Publications

For a more up-to-date list of publications before 2021 please check the google scholar link provided below.

2025

  • Mehrabian A, Adi PM, Heidari M, Hacihaliloglu I. Implicit Neural Representations with Fourier Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), April 06-11, 2025, Hyderabad, India. PDF | Code
  • Salmanpour MR, Alizadeh M, Mousavi G, Sadeghi S, Amiri S, Oveisi M, Rahmim A, Hacihaliloglu I. Machine Learning Evaluation Metric Discrepancies across Programming Languages and Their Components in Medical Imaging Domains: Need for Standardization. IEEE Access. 2025 Mar 10. PDF
  • Medghalchi Y, Heidari M, Allard C, Sigal L, Hacihaliloglu I. Prompt2Perturb (P2P): Text-Guided Diffusion-Based Adversarial Attacks on Breast Ultrasound Images. CVPR 2025. Preprint | Code
  • Heidari M, Aghdam EK, Manzella A, Hsu D, Scalabrino R, Chen W, Foran DJ, Hacihaliloglu I. A Study on the Performance of U-Net Modifications in Retroperitoneal Tumor Segmentation. SPIE Medical Imaging 2025. Preprint | Code
  • Parmar A, Grozier CD, Dima R, Tolzman JE, Hacihaliloglu I, Cameron KL, Fajardo R, Harkey MS. Wireless vs. Traditional Ultrasound Assessed Knee Cartilage Outcomes Utilizing Automated Gain and Normalization Techniques. Osteoarthritis Imaging. 2025 Jan 8:100260.

2024

  • Singla R, Pupic N, Ghaffarizadeh SA, Kim C, Hu R, Forster BB, Hacihaliloglu I. Developing a Canadian artificial intelligence medical curriculum using a Delphi study. Nature npj Digital Medicine. 2024 Nov 18;7(1):1-10. LINK
  • Alvin Kimbowa, Alex Pieters, Parsa Tadayon, Ishi Arora, Sabrina Gulam, Antonio Pinos, David Liu, Ilker Hacihaliloglu. Advancements in needle visualization enhancement and localization methods in ultrasound: a literature review. Artificial Intelligence Surgery. June, 2024.
  • Sina Ghorbani Kolahi, Seyed Kamal Chaharsooghi, Toktam Khatibi, Afshin Bozorgpour, Reza Azad, Moein Heidari, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Dorit Merhof. MSA^2Net: Multi-scale Adaptive Attention-guided Network for Medical Image Segmentation. The 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC-2024), 25th – 28th November 2024, Glasgow, UK. CODE
  • Mohammad R Salmanpour, Amin Mousavi, Yixi Xu, William B Weeks, Ilker Hacihaliloglu. Do High-Performance Image-to-Image Translation Networks Enable the Discovery of Radiomic Features? Application to MRI Synthesis from Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer. InInternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024, Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound (ASMUS 2024), 6-10 October 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco. CODE
  • Harkey MS, Michel N, Grozier C, Slade JM, Collins K, Pietrosimone B, Lalush D, Lisee C, Hacihaliloglu I, Fajardo R. Femoral cartilage ultrasound echo‐intensity is a valid measure of cartilage composition. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 2024 Apr;42(4):729-36.
  • Azampour MF, Tirindelli M, Lameski J, Gafencu M, Tagliabue E, Fatemizadeh E, Hacihaliloglu I, Navab N. Anatomy‐aware computed tomography‐to‐ultrasound spine registration. Medical Physics. 2024 Mar;51(3):2044-56.

