Mert Rory Sabuncu*
is a faculty member at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a research affiliate with MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) . He completed his post-doctoral training with Polina Golland in the medical vision group at MIT's CSAIL. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 2006. His dissertation research was conducted under the supervision of Peter Ramadge. To view his thesis, click here.
His research interests lie in medical image analysis, imaging genetics, signal/image processing, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence.
His dissertation work was on information-theoretic multi-modal image registration. He used a minimum spanning tree based entropy estimation technique to design an efficient and fast rigid-body multi-modal image registration algorithm. Details of this approach can be found in this journal paper. You can also find some Matlab and mex code for this algorithm here.
Recent Highlights:
- November 2009: I officially started at my new job at the Martinos Center.
- August 2009: Spherical Demons IEEE TMI paper in press!
- July 2009: I will be presenting this paper at the MICCAI 09 PMMIA Workshop.
- June 2009: We have three MICCAI '09 papers accepted. Here are the two I first-authored:
- May 07, 2009: The Func-Norm paper is now online.
- April 15, 2009: Ulas's IJCV paper is now available online.
- March 30 2009: Our paper with the Princeton crew just got accepted to Cerebral Cortex. Here's the info: Function-based inter-subject alignment of the cortical anatomy, M.R. Sabuncu*, B.D. Singer*, B. Conroy, R.E. Bryan, P.J. Ramadge and J.V. Haxby. (*Contributed equally). And here's a webpage that contains code and demos.
- March 2009: iCluster Paper accepted to IEEE TMI. Here's the camera-ready.
- March 2009: Paper with Kilian Pohl accepted to IPMI 2009 . Here's a pdf.
*Pronunciation: </mäRt/ /rori/ /saboundjou/>
What's in a name?
Mert: Brave, manly, red-blooded, manful, chivalrous. Borrowed from the Persian word merd and is commonly used in modern day Turkish.
Rory: Anglicized form of the Irish name Ruaidhri, which means "red king" from Irish ruadh "red" combined with rí "king". This apparently was the name of the last high king of Ireland, reigning in the 12th century.
Sabuncu: Maker or seller of soap. Sabun has its roots in Lingua-Franca and literally means soap in many different languages, including Turkish. "cu" is a Turkish suffix that denotes profession.
Last updated on November 2009.
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