Publications by Area

 

1.       Applications of group theory in signal and image Processing

2.       Applications of Microlocal Analysis in Imaging

3.       Radar Remote Sensing

a.       Synthetic Aperture Imaging

b.       Passive Imaging

c.       Sparse Aperture Imaging

d.       Waveform Design

4.       NIR Diffuse Optical Imaging

a.       Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Techniques for DOT and FDOT

b.       Domain Decomposition Techniques for DOT

c.       Frechet Derivatives for non-linear DOT Inverse Problem and Error bounds for DOT Inverse Scattering Series

d.       DOT and FDOT Image Reconstruction with a priori Information

e.       Imaging and Analysis of the Pharmacokinetics of Optical Fluorophores and Breast Cancer Diagnosis

f.         Structured Illumination for Tumor Detectability for DOT

g.       NIR Spectroscopy and Imaging for Brain Activity Monitoring

5.       Medical Image Analysis for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

6.       Radon Transform Inversion

7.       Exponential Radon Transform Inversion

8.       Cone-beam Transform Inversion

9.       X-ray Imaging System Optimization

10.   Predictive Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Systems

 


 

Applications of Group Theory in Signal and Image Processing

 

§         B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, “Deconvolution over Groups in Image Reconstruction,” Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics (AIEP), Vol 141, pp: 257-300, Edited by P. Hawkes, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Orthogonal Waveforms for High Resolution Range-Doppler Target Reflectivity Estimation” in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, SciTech Publishing, Inc., Aug. 2010.

§         B. Yazıcı and G. Xie, “Wideband extended Range-Doppler target reflectivity estimation and waveform design,” IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, Vol. 52-10, pp: 4563-4580, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Stochastic deconvolution over groups,” IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp: 494-510, March 2004.

§         B. Yazıcı, and R. L. Kashyap, “Second order stationary, self-similar models for 1/f processes,” IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, pp: 396-410. February 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı and C.E. Yarman, “Inversion of Circular Averages using the Funk Transform,” Inverse Problems 27 (2011) 065001 (16 pages), June 2011.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Euclidean motion group representations and singular value decomposition of the Radon transform,” Journal of Integral Transforms and Special Functions, Vol: 18, No: 1, pp: 59-76, January 2007.

§         C. E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “A new exact inversion method for the exponential Radon transform based on the harmonic analysis of the Euclidian motion group,” Inverse Problems and Imaging, Vol. 1, No:3, pp: 457-479, 2007.

§         B. Yazıcı, M. Izzetoglu, B. Onaral, and N. Bilgutay, “Kalman filtering for self-similar processes,” Signal Processing Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 86 , pp: 760-775, April 2006.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Inversion of circular averages using the Funk transform," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-541 - I-544, April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “An inversion method for the exponential Radon transform based on the harmonic analysis of the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 6142, pp: 61424C, San Diego, CA, 11–16 February 2006.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “An alternative inversion formula for the cone-beam transform,” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 6142, pp: 61424A, San Diego, CA, 11–16 February 2006. [Best poster paper award]

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Exponential Radon transform inversion using the harmonic analysis of the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. 3, pp: III-613-615, Genova, Italy, 2005.

§         B. Yazıcı and G. Xie “Orthogonal waveforms for target reflectivity estimation in ultra-wideband regime,” Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Waveform Design, Edinburgh, England, November, 2004.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Target reflectivity estimation in ultrawideband regime – A group theoretic approach,” Proceedings of Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, pp: II - 53-56, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Radon transform inversion via Wiener filtering over the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. 2, pp: II- 823-6, Sept. 14-17, 2003.

§         B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, “A Wiener filtering approach over the Euclidean motion group for Radon transform inversion,” Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging and Image Processing, Vol. 5032, pp: 1884, San Diego, CA, , May 2003,

§         B. Yazıcı, “Stochastic deconvolution over groups for inverse problems in imaging,” Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Vol.6, pp: VI - 577-80, 6-10 April 2003.

§         B. Yazıcı, M. Izzetoglu, B. Onaral, N. Bilgutay, "Optimal Wiener filtering for self-similar processes," Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: 1697-1700, Orlando, FL, 2002.

§         M. Izzetoglu, B. Yazıcı, B. Onaral, and N. Bilgutay, “Kalman filtering for self-similar processes,” Proceedings of 11th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on statistical signal processing, pp: 82-85, Singapore, 2001.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Analysis of fractional Brownian motion via scale stationary processes,” Proceedings of 32nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1998.

§         B. Yazıcı and R. L. Kashyap, “Affine stationary processes with applications to fractional Brownian motion,” Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol 5, pp: 3669-3672, Munich, Germany. April 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Group invariant methods in signal processing,” Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 185-189. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. March 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı, “A consistent least squares estimate of the self-similarity parameter,” Proceedings of Conference in Information Sciences and Systems, pp: 592-597. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı and R. L. Kashyap, “Cyclo-Scale stationary models for 1/f processes,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference in Signal Processing, Bejing, China 1996.

§         B. Yazıcı and R. L. Kashyap, “Signal modeling and parameter estimation using scale stationary processes,” Proceedings of 1996 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol 5, pp: 2841-2844, Atlanta GE. May, 1996.

§         B. Yazıcı and R. L. Kashyap, "Affine stationary processes,” Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp: 259-263, Princeton NJ. March 1996

§         B. Yazıcı and R. L. Kashyap, "A class of second order self-similar processes for 1/f phenomena,” Proceedings of 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. III, pp: 1573-1576. Detroit, MI. May 1995.

§         B. Yazıcı, M. L. Comer, R. L. Kashyap, and Edward J. Delp, "A tree structured Bayesian quantizer for wavelet based image coding,” Proceedings of 1994 International Conference on Image Processing, pp: 339-342. Dallas TX. Nov. 1994.

§         B. Yazıcı and R. L. Kashyap, "Second order stationary models for 1/f processes,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory, pp: 302. Trodheim, Norway. June 1994.

