BMI Hosting Fulbright Scholar
Friday 02/06/2009
The OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics is hosting Dr. Erkan
Mumcuoglu as a Fulbright visiting professor. Dr. Mumcuoglu is an
Associate Professor of Medical Informatics at Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey. He is also among the founders of the same
department.
Dr. Mumcuoglu's main research interest is Medical Image Analysis:
segmentation, registration, computer-aided diagnosis and content-based
image retrieval. His Ph.D. degree is from University of Southern
California on statistical PET image reconstruction algorithms and
modeling. Dr. Mumcuoglu has been collaborating with Dr. Metin Gurcan
from our department in the segmentation of retinal mitocondria on
electron-microscopy images.
Dr. Mumcuoglu is going to give a talk on his research actvities on
Feb. 12 at 4 pm as part of the departmental Research In Progress (RIP)
Seminar Series.