AKIRA FURUI

Last Updated :2025/07/09

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
Web Site
https://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/furui/
https://petitstella.github.io/en/
E-mail
akirafuruihiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2024/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
  • 2018/04/01, 2019/09/30, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
  • 2019/10/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant Professor

Educational Backgrounds

  • Hiroshima University, School of Engineering, Japan, 2016/03
  • Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Engineering, The Department of System Cybernetics, Japan, 2016/04, 2019/09

Academic Degrees

  • Hiroshima University
  • Hiroshima University

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Informatics and Data Science : Department of Informatics and Data Science : Intelligence Science Program
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Informatics and Data Science Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Informatics and Data Science Program

Research Fields

  • Informatics;Human informatics;Intelligent informatics
  • Complex systems;Biomedical engineering;Medical systems

Research Keywords

  • Biological signal processing
  • Machine learning/Deep learning
  • Probabilistic modeling
  • Medical image analysis
  • Human machine interface

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • he Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
  • The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Starting Programming from Scratch
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Starting Programming from Scratch
  3. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Starting Programming from Scratch
  4. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Starting Programming from Scratch
  5. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Starting Programming from Scratch
  6. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Starting Programming from Scratch
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Basics of AI
  8. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Digital Signal Processing
  9. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Biological Information Processing
  10. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Long-term Fieldwork I
  11. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Intelligence Science Seminar I
  12. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Intelligence Science Seminar II
  13. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Graduation Thesis
  14. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Exercises on Informatics and Data Science A
  15. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Exercises on Informatics and Data Science A
  16. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Special Exercises on Informatics and Data Science B
  17. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Exercises on Informatics and Data Science B
  18. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Special Study on Informatics and Data Science
  19. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Special Study on Informatics and Data Science