 


 

Applications of Microlocal Analysis in Imaging

 

§         V. Krishnan and B. Yazıcı, “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploiting Multiple-Scattering,Inverse Problems, 055004 (25 pages), May 2011.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, "Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065006(26 pages), May 2010.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging," IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp: 2156-2173, 2008.

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Formation," IEEE Transaction on Image Processing. Vol. 19, No: 5, pp: 1290-1306, 2010.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, and M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging with arbitrary trajectories,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No:1, pp: 84-93, 2008.

§         B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, C.E. Yarman “Synthetic aperture inversion in the presence of noise and clutter,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp: 1705-1729, 2006.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “An alternative inversion formula for the cone-beam transform,” Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 6142, pp: 61424C1(8pages), San Diego, CA, Feb. 2006. [Best poster paper award]

§         V. Krishnan, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploiting Multi-path," Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference, pp:1423-1427, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         L. Wang, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging," Proc. of European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, (4 pages), June 2010, Aachen, Germany.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Synthetic Aperture Imaging with Single Frequency Sources of Opportunity," Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference,pp:949:1054, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7699 769903(11 pages) April, 2010, Orlando, FL.

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Image Formation,” IEEE conference in Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (COMSAP),  pp: 233-236. Dec 2009.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain Scaling,” Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference, (5 pages), May 2009, Pasadena, CA.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain Scaling,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7307, pp:73070E(7 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang and B. Yazıcı, “Chirp-Scaling based True Amplitude Imaging for Synthetic Aperture Radar,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7337, pp:733707(7 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging for Arbitrary Trajectories in the Presence of Noise and Clutter,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7307, pp:73070D(12 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         K. Voccola, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, M. Ferrara, “On the Relationship of the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test and Backprojection Method in Synthetic Aperture Imaging,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7335, pp:73350I(10 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. YazıcıDoppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging,” IEEE Radar Conference, pp: 1-6, May 2008, Rome, Italy.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-537 - I-540, April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, pp: 656806(9 pages), April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture imaging for arbitrary flight trajectories," Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, pp: 656807(8pages), April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging for arbitrary flight trajectories and non-flat topography," Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference, pp: 712-716, April 17-20, 2007.

§         M. Cheney, B. Yazıcı, “Radar imaging with independently moving transmitters and receivers," Proc. of Defense Advance Signal Processing (DASP) Workshop, December 2006, Melbourne Australia. [Invited]

 


 

Radar Remote Sensing

 

§         B. Yazıcı, “Orthogonal Waveforms for High Resolution Range-Doppler Target Reflectivity Estimation” in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, pp. 745-753, SciTech Publishing, Inc., August 2010.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Scharf, “Time-reversal Waveform Preconditioning for Clutter Rejection" in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, pp. 956-966, SciTech Publishing, Inc., August 2010.

§         E. Yarman, T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, “Image Formation and Waveform Design for Distributed Apertures in Multipath via Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization" in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, pp. 431-438, SciTech Publishing, Inc., August 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y. Son, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures and Cooperative Sources of Opportunity in Multi-path Environments," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, March 2010.

§         L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging of Moving Targets using Sparse Distributed Apertures," submitted to Inverse Problems, May 2010.

§         V. Krishnan and B. Yazıcı, “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploiting Multiple-Scattering,Inverse Problems, 055004 (25 pages), May 2011.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Inversion of Circular Averages using the Funk Transform,” Inverse Problems 27 (2011) 065001 (16 pages), June 2011.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, "Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065006(26 pages), May 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y Son, B. Yazıcı, "Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures in Multiple Scattering Environments," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065002(37 pages), May 2010.

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Formation," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp: 1290-1306, 2010.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp: 2156-2173, 2008.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Wide-band Pulse-echo Imaging with Distributed Apertures in Multi-path Environments,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 24, pp: 045013(28 pages), 2008.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, and M. Cheney, “Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging with Arbitrary Trajectories,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp: 84-93, January 2008.

§         T. Varslot, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney and B. Yazıcı, “A Variational Formulation to Waveform Design for Synthetic Aperture Imaging,” Inverse Problems in Imaging, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp: 577-592, 2007.

§         B. Yazıcı and G. Xie, “Wideband Extended Range-Doppler Target Reflectivity Estimation and Waveform Design,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp: 4563-4580, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, C.E. Yarman “Synthetic Aperture Inversion in the Presence of Noise and Clutter,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp: 1705-1729, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, “Deconvolution over Groups in Image Reconstruction,” in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics (AIEP), Vol 141, pp: 257-300, Edited by P. Hawkes, 2006.

§         L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Radar Imaging of Moving Targets with Sparsely Distributed Receivers,” accepted to IEEE 6th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2010), Israel, Oct. 4-7, 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y. Son, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging Exploiting Multiple-scattering using Distributed Apertures,” accepted to IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 2010.

§         L. Lo Monte, V. Krishnan, B. Yazıcı, “Feature Extraction of Static Targets using Low-Frequency Multistatic Radar Imaging,” accepted to International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 10), Sydney, Australia, Sept. 20-24, 2010.

§         L. Wang, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging,” in the Proceedings of European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, June 2010, Aachen, Germany.

§         V. Krishnan, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploiting Multi-path,” Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Synthetic Aperture Imaging with Single Frequency Sources of Opportunity,” Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging,” Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, April, 2010, Orlando, FL.

