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Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Diagnostic ImagingSurgery and Rehabilitation
Degrees / Designations

B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD

Contact Info
ilker.hacihaliloglu@ubc.ca
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Biography

Dr. Ilker Hacihaliloglu is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Istanbul Technical University and his PhD from UBC. Following his PhD, he joined the Center for Hip Health and Mobility and Vancouver General Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow. He was a faculty member at Rutgers University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Radiology from 2014 to 2021. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) - NCE Strategic Postdoctoral Scholarship. He is also the recipient of the 2017 North American Spine Society Young Investigator Award. In addition to striving for excellence in research, he also aspires to be an excellent instructor. 

Dr. Hacihaliloglu’s research is focused on developing innovative machine learning methods for processing various medical image data with a clinical focus in neurosurgery, liver disease, orthopedic surgery, lung disease and interventional radiology. A core mission of his research is to drive innovation in artificial intelligence towards industrial and clinical services and products. With a long-standing track record of working collaboratively with clinicians, his research aims to diminish the gap between exploratory engineering research and clinical research and bring technologies from bench to bedside. He is specifically interested in decentralizing health care by applying point-of-care ultrasound for out-of-hospital risk assessment to enable a more personal, accessible and connected health care.

Learn more about Dr. Hacihaliloglu’s research here.

News and Awards

Generating MRI images from ultrasounds scans

Sep 20, 2024

Publications

  • International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery -

    Liver disease classification from ultrasound using multi-scale CNN.

    Che H, Brown LG, Foran DJ, Nosher JL, Hacihaliloglu I
  • IEEE transactions on medical imaging -

    KiU-Net: Overcomplete Convolutional Architectures for Biomedical Image and Volumetric Segmentation.

    Valanarasu JMJ, Sindagi VA, Hacihaliloglu I, Patel VM
  • International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery -

    Time-aware deep neural networks for needle tip localization in 2D ultrasound.

    Mwikirize C, Kimbowa AB, Imanirakiza S, Katumba A, Nosher JL, Hacihaliloglu I
  • International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery -

    Chest X-ray image phase features for improved diagnosis of COVID-19 using convolutional neural network.

    Qi X, Brown LG, Foran DJ, Nosher J, Hacihaliloglu I
  • International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery -

    Robust real-time bone surfaces segmentation from ultrasound using a local phase tensor-guided CNN.

    Wang P, Vives M, Patel VM, Hacihaliloglu I
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