Dr. Parker joined Barron Associates in 1990, where he has led many projects; these have included the detection, classification, and prognostication of faults in mechanical (e.g., helicopter gearboxes, aircraft structures, sensors, and actuators) and electrical (e.g., shipboard distribution) systems; signal conditioning for improved detection of torpedoes by surface ship passive sonar; active noise and vibration control in auxiliary power units; fault management, operating control, and reconfiguration in power-electronics-based shipboard power delivery systems; detection of faults in permanent magnet machines; development of new algorithms for trauma triage and injury severity assessment in field settings; formulation of new approaches for decision-making under uncertainty; development of algorithms for trauma triage and injury severity assessment in field settings; development of algorithms for retrospective medical quality-of-care assessment and health care institution ranking; development of algorithms for prediction of in-hospital adverse outcomes and total charges associated with nurse staffing variations; development of a low-cost fall monitoring technology for geriatric subjects; and development of a low-cost, high-performance physical activity monitoring technology
From 1985-1990, Dr. Parker worked for Sperry Marine Inc., where he was responsible for development and application of signal processing, neural network, and artificial intelligence technologies. His work included, in part, development of neural networks for vibration signature analysis, radar automatic target recognition, and electronic warfare support measures post-detection signal processing; development of Kalman filters to estimate submarine and surface ship inertial navigation system errors; development of expert systems for diagnostic maintenance and performance monitoring of the spinning-wheel gyroscope and marine ring-laser gyroscope inertial navigators; design and management of command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) data fusion simulation studies; and teaching a course on inertial navigation theory.
Dr. Parker has Ph.D. and M.E. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia, awarded in 1988 and 1981 respectively, and both a B.S.E. in Engineering Analysis and Design (Electrical Engineering) and a B.A. in Mathematics, awarded by the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 1978. His graduate thesis involved nonlinear system identification of the respiratory center of the brain. Dr. Parker is a member of the IEEE and Sigma Xi.
Representative Publications, Patents and Presentations
Richardson, N.T., B.E. Parker, Jr., "Autonomous Fall Monitor." U.S. Patent Pending (Provisional Application No. 61/129,465, filed on June 27, 2008, and Provisional Application No. 61/213,149, filed May 13, 2009.
Goebel, J.A., B.C. Sinks, B.E. Parker, Jr., N.T. Richardson, A.B. Olowin, R.W. Cholewiak, "Effectiveness of head-mounted vibrotactile stimulation in patients with bilateral vestibular loss: a phase 1 clinical trial," Otology & Neurology, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 210-16, 2009.
Cook A.J., K.M. Schmidt, D.A. Roberts, K.C. Nelson, B.R. Clark, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Can computers take us to the next level of chronic pain assessment? Establishing an item pool for multidimensional adaptive testing," New Zealand Pain Soc Annual Scientific Meeting Handbook, Auckland, NZ, March 14, 2008, p. 23. ("Best Free Paper" Award)
McGarvey, E., L. Baum, K. Bloomfield, D. Brenin, B.R. Clark, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Help with Alopecia Adjustment through Image Representations (HAAIR) System: Effectiveness of Interactive Computer Imaging to Facilitate Coping with chemotherapy-Distress caused by Hair Loss," 5th Annual American Psycho-Oncology Soc Conf, Irvine, CA, February 28-March 2, 2008.
Schmidt, K., J.R. Shroeder, A. Cook, D. Roberts, B.R. Clark, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Psychometric item response theory (IRT) analysis of the Pain Intensity Numerical Rating Scale (PI-NRS): Scale reduction and relationships with personality," 26th Annual American Pain Society Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 2-5, 2007.
McGarvey, E., L. Baum, D. Brenin, B.R. Clark, S. Acton, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Help with Alopecia Adjustment through Image Representations (HAAIR) System," 4th Annual American Psycho-Oncology Soc Conf., Austin, TX, March 1-4, 2007.
Schmidt, K., A. Cook, D. Roberts, B.R. Clark, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Psychometric item response theory (IRT) analysis of the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire for chronic pain assessment," 10th annual Cyber Therapy Conf, San Antonio, TX, May 3-6, 2006.
Parker, Jr., B.E., B.M. Fabeney, E.C. Larson, J.F. Monaco, "6-DOF Subject-Monitoring Device and Method." U.S. Patent No. 6,997,882, February 14, 2006.
McGarvey, E., A. Keller, D. Brenin, L. Baum, B.R. Clark, S. Acton, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Interactive computer imaging to facilitate coping with chemotherapy-related alopecia distress," 10th Annual Cyber Therapy Conf, Basal Switzerland, June 2005.
McGarvey, E., A. Keller, L. Baum, G. Marzani-Nissen, D. Brenin, S. Acton, B.R. Clark, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Computer imaging system to treat alopecial-related distress in cancer patients," American Psychiatric Assoc Annual Conf, Atlanta, GA, May 2005.
McGarvey, E., A. Keller, D. Brenin, L. Baum, B.R. Clark, B.E. Parker, Jr., "Help for women with chemotherapy-related alopecia: computer imaging," 2nd Annual American Psycho-Oncology Soc POS Conf, Phoenix, AZ, January 2005.