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Image Formation,Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2010. [invited]

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Image Formation,” Proceedings of Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (COMSAP), pp: 233-236, December 2009. [invited]

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain Scaling,” IEEE Radar Conference, (5 pages), May 2009.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain Scaling,Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7307, pp:73070E(7 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang and B. Yazıcı, “Chirp-Scaling based True Amplitude Imaging for Synthetic Aperture Radar,” Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7337, pp:733707(7 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging for Arbitrary Trajectories in the Presence of Noise and Clutter,” Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7307, pp:73070D(12 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         K. Voccola, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, M. Ferrara, “On the Equivalence of the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test and Backprojection Method in Synthetic Aperture Imaging,” Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7335, pp:73350I(10 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Distributed Aperture Imaging with Multiple Transmitters in Complex Environments," Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference, pp:1-6, May, 2008, Rome, Italy.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. YazıcıDoppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging,” Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference, pp:1-6, May 2008, Rome, Italy.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Distributed Aperture Imaging with Multiple Transmitters in Complex Environments,Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6970, 69700J-1(11 pages) April, 2008, Orlando, FL.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Sharf, “Waveform Preconditioning for Clutter Rejection in Multipath for Sparse Distributed Apertures,” Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (COMSAP), pp. 181-184, December 2007.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Distributed Sensing in Multi-path Environment,” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Surface Surveillance Technology Workshop, MIT Lincoln Lab, October 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Waveform Design for Distributed Aperture using Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization," Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE Int. Conference in Waveform Design and Diversity, pp: 111-115, June 2007.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Sharf, ''Time-reversal waveform preconditioning for clutter rejection," Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE Int. Conference in Waveform Design and Diversity, pp: 330-334, June 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-537 - I-540, April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Inversion of circular averages using the Funk transform," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-541 - I-544, April, 2007.

§         I.Y. Son, T. Varslot, C.E. Yarman, A. Pezeshki, B. Yazıcı and M. Cheney, ''Radar Detection using Sparse Distributed Apertures in Urban Environment," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6567, pp: 65671Q(8 pages), April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, pp: 6568, pp:656806(9 pages), April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture imaging for arbitrary flight trajectories," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6568, pp: 656807(8 pages), April, 2007.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Sharf, ''Waveform Preconditioning for Clutter Rejection," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6568, pp: 65680N(11 pages), April 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging for arbitrary flight trajectories and non-flat topography," Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference 2007, pp: 712-716, April 17-20, 2007.

§         M. Cheney, B. Yazıcı, “Radar imaging with independently moving transmitters and receivers,” Proceedings of Defense Advance Signal Processing (DASP) Workshop, December 10-14, 2006, Melbourne Australia. [invited]

§         B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney and C.E. Yarman, “Synthetic Aperture radar imaging and waveform design for arbitrary flight trajectory in the presence of noise and clutter,” Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, MA, June 6-7, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman and M. Cheney, “Clutter rejecting waveforms for synthetic aperture radar traversing arbitrary flight path,” Proceedings of SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, MN, May 15-17, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Range-Doppler target estimation using harmonic analysis of the affine and Heisenberg Groups,” Proceedings of SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, MN, May 15-17, 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı and M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture inversion for arbitrary flight paths in the presence of noise and clutter,” Proceedings IEEE International Radar Conference, pp: 806-810, 9-12 May 2005.

§         B. Yazıcı and G. Xie “Orthogonal waveforms for target reflectivity estimation in ultra-wideband regime,” Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Waveform Design, Edinburgh, England, November, 2004.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Target reflectivity estimation in ultrawideband regime – A group theoretic approach,” Proceedings of Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 2, pp: II - 53-56, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

 


 

Synthetic Aperture Imaging

 

§         V. Krishnan and B. Yazıcı, “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploiting Multiple-Scattering,” Inverse Problems, 055004 (25 pages), May 2011.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Inversion of Circular Averages using the Funk Transform,” Inverse Problems 27 (2011) 065001 (16 pages), June 2011.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, "Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065006(26 pages), May 2010.

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Formation," IEEE Transaction on Image Processing. Vol. 19, No: 5, pp: 1290-1306, 2010.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging," IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp: 2156-2173, 2008.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, and M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging with arbitrary trajectories,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No: 1, pp: 84-93, 2008.

§         B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, C.E. Yarman “Synthetic aperture inversion in the presence of noise and clutter,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp: 1705-1729, 2006.

§         V. Krishnan, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploiting Multi-path," Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         L. Wang, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging," Proc. of European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, June 2010, Aachen, Germany.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Synthetic Aperture Imaging with Single Frequency Sources of Opportunity," Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7699 769903(11 pages) April, 2010, Orlando, FL.

§         V. Krishnan, J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Multi-static Synthetic Aperture Image Formation,” IEEE conference in Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (COMSAP),  pp: 233-236. Dec 2009.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain Scaling,” Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference, (5 pages),  May 2009, Pasadena, CA.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “True Amplitude BiSAR Image Reconstruction via Backprojection and Image Domain Scaling,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7307, pp:73070E(7 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang and B. Yazıcı, “Chirp-Scaling based True Amplitude Imaging for Synthetic Aperture Radar,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7337, pp:733707(7 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         J. Swoboda, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging for Arbitrary Trajectories in the Presence of Noise and Clutter,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7307, pp:73070D(12 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         K. Voccola, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, M. Ferrara, “On the Relationship of the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test and Backprojection Method in Synthetic Aperture Imaging,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7335, pp:73350I(10 pages), April, 2009, Orlando, FL.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. YazıcıDoppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging,” IEEE Radar Conference, pp: 1-6, May 2008, Rome, Italy.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-537 - I-540, April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, pp: 656806(9 pages), April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture imaging for arbitrary flight trajectories," Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, pp: 656807(8pages), April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging for arbitrary flight trajectories and non-flat topography," Proc. of IEEE Radar Conference, pp: 712-716, April 17-20, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Inversion of circular averages using the Funk transform," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-541 - I-544, April, 2007.

§         M. Cheney, B. Yazıcı, “Radar imaging with independently moving transmitters and receivers," Proc. of Defense Advance Signal Processing (DASP) Workshop, December 2006, Melbourne Australia. Invited.

