Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ü. Erkan Mumcuoğlu

 

  e-mail: mumcuoglu at ii.metu.edu.tr 

tel:  (90) (312) 210-3753

fax: (90) (312) 210-3745

METU Informatics Institute,

İnönü Bulvarı, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

 

Health Informatics Department Chair

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Medical Image Analysis

   3D segmentation

   3D nonrigid registration

   Computer aided diagnosis

   Content-based image retrieval

Virtual Reality in Medicine

Bioinformatics

Medical informatics, PACS

 

TEACHING

IS 566      Image Processing Algorithms

MIN 52Fundamentals of Medical Imaging

ION 523   Data Mining

EDUCATION

    Ph.D, EE, University of Southern California, USA, 1994

                      (on Medical Imaging)

MS, EE,   Bilkent University, Ankara, 1990

                      (on System Theory and Control)

    BS, EE,    Middle East Technical University,Ankara, 1987

AWARDS

and

DEGREES

1997          Research Associate, USC Biomedical Engineering Dept.

1995-1996 Post-Doc Fellowship, UCLA, Crump Inst. for Biological Imaging

1994          1st prize in the Young Investigator Award competition 

                                   in Computer and Instrumentation, SNM

1991-1994 Graduate Scholarship, USC

1990-1991      1990-1991 Graduate Scholarship, Education Ministry of Turkey

1987-1990 Assistantship, Bilkent University, Turkey

1983-1987 Undergraduate Scholarship, TÜBITAK, Turkey

THESIS SUPERVISED

Ahmet Erdem, PhD (2009?), Automatic feature identification in medical images

Hakan Ertem, MSc (2008?), on Medical image segmentation

Umut Kocak, MSc (2007), Haptic Rendering in Dental Education Simulation (co-supervised with Ilhan Konukseven)

Emre Kale, MSc (2008?): Image segmentation of multi-modality 3D medical images (co-supervised with Ilhan Konukseven)

Hasan Oğul, PhD (2006), COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF PROTEIN SEQUENCES FOR HOMOLOGY DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION

Koray Orhun, MSc (2004), Interactive Volume Rendering for Medical Images

Emre Kösen, MSc (2004), Design and implementation of a mobile patient data collection and transmission system for an emergency ambulance

Erhan Ergüt, MSc (2003), Analysis of microarray images using FCM and k-means clustering algorithms (co-supervised with Yasamin Yardimcı)

Birsen Gülden, MSc (2003), GIS application for Ambulance Routing Services: A Prototype (co-supervised with Nazife Baykal)

FUNDED PROJECTS

TUBITAK 1001, “Diş Hekimliği Eğitim Simülatörü (DiHES) Geliştirilmesi”, 2005-2008, Araştırmacı

TUBITAK 1001, “Farklı görüntüleme tekniklerinin birleştirilmesi ile kişiye özel sert ve yumuşak doku ile kişinin dış görünümünü içeren 3B kafa modellenmesi ve bu modelin 3B görselleştirilmesi”, 2006-2008, Araştırmacı

DPT-YUUP, “E-devlet için bilgisayar destekli görsel dökümantasyon, arşiv ve yönetim sistemi gerçekleştirilmesi”, 2004-2005, Araştırmacı ve Sağlık kısmı sorumlusu.

BAP, “3D medical image processing and visualization of brain images”, 2002-2005, Proje Yöneticisi.

BAP, “Design and implementation of a portable and easy-to-use patient data acquisition and telecommunication system for emergency care”, 2002-2004, Proje Yöneticisi.

JOURNAL PAPERS

and

PATENTS

  • LOFTMAN RC, MORGAN KE, MUMCUOGLU E, USTUNER KF, BANJANIN Z (05.19.2005), Transmit Based Axial Whitening, US Patent no: US2005107699
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  • Oğul, H., Mumcuoğlu EÜ (2007) A discriminative method for remote homology detection based on n-peptide compositions with reduced amino acid alphabets, BioSystems, January, 87 (1), pp.75-81.
  • H.Ogul, E.Mumcuoglu, (2007), Subcellular Localization Prediction with New Protein Encoding Schemes, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (accepted for publication).
  • Mumcuoğlu EÜ, Nar F, Yardımcı Y, Koçak U, Ergün EL, Volkan Salancı B, Uğur O, Erbaş B (2006) Simultaneous Surface Registration of Ictal, Interictal SPECT and MR Images for  Epilepsy Studies, Nuclear Medicine Communications, Jan;27(1):45-55.
  • H.Ogul, E.Mumcuoglu, (2006), SVM-based Detection of Distant Protein Structural Relationships Using Pairwise Probabilistic Suffix Trees, Computational Biology and Chemistry, 30 (4): 292-299.
    H.Ogul, E.Mumcuoglu, (2006), Protein solvent accessibility prediction using support vector machines and sequence conservations, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3949: 141-148.
  • Celasun B, Mumcuoglu EÜ, Kalkan H (2005), A Simulation Study on the Sampling of Sentinel Lymph Nodes, Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology, vol. 27, no. 4, pg. 187-194.
  • Oğul, H., Mumcuoğlu EÜ (2005) Discriminative Remote Homology Detection Using Maximal Unique Sequence Matches, A.F. Famili et al. (Eds.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3646, pp. 283 – 292, Springer-Verlag.
  • Singh M., Mumcuoglu E.U. (1998) Design of a CZT Based BreastSPECT System, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 45., no. 3, pg. 1158-1165
  • Chan M.T., Leahy R.M., Mumcuoglu E.U, Cherry S.R, Czernin J., Chatziioannou A. (1997) Comparing Lesion Detection Performance for PET Image Reconstruction Algorithms: A Case Study,  IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 44, no. 4, pg. 1558-1563
  • Cherry S.R., Shao Y., Siegel S., Silverman R.W., Mumcuoglu E.U et.al. (1996) Optical Fiber Readout of Scintillators Arrays using a Multi-Channel PMT: A High Resolution PET Detector for Animal Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 43, no. 3, pg. 1932-1937 
  • Mumcuoglu E.U., Leahy R., et.al. (1996) Bayesian Reconstruction of PET Images: Methodology and Performance Analysis, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 41., pg. 1777-1807
  • Mumcuoglu E.U., Leahy R., et.al. (1994) Fast Gradient-Based Methods for Bayesian Reconstruction of Transmission and Emission PET Images, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 13, no.4, pg. 687-701

PROFESSIONAL

2006-           Associate Professor, Informatics institute, METU, Ankara

2001–2006   Assistant Professor, Informatics institute, METU, Ankara

2001             Senior DSP Engineer, ITEX, San Jose, USA

1999–2001   System Design Engineer, Acuson, Mountain View, USA

1997-1998    Systems Software Engineer, Teradyne Inc., Agoura Hills, USA

1997             Research Associate, Biomedical Eng. Dept, USC, Los Angeles, USA

1995–1996   Post-Doc, Crump Institute for Biological Imaging, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

1991–1994   Research Assistant, EE, USC, USA

1987–1990   Research Assistant, EE, Bilkent University, Ankara

1985–1987   Assistant Engineer, R&D center, ASELSAN, Ankara, Turkey