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Non-negative tensor factorization of infant spontaneous movements: a pilot study for ASD risk evaluation of newborn infants, Proceedings of 2025 IEEE/SICE international symposium on system integration (SII), 265-270, 20250212
  2. Discriminative Analysis of Autistic Tendencies at 18 Months of Age Using Eye Gaze Characteristics in 4-, 10-, and 18-month-old Infants, 20250212
  3. Non-Gaussian modeling of sleep EEG based on a skewed scale mixture structure and its application to sleep stage analysis, BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL, 109, 202511
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  4. Risk of autism spectrum disorder at 18 months of age is associated with prenatal level of polychlorinated biphenyls exposure in a Japanese birth cohort, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 14(1), 20241230
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  5. Epileptic Seizure Detection Using a Recurrent Neural Network With Temporal Features Derived From a Scale Mixture EEG Model, IEEE ACCESS, 12, 162814-162824, 20241029
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  6. The Number of Microbubbles Generated During Cardiopulmonary Bypass Can Be Estimated Using Machine Learning From Suction Flow Rate, Venous Reservoir Level, Perfusion Flow Rate, Hematocrit Level, and Blood Temperature, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 5, 66-74, 20240101
  7. Evaluating Classifier Confidence for Surface EMG Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 20230724
  8. Stochastic Fluctuation in EEG Evaluated via Scale Mixture Model for Decoding Emotional Valence, 2024 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2024, 567-572, 20240108
  9. Bayesian Approach for Adaptive EMG Pattern Classification Via Semi-Supervised Sequential Learning, Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 3310-3315, 20231001
  10. Finger-Tapping Motion Recognition Based on Skin Surface Deformation Using Wrist-Mounted Piezoelectric Film Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(11), 17876-17884, 20240601
  11. Cognitive screening test for rehabilitation using spatiotemporal data extracted from a digital trail making test part-A, Heliyon, 10(13), 20240715
  12. Spatiotemporal patterns of spontaneous movement in neonates are significantly linked to risk of autism spectrum disorders at 18 months old, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 13(1), 20230824
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  13. Motor-cognitive functions required for driving in post-stroke individuals identified via machine-learning analysis, JOURNAL OF NEUROENGINEERING AND REHABILITATION, 20(1), 20231018
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  14. Cough sound-based estimation of vital capacity via cough peak flow using artificial neural network analysis, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 13(1), 20230525
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  15. Prediction of autistic tendencies at 18 months of age via markerless video analysis of spontaneous body movements in 4-month-old infants, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1), 20221027
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  16. Automated Classification of General Movements in Infants Using a Two-stream Spatiotemporal Fusion Network, Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 753-762, 20220916
  17. Beat-to-Beat Estimation of Peripheral Arterial Stiffness From Local PWV for Quantitative Evaluation of Sympathetic Nervous System Activity, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 69(9), 2806-2816, 20220901
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  18. Neural Network-based Estimation of Microbubbles Generated in Cardiopulmonary Bypass Circuit: A Clinical Application Study, Proceedings of 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 617-620, 20220711
  19. Toward a Robust Estimation of Respiratory Rate Using Cardiovascular Biomarkers: Robustness Analysis Under Pain Stimulation, IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 22(10), 9904-9913, 20220515
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  20. Increased cerebrovascular reactivity in selected brain regions after extracranial-intracranial bypass improves the speed and accuracy of visual cancellation in patients with severe steno-occlusive disease: a preliminary study., Neurosurgical review, 20220130
  21. Sleep EEG Analysis Based on a Scale Mixture Model and its Application to Sleep Spindle Detection, Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 887-892, 20220109
  22. Predictors of Stroke Outcome Extracted from Multivariate Linear Discriminant Analysis or Neural Network Analysis, JOURNAL OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND THROMBOSIS, 29(1), 99-110, 20220101
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  23. ★, EMG pattern recognition via Bayesian inference with scale mixture-based stochastic generative models, Expert Systems with Applications, 185, 20211215
  24. A Time-Series Scale Mixture Model of EEG with a Hidden Markov Structure for Epileptic Seizure Detection, Proceedings of 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'21), 5832-5836, 20211209
  25. Biomimetic Control of Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Based on a Lambda-type Muscle Model, Proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 10484-10490, 20211018
  26. Cardiorespiratory synchronisation and systolic blood pressure correlation of peripheral arterial stiffness during endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 11(1), 20210316
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  27. ★, Non-Gaussianity Detection of EEG Signals Based on a Multivariate Scale Mixture Model for Diagnosis of Epileptic Seizures, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 68(2), 515-525, 20210225
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  28. Neural network-based modeling of the number of microbubbles generated with four circulation factors in cardiopulmonary bypass, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 11(1), 20210112
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  29. Measurement of emotional states of zebrafish through integrated analysis of motion and respiration using bioelectric signals, Scientific Reports, 11(1), 20210108
  30. Relationships between motor and cognitive functions and subsequent post-stroke mood disorders revealed by machine learning analysis, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10(1), 20201111
  31. Longitudinal assessment of U-shaped and inverted U-shaped developmental changes in the spontaneous movements of infants via markerless video analysis, Scientific Reports, 10(1), 20201008
  32. Does the variance of surface EMG signals during isometric contractions follow an inverse gamma distribution?, Proceedings of 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'20), 3118-3121, 20200827
  33. Video-based evaluation of infant crawling toward quantitative assessment of motor development, Scientific Reports, 10(1), 11266, 20200709
  34. Spatiotemporal Parameterization of Human Reaching Movements Based on Time Base Generator, IEEE ACCESS, 8, 104944-104955, 20200605
  35. Markerless Measurement and Evaluation of General Movements in Infants, Scientific Reports, 10(1), 20200129
  36. Muscle Fatigue Analysis by Using a Scale Mixture-based Stochastic Model of Surface EMG Signals, Proceedings of 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'19), 1948-1951, 20191007
  37. Biomimetic Control of a Five-finger Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Based on Muscle Synergy Hypothesis, The journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 102(9), 768-771, 20190801
  38. ★, A myoelectric prosthetic hand with muscle synergy-based motion determination and impedance model-based biomimetic control, Science Robotics, 4(31), eaaw6339, 20190626
  39. Development of Myoelectric Robotic/Prosthetic Hands with Cybernetic Control at the Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory, Hiroshima University, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 31(1), 27-34, 20190220
  40. ★, A Scale Mixture-Based Stochastic Model of Surface EMG Signals With Variable Variances, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 66(10), 2780-2788, 20190128
  41. An EMG Pattern Classification Method Based on a Mixture of Variance Distribution Models, Proceedings of 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'18), 5216-5219, 20181029
  42. Electromyographic Interface Technology and Robotic Arm Prostheses, Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 83(11), 1010-1013, 20171105
  43. Variance Distribution Analysis of Surface EMG Signals Based on Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Proceedings of 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'17), 2514-2517, 20170914
  44. Virtual Restoration of Down-sampled EMG Signals Using a Stochastic Model, Proceedings of the 11th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe2017), 20170822
  45. An artificial EMG generation model based on signal-dependent noise and related application to motion classification, PLOS ONE, 12(6), e0180112, 20170622
  46. A Variance Distribution Model of Surface EMG Signals Based on Inverse Gamma Distribution, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 64(11), 2672-2681, 20170125