§         B. Yazıcı and M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture inversion for arbitrary flight paths in the presence of noise and clutter,” Proceedings IEEE International Radar Conference, pp: 806-810, 9-12 May 2005.

§         L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Synthetic Aperture Imaging usig Ultra Narroband Waveforms,” to be submitted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, October 2010. 

 


 

Passive Imaging

 

§         L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging of Moving Targets using Sparse Distributed Apertures," submitted to Inverse Problems, May 2010.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, "Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065006(26 pages), May 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y Son, B. Yazıcı, "Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures in Multiple Scattering Environments," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065002(37 pages), May 2010.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, "Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging," IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp: 2156-2173, 2008.

§         L. Wang, I.Y. Son, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures and Cooperative Sources of Opportunity in Multi-path Environments," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, March 2010.

§         L. Wang, B. B. Yazıcı "Passive Radar Imaging of Moving Targets with Sparsely Distributed Receivers," to appear in the Proc. of IEEE 6th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2010), Israel, October 4-7, 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y. Son, B. B. Yazıcı, "Passive Imaging Exploiting Multiple-scattering using Distributed Apertures," to appear  in the Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 2010.

§         L. Wang, C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging," in the Proc. of European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, June 2010, Aachen, Germany.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Synthetic Aperture Imaging with Single Frequency Sources of Opportunity," Proceedings of IEEE Radar Conference, May, 2010, Washington DC.

§         C.E. Yarman, L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Doppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging," Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 7699 (11pages), April, 2010, Orlando, FL.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. YazıcıDoppler Synthetic Aperture Hitchhiker Imaging,” IEEE Radar Conference, pp:1-6, May 2008, Rome, Italy.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: I-537 - I-540, April, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Synthetic aperture hitchhiker imaging with non-cooperative sources of opportunity," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6568, pp:656806(9 pages), April, 2007.

 


 

Sparse Aperture Imaging

 

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Wide-band pulse-echo imaging with distributed apertures in multi-path environments,” Inverse Problems, vol.24, pp.1-28, 2008.

§         T. Vaslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Distributed Aperture Imaging with Multiple Transmitters in Complex Environments," IEEE Radar Conference, pp: 1-6, May, 2008, Rome, Italy.

§         T. Vaslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Distributed Aperture Imaging with Multiple Transmitters in Complex Environments,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6970 69700J-1 (11 pages) April, 2008, Orlando, FL.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Distributed Sensing in Multi-path Environment,” Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Surface Surveillance Technology Workshop, MIT Lincoln Lab, October 2007.

§         I.Y. Son, T. Varslot, C.E. Yarman, A. Pezeshki, B. Yazıcı and M. Cheney, ''Radar Detection using Sparse Distributed Apertures in Urban Environment," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6567, pp: 65671Q(8 pages), April, 2007.

§         L. Wang, I.Y Son, B. Yazıcı, "Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures in Multiple Scattering Environments," Inverse Problems, Vol. 26, pp: 065002(37 pages), May 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y. Son, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures and Cooperative Sources of Opportunity in Multi-path Environments," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, March 2010.

§         L. Wang, B. Yazıcı, “Passive Imaging of Moving Targets using Sparse Distributed Apertures," submitted to Inverse Problems, May 2010.

§         L. Wang, B. B. Yazıcı "Passive Radar Imaging of Moving Targets with Sparsely Distributed Receivers," to appear in the Proc. of IEEE 6th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2010), Israel, October 4-7, 2010.

§         L. Wang, I.Y. Son, B. B. Yazıcı, "Passive Imaging Exploiting Multiple-scattering using Distributed Apertures," to appear in the Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 2010.

 


 

Waveform Design

 

§         B. Yazıcı, “Orthogonal Waveforms for High Resolution Range-Doppler Target Reflectivity Estimation” in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, pp. 745-753, SciTech Publishing, Inc., August 2010.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Scharf, “Time-reversal Waveform Preconditioning for Clutter Rejection" in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, pp. 956-966, SciTech Publishing, Inc., August 2010.

§         E. Yarman, T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, “Image Formation and Waveform Design for Distributed Apertures in Multipath via Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization" in Applications and Methods of Waveform Diversity, pp. 431-438, SciTech Publishing, Inc., August 2010.

§         B. Yazıcı and G. Xie, “Wideband extended Range-Doppler target reflectivity estimation and waveform design,” IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, Vol. 52-10, pp: 4563-4580, 2006.

§         T. Varslot, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney and B. Yazıcı, “A variational formulation to waveform design for synthetic aperture imaging,” Inverse Problems and Imaging, Vol. 1, No: 3, pp: 577-592, 2007.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Sharf, “Waveform Preconditioning for Clutter Rejection in Multipath for Sparse Distributed Apertures,” Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (COMSAP), pp. 181-184, December 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman, T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, M. Cheney, “Waveform Design for Distributed Aperture using Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization," Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE Conference in Waveform Design and Diversity, pp: 111-115, June 2007.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Sharf, ''Time-reversal waveform preconditioning for clutter rejection," Proceedings of 3rd International IEEE Conference in Waveform Design and Diversity, pp: 330-334, June 2007.

§         T. Varslot, B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, M. Cheney, L. Sharf, ''Waveform Preconditioning for Clutter Rejection," Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security Conference, Vol. 6568, pp: 65680N(11 pages), April 2007.

§         B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman and M. Cheney, “Clutter rejecting waveforms for synthetic aperture radar traversing arbitrary flight path,” Proceedings of 2nd International IEEE Conference in Waveform Design and Diversity, Hawaii, USA, January 2006.

§         B. Yazıcı and G. Xie “Orthogonal waveforms for target reflectivity estimation in ultra-wideband regime,” Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Waveform Design, Edinburgh, England, November, 2004.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Target reflectivity estimation in ultrawideband regime – A group theoretic approach,” Proceedings of Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, pp: II - 53-56, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

 


 

Diffuse Optical Imaging

 

§         L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography in the Presence of Measurement Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp: 1094-1111, 2011.

