Ali Bilgin

Associate Department Head for Biomedical Engineering Graduate Affairs
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Medical Imaging
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Member of the Graduate Faculty

Ali Bilgin (S’94–M’03–SM’08) received the BS degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1992, the MS degree in electrical engineering from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, in 1995, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in 2002. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona. He has authored or coauthored more than 175 research papers in international journals and conferences. He holds ten granted and several pending patents. He was on the organizing committees of many conferences, an associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2010 to 2012, and the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2010 to 2014. He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. His research interests include signal and image processing, image and video coding, data compression, and magnetic resonance imaging.

Courses

Apps of Engineering Math

ECE 310 (Fall 2024)
ECE 310 (Fall 2023)
ECE 310 (Fall 2022)
ECE 310 (Fall 2021)
ECE 310 (Fall 2020)
ECE 310 (Fall 2019)
ECE 310 (Fall 2017)
ECE 310 (Fall 2016)
 

Biomedical Instrumentation

BME 330 (Spring 2024)
BME 330 (Spring 2023)
BME 330 (Spring 2022)
BME 330 (Spring 2021)
BME 330 (Spring 2018)
BME 330 (Spring 2017)
BME 330 (Spring 2016)
 

Independent Study

BME 599 (Fall 2020)
ECE 699 (Spring 2020)
NSCS 399 (Spring 2018)
 

Rsrch Meth Biomed Engr

BME 592 (Fall 2022)
 

Adv Tpc:Electrical Engr

ECE 696B (Spring 2020)
 

Research

ECE 900 (Spring 2024)
ECE 900 (Spring 2023)
ECE 900 (Fall 2020)
ECE 900 (Fall 2018)
ECE 900 (Fall 2017)
ECE 900 (Spring 2017)
ECE 900 (Fall 2016)
ECE 900 (Spring 2016)
MATH 900 (Fall 2022)
MATH 900 (Spring 2022)
MATH 900 (Spring 2017)
MATH 900 (Fall 2016)
 

Master's Report

BME 909 (Spring 2024)
 

Thesis

ECE 910 (Fall 2023)
ECE 910 (Spring 2023)
ECE 910 (Fall 2022)
ECE 910 (Spring 2018)
ECE 910 (Fall 2017)
ECE 910 (Spring 2017)
ECE 910 (Fall 2016)
ECE 910 (Spring 2016)
 

Dissertation

APPL 920 (Fall 2024)
ECE 920 (Fall 2024)
ECE 920 (Spring 2024)
ECE 920 (Fall 2023)
ECE 920 (Spring 2023)
ECE 920 (Fall 2022)
ECE 920 (Spring 2022)
ECE 920 (Fall 2021)
ECE 920 (Spring 2021)
ECE 920 (Fall 2020)
ECE 920 (Spring 2020)
ECE 920 (Fall 2019)
ECE 920 (Spring 2019)
ECE 920 (Fall 2018)
ECE 920 (Spring 2018)
ECE 920 (Fall 2017)
ECE 920 (Spring 2017)
ECE 920 (Fall 2016)
ECE 920 (Spring 2016)
MATH 920 (Spring 2024)
MATH 920 (Fall 2023)
MATH 920 (Spring 2023)
MATH 920 (Spring 2020)
MATH 920 (Fall 2019)
MATH 920 (Spring 2019)
MATH 920 (Fall 2018)
MATH 920 (Spring 2018)
MATH 920 (Fall 2017)
MATH 920 (Spring 2017)
MATH 920 (Fall 2016)
MATH 920 (Spring 2016)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