2023

  1. Kazerouni A, Aghdam EK, Heidari M, Azad R, Fayyaz M, Hacihaliloglu I, Merhof D. Diffusion models in medical imaging: A comprehensive survey. Medical Image Analysis. 2023 Aug 1;88:102846.
  2. Harkey MS, Michel N, Grozier C, Slade J, Collins K, Pietrosimone B, Lalush D, Lisee C, Hachihaliloglu I, Fajardo R. Femoral Cartilage Ultrasound Echo-Intensity Is a Valid Measure Of Cartilage Composition. Accepted for publication in Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 2023 Oct 17th.
  3. Azampour MF, Tirindelli M, Lameski J, Gafencu M, Tagliabue E, Fatemizadeh E, Hacihaliloglu I, Navab N. Anatomy‐aware computed tomography‐to‐ultrasound spine registration. Medical Physics. 2023 Sep 14.
  4. Masoumi N, Rivaz H, Hacihaliloglu I, Ahmad MO, Reinertsen I, Xiao Y. The big bang of deep learning in ultrasound-guided surgery: a review. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2023 Mar 10.
  5. Kazerouni A, Aghdam EK, Heidari M, Azad R, Fayyaz M, Hacihaliloglu I, Merhof D. Diffusion models in medical imaging: A comprehensive survey. Medical Image Analysis. 2023 May 23:102846.
  6. Harkey MS, Michel N, Grozier C, Slade J, Collins K, Pietrosimone B, Lalush D, Lisee C, Hacihaliloglu I, Fajardo R. Femoral Cartilage Ultrasound Echo-Intensity Is A Valid Measure Of Cartilage Composition Compared To T2 Relaxation Times In Patients After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2023 Mar 1;31:S292.
  7. Balica A, Dai J, Piiwaa K, Qi X, Green AN, Phillips N, Egan S, Hacihaliloglu I. Augmenting endometriosis analysis from ultrasound data with deep learning. SPIE-Medical Imaging, 2023. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09621. 2023 Feb 19.
  8. Harkey MS, Michel N, Grozier C, Slade J, Collins K, Pietrosimone B, Lalush D, Lisee C, Hacihaliloglu I, Fajardo R. Femoral Cartilage Ultrasound Echo-Intensity Is A Valid Measure Of Cartilage Composition Compared To T2 Relaxation Times In Patients After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2023 Mar 1;31:S292.
  9. Rahman A, Valanarasu JM, Hacihaliloglu I, Patel VM. Ambiguous medical image segmentation using diffusion models. InProceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (pp. 11536-11546).

2022

  1. Qi X, Foran DJ, Nosher JL, Hacihaliloglu I. Multi-Feature Vision Transformer via Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Improvement of COVID-19 Diagnosis. InInternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022 Workshop on Medical Image Learning with Limited and Noisy Data.
  2. Rahman A, Bandara WG, Valanarasu JM, Hacihaliloglu I, Patel VM. Orientation-guided Graph Convolutional Network for Bone Surface Segmentation. InInternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022 (pp. 412-421). Springer, Cham.
  3. Rahman A, Valanarasu JM, Hacihaliloglu I, Patel VM. Simultaneous Bone and Shadow Segmentation Network Using Task Correspondence Consistency. InInternational Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022 (pp. 330-339). Springer, Cham.
  4. Pandey P., Hohlmann B., Broessner P., Hacihaliloglu I., Barr K., Ungi T., Zettinig O., Prevost R., Dardenne G., Fanti Z., Wein W., Stindel E., Cosio F.A., Guy P., Fichtinger G., Radermacher K., Hodgson A. Standardized Evaluation of Current Ultrasound Bone Segmentation Algorithms on Multiple Datasets. In the international conference on Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) Brest, France, June 8th to 11th 2022 [Accepted May 5 2022].
  5. Ayad MA, Mahon T, Patel M, Cararo-Lopes MM, Hacihaliloglu I, Firestein BL, Boustany NN. Förster resonance energy transfer efficiency of the vinculin tension sensor in cultured primary cortical neuronal growth cones. Neurophotonics. 2022 May;9(2):025002.
  6. Harkey MS, Michel N, Kuenze C, Fajardo R, Salzler M, Driban JB, Hacihaliloglu I. Validating a Semi-Automated Technique for Segmenting Femoral Articular Cartilage on Ultrasound Images. Cartilage. 2022 Apr;13(2):19476035221093069.
  7. Harkey MS, Michel N, Kuenze C, Fajardo R, Salzler M, Driban J, Hacihaliloglu I. Validating a Semi-Automatic Ultrasound Technique for Segmenting Femoral Articular Cartilage.Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2022 Apr 1;30:S270.
  8. Harkey MS, Michel N, Kuenze C, Fajardo R, Salzler M, Driban JB, Hacihaliloglu I. Validating A Semi-Automated Ultrasound Technique For Segmenting Femoral Articular Cartilage. In 2022 Osteoarthritis Research Society International World Congress on Osteoarthritis. April, 2022.
  9. You D, LaFonte M, Hacihaliloglu I, Lissauer M. 565: Automated Image Processing with Point of Care Ocular Ultrasound for Real-time ICP Monitoring. Critical Care Medicine. 2022 Jan 1;50(1):274.
  10. Dai, J., Hacihaliloglu, I., and Balica, A. Augmenting endometriosis analysis from ultrasound data with deep learning. In American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), March 12-16, 2022.