§         Zhou, B. Yazıcı,, A.B.F. Ale, V. Ntziachristos, “Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography using Experimental Data," OSA Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No:22, pp: 3727-3729, November 2010.

§         K. Kwon and B. Yazıcı, “Born Expansion and Frechet Derivatives in Non-linear Diffuse Optical Tomography," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 59, pp: 3377-3397, June 2010.

§         M. Guven, L. Zhou, L. Reilly-Raska, B. Yazıcı, “Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography:Part II," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp: 230-245, 2010.

§         M. Guven, L. Reilly-Raska, L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, “Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography:Part I," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp: 217-229, 2010.

§         B. Alacam and B. Yazıcı, “Direct Reconstruction of Pharmacokinetic-Rate Images of Optical Fluorophores from NIR Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 28, No. 9, pp: 1337-1353, 2009.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, “Extended Kalman Filtering for the Modeling and Estimation of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Measurements" in Applications of Kalman Filter, I-Tech Education and Publishing, pp. 584- 608, Vienna Austria, 2009.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, S. Nokia, “Pharmacokinetic-rate Images of Indocyanine Green for Breast Tumors using Near Infrared Optical Methods,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp: 837-859, 2008. [Among the top 3% of most downloaded papers in 2008 among all Institute of Physics Journals.]

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, E. Giladi, X. Intes, “Effect of Discretization Error and Adaptive Mesh Generation in Diffuse Optical Absorption Imaging: Part II," Inverse Problems, Vol. 23, pp: 1135-1160, May 2007.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, E. Giladi, X. Intes, “Effect of Discretization Error and Adaptive Mesh Generation in Diffuse Optical Absorption Imaging: Part I," Inverse Problems, Vol. 23, pp: 1115-1133, May 2007. [Highlight article of 2007 in Inverse Problems.]

§         K. Kwon, B. Yazıcı, and M. GuvenTwo-level Domain Decomposition Methods for Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp: 1533-1559, 2006.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı X. Intes, B. Chance, “Extended Kalman Filtering for the Modeling and Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Optical Methods,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 53, No. 10, pp:1861-1871, 2006.

§         I.Y. Son and B. Yazıcı, “Near Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy for Brain Activity Monitoring,” in Advances in Sensing with Security Applications, pp: 341-372, NATO Advanced Study Institute, NATO Security through Science Series-A: Chemistry and Biology, Springer, Edited by J. Byrnes, 2006.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Diffuse Optical Tomography with A-priori Anatomical Information,Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.  50, pp: 2837-2858, June, 2005.

§         X. Intes, C. Maloux, M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, B. Chance, “Diffuse Optical Tomography with Physiological and Spatial A-priori Constraints,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 49, pp: 155–163, May 2004.

§         Jin, L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, “Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Image Reconstruction with A priori Information," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), November 2009.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, “Effect of Discretization on the Accuracy of Diffuse Optical Imaging,” Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6850, pp:68500W(11 pages), January 2008.

§         L. Reilly-Raska, M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, “Effect of discretization error and adaptive mesh generation for fluorescence diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6850, pp:68500B(12 pages), January 2008.

§         L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, V. Ntziachristos, “Fluorescence Molecular Tomography Reconstruction with a Priori Anatomical Information,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6868, pp:68500O(11 pages), January 2008.

§         Alacam, B. Yazıcı. B. Chance, S. Nioka, “Characterization of Breast Tumors with NIR Methods using Optical Indices,Proceedings of the 29th IEEE EMBS Conference, pp. 5186-5189, September, 2007.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, E. Giladi, and X. Intes, “Adaptive mesh generation for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium in Biomedical Imaging, pp: 1380-1383, April 2007.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, V. Ntziachristos, “Fluorescence diffuse optical Image reconstruction with a priori information,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6431, pp: 643107(15 pages), 2007.

§         Alacam, B. Yazıcı, A. Serdaroglu, B. Chance, S. Nioko, and X. Intes, “Reconstruction of spatially resolved pharmacokinetic rate images of fluorescence agents in FDOT,” Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS Conference, pp:5627-5630, September 2006.

§         Serdaroglu, B. Yazıcı, V. Ntziachristos, “Fluorescence molecular tomography based on a priori information,” Proceedings of Optical Society of America (OSA) Biomedical Optics Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, pp: SH46, March 2006.

§         Alacam, B. Yazıcı, A. Serdaroglu, X. Intes and B. Chance, “Direct reconstruction of pharmacokinetic rate images of indocyanine green in fluorescence molecular tomography,” Proceedings of Optical Society of America (OSA) Biomedical Optics Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, pp: SH65, March 2006.

§         Serdaroglu, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, “Optimum Source Design for Detection of Heterogeneities in Diffuse Optical Imaging,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonic West, Vol. 6139, pp: 61391A(11 pages), San Jose, CA, 21 - 26 January 2006.

§         Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, S. Nioko, B. Chance, “Spatially resolved pharmacokinetic rate images of ICG using near infrared optical methods,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonic West, Vol. 6088, pp: 455-464, San Jose, CA, 21 - 26 January 2006.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “A hierarchical Bayesian formulation for diffuse optical tomography with a priori anatomical information,” Proceedings of ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2005.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Hierarchical Bayesian algorithm for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of 34th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop Emerging Technologies and Applications for Imagery Pattern Recognition, pp: 140-145, Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 19-21, 2005.

§         M. Guven, K. Kwon, B. Yazıcı, E. Giladi, X. Intes, “A priori interpolation error based mesh generation for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of 34th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop Emerging Technologies and Applications for Imagery Pattern Recognition, pp: 146-151, Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 19-21, 2005.

§         Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Optical Methods,” Proceedings. of EMBS-27th Anniversary Conference, pp: 62-65, Shanghai, China, September 2005.