  • Li, Z., Fu, Z., Keerthivasan, M. B., Bilgin, A., Johnson, K., Galons, J., Martin, D. R., & Altbach, M. I. (2021). Rapid high-resolution volumetric T1 mapping using a highly accelerated Inversion-Recovery Radial FLASH technique. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 79, 28-37.
  • Mandava, S., Keerthivasan, M. B., Martin, D. R., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2021). Improving subspace constrained reconstruction for accelerated multi-contrast MR imaging and parameter mapping. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 66(4). doi:10.1088/1361-6560/abd4b8
  • Pandey, S., Snider, D., Moreno, W., Ravi, H., Bilgin, A., & Raghunand, N. (2021). Joint Reconstruction of Multiparameter MRI for Imaging Intratumoral Subpopulations. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  • Umapathy, L., Guzman Perez-Carrillo, G., Keerthivasan, M. B., Rosado-Toro, J. A., Altbach, M. I., Winegar, B., Weinkauf, C. C., & Bilgin, A. (2021). A Stacked Generalization of 3D Orthogonal Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities in 3D-FLAIR Images. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 42(4), 639-647.
  • Umapathy, L., Keerthivasan, M. B., Zahr, N. M., Bilgin, A., & Saranathan, M. (2021). A Contrast Synthesized Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation Scheme using Convolutional Neural Networks. Neuroinformatics. doi:doi.org/10.1007/s12021-021-09544-5
  • Bilgin, A., Karellas, A., Vedantham, S., Tseng, H. W., & Fu, Z. (2020). A Multi-Slice Residual Dense Network Assisted Sparse-view Reconstruction for Breast Computed Tomography. Scientific Reports.
  • Fu, Z., Mandava, S., Keerthivasan, M. B., Li, Z., Martin, D. R., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2020). A Multi-scale Residual Network for Accelerated Radial MR Parameter Mapping. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 73, 152-162.
  • Liu, F., Ahanonu, E. L., Marcellin, M. W., Lin, Y., Ashok, A., & Bilgin, A. (2020). Visibility of Quantization Errors in Reversible JPEG2000. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 84, 115812.
  • Umapathy, L., Winegar, B., MacKinnon, L., Hill, M., Altbach, M. I., Miller, J. M., & Bilgin, A. (2020). Fully Automated Segmentation of Globes for Volume Quantification in CT Orbits Images Using Deep Learning. American Journal of Neuroradiology, A6538. doi:DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A6538
  • Bilgin, A., Gurcan, M. N., Tozbikian, G., Marcellin, M. W., Ashok, A., Liu, F., Lin, Y., & Niazi, M. K. (2019). Pathological image compression for big data image analysis: Application to hotspot detection in breast cancer. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 95, 82–87.
  • Keerthivasan, M. B., Johnson, K., Saranathan, M., Fu, Z., Weinkauf, C. C., Martin, D. R., Bilgin, A., & Altbach, M. I. (2019). An Efficient 3D Stack-of-Stars TSE Pulse Sequence for Simultaneous T2-weighted Imaging and T2 Mapping. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 82(1), 326-341.
  • Li, Z., Bilgin, A., Johnson, K., Galons, J. P., Vedantham, S., Martin, D. R., & Altbach, M. I. (2019). Rapid high-resolution T mapping using a highly accelerated radial steady-state free-precession technique. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI, 49(1), 239-252.
  • Mandava, S., Keerthivasan, M. B., Martin, D. R., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2019). Radial streak artifact reduction using phased array beamforming. Magnetic resonance in medicine, 81, 3915-3923.
  • Altbach, M. I., Bilgin, A., Martin, D. R., Janardhanan, R., Avery, R., Johnson, K. D., Mandava, S., & Keerthivasan, M. B. (2018). Improved Slice Coverage in Double Inversion Fast Spin Echo with Multi-Band Encoding.. Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, 20(49).
  • Chen, N., Chang, H., Bilgin, A., Bernstein, A., & Trouard, T. P. (2018). A diffusion-matched principal component analysis (DM-PCA) based two-channel denoising procedure for high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI. PLOS ONE, 13(4).

