about

I am a biomedical engineer working on fast MRI reconstruction, as a researcher at UMRAM, Bilkent University. I did my PhD at TOBB University of Economics and Technology on diffusion models for cardiac cine MRI, after three years of building medical devices in industry.

I played ice hockey for the Turkish national team; the drills page has animated practice drills. I also build small electronics projects with microcontrollers, and a page about them is on its way.

Publications

  1. 2025 Cardiac MRI Image Data Augmentation Using Diffusion Model-Based Asymmetric Attention Mechanisms Mertcan Özdemir, Osman Eroğul Diagnostics
  2. 2023 Thermal monitoring system with the sensor used in the radiant heating device Kasım Erdoğan, Mertcan Özdemir, Kaan Uçak WO Patent WO2023163682A1
  3. 2022 Development of Radiant Warmer Thermal Monitoring System to Improve Neonatal Patient Safety Mertcan Özdemir, Kasım Erdoğan, Osman Eroğul Journal of Intelligent Systems with Applications
  4. 2020 Development of Invasive Blood Pressure Simulator Design for Testing and Calibrating Mertcan Özdemir, Erdem İnanç Budak, Osman Eroğul 2020 Medical Technologies Congress (TIPTEKNO)
  5. 2020 Investigating EEG Based Marker for Diagnosis of Mathematical Difficulties Farhad Nassehi, Mertcan Özdemir, Osman Eroğul 2020 28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)
  6. 2019 Investigating ballistic gelatin based phantom properties for ultrasound training Mertcan Özdemir, Galip Özdemir, Osman Eroğul World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018: June 3-8, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic (Vol. 1)
  7. 2019 Wireless transmission of heart rate and blood pressure measurements for remote patient monitoring Elif Çiğdem Türk, Ezgi Pelin Altiner, Mertcan Özdemir, Osman Eroğul 2019 Medical Technologies Congress (Tiptekno)
  8. 2019 Investigation of ballistic gelatin based phantom models for computed tomography, x-ray and ultrasound imaging devices Mertcan Özdemir, Osman Eroğul, Aytekin Ünlü 2019 Medical Technologies Congress (TIPTEKNO)
  9. 2018 Ultrasonografi eğitimi için balistik jelatin esaslı fantom geliştirilmesi ve özelliklerinin araştırılması Mertcan Özdemir TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering …
  10. 2017 Lower limb phantom design and production for blood flow and pressure tests Erdem Budak, Faruk Beytar, Mertcan Özdemir, Beyza Nur Susam, Meriç Göker, Aytekin Ünlü, Osman Eroğul The EuroBiotech Journal

Teaching

TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Biomedical Engineering, 2023 – present.

  • BMM411 Biomedical Image Processing
  • BMM316 Biomedical Sensors and Transducers
  • Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory

I also supervised undergraduate theses.

Elsewhere

CV (PDF) · Google Scholar · GitHub · LinkedIn · mertcanozdemir@yahoo.com