§         Son, M. Guhe, W. Gray, B. Yazıcı, and M. Schoelles, “Human performance assessment using fNIR,” Proceeding of SPIE 5797: Biomonitoring for Physiological and Cognitive Performance During Military Operations, pp: 158–169, Orlando FL, March 31-April 1 2005.

§         K. Kwon, I.Y Son, B. Yazıcı,Domain decomposition method for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of SPIE, Computational Imaging III, Vol. 5674, pp: 64-75, San Jose, CA, 2005.

§         K. Kwon, I.Y. Son, and B. Yazıcı, “Two-level overlapping domain decomposition algorithm for nonlinear inverse DOT problem,” Proceedings of SPIE in Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VII, Vol.  5693, pp: 459-468, San Jose, CA, 22-27 Jan. 2005.

§         Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Extended Kalman Filtering Framework for the Modeling and Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics,” Proceedings of 2005 SPIE in Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VII, Vol. 5693, pp: 17-27, San Jose, CA, 22-27 Jan. 2005.

§         Son, M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, “A two-level domain decomposition method for inverse diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing, pp: 3315-3318, Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “An adaptive multigrid algorithm for region of interest diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 2, pp:II - 823-826, Sept. 14-17, 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “3D Diffuse Optical Tomography with A Prior Anatomical and Functional Information,” Proceedings of Joint SPIE-OSA ECBO – The European Conference on Biomedical Optics, Vol. 5138, pp: 268-280, 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “An adaptive multigrid algorithm for region of interest diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing(ICIP), Vol. 2, pp: 823-826, Sept. 14-17, 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “An adaptive V-grid algorithm for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE 29th Annual Bioengineering Conference, pp: 95- 97, 22-23, March 2003.

§         K. Izzetoglu, G. Yurtsever, A. Bozkurt, B. Yazıcı, S. Bunce, K. Pourrezaei, B. Onaral, “NIR spectroscopy measurements of cognitive load elicited by GKT and target categorization,” Proceedings of IEEE 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp: 129-134, January 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Diffuse optical tomography with a priori information derived from magnetic resonance images,“ Proceedings of Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue V conference at the SPIE Biomedical optics society, Vol. 4955, pp: 634-646, San Jose, CA, January 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance and Y. Zhang, “Recursive least squares algorithm for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of the IEEE 28th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, pp: 273 -274, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.

§         A. Jin, B. B. Yazıcı, "Sparse Reconstruction for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography," submitted to SPIE Photonics West Conference, March, 2011.


 

Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Techniques for DOT and FDOT

 

§         L. Zhou and B. Yazıcı, Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography in the Presence of Measurement Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp: 1094-1111, 2011.

§         Zhou, B. Yazıcı,, A.B.F. Ale, V. Ntziachristos, “Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography using Experimental Data," OSA Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No:22, pp: 3727-3729, November 2010.

§         M. Guven, L. Zhou, L. Reilly-Raska, B. Yazıcı, “Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography:Part II," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp: 230-245, 2010.

§         M. Guven, L. Reilly-Raska, L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, “Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive Meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography:Part I," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp: 217-229, 2010.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, E. Giladi, X. Intes, “Effect of Discretization Error and Adaptive Mesh Generation in Diffuse Optical Absorption Imaging: Part II," Inverse Problems, Vol. 23, pp: 1135-1160, May 2007.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, E. Giladi, X. Intes, “Effect of Discretization Error and Adaptive Mesh Generation in Diffuse Optical Absorption Imaging: Part I," Inverse Problems, Vol. 23, pp: 1115-1133, May 2007. [Highlight article of 2007 in Inverse Problems.]

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, “Effect of Discretization on the Accuracy of Diffuse Optical Imaging,” Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6850, pp:68500W(11 pages), January 2008.

§         L. Reilly-Raska, M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, “Effect of discretization error and adaptive mesh generation for fluorescence diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6850, pp:68500B(12 pages), January 2008.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, E. Giladi, and X. Intes, “Adaptive mesh generation for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium in Biomedical Imaging, pp: 1380-1383, April 2007.

§         M. Guven, K. Kwon, B. Yazıcı, E. Giladi, X. Intes, “A priori interpolation error based mesh generation for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of 34th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop Emerging Technologies and Applications for Imagery Pattern Recognition, pp: 146-151, Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 19-21, 2005.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “An adaptive multigrid algorithm for region of interest diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 2, pp:II - 823-826, Sept. 14-17, 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “An adaptive multigrid algorithm for region of interest diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing(ICIP), Vol. 2, pp: 823-826, Sept. 14-17, 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “An adaptive V-grid algorithm for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE 29th Annual Bioengineering Conference, pp: 95- 97, 22-23, March 2003.


 

Domain Decomposition Techniques for DOT

 

§         K. Kwon, B. Yazıcı, and M. GuvenTwo-level Domain Decomposition Methods for Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Inverse Problems, Vol. 22, pp: 1533-1559, 2006.

§         K. Kwon, I.Y Son, B. Yazıcı,Domain decomposition methods for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of SPIE, Computational Imaging III, Vol. 5674, pp: 64-75, San Jose, CA, 2005.

§         K. Kwon, I.Y. Son, and B. Yazıcı, “A two-level overlapping domain decomposition algorithm for nonlinear inverse DOT problem,” Proceedings of SPIE in Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VII, Vol.  5693, pp: 459-468, San Jose, CA, 22-27 Jan. 2005.

§         I. Son, M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, “A two-level domain decomposition method for inverse diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing, pp: 3315-3318, Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.


 

Frechet Derivative for non-linear DOT and Error in Inverse Scattering Series

 

§         K. Kwon and B. Yazıcı, “Born expansion and Frechet derivatives in non-linear diffuse optical tomography," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 59, pp: 3377-3397, June 2010.


 

DOT and FDOT Image Reconstruction with a priori Information

 

§         A. Jin, L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, “Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Image Reconstruction with A priori Information," Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), November 2009.

