Research Interests

• Development of methods to assess the quality of upper limb movement capabilities of subjects impaired due to stroke. Methods involved use a variety of physiological measurements based on joint angles, application of force, grip strength, electromyographic data and movement tasks.
• Development of a kinematic measurement techniques for the assessment of hand movement using the VICON 3D motion analysis system.
• Investigation of the acquisition and use of auditory evoked responses for the monitoring of depth of anaesthesia.
• Linear and non-linear signal processing techniques and their application to multichannel electroencephalographic and electromyographic data.

Publications

Journal Papers

• Metcalf, C. D., Notley, S. V., Spicka, C., Adams, J. & Macleod, C. Modified Kinematic Hyperextension and Hypermobility of the Interphalangeal Joints, IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering (accepted for publication)
• Notley, S. V., Bell, S. L., Smith, D. C., Auditory Evoked Potentials for Monitoring during Anaesthesia: A Study of Data Quality. Medical Engineering and Physics, Vol. 32(2), pp. 168-173, 2010.
• Turk, R., Notley, S. V., Pickering, R. M., Simpson, D. M., Wright, P. A., Burridge, J. H., Reliability and Sensitivity of a Wrist Rig to Measure Motor Control and Spasticity in Post-Stroke Hemiplegia. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Vol. 22(6), pp. 684-696, 2008.
• Metcalf, C. D., Notley, S. V., Chappel, P. H., Burridge, J. H., & Yule, V. T.,  Validation and Application of a Computational Model for Wrist and Hand Movements using Surface Markers. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55(3), pp. 1199-1210, 2008.
• Burridge, J. H., Turk, R., Notley, S. V., Pickering, R. M., Simpson, D. M., The Relationship between Upper Limb Activity and Impairment in Post Stroke Hemiplegia, Disabil. Rehabil., Vol. 29, pp. 1-9, 2008.
• Notley, S. V., Turk, R., Pickering, R. M., Simpson, D. M., and Burridge, J. H., Analysis of the Quality of Wrist Movement during a Simple Tracking Task, Physiol. Meas., Vol. 28, pp. 881-895, 2007.
• Notley, S. V., Elliott, S. J., Efficient Estimation of a Time-Varying Dimension Parameter and its Application to EEG Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 50(5), pp. 594-602, 2003.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Notley, S. V., Bell, S. L., Simpson, D. M., Smith, D. C., Applying Bootstrap Techniques to Detect Differences in Auditory Evoked Potentials: Possible use in Anaesthesia Monitoring, 4th International Conference Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing, 2008.
• Simpson, D.M., Turk, R., Notley, S., Wright, P.A. and Burridge, J.H., Muscle activation in wrist movement of stroke victims and unimpaired subjects. Proceedings of Annual Scientific Meeting & IBEX 2006.
• Notley, S. V., Burridge, J. H., and Turk, R., Bench and In Vivo Testing of Sensors for Triggered Open Loop Control and RF BION Micro-Stimulators in Upper Limb Rehabilitation Following Stroke., Proc. 10th Annual Conference of the International FES Society, 2005.
• Turk, R., Notley, S. V., Burridge, J. H., Pickering, R. M., Wright, P. A., Validity and Reliability of a Tool to Measure Impairment Changes in Preparation for the RF BION Micro-Stimulator Upper Limb Project, Proc. 10th Annual Conference of the International FES Society, 2005.
• Notley, S. V., Harte, J. H. and Elliott, S. J., Optimal Nonlinear Filter to Remove Random Impulses from Gaussian Noise. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2002.
• Notley, S. V. And Elliott, S.J., Prediction of Epileptic Seizures from Depth Recorded EEG Signals, Proc. 6th National Conference of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, 2000.
• Notley, S. V., Elliott, S. J., Sundstrom, L. E., Gray, W. P., Lurton, D., and Rougier, A., The use of Principal Component Analysis in the Analysis of Depth Recordings during Epileptic Seizures., Workshop on Chaos in Brain?, Bonn, Germany, pp.321-324, 10-12 March, 1999.

Patents

• Principal inventor on a patent filed on 9th March 2010 with the UK Intellectual Properties Office (Ref: 1003883.4) entitled ‘HAWRK – Hand and Wrist Kinematic Measurement Apparatus and method for measurement of hand joint movement’. The patent was co-invented with Dr C. D. Metcalf, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton.

Teaching

• Invited lectures on biomedical and nonlinear signal processing on MSc short courses.
• Laboratory supervision on filter design and adaptive filters for 3rd year undergraduate students.
• Teaching, laboratory supervision, assessment and marking of reports on feedback control laboratories for 2nd year undergraduates.
• Teaching and laboratory supervision on C programming for 2nd year undergraduate engineering students.
• Marking of tests and one-on-one tutoring of students in Mathematics for 1st year engineering students.
• Supervision of a 3rd year project student in physiotherapy and supervision of a MSc project student in audiology.  

Personal Interests

I enjoy the physical and mental challenges of rock climbing having climbed for over 15 years. I also enjoy all aspects of horse riding owning a number of my own horses.