Proceedings Publications

  • Ahanonu, E., Fu, Z., Johnson, K., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2021). Improved Slice Coverage in Inversion Recovery Radial Balanced-SSFP using Deep Learning. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Bilgin, A., Do, L., Martin, P. A., Lockhart, E., Bernstein, A. S., Ugonna, C., Dieckhaus, L., Comrie, C., Hutchinson, E. B., Chen, N., Alexander, G. E., Barnes, C. A., & Trouard, T. P. (2021). Accelerating Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Rat Brain using Deep Learning. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Fu, Z., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2021). Cancellation of streak artifacts using the interference null space (CACTUS) for radial abdominal imaging. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Guzman Perez-Carrillo, G., Umapathy, L., Winegar, B., Altbach, M. I., Keerthivasan, M. B., & Bilgin, A. (2021). Improving White Matter Hyperintensities Lesion Burden Assessment on ADNI 3D T2-FLAIRs Using StackGen-Net. In 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Neuroradiology.
  • Iglehart, C., Bilgin, A., Levine, E., & Saranathan, M. (2021). Fast T2* Mapping Using Complementary Poisson Disk Sampling and ADMM Reconstruction. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Keerthivasan, M. B., Galons, J., Martin, D. R., Bilgin, A., & Altbach, M. I. (2021). Multi-component T2 Modeling for Improved Characterization of Abdominal Neoplasms. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Keerthivasan, M. B., Umapathy, L., Galons, J., Martin, D. R., Bilgin, A., & Altbach, M. I. (2021). Efficient T2 mapping of the Abdomen with low SAR Variable Flip Angle Radial Turbo Spin Echo. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Pandey, S., Snider, A. D., Moreno, W., Ravi, H., Bilgin, A., & Raghunand, N. (2021). Jointly Reconstructed Undersampled Multiparameter MRI for Imaging Intratumoral Subpopulations. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Phillip, R. C., Bilgin, A., & Altbach, M. I. (2021). Automated Radial Streaking Artifact Suppression with RGB-STAR. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Umapathy, L., Guzman Perez-Carrillo, G., Winegar, B., Vedantham, S., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2021). White matter hyperintensity volumes and cognition: Assessment of a deep learning-based lesion detection and quantification algorithm on ADNI. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Ahanonu, E., Marcellin, M. W., & Bilgin, A. (2020, Spring). Lossless Multi-Component Image Compression based on Integer Wavelet Coefficient Prediction using Convolutional Neural Networks. In IEEE Data Compression Conference.
  • Fu, Z., Martin, D. R., Altbach, M. I., & Bilgin, A. (2020, August). Multi-objective Deep Learning for Joint Estimation and Detection Tasks in MRI. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Umapathy, L., Guzman Perez-Carrillo, G., Keerthivasan, M., Altbach, M. I., Winegar, B., Weinkauf, C. C., & Bilgin, A. (2020, August). StackGen-Net: A Stacked Generalization of 3D Orthogonal Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities. In Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
  • Ahanonu, E., Marcellin, M. W., & Bilgin, A. (2019, March). Clustering Regression Wavelet Analysis for Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery. In 2019 IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT.
  • Ashok, A., Ashok, A., Ahanonu, E., Ahanonu, E., Marcellin, M. W., Marcellin, M. W., Liu, F., Liu, F., Hernandez-Cabronero, M., Hernandez-Cabronero, M., Bilgin, A., Bilgin, A., Lin, Y., & Lin, Y. (2019, March). Perception-optimized encoding for visually lossy image compression. In 2019 Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah.

Presentations

  • Bilgin, A., Karellas, A., Vedantham, S., Tseng, H., & Fu, Z. (2020, July). Dedicated Breast CT: Comparative Evaluation of Multi-Scale Residual Dense Network and Residual Encoder-Decoder Network for Deep Learning-Driven Sparse-View Reconstruction. American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada (Virtual): American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
  • Fu, Z., Tseng, H., Vedantham, S., Karellas, A., & Bilgin, A. (2019, Dec/Fall). Deep Learning-Driven Sparse-View Reconstruction for Radiation Dose Reduction in Dedicated Breast CT: Quantitative Evaluation.. 105th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2019 RSNA Annual Meeting Program, Abstract # SSC13-05.. Chicago, IL: Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Others

