Simon Hartmann
Adelaide Medical School
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Simon Hartmann is a biomedical engineer interested in the fascinating intersection of advanced signal processing and human physiology. He is passionate about developing tools to enhance the understanding of the role of the human brain with a particular expertise in biomedical devices, physiological signals, and state-of-the-art signal processing methods including machine learning techniques.
He graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ulm, Germany, in 2014. In 2017, he received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. For his Master thesis, he developed a chest-worn sensor-patch to enable convenient screening for sleep-disordered breathing. Following his master studies, he started his Ph.D. degree with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia, under the supervision of M. Baumert, and D. Abbott. In 2021, he successfully finished his Ph.D. degree.
He is currently a NHMRC Grant Funded Researcher at the Discipline of Psychiatry, The University of Adelaide, Australia, working on multi-modal risk prediction of early psychosis onset as part of the Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in PREdiction of Early Mental Disorder and Preventive Treatment (PRE-EMPT).
Predictive modelling and machine learning in mental illness
Only 30% of patients identified as at high risk of a psychotic episode transition to first episode psychosis. Improved accuracy of prediction is required to efficiently and safely intervene to prevent or minimise the impact of psychosis. As part of PRE-EMPT, the CRE for PREdiction of Early Mental Disorder and Preventive Treatment, we have access to detailed national and international data sets to develop novel Bayesian and machine learning techniques to combine clinical and biological variables to improve prediction accuracy.
Potential projects available for: Honours / PhD / Masters / Mphil
Speech and video biomarker extraction for mental health monitoring
The assessment of a patient’s mental health poses a complex challenge to clinicians. Structured interviews or questionnaires capturing a patient’s state are infrequently used in clinical practice resulting in a lack of standardised or systematically recorded data in mental health care. Hence, there is a need for objective measures that can be useful to identify mental illnesses. Due to the shift to online mental health assessment during Covid-19, there is increasing potential to facilitate care via extraction of video and speech features. This project aims to implement automated video and speech features extraction and processing to provide cross-sectional diagnostic and prognostic information.
Potential projects available for: Honours / PhD / Masters / Mphil
Big data analysis of cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) using machine learning
With the surge in wearable devices in recent years, the topic of what is high-quality sleep, how can it be determined and how can it be achieved attracted increasing interest. In the last two decades, cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) was introduced as a scoring alternative to traditional sleep staging. CAP is known as a synonym for sleep microstructure and describes oscillating brain waves defined as short EEG amplitude increases (<60 s) during NREM stages that are in tune with the rest of the body. In collaboration with leading research laboratories all over the world, we work on developing an automated CAP scoring algorithm which can be applied on large population based studies to investigate the role of CAP.
Potential projects available for: Honours
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - ongoing NHMRC Grant Funded Researcher The University of Adelaide -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review German Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2017 - 2021 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2014 - 2017 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Germany Master of Science 2010 - 2014 University of Ulm Germany Bachelor of Science -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Hartmann, S., Parrino, L., Ensrud, K., Stone, K. L., Redline, S., Clark, S. R., & Baumert, M. (2023). Association between psychotropic medication and sleep microstructure: evidence from large population studies.. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 19(3), 581-589.
2021 Shahrbabaki, S. S., Linz, D., Hartmann, S., Redline, S., & Baumert, M. (2021). Sleep arousal burden is associated with long-term all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in 8001 community-dwelling older men and women. European Heart Journal, 42(21), 2088-2099.
Scopus25 WoS22 Europe PMC132021 Hartmann, S., Ferri, R., Bruni, O., & Baumert, M. (2021). Causality of cortical and cardiovascular activity during cyclic alternating pattern in non-rapid eye movement sleep. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 379(2212), 20200248-1-20200248-17.
Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC12021 Hartmann, S., Bruni, O., Ferri, R., Redline, S., & Baumert, M. (2021). Cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) in children with obstructive sleep apnea and its relationship with adenotonsillectomy, behavior, cognition, and quality-of-life. SLEEP, 44(1), 1-8.
Scopus13 WoS12 Europe PMC32020 Hartmann, S., Bruni, O., Ferri, R., Redline, S., & Baumert, M. (2020). Characterisation of cyclic alternating pattern during sleep in older men and women using large population studies. SLEEP, 43(7), 1-9.
Scopus13 WoS14 Europe PMC72020 DelRosso, L., Hartmann, S., Baumert, M., Bruni, O., Ruth, C., & Ferri, R. (2020). Non-REM sleep instability in children with restless sleep disorder. Sleep Medicine, 75, 276-281.
Scopus10 WoS9 Europe PMC32019 Hartmann, S., & Baumert, M. (2019). Automatic A-Phase Detection of Cyclic Alternating Patterns in Sleep Using Dynamic Temporal Information. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 27(9), 1695-1703.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2020 Saha, S., Hartmann, S., Linz, D., Sanders, P., & Baumert, M. (2020). A ventricular far-field artefact filtering technique for atrial electrograms. In Proceedings of the International Conference in Computing in Cardiology (CinC 2019), as published in Computing in Cardiology Vol. 46 (pp. 1-4). online: Computing in Cardiology, distributed by IEEE.
2020 Hartmann, S., & Baumert, M. (2020). CYCLIC ALTERNATING PATTERN AS INDICATOR FOR SUBJECTIVE SLEEP QUALITY IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER MEN. In SLEEP Vol. 43 (pp. A312). Philadelphia, PA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 2020 Hartmann, S., & Baumert, M. (2020). THE EFFECT OF BENZODIAZEPINE USE ON NON-REM SLEEP INSTABILITY IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER MEN. In SLEEP Vol. 43 (pp. A150). OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 2020 DelRosso, L., Hartmann, S., Baumert, M., Bruni, O., & Ferri, R. (2020). INCREASED NON-REM SLEEP INSTABILITY IN CHILDREN WITH RESTLESS SLEEP DISORDER. In SLEEP Vol. 43 (pp. A358). Philadelphia, PA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 2019 Hartmann, S., & Baumert, M. (2019). Improved A-phase detection of cyclic alternating pattern using deep learning. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2019) Vol. 2019 (pp. 1-4). Berlin, Germany: IEEE.
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2020 Hartmann, S., & Baumert, M. (2020). THE EFFECT OF TRAZADONE USE ON NON-REM SLEEP INSTABILITY IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER MEN. Poster session presented at the meeting of SLEEP. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. -
Patents
Year Citation 2020 Hartmann, S., & Baumert, M. (2020). WO2020248008A1, A Method And System For Classifying Sleep Related Brain Activity. Australia.
- ECMS Travelling Scholarship, The University of Adelaide, 2020
- Lab2Lab, TU Dresden, 2021
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Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2019 - 2020 Member IEEE United States
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