BURAK ACAR, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Boğaziçi University
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
34342 Bebek / İstanbul - TURKEY
Phone: +90-212-3596465
Fax: +90-212-2872465
Email: acarbu@boun.edu.tr, burak.acar@ieee.org
Academic Background
1990-1994 B.S. in EE, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
1994-1996 M.S. in EE, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
MS Thesis: Online Exercise ECG Signal Orthogonalization Based on Singular Value Decomposition
1996-2000 Ph.D. in EE, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
PhD Thesis: New Techniques For Ventricular Repolarization and Heart Rate Variability Analyses
2000-2003 Post-doctoral researcher, LUCAS MRSI/I Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
2003-present Assistant Professor of EE, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Interests
Signal / Image processing, detection, identification and classification with an emphasis
on biomedical applications. In particular:
Morphology/Shape analysis for CT/MRI/PET 2D/3D data processing/analysis
Virtual environments for medical examinations, such as virtual
Registration, motion estimation, tracking, segmentation
Applications of multi-scale analysis and PDE based methods
Computer-aided detection/diagnosis
Medical IT. In particular:
Teleradiology
Virtual medical departments (Web services for MDs and patients)
Digital video processing
Multimedia communications
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