Ipek Oguz, Ph.D.

E-mail: ipek@cs.unc.edu

Office: 361 Medical School Wing C

Phone: (919) 843-2878

Education:

B.S., Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

M.S., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summary Statement:

Dr. Oguz is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the UNC Neuro Image Research and Analysis Laboratory, where she is leading the small animal imaging group. Her main field of research is in medical image processing and analysis. She has an extensive background in surface correspondence, morphometry using shape analysis, modeling and atlas building, diffusion tensor image analysis, anatomical structure and tissue segmentation. Her current research focuses on brain developmental changes in mouse and rat models of intra-uterine exposure to cocaine and alcohol.


Representative Publications:

1. I Oguz, M Niethammer, J Cates, R Whitaker, T Fletcher, C Vachet, M Styner. “Cortical Correspondence with Probabilistic Fiber Connectivity.” Proc. Information Processing in Medical Imaging, 2009, pp. 651 - 663.

2. I Oguz, J Cates, T Fletcher, R Whitaker, D Cool, S Aylward, M Styner. “Entropy-Based Particle Systems and Local Features for Cortical Correspondence Optimization.” Proc. IEEE Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2008, pp. 1637 – 1640.

3. M Styner, I Oguz, T Heimann, G Gerig. “Minimum Description Length with Local Geometry.” Proc. IEEE Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2008, pp. 1283 – 1286.

4. I Oguz, G Gerig, S Barre, M Styner. “KWMeshVisu: A Mesh Visualization Tool for Shape Analysis.” Open Science Workshop at MICCAI, 2006, published in Insight Journal.

5. T Heimann, I Oguz, I Wolf, M Styner, HP Meinzer. “Implementing the Automatic Generation of 3D Statistical Shape Models with ITK.” Open Science Workshop at MICCAI, 2006, published in Insight Journal.