Berna GURLER ARI

Berna GURLER ARI


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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8 February 2022 in Computers in Biology and Medicine
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BABerna GURLER ARI
Berna GURLER ARI
NSNebras Sobahi
Nebras Sobahi
OAOmer Faruk Alçin
Omer Faruk Alçin
AŞAbdulkadir Şengür
Abdulkadir Şengür
U Rajendra AcharyaU Rajendra Acharya
U Rajendra Acharya

29 June 2022 in IEEE Access
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BABerna GURLER ARI
Berna GURLER ARI
Kamran SiddiqueKamran Siddique
Kamran Siddique
OAOmer Faruk Alcin
Omer Faruk Alcin
MAMuzaffer Aslan
Muzaffer Aslan
AŞAbdulkadir Şengür
Abdulkadir Şengür
RMRAJA MAJID MEHMOOD
RAJA MAJID MEHMOOD
Emotion perception is critical for behavior prediction. There are many ways to capture emotional states by observing the body and copying actions. Physiological markers such as electroencephalography (EEG) have gained popularity, as facial emotions may not always adequately convey true emotion. This study has two main aims. The first is to measure four emotion categories using deep learning architectures and EEG data. The second purpose is to increase the number of samples in the dataset. To this end, a novel data augmentation approach namely the Extreme Learning Machine Wavelet Auto Encoder (ELM-W-AE) is proposed for data augmentation. The proposed data augmentation approach is both simple and faster than the other synthetic data augmentation approaches. For deep architectures, large datasets are important for performance. For this reason, data multiplexing approaches with classical and synthetic methods have become popular recently. The proposed synthetic data augmentation is the ELM-W-AE because of its efficiency and detail reproduction. The ELM-AE structure uses wavelet activation functions such as Gaussian, groove gap waveguide (GGW), Mexican, Meyer, Morlet, and Shannon. Deep convolutional architectures classify EEG signals as images. EEG waves are scalograms using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). The ResNet18 architecture recognizes emotions. The proposed technique uses GAMEEMO data collected during gameplay. Each of these states is represented in the GAMEEMO data collection. The visual data set created from the signal was divided into two groups 70% training and 30% testing. ResNet18 has been fine-tuned with augmented photos, training images only. It achieved 99.6% classification accuracy in tests. The proposed method is compared with the other approaches on the same dataset, and an approximately 22% performance improvement is achieved.

27 April 2023 in IEEE Access
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SÖSibel Öztürk
Sibel Öztürk
SŞSafiye Ağapinar Şahin
Safiye Ağapinar Şahin
AAAyşe Nur Aksoy
Ayşe Nur Aksoy
BABerna GURLER ARI
Berna GURLER ARI
AAAlex Akinbi
Alex Akinbi
Cardiotocography (CTG) is a clinical procedure that is used to track and gauge the severity of fetal distress. Although CTG is the most often used equipment to monitor and assess the health of the fetus, the high rate of false positive results due to visual interpretation significantly contributes to needless surgical delivery or delayed intervention. In this study, a novel approach is introduced where both printing CTG paper is digitized and a machine learning approach is employed to detect the abnormality in the digitized CTG signal. Image processing-based preprocessing steps are employed to make the printing of CTG paper more convenient to extract the CTG signal. Various signal-processing techniques are used to calibrate the extracted CTG signal. Then, Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is used to decompose the CTG signal into its frequency components and instantaneous frequency and spectral entropy features are extracted. After feature normalization and feature selection with ReliefF algorithm, support vector machines (SVM) is used for the classification of the normal and abnormal classes. A novel dataset is used in the experimental works and various performance evaluation metrics are used for the evaluation of the achievement of the proposed method. 10-fold cross-validation-based experiments show that the proposed method is quite efficient in abnormality detection in printing CTG papers where an average accuracy score around 90.0% is produced.

