Akif Burak Tosun
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Pittsburgh,
PA. 15213.
E-mail:
PERSONAL
Birth Date and Place: February 10, 1984. Istanbul,
Turkey.
Family Status: Married and
father of one child.
Languages: Turkish
(Native), English (Fluent)
EXPERIENCE
2012
- Present Postdoctoral Research
Scholar
This study is in the area of biomedical image analysis and
includes the development of image segmentation and classification techniques
for pathological images.
2006
- 2012 Research Assistant
Research work includes the development of novel image segmentation
approaches for cancer diagnosis under the supervision of Dr.
Gunduz-Demir at Bilkent University.
2007 - 2010 Project: Bio-computational Cancer
Modeling and Intelligent Medical Decision-Making System Design for Objective
Cancer Diagnosis and Grading
2011 – 2012 Project: Content-Based Retrieval of Histopathological
Images using Relational Tissue Graphs
2006
– 2012 Teaching Assistant
Selected
Courses :
CS201 - Fundamental Structures of
Computer Science I
CS202
- Fundamental Structures of Computer Science II
CS464
- Introduction to Machine Learning
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Medical
Image Analysis, Digital Pathology, Computer Vision, Structural Pattern
Recognition.
EDUCATION
2006
- 2012 Ph.D., Computer
Engineering
Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey.
Advisor: Prof.
Cigdem Gunduz-Demir
Thesis
Title: Object-Oriented
Texture Analysis and Unsupervised
Segmentation of Histopathological Images PDF
August, 2012.
2002
- 2006 B.S., Computer
Engineering
Hacettepe University,
Ankara, Turkey.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
1.
Ahmet Cagri Simsek, Akif
Burak Tosun, Cevdet Aykanat, Cenk Sokmensuer, and Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, "Multilevel segmentation of histopathological images using cooccurrence
of tissue objects," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering,
vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 1681-1690, June 2012. PDF
2.
Akif Burak Tosun, Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, "Graph Run-Length Matrices for Histopathological Image Segmentation," IEEE
Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 721-732, March
2011. PDF
3.
Cigdem
Gunduz-Demir, Melih Kandemir,
Akif Burak Tosun, Cenk Sokmensuer, "Automatic segmentation of colon glands
using object-graphs," Medical Image Analysis, vol. 14, no. 1, pp.
1-12, February 2010. PDF
4.
Akif Burak Tosun,
Melih Kandemir, Cenk Sokmensuer, Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, "Object-oriented texture analysis
for the unsupervised segmentation of biopsy images for cancer detection", Pattern
Recognition, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1104-1112, June 2009. PDF
Conference Papers
1.
Akif Burak Tosun,
Cenk Sokmensuer, and Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, "Unsupervised tissue image
segmentation through object-oriented texture," 20th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August
2010. PDF
2.
Onur Kucuktunc, Sare Gul Sevil, Akif
Burak Tosun, Hilal Zitouni, Pinar Duygulu, Fazli Can, "Tag Suggestr: Automatic Photo Tag Expansion using Visual
Information for Photo Sharing Websites," 3rd International Conference
on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2008), Koblenz, Germany,
December 3-5, 2008. Lecture Notes In Computer Science,
vol. 5392. PDF
Technical Reports
1.
“Multilevel
Segmentation of Histopathological Images using Cooccurrence of Tissue Objects: Supplementary Material”,
Technical Report, Bilkent University, Department of
Computer Science, BU-CE-1202, March 2012. PDF
SOFTWARE
"Graph
Run-Length Matrices for Histopathological Image Segmentation”
" Object-oriented texture analysis for the unsupervised segmentation of
biopsy images for cancer detection”
HONORS AND GRANTS
- Full scholarship and housing
during Ph.D. from Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bilkent
University.
- Ph.D. research fellowship from
TUBITAK - Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
- Scientific Travel Grant for
ICPR2010 from Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bilkent
University.