’, Scientific/Technical Report No 1994-21: Proceedings of the 17^th. Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Ustaoset, Norway, 30 Jan-2 Feb1994, M.Vestrheimand H Holbaek (eds.), ISSN 0803-2692, Dec. 1994.
• Woodward, B. And Istepanian, R. S. H. ‘Acoustic Biotelemetry of data from divers’, Proceedings 15^th. IEEE Annual International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, San Diego, USA, pp.1000-1002, 1993.
• Woodward B and Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Physiological monitoring by ultrasonic biotelemetry’, Proceedings 1^st European conference on Underwater Acoustics, M. Weydert (Ed.), Elsevier Applied Sciences Publishers, pp.110-113, 1992.
• Istepanian, R. S. H. And Whidborne, J., ‘Multi-objective design of finite word-length controller structures’, Proceedings 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC’99, (Washington DC, USA), pp.61-68, July 6-9, 1999.
• Wu, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., J. Chu, S. Chen, Whidborne, J., and Luk, B. ‘The optimal controller realization using the delta operator for sampled data systems with finite word length consideration’, Proceedings 1999 European Control Conference ECC’99, (Karlsruhe, Germany), Aug.31- Sept.3, pp.F933.1- F933.6, 1999.
• Chen, S, Istepanian, R. S. H., Wu, J., Chu, J., ‘A comparative study on optimizing closed loop stability bounds of finite-precision PID controller structures with shift and delta operator realizations’, Proceedings International Congress on Dynamics and Control of Systems-DYCON’99,Ottawa, Canada, August 5-7, pp. VI(A)1.1-VI (A)1.8, 1999.
• Pasparakis, G, Luk, B., Istepanian, R.S.H. and S. Chen, ‘Intelligent walking gait generation for legged robots’, Proceedings 2^nd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR’99), (Portsmouth, UK), Sept 13-15, pp. 623-629, 1999.
• Galt, S., Luk, B., Chen, S., Istepanian, R. S.H. , Cooke, D., and Hewer, N., ‘Intelligent walking gait generation for legged robots’, Proceedings 2^nd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR’99), (Portsmouth, UK), Sept 13-15, pp. 605-613,1999.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., Wu, J., Chu, J., and Whidborne, J. F., ‘Maximizing lower bound stability measure of finite precision PID controller realization by nonlinear programming’, Proceedings of 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, USA, pp.2596-2600, 1998.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., Wu, J., Whidborne, J. F., Yan, J., and Salcudean, S. E., ‘Finite- Word-Length stability issues of teleoperation motion-scaling control system’, Proceedings UKACC International Conference on Control’98, Swansea, UK, IEE Publication 455, pp.1676-1681, 1998.
• Whidborne, J. F., Istepanian, R. S. H., I. Njabeleke and Jun Wu, ‘Optimal Digital Controller structures for a fluid power system subject to word length constraints’, Proceedings of UKACC International Conference on Control’98, Swansea, UK, IEE Publication 455, pp. 146-151, 1998.
• Pasparakis, G., Luk, B., Istepanian, R.S. H., and Chen, S., ‘Unsupervised 3-dimensaional construction of environments for walking and climbing robot applications’, Proceedings 1^st. Int. Symposium on mobile, climbing and walking robots- CLAWAR’98, (Brussels, Belgium), November 26-28, pp.17- V22, 1998.
• Kalyvas, T., Luk, B., Chen, S., and Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘A landmark selection methodology for unsupervised walking and climbing robot navigation in dynamic, 3 dimensional environments’, Proceedings 1^st. Int. Symposium on mobile, climbing and walking robots- CLAWAR’98, (Brussels, Belgium), November 26-28, pp. 7-10, 1998.
• Chen, S., Istepanian, R. S. H., Luk, B, and J.F. Whidborne, ‘Optimizing stability bounds of finite-precision PID controllers using Adaptive simulated annealing’, Digest of IEE colloquium on Optimization in control methods and applications , London, IEE Publication 98/521, pp. 3/1-3/3, November, 1998.
• Istepanian, R S. H., ‘Implementation issues for discrete PID algorithms using shift and delta operators parameterisation’, Proceedings 4^th. IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for real-time Control, Ruano, A.E. (Ed.) Algarve, Portugal, pp. 117- 122, April 1997.