  • Marcellin, M. W., Bilgin, A., Lalgudi, H. G., & Nadar, M. S. (2012). Lifting-based view compensated compression and remote visualization of volume rendered images.
  • Bilgin, A., Kim, Y., Nadar, M. S., & Sundaresan, R. (2011). SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTION-COMPENSATED COMPRESSED SENSING FOR DYNAMIC IMAGING.
  • Marcellin, M. W., Bilgin, A., Lalgudi, H. G., & others, . (2011). Methods and systems for remotely visualizing images.
  • Bilgin, A., Kim, Y., & Nadar, M. S. (2010). Method for Exploiting Structure in Sparse Domain for Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction.
  • Bilgin, A., Kim, Y., & Nadar, M. S. (2010). Method for reconstruction of magnetic resonance images.
  • Marcellin, M. W., & Bilgin, A. (2010). Digital intermediate (DI) processing and distribution with scalable compression in the post-production of motion pictures.
  • Marcellin, M. W., & Bilgin, A. (2010). Rate control of scalably coded images.
  • Marcellin, M. W., Bilgin, A., Wu, Z., & others, . (2009). Methods for decoding corrupt JPEG2000 codestreams.
  • Marcellun, M., & Bilgin, A. (2008). RATE CONTROL OF SCALABLY CODED IMAGES.
  • Mercellin, M., & Bilgin, A. (2007). DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE (DI) PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION WITH SCALABLE COMPRESSION IN THE POST-PRODUCTION OF MOTION PICTURES.
  • MERCELLIN, M., & BILGIN, A. (2006). DIGITAL INTERMEDIATE (DI) PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION WITH SCALABLE COMPRESSION IN THE POST-PRODUCTION OF MOTION PICTURES.
  • Marcellin, M. W., & Bilgin, A. (2006). Digital intermediate (DI) processing and distribution with scalable compression in the post-production of motion pictures.
  • MARCELLIN, M., BILGIN, A., WU, Z., & others, . (2004). METHODS FOR DECODING CORRUPT JPEG2000 CODESTREAMS.
  • Bilgin, A. (2003). A simulation model of indoor environments for ultrasonic sensors.
  • Bilgin, A. (1995). Image Processing and Compression for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems.

Awards

  • Magna Cum Laude Award for the paper “Improved Slice Coverage in Inversion Recovery Radial Balanced-SSFP using Deep Learning”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2021
  • Magna Cum Laude Award for the paper “StackGen-Net: A Stacked Generalization of 3D Orthogonal Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2020
  • Blue Ribbon Award for the paper “Dedicated Breast CT: Comparative evaluation of multi-scale residual dense network and residual encoder-decoder network for deep learning-driven sparse-view reconstruction”
    • Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Spring 2020
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Efficient T2 Mapping of the Carotid Artery using a 3D Stack-of-Stars Variable Flip Angle TSE Pulse Sequence”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2019
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “A Cascaded Residual UNET for Fully Automated Segmentation of prostate and peripheral zone in T2-weighted 3D Fast Spin Echo Images”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Spring 2019
  • Magna Cum Laude Award for the paper “Rapid Carotid Artery T2 and T1 Mapping Using a Radial TSE and IR-FLASH Approach”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2018
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Radial streaking artifact reduction using phased array beamforming”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2018
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Characterization of Abdominal Neoplasms using a Fast T2 Mapping Radial TSE Technique"
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2018
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “A Multi-scale Deep ResNet for Radial MR Parameter Mapping"
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2018
  • Excellence at the Student Interface Award, Most Supportive Senior Faculty
    • College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2016
  • Summa Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Improved Slice Coverage in DBIR-FSE with Multi-Band Encoding"
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2015
  • Summa Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Isotropic T2 Mapping using a 3D Radial FSE (or TSE) Pulse Sequence"
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2015
  • Excellence at the Student Interface Award, Most Supportive Junior Faculty
    • College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2015
    • College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2013
    • College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2012
  • Builder's Day Award
    • Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Spring 2015
  • Top 10% Paper Recognition for the paper “Lossless Image Compression Using Causal Block Matching and 3D Transform-Domain Collaborative Filtering"
    • IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Fall 2014
  • Summa Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Accelerating Encoded Simultaneous Multi Slice MRI with Compressed Sensing”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2013
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “A Variable Bandwidth Radial Gradient and Spin-Echo (VB-radGRASE) Method for Improved T2 and Fat-Water Parameter Estimation”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2013
  • Magna Cum Laude Award, for the paper “Automated Segmentation of Liver Parenchyma and Blood Vessel with in-vivo Radial Gradient and Spin-Echo (GRASE) Datasets for Characterization of Diffuse Liver Disease”
    • Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Summer I 2013