Resume: Click here to download Yusuf Artan's resume. Education: PhD, candidate, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2008-present. MS,in Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University. BS,in Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Research Interests: Yusuf Artan's research interests are Image Segmentation, Semi-supervised Learning Algorithms, Spectral Graph Theory and Machine Learning. Please see the research link for more information. Publications: Journal Papers: [1] Y. Artan, I.S. Yetik, et al. "Prostate Cancer Localization with Multispectral MRI using Cost sensitive Support vector Machines and Conditional random Fields," to appear, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing . Conference Papers: [5] Y. Artan, I. S. Yetik, "Improved Random Walker Algorithm for Image Segmentation", to appear, Proceedings of IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, 2010. [4] Y. Artan, M. A. Haider, D. L. Langer, I. S. Yetik, "Semi-Supervised Prostate Cancer Segmentation with Multispectral MRI", ISBI 2010 , pp. 648-651, 2010.. [3] Y. Artan, I.S. Yetik, et al. "Prostate Cancer Segmentation with multispectral MRI using cost sensitive Conditional Random fields," ISBI 2009, pp. 282-285, 2009. [2] Y. Artan, X. Huang, "Combining multiple 2-nu SVM classifiers for tissue segmentation," ISBI 2008, pp. 481-484, 2008. [1] R. Blum, Y. Artan, B. Sadler, "A new approach to energy efficient classification with multiple sensors based on ordered tranmissions," ICASSP 2008, pp. 2505-2508, 2008.