• Istepanian R S. H., Pratt, Goodall R., Jones S., ‘Effect of fixed-point parameterization on the performance of active suspension control systems’, Proceedings IFAC 13^th. World Congress, San Francisco, USA, Vol. O, pp.291-297, 1996.
• Istepanian, R. S. H., and Istepanian, H., ‘Suboptimal Bang-Bang Control of DC-DC power converters’, Proceedings of UKACC International Conference on Control-Control’96, Exeter, UK, IEE publication 427, pp.430-435, 1996.
• Istepanian, R S. H., Goodall, R.M., Jones, S., ‘Architectures for high performance digital control processors’, IEE Colloquium on multiprocessor DSP applications, algorithms, and architectures, London IEE Digest No. 1995/116, pp.7/1-7/6, 1995.
• Istepanian R S. H. And Sungoor AN M H, ‘Implicit design of a predictive PID controller with computational delay effect’, Proceedings 15^th. Annual conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society-IECON’89, Philadelphia, pp.40-45, 1989.
• Al-Hadithi B M, Meki Z, and Istepanian R. S. H., ‘Explicit design of a predictive self-tuned PID controller’, Proceedings 15^th. Annual conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society –IECON’89, Philadelphia, pp.291-295, 1989.
• Philip, R. S. H. Istepanian , N. Amsou and P. Shorvon, ‘Subjective and Qualitative Measure Issues of Agile Wireless Tele-Ultranogrpahy Imaging’, poster presentation at the British Society for gynaecological Imaging Inaugural Meeting 7-9 February 2008.
• Banitsas, K., Tachakra, S., Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Implementation issues of wireless LAN Systems in the NHS environment’, Proceedings 9^th. International Conference on Telemedicine and Telecare-Telemed02, 29-30 January 2002, London, UK.
• Pavlopoulos, S., Istepanian, R.S.H., Kyriacou,E. And Koutsouris, D., ‘Optimal Wavelet Biosignal Compression for Mobile Multi-Purpose Telemedicine’, (Abstract), Proceedings of 3^rd. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Information technology in Biomedicine ( ITAB-ITIS2000), Virginia, November 9-10, 2000.
• Istepanian, R. S. H. And Laxminarayan, S., ‘Next Generation of Integrated Mobile Telemedicine and Internet Telemedicine Systems’, (Abstract), In: 2000 World Congress in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and the Proceedings of 22^nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago, July 23-28, 2000. Edited by G.D. Fullerton, 2000 , (http: wc2000.org).
• Istepanian, R.S. H., and Laxminaryan, S., ‘3G- Mobile Telemedicine Systems and Wireless Health Care Networks’, Proceedings World Conference on Telemedicine, pp.179- 182,Toulouse, France, March 22-24, 2000.
• Istepanian, R.S.H. and Chandran, S., ‘Enhanced telemedicine applications with the third generation telecommunication systems’, in XXVIth General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, (Abstract), Toronto, Canada, 13-21 August 1999.
• Istepanian, R.S. H., ‘Mobile Telemedical Systems- Current Status and future prospects’, In: International Conference on Telehealth- InterMed’99, (Abstract), Toronto, 21-23 June 1999.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Modelling of GSM-based Mobile Telemedicine Systems’, in Wireless in Communications in Health Care conference, New Orleans, USA, 16-18 September 1998.
• Istepanian, R.S.H. and Woodward, B., ‘A multichannel ultrasonic biotelemetry system for underwater physiological monitoring’, Bio-Acoustic group meeting, University of Southampton, UK, 21 July 1992.
• Istepanian, R.S.H., ‘Architectural design of high performance digital control processor’, 1^st. Loughborough University and Humboldt University, Berlin Workshop, Loughborough, 25 November 1994.
• Whidborne, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., and Wu, J., ‘Finite-Word-Length stability issues in ¥1 framework’, Technical Report EM/98/01 (with King’s College, London), July 1998.
• Whidborne, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., and Wu, J., ‘Controller fragility reduction by pole sensitivity minimization’, Technical Reports EM/98/02, (with King’s College, London,), November 1998.
• Istepanian, R. S. H, Bulbukian, R., ‘Adaptive Simulated Annealing for finite-precision controller structures’, Engineering Research Centre, Technical Report, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, July 1998.
• Whidborne, J., Istepanian, R. S. H., ‘Multi-objective design of finite-Word-Length controller structures using Genetic Algorithms’, Technical Report EM/99/04, (with King’s College, London), June 1999.