Curriculum Vitae

DR. NG SIEW CHEOK

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Faculty of Engineering
  • siewcng
  • +603-79674485

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
    Biomedical Signal Processing

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PhD (UM)(2010), (Pemprosesan Isyarat)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • MEngSc (UM)(2003), (KEJURUTERAAN BIOPERUBATAN)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • BEng (Hons)(Mech)(UM)(2000), (KEJURUTERAAN MEKANIKAL)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Director
    01 Mar 2024 - present (Academic Quality Assurance Division, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International))
  • Head of Unit
    01 Dec 2022 - 29 Feb 2024 (Quality Management and Enhancement Centre, Associate Vice-Chancellor (Corporate Strategy))
  • Head of Unit
    18 Oct 2020 - 17 Oct 2022 (Quality Management and Enhancement Centre, Associate Vice-Chancellor (Corporate Strategy))
  • Head of Unit
    18 Oct 2018 - 17 Oct 2020 (Quality Management and Enhancement Centre, Associate Vice-Chancellor (Corporate Strategy))

MEMBERSHIPS

  • PERSATUAN PROSTETIK DAN ORTOTIK MALAYSIA, ASSISTANT SECRETARY
    2017 to 2018 (National)
  • IEM, GRADUATE MEMBER
    2015 to 2017 (National)

AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP

  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2015 (University)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2012 (University)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2008 (University)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2002 (University)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Tan, Chiat Oon; Ng, Siew Cheok; Yap, Hwa Jen; Mustapa, Mohd Zamakhsyary; Usop, Zuriani; Fauthan, Mohd 'Akashah; Bin Mahalil, Khairuddin; Liew, Shaer Jin (2023). Feasibility of detecting 'tracheid effect' on tropical hardwood (light red meranti, Shorea spp.) using 650 nm (red) and 808 nm (near infrared) lasers, utilizing industrial colour camera, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOOD AND WOOD PRODUCTS. 81(6), 1413-1426. doi:10.1007/s00107-023-01980-1
  2. Ng, Siew-Cheok; Lim, Einly; Mason, David G.; Avolio, Alberto P.; Lovell, Nigel H. (2013). Evaluation of Suction Detection During Different Pumping States in an Implantable Rotary Blood Pump, ARTIFICIAL ORGANS. 37(8), E145-E154. doi:10.1111/aor.12079
  3. Ng, S. C., Raveendran, P. (2009). Enhanced mu Rhythm Extraction Using Blind Source Separation and Wavelet Transform, Ieee Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 56(8), 2024-2034
Others
  1. Goh C-H, Tan LK, Lovell NH, Ng S-C, Tan MP, Lim E. Robust PPG Motion Artifact Detection Using a 1-D Convolution Neural Network. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2020;105596
  2. Farahiyah Jasni, Nur Azah Hamzaid, Nurhidayah Yusof, Tawfk Al-Nusairi, Hanie Nadia Shasmin, (2019) Feasibility of A Gait Phase Identification Tool for Transfemoral Amputees using Piezoelectric-Based In-Socket Sensory System, IEEE Sensors Journal, 19 (15): 6437-6444
  3. Tan, C. O., & Ng, S. C. (2019). WOOD VENEER SURFACE MANUFACTURING DEFECTS PREVALENCE IN MALAYSIAN INDUSTRY AND HUMAN BASELINE DEFECT DETECTION PERFORMANCE. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 31(4), 384-397.
  4. Zulkifli, N. B., Suhaimi, F. M., Cheok, N. S., & Lai, K. W. (2019). Ablation of Dental Glass Ionomer Cement Using Neodymium-Doped Yttrium Aluminium Garnet Laser. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 9(9), 1787-1795.
  5. Al-Zidi, M. G., Santhosh, J., Ng, S. C., Bakar, A. R. A., & Ibrahim, I. A. (2018). Cortical auditory evoked potentials as indicators of hearing aids performance in speech perception. Journal of Engineering Research, 5(4).
  6. Faisal, A., Ng, S. C., Goh, S. L., & Lai, K. W. (2018). Knee cartilage segmentation and thickness computation from ultrasound images. Medical & biological engineering & computing, 56(4), 657-669.
  7. Khalil Azira, Siew Cheok Ng, Yih Miin Liew, & Khin Wee Lai. An Overview on Image Registration Techniques for Cardiac Diagnosis and Treatment. Cardiology Research and Practice, 2018.
  8. Lim, P. K., Ng, S. C., Lovell, N. H., Yu, Y. P., Tan, M. P., McCombie, D., ... & Redmond, S. J. (2018). Adaptive template matching of photoplethysmogram pulses to detect motion artefact. Physiological measurement, 39(10), 105005.
  9. Amir F, Siew Cheok N, SL Goh, Khin Wee Lai. Knee cartilage segmentation and thickness computation from ultrasound images. IMedical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 2017. DOI 10.1007/s11517-017-1710-2
  10. Goh, C. H., Ng, S. C., Kamaruzzaman, S. B., Chin, A. V., Poi, P. J., Chee, K. H., ... & Tan, M. P. (2016). Evaluation of two new indices of blood pressure variability using postural change in older fallers. Medicine, 95(19).
  11. Lanisa, N., Chai, H. Y., Cheok Ng, S., Liew, Y. M., Salim, M. I. M., & Lai, K. W. (2017). Texture Similarity Analysis of Breast Abnormalities in Infrared Thermal Image. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 7(8), 1830-1836.
  12. Azira Khalil, Amir Faisal, Khin Wee Lai, Siew Cheok Ng, Yih Miin Liew. 2D to 3D Fusion of Echocardiography and Cardiac CT for TAVR and TAVI Image Guidance. Med Biol Eng Comput (2016). doi:10.1007/s11517-016-1594-6
  13. Goh, Choon-Hian BBEng; Ng, Siew-Cheok PhD; Kamaruzzaman, Shahrul B. PhD; Chin, Ai-Vyrn MD; Poi, Philip J. H. MRCP; Chee, Kok Han MMED; Imran, Z. Abidin MMED; Tan, Maw Pin MD. Evaluation of Two New Indices of Blood Pressure Variability Using Postural Change in Older Fallers. Medicine KW . 2016;95(19).
  14. Islam, M. A., Jassim, W. A., Cheok, N. S., & Zilany, M. S. A. (2016). A Robust Speaker Identification System Using the Responses from a Model of the Auditory Periphery. PloS one, 11(7), e0158520.
  15. Jasni, F., Hamzaid, N. A., Muthalif, A. G. A., Zakaria, Z., Shasmin, H. N., & Ng, S. C. (2016). In-Socket Sensory System for Transfemoral Amputees Using Piezoelectric Sensors: An Efficacy Study. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 21(5), 2466-2476.
  16. Jusman, Y., Isa, N. A. M., Ng, S. C., Hasikin, K., & Osman, N. A. A. (2016). Automated cervical precancerous cells screening system based on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy features. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 21(7), 075005-075005.
  17. Jusman, Y., Ng, S. C., Hasikin, K., Kurnia, R., Osman, N. A. A., & Teoh, K. H. (2016). A SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF CERVICAL PRECANCEROUS IN FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE IMAGES USING TEXTURE FEATURES. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences.
  18. Jusman, Y., Ng, S. C., Hasikin, K., Kurnia, R., Osman, N. A. B. A., & Teoh, K. H. (2016). Computer-aided screening system for cervical precancerous cells based on field emission scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray images and spectra. Optical Engineering, 55(10), 103110-103110.
  19. Mowla, M. R., Ng, S. C., Zilany, M. S., & Paramesran, R. (2016). Single-Trial Evoked Potential Estimation Using Iterative Principal Component Analysis. IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(18), 6955-6960.
  20. Ooi, H. L., Seera, M., Ng, S. C., Lim, C. P., Loo, C. K., Lovell, N. H., ... & Lim, E. (2016). Classification of Implantable Rotary Blood Pump States With Class Noise. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 20(3), 829-837.
  21. Faisal, A., Ng, S.C., Goh, S.L., George, J., Supriyanto, E. and Lai, K.W., 2015. Multiple LREK Active Contours for Knee Meniscus Ultrasound Image Segmentation. IEEE transactions on medical imaging.
  22. Lim, P.K., Ng, S.C., Jassim, W.A., Redmond, S.J., Zilany, M., Avolio, A., Lim, E., Tan, M.P. and Lovell, N.H., 2015. Improved Measurement of Blood Pressure by Extraction of Characteristic Features from the Cuff Oscillometric Waveform. Sensors, 15(6), pp.14142-14161.
  23. Mowla, Md Rakibul, Siew-Cheok Ng, Muhammad SA Zilany, and Raveendran Paramesran. "Artifacts-matched blind source separation and wavelet transform for multichannel EEG denoising." Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 22 (2015): 111-118.
  24. Ooi, H.L., Seera, M., Ng, S.C., Lim, C.P., Loo, C.K., Lovell, N., Redmond, S. and Lim, E., 2015. Classification of implantable rotary blood pump state with class noise. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics.
  25. Ooi, Hui‐Lee, Siew‐Cheok Ng, Einly Lim, Robert F. Salamonsen, Alberto P. Avolio, and Nigel H. Lovell. "Robust Aortic Valve Non‐Opening Detection for Different Cardiac Conditions." Artificial organs (2014).
  26. Lim, Einly, Gregory SH Chan, Socrates Dokos, Siew C. Ng, Lydia A. Latif, Stijn Vandenberghe, Mohan Karunanithi, and Nigel H. Lovell. "A Cardiovascular Mathematical Model of Graded Head-Up Tilt." PloS one 8, no. 10 (2013).
  27. Ng, Siew‐Cheok, et al. "Evaluation of Suction Detection During Different Pumping States in an Implantable Rotary Blood Pump." Artificial Organs (2013).
  28. Siew-Cheok Ng and Paramesran Raveendran, 2009 "Enhanced μ Rhythm Extraction Using Blind Source Separation and Wavelet Transform", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL. 56, NO. 8: 2024-2034.
  29. S.Y. Goh, S.C. Ng, Y.M. Phang, X. Y. Yong, A.M. Yazed and Y. Shuhaida, "A brain-computer interface for control of a prosthetic hand", Journal of Science and Technology in the Tropics (2005) 1: 35-41
Article in Proceeding
  1. Fatima Azzahra Manap, Ng Siew Cheok, and Ahmad Khairi Abdul Wahab, Detection of Fetal Heart Rate from Single Channel Abdominal Fetal Electrocardiogram Recordings Using Filtering Methods, International Joint Conferences on Medical Engineering, Science & Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, 29-30 June 2021.
  2. Ng, S. C., and P. Raveendran. "Effects of Physical Fatigue onto Brain Rhythms." 5th Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2011. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2020 - 2024, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    Investigating The Quantum Effects In The Brain Electroencephalogram (eeg) Under Amphetamine-type Stimulant (ats) Influences ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2019 - 2022, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    Brain Responses To Micro Visual Attributes Of Streets: A Neuro-assessment Of Pedestrians' Urban Walking Experience In Kuala Lumpur ( Co-Researcher)
  3. 2019 - 2021, Others MOHE - Top 100 (IIRG)-HWB
    The Relationship Between Haemodynamic Responses With Physical Activity And Psychological Responses After Falls ( Co-Researcher)
  4. 2018 - 2020, RU Geran - Fakulti Program
    Acoustical Analysis And Identification Of Baby Cry Sounds ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  5. 2013 - 2015, Geran Penyelidikan Universiti Malaya (UMRG)
    Investigation of Knee Osteoarthritis intervention and early detection ( Consultant)
  6. 2010 - 2011, Geran Penyelidikan Universiti Malaya (UMRG)
    THE EFFECT OF VARIOUS LOCAL ESSENTIAL OIL AND MUSIC ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY: A STUDY FOR MEMORY ENHANCEMENT AND STRESS MANAGEMENT ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  7. 2007 - 2008, University of Malaya/ University Special Research Grant
    Study of the brain signals of mental fatigue (SF037/2007A), RM 75K ( Principal Investigator(PI))