§         L. Zhou, B. Yazıcı, V. Ntziachristos, “Fluorescence Molecular Tomography Reconstruction with a Priori Anatomical Information,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6868, pp:68500O(11 pages), January 2008.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, V. Ntziachristos, “Fluorescence diffuse optical Image reconstruction with a priori information,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6431, pp: 643107(15 pages), 2007.

§         Serdaroglu, B. Yazıcı, V. Ntziachristos, “Fluorescence molecular tomography based on a priori information,” Proceedings of Optical Society of America (OSA) Biomedical Optics Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, pp: SH46, March 2006.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “A hierarchical Bayesian formulation for diffuse optical tomography with a priori anatomical information,” Proceedings of ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2005.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Diffuse Optical Tomography with A-priori Anatomical Information,Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.  50, pp: 2837-2858, June, 2005.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Hierarchical Bayesian algorithm for diffuse optical tomography,” Proceedings of 34th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop Emerging Technologies and Applications for Imagery Pattern Recognition, pp: 140-145, Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 19-21, 2005.

§         X. Intes, C. Maloux, M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, B. Chance, “Diffuse Optical Tomography with Physiological and Spatial A-priori Constraints,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 49, pp: 155–163, May 2004.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “3D Diffuse Optical Tomography with A Prior Anatomical and Functional Information,” Proceedings of Joint SPIE-OSA ECBO – The European Conference on Biomedical Optics, Vol. 5138, pp: 268-280, 2003.

§         M. Guven, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Diffuse optical tomography with a priori information derived from magnetic resonance images,“ Proceedings of Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue V conference at the SPIE Biomedical optics society, Vol. 4955, pp: 634-646, San Jose, CA, January 2003.


 

Analysis and Imaging of the Pharmacokinetics of Optical Flurophores and Breast Cancer Diagnosis

 

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, “Extended Kalman Filtering for the Modeling and Estimation of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Measurements" in Applications of Kalman Filter, I-Tech Education and Publishing, pp. 584- 608, Vienna Austria, 2009.

§         B. Alacam and B. Yazıcı, “Direct Reconstruction of Pharmacokinetic-Rate Images of Optical Fluorophores from NIR Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 28, No. 9, pp: 1337-1353, 2009.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, S. Nokia, “Pharmacokinetic-rate Images of Indocyanine Green for Breast Tumors using Near Infrared Optical Methods,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp: 837-859, 2008. [Among the top 3% of most downloaded papers in 2008 among all Institute of Physics Journals.]

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı X. Intes, B. Chance, “Extended Kalman Filtering for the Modeling and Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Optical Methods,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 53, No. 10, pp:1861-1871, 2006.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, A. Serdaroglu, B. Chance, S. Nioko, and X. Intes, “Reconstruction of spatially resolved pharmacokinetic rate images of fluorescence agents in FDOT,” Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS Conference, pp:5627-5630, September 2006.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, A. Serdaroglu, X. Intes and B. Chance, “Direct reconstruction of pharmacokinetic rate images of indocyanine green in fluorescence molecular tomography,” Proceedings of Optical Society of America (OSA) Biomedical Optics Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, pp: SH65, March 2006.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, S. Nioko, B. Chance, “Spatially resolved pharmacokinetic rate images of ICG using near infrared optical methods,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonic West, Vol. 6088, pp: 455-464, San Jose, CA, 21 - 26 January 2006.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Optical Methods,” Proceedings. of EMBS-27th Anniversary Conference, pp: 62-65, Shanghai, China, September 2005.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Extended Kalman Filtering Framework for the Modeling and Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics,” Proceedings of 2005 SPIE in Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VII, Vol. 5693, pp: 17-27, San Jose, CA, 22-27 Jan. 2005.


 

Structured Illumination for Tumor Detectability in DOT

 

§         A. Serdaroglu, B. Yazıcı, K. Kwon, “Optimum Source Design for Detection of Heterogeneities in Diffuse Optical Imaging,” Proceedings of SPIE Photonic West, Vol. 6139, pp: 61391A(11 pages), San Jose, CA, 21 - 26 January 2006.


 

NIR Spectroscopy and Imaging for Brain Activity Monitoring

 

§         I.Y. Son and B. Yazıcı, “Near Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy for Brian Activity Monitoring,” in Advances in Sensing with Security Applications, pp: 341-372, NATO Advanced Study Institute, NATO Security through Science Series-A: Chemistry and Biology, Springer, Edited by J. Byrnes, 2006.

§         I.Y. Son, M. Guhe, W. Gray, B. Yazıcı, and M. Schoelles, “Human performance assessment using fNIR,” Proceeding of SPIE 5797: Biomonitoring for Physiological and Cognitive Performance During Military Operations, pp: 158–169, Orlando FL, March 31-April 1 2005.

§         K. Izzetoglu, G. Yurtsever, A. Bozkurt, B. Yazıcı, S. Bunce, K. Pourrezaei, B. Onaral, “NIR spectroscopy measurements of cognitive load elicited by GKT and target categorization,” Proceedings of IEEE 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp: 129-134, January 2003.


 

Medical Image Analysis for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

 

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı. B. Chance, S. Nioka, “Characterization of Breast Tumors with NIR Methods using Optical Indices,Proceedings of the 29th IEEE EMBS Conference, pp. 5186-5189, September, 2007.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, N. Bilgutay, F. Forsberg, C. Piccoli, “Ultrasound Tissue Characterization Based on FARMA Modeling of RF Echo,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 30, pp: 1397-1407, March 2004.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, X. Intes, B. Chance, “Analysis of ICG Pharmacokinetics in Cancerous Tumors using NIR Optical Methods,” Proceedings. of EMBS-27th Anniversary Conference, pp: 62-65, Shanghai, China, September 2005.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, N. Bilgutay, “Breast Tissue Characterization based on fractional differencing model of ultrasound RF echo,” Proceedings  of SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, vol. 5035, pp: 460-470, San Diego, CA, February 15–20, 2003.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, N. Bilgutay, “Breast cancer diagnosis based on ultrasound RF echo modeling and physician's level of confidence,” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium in Ultrasonics, Vol. 2, pp: 1203-1206,  5-8 Oct. 2003.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, N. Bilgutay, “Breast tissue characterization based on ultrasound RF echo modeling and tumor morphology,” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Vol. 2, pp: 1180-1183, 17-21 Sept. 2003.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, N. Bilgutay, “Breast Tissue Characterization based on fractional differencing model of ultrasound RF echo,” Proceedings  of SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, vol. 5035, pp: 460-470, San Diego, CA, February 15–20, 2003.