20 March 2022 in Turkish Journal of Science and Technology
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BABerna GURLER ARI
Berna GURLER ARI
OAOmer Faruk Alçin
Omer Faruk Alçin
AŞAbdulkadir Şengür
Abdulkadir Şengür
The method is of great importance in systems that include machine learning and classification steps. As a result, academics are constantly working to improve the process. However, the data pertaining to the methodology's performance is equally as valuable as the methodology's creation. While the data is utilized to show the result of the modeling process, it is critical to consider the proper labeling of the data, the technique of acquisition, and the volume. Obtaining data in certain sectors, particularly medical fields, can be costly and time consuming. Thus, data augmenting via classical and synthetic methods has recently gained popularity. Our study uses synthetic data augmentation since it is newer, more efficient, and produces the desired effect. Our study's goal is to classify a data collection of lung sounds into four groups using data augmenting. Obtaining and standardizing the wavelet scatter transformation of each cycle of lung sounds, splitting the transformed data into test and training, augmenting and classifying the training data. In the augmenting stage, we utilized ELM-AE, then ELM-W-AE, with six wavelet functions (Gaussian, Morlet, Mexican, Shannon, Meyer, Ggw) added. The SVM and EBT classifiers improved performance by 4% and 3% in ELM-W-AE compared to the original structure.

7 October 2025 in Symmetry
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BABerna GURLER ARI
Berna GURLER ARI
Cardiac arrhythmias are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and accurate classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) beats is critical for early diagnosis and follow-up. Supervised deep learning is effective but requires abundant labels and substantial computation, limiting practicality. We propose a simple, efficient framework that learns self-supervised ECG representations with SimCLR and uses a lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) for classification. Beat-centered 300-sample segments from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia are used, and imbalance is mitigated via SMOTE. Framed from a symmetry/asymmetry perspective, we exploit a symmetric beat window (150 pre- and 150 post-samples) to encourage approximate translation invariance around the R-peak, while SimCLR jitter/scale augmentations further promote invariance in the learned space; conversely, arrhythmic beats are interpreted as symmetry-breaking departures that aid discrimination. The proposed approach achieves robust performance: 97.2% overall test accuracy, 97.2% macro-average F1-score, and AUC > 0.997 across five beat classes. Notably, the challenging atrial premature beat (A) attains 94.1% F1, indicating effective minority-class characterization with low computation. These results show that combining SMOTE with SimCLR-based representations yields discriminative features and strong generalization under symmetry-consistent perturbations, highlighting potential for real-time or embedded healthcare systems.

3 March 2020 in Fırat Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi
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BABerna GURLER ARI
Berna GURLER ARI
IUİlknur Ucuz
İlknur Ucuz
AAAli Ari
Ali Ari
FÖFiliz Özdemi̇r
Filiz Özdemi̇r
AŞAbdulkadir Şengür
Abdulkadir Şengür
Günlük hayatın bir rutini olan el yazısı; ruh hali, kişilik özellikleri ve var olan bazı hastalıklar hakkında ipuçları vermektedir. Bunun yanında adli tıp, tıp ve arkeoloji gibi birçok disiplin el yazısını kendi alanlarına yönelik çalışmalarda sıkça kullanmaktadırlar. Örneğin adli tıp; bazı vakaların aydınlatılmasında el yazısından yaş aralığı ve hangi elin kullanıldığı gibi bilgilere ulaşabilmektedir. Bu çalışmada, el yazısından cinsiyet tespiti yapan bir sistem önerilmiştir. Önerilen sistem el yazısından, el yazısını karakterize edecek bir dizi öznitelik çıkarıp bu öznitelikleri makine öğrenmesi teknikleri kullanarak cinsiyete göre sınıflandırmıştır. El yazılarının kaydedildiği tabletle hem kalemin tablete temas halindeki durumunda hem de harfler ve kelimeler arası geçişte kalemin havada izlediği eğri hareketlerinden öznitelik çıkarılmıştır. Bu öznitelikler sırası ile kalem hızı, ivmesi, yazarken oluşan sarsıntı hareketleri, eğim açısı, yazıdaki kavislenmeler, kalemin havada kalma oranı, kalemin yaptığı basınç değeri ve kalemin yükseklik açısıdır. Sınıflandırıcı olarak da Karar Ağaçları (KA), Naive Bayes (NB), Destek Vektör Makineler (DVM) ve k-en Yakın Komşu (k-EYK) yaklaşımları kullanılmıştır. Deneysel çalışmalarda kullanılan veri setinde toplam 410 örnek mevcut olup, deneysel çalışmaların başarımları doğruluk kriteri ile değerlendirilmiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlara göre en iyi başarımın DVM ile elde edildiği ve doğruluk değerinin de %85,1 olduğu görülmüştür.