Guerlain, S., K. O'Hargan, E. Lander, W. Gibson, J. Chang, S. Donohue, B.E. Parker, Jr., and B.R. Clark, "Predicting the cognitive readiness of Army search and rescue teams," IEEE 2004 Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, Netherlands, pp. 5515-19, 2004.
Chang, J., W. Gibson, E. Lander, K. O'Hargan, S. Donohue, S. Guerlain, B.R. Clark, and B.E. Parker, Jr., "Assessing individual and team readiness," Proc of the 2004 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, (M. Jones, S. Patek, B. Tawney, Eds.) IEEE, pp. 249-57, 2004.
Williams, M.E., J.E. Owens, B.E. Parker, Jr., and K.P. Granata, "A new approach to assessing function in elderly people," Trans Am Clin Climato Assoc, Vol. 114, pp. 203-16, 2003.
Larson, E.C., Parker, B.E., Jr., and B.R. Clark, “Modern spectral estimation techniques for structural health monitoring,” 2002 American Control Conf., Anchorage, AK, May 8-10, 2002, pp. 4220-23.
Larson, E.C., Parker, B.E., Jr., and B.R. Clark, “Model-based sensor and actuator fault detection and isolation,” 2002 American Control Conf., Anchorage, AK, May 8-10, 2002, pp. 4215-18.
Roberts, D.A., J.B. Holcomb, B.E. Parker, Jr., J.L. Sondeen, A.E. Pusateri, W.J. Brady, D. E. Sweenor, and J.S. Young, “The use of polynomial neural networks for mortality prediction in uncontrolled venous and arterial hemorrhage,” J. Trauma, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2002, pp. 130-5.
Larson, E.C. and B.E. Parker, Jr., “A subspace-based approach to structural health monitoring,” Proc. 19th Digital Avionics System Conference, Vol. 2, October 2000, pp. 6C51-6C58.
Parker, Jr., B.E., H.A. Ware, D.P. Wipf, W.R. Tompkins, B.R. Clark, E.C. Larson, and H.V. Poor, “Fault diagnostics using statistical change detection in the bispectral domain,” Mechanical Systems & Signal Processing, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2000, pp. 561-570.
Parker, Jr., B.E., H.V. Poor, E.C. Larson, T.A. Hamilton, and J.P. Frankel, “Statistical change detection using nonlinear models,” NOISE-CON 97, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, June 15-17, 1997, pp. 319-24.
Larson, E.C., D.P. Wipf, and B.E. Parker, Jr., “Gear and bearing diagnostics using neural network-based amplitude and phase demodulation,” Proc. 51st Mtg. Soc. Machinery Failure Prevention Technology, Virginia Beach, VA, Apr. 14-18, 1997, pp. 511-521.
Parker, Jr., B.E., H.V. Poor, M.P. Carley, R.J. Ryan, and M.J. Szabo, “Helicopter transmission diagnostics using vibration signature analysis,” Proc. 50th Mtg. Soc. Machinery Failure Prevention Technology, Mobile, AL, Apr. 22-26, 1996, pp. 419-430.
Carley, M.P., B.E. Parker, Jr., and M.J. Szabo, “Ultra-high-speed relay fault detection using dynamic models and neural network classifiers,” Proc. 1995 World Congress on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, July 17-21, 1995, pp. III–70-75.
Larson, E.C. and B.E. Parker, Jr., “Pattern recognition-based coordination of ultra-high-speed relays,” Proc. 1995 World Congress on Neural Networks, Washington, DC, July 17-21, 1995, pp. III–64-69.
Parker, Jr., B.E., T.M. Nigro, M.P. Carley, R.L. Barron, D.G. Ward, H.V. Poor, D. Rock, and T.A. DuBois, “Helicopter gearbox diagnostics and prognostics using vibration signature analysis,” Proc. SPIE OE/Aerospace Sensing 1993, Vol. 1965, Paper No. 39, Orlando, April 12-16, 1993.
Gutmark, E., K.J. Wilson, K.C. Schadow, B.E. Parker, Jr., R.L. Barron, and G.C. Smith, “Dump combustor control using polynomial neural network (PNN),” Proc. 31st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper No. 93-0117, Reno, January 11-14, 1993.
Parker, Jr., B.E. and H.V. Poor, “Adaptive nonlinear polynomial neural networks for control of boundary layer/structural interaction,” Proc. ASME 1992 Winter Annual Meeting – Symposium on Active Control of Acoustics, DSC-Vol. 38, Anaheim, November 8-13, 1992, pp. 33-46.
Hill, A.R., J.M. Adams, B.E. Parker, Jr., and D.F. Rochester, “Short-term entrainment of ventilation to the walking cycle in man,” Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 65, August 1988, pp. 570-78.
Parker, Jr., B.E., J.M. Adams, and A.R. Hill, “A computer-based data acquisition system for breathing and exercise entrainment studies,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 15, 1985, pp. 279-85.
