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Sevgi Gokce Kafali, PhD

Alumni

About

Dr. Sevgi Gokce Kafali received her M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University in 2018, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Emine Ulku Saritas on phase-sensitive denoising techniques for diffusion-weighted imaging of the spinal cord. She later joined UCLA, where her research focused on medical image segmentation in MRI, MR elastography of the liver, deep learning in MRI, and pediatric imaging applications. Her work aimed to improve diagnostic accuracy and image quality across a range of clinical MRI applications.

Education and Degree(s)

  • Ph.D.
    • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2018
  • B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2015

Publications

  • SG Kafali, S Shih, X Li, S Chowdhury, S Loong, J Moretz, S Barnes, Z Li, HH Wu. Automated Abdominal Adipose
    Tissue Segmentation and Volume Quantification using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Longitudinal Multi-contrast
    MRI, Magn. Reson. Mater. Phys. Biol. Med. (2023) (Accepted)
  • SG Kafali, T Armstrong, S Shih, GJ Kim, JL Holtrop, RS Venick, S Ghahremani, BD Bolster Jr., CM Hillenbrand, KL Calkins, HH Wu. Free Breathing Radial Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Liver in Children at 3T: A Pilot Study. Pediatric Radiology. 1-12. (2022)
  • SG Kafali, S Shih, X Li, S Chowdhury, S Loong, S Barnes, Z Li, HH Wu. 3D Neural Networks for Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Segmentation using Volumetric Multi-Contrast MRI, 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 3933-3937, doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630110 PMID: 34892092. (2021)
  • SG Kafali, S Shih, D Ruan and HH Wu, Adaptive Locally Low Rank and Sparsity Constrained Reconstruction for Accelerated Dynamic MRI 2020 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 930-934, doi: 10.1109/ISBI45749.2020.9098461. (2020)
  • SG Kafali, T Cukur and EU Saritas. Phase-Correcting Non-Local Means Filtering for Diffusion Weighted Imaging   of the Spinal Cord, Magn Reson Med. 80.3: 1020-1035, (2018)