Imam Samil Yetik, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: Siegel Hall 135
3301 South Dearborn Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312.567.7999
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email: yetik@iit.edu
Web: Personal Webpage

Expertise

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

Education

B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey, 1998
M.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2000
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004

Research

Dr. Imam Samil Yetik's research interests are in the areas of biomedical signal and image processing with statistical approaches and machine learning techniques. His most recent focus areas are on prostate cancer localization, dynamic PET imaging, and oxygen tension imaging of the retina. See his webpage for more information.

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

S. Ozer, D. L. Langer, X. Liu, M. Haider, T. H. van der Kwast, A. J. Evans, Y. Yang, M. N. Wernick, I. S. Yetik, "Supervised and Unsupervised Methods for Prostate Cancer Localization with Multispectral MRI", submitted.

Y. Artan, M. A. Haider, D. L. Langer, T. H. van der Kwast, A. J. Evans, Y. Yang, M. N. Wernick, J. Trachtenberg, I. S. Yetik, "Prostate Cancer Localization with Multispectral MRI Using Cost-Sensitive Support Vector Machines and Conditional Random Fields", submitted.

Y. Cheng, I. S. Yetik, "Propagation of blood function error to the final kinetic parameter estimates with dynamic PET", submitted.

I. Yildirim, R. Ansari, J. Wanek, I. S. Yetik, M. Shahidi, "Retinal Oxygen Tension Estimation in Fluorescence Lifetime Images Using Regularized Least Squares", to appear, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

X. Liu, I. S, Yetik, D. Leager, M. Haider, M. Wernick, Y. Yang, "Prostate Cancer Segmentation with Simultaneous Estimation of Markov Random Field Parameters and Classes", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

N. Cao, I. S. Yetik, A. Nehorai, C. H. Muravchik, J. Haueisen, "Parametric Surface-source Modeling and Estimation with Electroencephalography", IEEE Transactions Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, pp. 2414-2424, 2006.

N. Cao, I. S. Yetik, A. Nehorai, C. H. Muravchik, J. Haueisen, "Estimating Parametric Line-Source Models with Electroencephalography", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, pp. 2156-2165, 2006.

I. S. Yetik and A. Nehorai, "Performance bounds for image registration", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 54, pp. 1737-1749, 2006.

I. S. Yetik, A. Nehorai, C. H. Muravchik, J. Hauesien, "Surface-source modeling and estimation using biomagnetic measurements", IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, pp. 1872-1882, 2006.

I. S. Yetik, A. Nehorai, J. D. Lewine, C. H. Muravchik, "Distinguishing between moving and stationary sources using EEG/MEG measurements with an application to epilepsy", IEEE Transactions. Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 52, pp. 471-479, 2005.

I. S. Yetik, A. Nehorai, C. H. Muravchik, J. Haueisen, "Line-source modeling and estimation with magnetoencephalography", IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering,Vol. 51, pp. 839-851, 2005.

I. S. Yetik and A. Nehorai, "Beamforming using the Fractional Fourier Transform", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 51, pp. 1663-1668, June 2003.

I. S. Yetik, M. A. Kutay, H. M. Ozaktas, "Optimization of orders in multi-channel fractional fourier domain filtering circuits and its application to the synthesis of mutual intensity distributions", Applied Optics, vol. 41, pp. 4078-4084, 2002.

I. S. Yetik, M. A. Kutay, H. M. Ozaktas, "Image representation and compression with the fractional Fourier transform", Optics Communications, vol. 197, pp. 275-278, 2001.

I. S. Yetik, H. M. Ozaktas, B. Barshan, L. Onural, "Perspective projections in the space-frequency plane and fractional Fourier transforms", Journal of Optical Society of America A, vol. 12, pp. 2382-2390, Dec. 2000.