Alumni: Sevgi Gokce Kafali, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Bioengineering
CV - last updated Jan 2024
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Research Interests – Medical Image Segmentation in MRI, MR Elastography of the Liver, Deep Learning in MRI, Pediatric MRI

Background –  I received my B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in August 2015. I continued my M.S. studies at Bilkent within the same department, working under Dr. Emine Ulku Saritas’s supervision on phase sensitive denoising for diffusion weighted imaging of the spinal cord. I received my M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in April 2018 before I came to UCLA. 

Favorite thing about UCLA – Restaurants from various cultures and cuisines, great weather all year round

Selected Publications – @Google Scholar

- 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)