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2019) Artifacts Identification for blood pressure and photoplethsmography signals in an unsupervised environment, LIM POOI KHOON
  2. (2018) DEVELOPMENT OF DENTAL MATERIAL GLASS IONOMER CEMENT REMOVAL TECHNIQUE USING Nd:YAG LASER, NOORSYAZWANI BINTI ZULKIFLI
  3. (2017) Configuration and analysis of piezoelectric-based in-socket sensory system for transfemoral prosthetic gait detection, FARAHIYAH BINTI JASNI
  4. (2016) MEASURING VARIABILITY IN BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE IN OLDER MALAYSIANS, GOH CHOON HIAN
  5. (2016) Development of a registration framework for echocardiography and computed tomography cardiovascular image fusion, AZIRA BINTI KHALIL
  6. (2016) ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS FOR KNEE CARTILAGE AND MENISCUS ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION, AMIR FAISAL
  7. (2015) COMPUTER-AIDED SCREENING SYSTEM FOR CERVICAL PRECANCEROUS CELLS BASED ON FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY, YESSI JUSMAN
  8. (2016) Digital Infrared Thermography Analysis for Breast Cancer using Image Textures Features., NORLAILAH BINTI LANISA
  9. (2015) ROBUST SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION BASED ON NEURAL RESPONSE IN CLEAN AND NOISY CONDITIONS, MD. ATIQUL ISLAM
  10. (2015) FUNCTIONAL EFFECTS OF CORTICAL AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIALS AND HEARING AIDS ON SPEECH PERCEPTION IN SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS INDIVIDUALS, MOHAMMED GAMAL NASSER AL-ZIDI
  11. (2013) NONINVASIVE DETECTION OF PHYSIOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT PUMPING STATES IN AN IMPLANTABLE ROTARY BLOOD PUMP, OOI HUI LEE