Altug Akay

ORCID: 0000-0003-4172-1325
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Research Areas
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
  • Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
  • Text and Document Classification Technologies
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • E-Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration

Columbia University
2019

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2013-2016

Bluebird Bio (United States)
2011

Brigham and Women's Hospital
2010-2011

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
2009

Dartmouth College
2001-2008

Dartmouth Hospital
2007

Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics is playing an increasingly important role in public health, environmental monitoring, and food safety analysis. Smartphones, alone or conjunction with add-on devices, have shown great capability of data collection, analysis, display, transmission, making them popular POC diagnostics. In this article, the state-of-the-art advances smartphone-based diagnostic technologies their applications past few years are outlined, ranging from <italic...

10.1109/jproc.2014.2378776 article EN Proceedings of the IEEE 2015-02-01

Intelligently extracting knowledge from social media has recently attracted great interest the Biomedical and Health Informatics community to simultaneously improve healthcare outcomes reduce costs using consumer-generated opinion. We propose a two-step analysis framework that focuses on positive negative sentiment, as well side effects of treatment, in users' forum posts, identifies user communities (modules) influential users for purpose ascertaining opinion cancer treatment. used...

10.1109/jbhi.2014.2336251 article EN IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2014-07-10

Selective capture of cells from bodily fluids in microchannels has broadly transformed medicine enabling circulating tumor cell isolation, rapid CD4+ counting for HIV monitoring, and diagnosis infectious diseases. Although methods have been demonstrated microfluidic systems, the release captured remains a significant challenge. Viable retrieval label-free will enable new era biological sciences by allowing cultivation post-processing. The challenge comes fact that adhere strongly to...

10.1039/c1lc20487d article EN Lab on a Chip 2011-01-01

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) account for 45% of all deaths in the western world according to 2004 World Health Organization statistics report. Heart failure (HF), CVD's primary paradigm, mainly affects people older than 65. The European MyHeart Project's mission is empower citizens fight CVD by leading a preventative lifestyle and allowing early diagnosis. This paper presents iterative design development HF management system, part Project. system daily measures vital body signals assess...

10.1109/titb.2009.2026572 article EN IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 2009-07-30

A novel data mining method was developed to gauge the experience of drug Sitagliptin (trade name Januvia) by patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. To this goal, we devised a two-step analysis framework. Initial exploratory using self-organizing maps performed determine structures based on user opinions among forum posts. The results were compilation user's clusters and their correlated (positive or negative) opinion drug. Subsequent modeling network methods used influential users members....

10.1109/jbhi.2013.2295834 article EN IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2014-01-31

The World Health Organization (WHO) is rapidly expanding antiretroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan countries. However, virological failure of ART rarely monitored due to the lack affordable and sustainable viral load assays suitable for resource-limited settings. Here, we report a prototype rapid virus detection method based on microfluidic technologies. In this method, HIV-1 particles from 10 μL whole blood were captured by anti-gp120 antibody coated microchannel surface detected dual...

10.1117/12.853132 article EN Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE 2010-04-23

Depression is a global health concern. Social networks allow the affected population to share their experiences. These experiences, when mined, extracted, and analyzed, can be converted into either warnings recall drugs (dangerous side effects), or service improvement (interventions, treatment options) based on observations derived from user behavior in depression-related social networks. Our aim was develop weighted network model represent activity This enabled us accurately interactions by...

10.1109/jbhi.2016.2539972 article EN IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2016-05-03

A novel data-mining method was developed to gauge the experiences of medical devices and drugs by patients with diabetes mellitus. Self-organizing maps were used analyze forum posts numerically better understand user opinion drugs. The end-result is a word list compilation that correlates certain positive negative cluster groups devices. implication this could open new avenues research into rapid data collection, feedback, analysis would enable improved outcomes solutions for public health.

10.1109/pht.2013.6461335 article EN 2013-01-01

Beta-thalassemia is an anemic genetic disorder that remains a major global health issue, especially in the globalized era where public health, economics, and education are tightly interwoven. Previous studies have examined disease's rate heredity. This study analyzed beta-thalassemia's socioeconomic geography how it affects afflicted population. We processed survey data performed mining using self-organizing maps to identify underlying structure. hypothesized certain variables mark subgroups...

10.1109/titb.2009.2020062 article EN IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 2009-04-15

A novel data-mining method was developed to gauge the experiences of diabetes mellitus drug Januvia. Self-organizing maps were used analyze forum posts numerically infer user opinion Graph theory discover influential users. The result is a word list compilation correlating positive and negative cluster groups web users on implications could open new research avenues into rapid data collection, feedback, analysis that would enable improved solutions for public health.

10.1109/embc.2013.6611289 article EN 2013-07-01

beta-thalassemia, an anemic genetic disorder, remains a significant global health issue, especially in the era of globalization where healthcare, economics, and education are more tightly interconnected. Although previous studies focused on medical aspect beta-thalassemia affects consanguineous marriages, we investigated what socio-economic geography how it spread rate using self-organizing maps (SOM) Sammon mapping. We converted data generated from questionnaires into numerical variables to...

10.1109/itab.2007.4407416 article EN 2007-11-01

Recently there is some interest in using photobleaching rates vivo to correctly interpret dose deposition, and even predict the deposited within tissue. There are many factors causing rate changes related localization, transport oxygen availability which can confound interpretation of a bleaching measured vivo, perhaps most problematic issue that fluorescence signal come from multiple depths tissue this depth change during course treatment. In study we examine use micro-fiber bundle designed...

10.1117/12.424438 article EN Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE 2001-04-09
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