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Ata A. Akin, Ph.D.
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Research Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
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Office: Commonwealth 7-605 Email: sualp@drexel.edu
Phone: 215.895.6148 Fax: 215.895.4983
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Research Keywords:
Biomedical Signal Processing, Biomedical Instrumentation, Biomedical optics, Physiological Systems Modeling.
Personal News:
1. Nih, Sbir Phase I: Real Time Handheld Near Infrared Breast Cancer Imager
2. Onr: Functional Optical Imager
3. Sysnergy Grant: Quantitative Assessment Of Gastric Motitlity Patterns Of Patients With Diabetes Mellitus By Using Fast Electrogastrograms
Biosketch:
Dr Ata Akin received his Ph.D. on Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University in 1998. Since then he has been a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering in Drexel University. Dr Akin’s research interests are in the fields of biomedical optics and biomedical information technology. In the field of biomedical optics, he designs and develops medical instruments to detect breast cancer and monitor the brain activity by using laser sources. In the field of biomedical information technology, he develops algorithms and techniques in extracting and classifying the signals and images obtained from the body.
Education:
PH.D., Drexel University, Biomedical Engineering, 1998
M.S., Istanbul Technical Univerisity, Biomedical Engineering, 1995
B.S., Istanbul Technical University, Electronics Engineering, 1993
Active Research Projects:
Real Time Handheld Nir Breast Cancer Detection
Functional Optical Imaging Using NIR And Lidar Principles
Monitoring Of Gastric Motility Patterns By Using Fast Electrogastrograms
Functional Optical Brain Imaging Sensor for Pilot Awareness
Publications:
A. Akin and H. H. Sun “Non-invasive measurement of gastric motility with fast Electrogastrogram (fEGG)” Physiological Measurements, 8/2001.
A. Akin and H. H. Sun “Non-invasive measurement of gastric motility” Proceedings of IEEE EMBS 2001.
A. Akin, S. Kim, K. Pourrezaei, B. Chance, S. Nioka, "Design parameters for wearable optical imagers," presented at Photonics West 2001, sponsored by SPIE, San Jose CA, January 2001.
A. Akin "Functional Optical Imaging," Proc. of ISIK2000 Workshop on Biomedical Information Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, Jun 2000, pp. 209.
A Akin, K. Pourrezaei, B. Chance, “A proposal for a real-time handheld breast cancer imager,” Proceedings of SPIE, 2000.
A. Akin and H. H. Sun, “Variability of antropyloric electrical activity,” Proc. BMES & EMBS Conf., pp. 948, 1999.
A. Akin, H. H. Sun, “Time and Frequency Methods for Detecting Spike Activity of Stomach,” Med. & Biol. Engr. & Compt., vol. 37, pp. 381-390, 1999.
A. Akin and D. Wei, “Modification of Morlet wavelet to enhance its time and frequency resolutions,” Proc. 33rd Ann. Conf. ISS, vol. 2, pp. 945-948, 1999, Baltimore, MD.
A. Akin and H. H. Sun, “Detection of spike activity from cutaneous data,” Proc. 7th Int’l Workshop on EGG, 1999, Orlando, FL.
A. Akin, T. Akgul, “Detection of Sleep Spindles by Discrete Wavelet transform,” Proc. 24th IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conf., pp. 15-17, 1998, Hershey, PA.
A. Akin, H. H. Sun, W. Y. Chey, K. Y. Lee, “Detection of Spike Activity from Abdominal Surface,” Proc. 6th IEGG Workshop, 1998, New Orleans, LO.
H. Wan, J Cammarota, A. Akin, H. Sun, "Comparison of QRS peak detection algorithms in extracting HRV signal", Proc. 19th IEEE EMBS, 1997, pp. 302-305.
A. Akin, T. Akgul, H.H. Sun, W. Chey, K. Lee, "Comparison of methods to analyze the Antropyloric electrical activity," Proc. 19th IEEE EMBS, 1997, pp. 1602-1605.
G. Sisli, A. Akin. B. Onaral, M. Tazebay, “1/fa Component of Heart Rate Variability,” , Proc. 23rd Northeast Bioeng Conf., 1996.
G. Sisli, B. Onaral, A. Akin, “Multi-Scale Analysis of heart rate Variability,” Proc. IEEE TF/TS Conf., June 1996.
A. Akin, B. Yazgan, “EEG’de esdeger dipol kaynagi yaklasimiyla gerilim dagiliminin belirlenmesi,” Proc. BIYOMUT, 1995.
A. Akin, “Kalp Hizi Degisiminin Guc Spektrumunun Belirlenmesi : Bir Zaman Frekans Analizi,” Proc. BIYOMUT, 1996.
Patents:
"A Method to Monitor Gastric Motility Through Electrogastrogram with Cutaneous Electrodes." Filed on March 21, 2000. Patent Pending.
"Cogniscope." Disclosed on March 25, 2001. Patent Pending.
"Real-Time Handheld Breast Cancer Imager. Disclosed on January 15,2001. Patent Pending.
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