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Automated Classification of General Movements in Infants Using Two-stream Spatiotemporal Fusion Network, Yuki Hashimoto, Akira Furui, Koji Shimatani, Maura Casadio, Paolo Moretti, Pietro Morasso, and Toshio Tsuji, 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI2022), 2022/09/18, Without Invitation, English
  2. Neural Network-based Estimation of Microbubbles Generated in Cardiopulmonary Bypass Circuit: A Clinical Application Study, Satoshi Miyamoto, Zu Soh, Shigeyuki Okahara, Akira Furui, Taiichi Takasaki, Keijiro Katayama, Shinya Takahashi, Toshio Tsuji, 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2022/07/11, Without Invitation, English
  3. Sleep EEG Analysis Based on a Scale Mixture Model and Spindle Detection, Miyari Hatamoto, Akira Furui, Keiko Ogawa, and Toshio Tsuji, 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII2022), 2022/01/09, Without Invitation, English
  4. A non-Gaussian EEG model focusing on stochastic amplitude fluctuation for automatic epileptic seizure detection, Akira Furui, Tomoyuki Akiyama, Toshio Tsuji, The 51st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (JSCN), 2021/12/16, With Invitation, Japanese
  5. Pressure-based Detection of Heart and Respiratory Rates from Human Body Surface using a Biodegradable Piezoelectric Sensor, Ziqiang Xu, Akira Furui, Shumma Jomyo, Toshiki Sakagawa, Masanori Morita, Tsutomu Takai, Masamichi Ando, and Toshio Tsuji, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'21), 2021/11/01, Without Invitation, English
  6. A Time-Series Scale Mixture Model of EEG with a Hidden Markov Structure for Epileptic Seizure Detection, Akira Furui, Tomoyuki Akiyama, and Toshio Tsuji, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'21), 2021/11/01, Without Invitation, English
  7. A Wearable Finger-Tapping Motion Recognition System Using Biodegradable Piezoelectric Film Sensors, Shumma Jomyo, Akira Furui, Tatsuhiko Matsumoto, Tomomi Tsunoda, and Toshio Tsuji, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'21), 2021/11/01, Without Invitation, English
  8. Pen-point Trajectory Analysis During Trail Making Test Based on a Time Base Generator Model, Hiroto Sakai, Akira Furui, Seiji Hama, Akiko Yanagawa, Koki Kubo, Yutaro Morisako, Yuki Orino, Maho Hamai, Kasumi Fujita, Tomohiko Mizuguchi, Akihiko Kandori, and Toshio Tsuji, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'21), 2021/11/01, Without Invitation, English
  9. Biomimetic Control of Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Based on a Lambda-type Muscle Model, Akira Furui, Kosuke Nakagaki, and Toshio Tsuji, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2021), 2021/05, Without Invitation, English
  10. Does the variance of surface EMG signals during isometric contractions follow an inverse gamma distribution?, Akira Furui and Toshio Tsuji, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'20), 2020/07, Without Invitation, English, EMBS Virtual Academy
  11. Muscle Fatigue Analysis by Using a Scale Mixture-based Stochastic Model of Surface EMG Signals, Akira Furui and Toshio Tsuji, 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'19), 2019/07, Without Invitation, English, Berlin, Germany
  12. An EMG Pattern Classification Method Based on a Mixture of Variance Distribution Models, Akira Furui, Hideaki Hayashi, and Toshio Tsuji, 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'18), 2018/07, Without Invitation, English, Honolulu, HI, USA
  13. EMG Interface Technology and Robotic Arm Prostheses, Akira Furui and Toshio Tsuji, 7th Hiroshima Conference on Education and Science in Dentistry, 2018/03, With Invitation, English
  14. Virtual Restoration of Down-sampled EMG Signals Using a Stochastic Model, Akira Furui, Hideaki Hayashi, Takaei Kihara, Takahiro Konishi, Yusuke Yoshida, Yuichi Kurita, and Toshio Tsuji, 11th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe2017), 2017/08, Without Invitation, English, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe
  15. HUVETS: Hiroshima University Virtual EMG Training System for myoelectric hand control with evaluation of motor skills and fatigue in users, Masanobu Kittaka, Akira Furui, and Toshio Tsuji, Global Student Innovation Challenge for Assistive Technology (gSIC-AT), The 11th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe2017), 2017/08, Without Invitation, English, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe
  16. Variance Distribution Analysis of Surface EMG Signals Based on Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Akira Furui, Hideaki Hayashi, Yuichi Kurita, and Toshio Tsuji, 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'17), 2017/07, Without Invitation, English, Jeju Island, Korea

Awards

  1. 2023/10/04, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award - Finalist, "President, IEEE SMC Society Award Committee Chair, IEEE SMC Society", Bayesian Approach for Adaptive EMG Pattern Classification Via Semi-Supervised Sequential Learning
  2. 2020/11/07, Phoenix Outstanding Researcher Award, Hiroshima University
  3. 2019/08/31, Young Researcher Award, IEEE EMBS East and Central Japan Chapter/West Japan Chapter
  4. 2017/08/24, gSIC-AT: i-CREATe2017 Best Poster Award, Coalition on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology of Asia (CREATe Asia)

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1), 2018, 2019
  2. Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, 2020, 2022