Cagdas Ulas

Research Group: Image-Based Biomedical Modeling Group (IBBM) Position: Ph.D. candidate/Scientific Staff Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. Bjoern Menze Technische Universität München Fakultät für Informatik IMETUM - Zentralinstitut für Medizintechnik Boltzmannstr. 11 D-85748 Garching Germany E-mail: name.surname@tum.de Phone: +49 89 289 10840 Room: IMETUM 1.101

Research Interests

• Medical Image Analysis : Fast MRI acquisition for brain perfusion MR data, Denoising, Super-resolution, Blood flow estimation from perfusion MRI sequences
• Deep Learning/Machine Learning : Direct perfusion parameter estimation from image-time series
• Compressed Sensing : Dynamic MR reconstruction from undersampled k-space measurements
• Optimization Methods : Convex optimization, variable splitting methods, alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM)
• Signal Processing : Brain-computer interfaces based speller

Publications

2019
	C. Ulas, D. Das, M.J. Thrippleton, M. del C. Valdes Hernandez, P.A. Armitage, S.D. Makin, J.M. Wardlaw, B. Menze Convolutional Neural Networks for Direct Inference of Pharmacokinetic Parameters: Application to Stroke Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Frontiers in Neurology, 9:1147 (bib)
2018
	C. Ulas, G. Tetteh, M.J. Thrippleton, P.A. Armitage, S.D. Makin, J.M. Wardlaw, M.E. Davies, B. Menze Direct Estimation of Pharmacokinetic Parameters from DCE-MRI using Deep CNN with Forward Physical Model Loss Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), Granada, Spain, September 2018. (bib)
	C. Ulas, G. Tetteh, S. Kaczmarz, C. Preibisch, B. Menze DeepASL: Kinetic Model Incorporated Loss for Denoising Arterial Spin Labeled MRI via Deep Residual Learning Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), Granada, Spain, September 2018. (bib)
	C. Ulas, M.J. Thrippleton, I. Marshall, M.E. Davies, P.A. Armitage, S.D. Makin, J.M. Wardlaw, B. Menze Estimation of Pharmacokinetic Parameters in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI Via Random Forest Regression Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Paris, France, June 2018 (bib)
2017
	C. Ulas, PA. Gómez, JI. Sperl, C. Preibisch, MI. Menzel, A. Haase, B. Menze A Robust Reconstruction Method for Quantitative Perfusion MRI: Application to Brain Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC) Imaging Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Hawaii, USA, April 2017 (bib)
	C. Ulas, S. Kaczmarz, C. Preibisch, JI. Sperl, MI. Menzel, A. Haase, B. Menze A Spatio-temporal Denoising Approach based on Total Variation Regularization for Arterial Spin Labeling Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Hawaii, USA, April 2017 (bib)
2016
	C. Ulas, PA. Gómez, F. Krahmer, JI. Sperl, MI. Menzel, B. Menze Robust Reconstruction of Accelerated Perfusion MRI Using Local and Nonlocal Constraints Proceedings of MICCAI Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, Athens, Greece, October 2016 (bib)
	PA. Gómez, M. Molina-Romero, C. Ulas, G. Buonincontri, JI. Sperl, DK. Jones, MI. Menzel, B. Menze Simultaneous Parameter Mapping, Modality Synthesis, and Anatomical Labeling of the Brain with MR Fingerprinting Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Athens, Greece, October 2016 (bib)
	PA. Gómez, G. Buonincontri, M. Molina-Romero, C. Ulas, JI. Sperl, MI. Menzel, B. Menze 3D Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting with a Clustered Spatiotemporal Dictionary Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Singapore, May 2016 (bib)
	C. Ulas, PA. Gómez, JI. Sperl, C. Preibisch, B. Menze Spatio-temporal MRI Reconstruction by Enforcing Local and Global Regularity via Dynamic Total Variation and Nuclear Norm Minimization Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), April 2016 (bib)
2015
	PA. Gómez, C. Ulas, JI. Sperl, T. Sprenger, M. Molina-Romero, MI. Menzel, B. Menze Learning a Spatiotemporal Dictionary for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting with Compressed Sensing 1st International Workshop on Patch-based Techniques in Medical Imaging, MICCAI 2015, Munich, Germany, October 2015 (bib)