2021

  1. J. M. J. Valanarasu, V. A. Sindagi, I. Hacihaliloglu and V. M. Patel, “KiU-Net: Overcomplete Convolutional Architectures for Biomedical Image and Volumetric Segmentation,” in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, doi: 10.1109/TMI.2021.3130469.
  2. You D, LaFonte M, Hacihaliloglu I, Lissauer M. Automated Image Processing With Point-Of-Care Ultrasound for Real-time ICP Monitoring. Critical Care Medicine. 2021 Dec 16;50(1):274-.
  3. Qi X, Nosher JL, Foran DJ, Hacihaliloglu I. Multi-Feature Semi-Supervised Learning for COVID-19 Diagnosis from Chest X-ray Images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01617. 2021 MICCAI Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2021) workshop, September 27-October 1, Strasbourg, France. Virtual due to Covid-19. CODE and DATA
  4. Che H, Ramanathan S, Foran D, Nosher JL, Patel VM, Hacihaliloglu I. Realistic Ultrasound Image Synthesis for Improved Classification of Liver Disease. 2021 MICCAI-International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS2021), September 27-October 1, Strasbourg, France. Virtual due to Covid-19.
  5. H. Che, J. Radbel, J. Sunderram, J. L. Nosher, V. M. Patel and I. Hacihaliloglu, “Multi-feature Multi-Scale CNN-Derived COVID-19 Classification from Lung Ultrasound Data,” 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021, pp. 2618-2621, doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9631069.
  6. Valanarasu JM, Oza P, Hacihaliloglu I, Patel VM. Medical transformer: Gated axial-attention for medical image segmentation. 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 27-October 1, Strasbourg, France. Virtual due to Covid-19.. CODE
  7. Che H., Brown LG, Foran DJ, Nosher JL, Hacihaliloglu, I. Liver Disease Classification from Ultrasound Using Multi-Scale CNN, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, May 20,2021 [Accepted]. CODE
  8. Iskander A, Bilgi C, Naftalovich R, Hacihaliloglu I, Berkman T, Naftalovich D, Pahlevan N. The Rheology of the Carotid Sinus: A path toward bioinspired intervention. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 2021 Jun 10;9:439.
  9. Kimbowa A.B., Imanirakiza S., Katumba A., Nosher J.L., Hacihaliloglu I. Time-Aware Deep Neural Networks for Needle Tip Localization in 2D Ultrasound, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, March 2021. This work will be presented at the 2021 IPCAI meeting which will be held June 22-23, 2021 in Munich, Germany.
  10. Qi X, Brown LG, Foran DJ, Nosher J, Hacihaliloglu I. Chest X-ray image phase features for improved diagnosis of COVID-19 using convolutional neural network. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery. 2021 Feb;16(2):197-206. CODE and DATA