§         B. Alacam, B. Yazıcı, N. Bilgutay, “Breast cancer detection based on B-scan texture analysis and patient age information,” Proceedings of IEEE 29th Bioengineering Conference, pp: 98-99, 22-23 March, 2003.


 

Radon Transform Inversion

 

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Euclidean Motion Group Representations and Singular Value Decomposition of the Radon Transform,” Journal of Integral Transforms and Special Functions, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp: 59-76, January 2007.

§         B. Yazıcı, C.E. Yarman, “A Wiener filtering approach over the Euclidean motion group for Radon transform inversion,” Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging and Image Processing, Vol. 5032, pp: 1884-1893, San Diego, CA, May 2003.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Radon transform inversion via Wiener filtering over the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 2, pp: II- 811-814, Sept. 14-17, 2003.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Radon transform inversion based on harmonic analysis of the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, pp: 481 - 484, Philadelphia PA, March 18-23, 2005.


 

Exponential Radon Transform Inversion

 

§         C. E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “A New Exact Inversion Method for the Exponential Radon Transform based on the Harmonic Analysis of the Euclidian Motion Group,” Inverse Problems in Imaging, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp: 457-479, 2007.

§         C.E. Yarman and B. Yazıcı, “Exponential Radon transform inversion using the harmonic analysis of the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. 3, pp: III-613-615, Genova, Italy, 2005.

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “An inversion method for the exponential Radon transform based on the harmonic analysis of the Euclidean motion group,” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 6142, pp: 61424A(8 pages), San Diego, CA, February 2006.


 

Cone-beam Transform Inversion

 

§         C.E. Yarman, B. Yazıcı, “An inversion formula for the cone-beam transform,” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 6142, pp: 61424C(8 pages), San Diego, CA, February 2006. [Best poster paper award.]

§         Z. Li, B. B. Yazıcı, “An FBP-type Analytic Segmentation Method for X-ray CT Images from Cone-beam Projection Data,” submitted to SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, February 2011.


 

X-ray Imaging System Optimization

 

§         B. Yazıcı, I.Y. Son, A. Jin, G. Xu, “Optimization of X-Ray Radiographic Imaging" in Handbook of Anatomical Models for Radiation Dosimetry, pp. 525-548, edited by G. Xu and K.F. Eckerman, Taylor Francis, 2009.

§         I.-Y. Son, M. Winslow, B. Yazıcı, and G. Xu, “X-ray Imaging Optimization using Virtual Phantoms and Computerized Observers,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 51, pp: 4289–4310, August, 2006.

§         M. Winslow, G. Xu, B. Yazıcı, “Development of a Simulator for Radiographic Image Optimization,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp: 179-190, 2005.

§         M. Winslow, I. Son, B. Yazıcı and G. Xu, “Optimization of radiographic imaging using simulated radiography and electronic observers,” AAPM (American Association of Physics in Medicine) meeting, July 2005.


 

Predictive Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Systems

 

§         B. Yazıcı, “Statistical Pattern Analysis of Partial Discharge Measurements for the Condition Monitoring and Quality Assessment of the Insulation Systems in High Voltage Electrical Machinery,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp: 1579-1594, Nov.-Dec. 2004.

§         B. Yazıcı, and G. B. Kliman, “An Adaptive Statistical Time-frequency Method for Detection of Broken Bars and Bearing Faults in Motors using Stator Current,“ IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp: 442-452, March 1999. [2nd Best paper award given by IEEE Trans. in Industrial Applications.]

§         G. B. Kliman, W. J. Premerlani, B. Yazıcı, R. A. Koegl, and J. Mazzereew, “Sensorless On-line Motor Diagnostics,” IEEE Computer Applications in Power, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp: 39-43, April 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı, “Statistical pattern analysis of partial discharge measurements for quality assessment of insulation in high voltage electrical machinery,” Proceedings of IEEE Industrial Applications Society SDEMPED 4th International Symposium, pp: 158-161, 24-26 Aug. 2003.

§         G. B. Kliman, W. J. Premerlani, B. Yazıcı, and Rudolph A. Koegl, “Recent developments in on-line motor diagnostics,” Proceedings of EPRI Conference on Electric Motor Predictive Maintenance, St. Louise, September 8-9, 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı, Gerald B. Kliman, W. J. Premerlani, Rudolph A. Koegl, Gregory B. Robinson, and Aiman Abdel-Malek, “An adaptive, on-line statistical method for bearing fault detection using stator current,” Proceedings of 32nd IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference, Vol. 1, pp: 213-220, New Orleans, October 5-6, 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı, G. B. Kliman, W. J. Premerlani, Rudolph A. Koegl, and Aiman Abdel-Malek, “An adaptive, on-line statistical method for detection of broken bars in motors using stator current and digital torque estimation,” Proceedings of 32nd IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference, Vol. 1, pp:  221-226,  New Orleans, October 5-6 1997.

§         B. Yazıcı, J. R. Krahn, and K. Rao, “Statistical pattern recognition techniques for defect analysis of large AC machine insulation systems,” Proceedings of EPRI/ CIGRE Colloquium on Maintenance and Refurbishment of Utility Turbogenerators, Hydrogenerators, and Large-Motors, Florence, Italy. April 1997.