Mitko B Kostov

St. Kliment Ohridski University
Faculty of Technical Sciences
Ivo Lola Ribar BO 99, Bitola, Macedonia
Phone: ++ 389 47 207 711,  fax: ++ 389 47 203 370

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information

Date of birth: 20/08/1973
Place of birth: Bitola, Macedonia
Marital status: Married, two children

Education

Mar. 2008    Sts Cyril and Methodius University       Skopje, MKD
PhD in Digital Signal Processing (Researches on wavelet denoising of nuclear medicine images). Thesis: Noise Removal in Nuclear Medicine Images by Using Multiresolution. Supervisors: Prof. M Bogdanov, Prof. C Mitrovski.

Oct. 1997 – May 2000    Sts Cyril and Methodius University       Skopje, MKD
MSc in Digital Signal Processing (Researches on Digital Signal Processing, QMF Banks, Algorithms for Designing QMF Banks). Thesis: A Fast Algorithm for Designing QMF Banks. Supervisor: Prof. M Bogdanov.

Oct. 1992 – May 1997     Sts Cyril and Methodius University       Skopje, MKD
BSc in Electrical Engineering
Specialisation in QMF Banks. Thesis: Designing QMF Banks with linear phase filters. Supervisor: Prof. M Bogdanov.

Professional experience

Mar. 1999 – now    St. Kliment Ohridski University, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Bitola, Macedonia
Ass. Professor (Jun. 2008 - now)
Teaching ass. Mar. 1999 - Jun. 2008)

Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2005   National Agricultural Extension Agency (NEA), Bitola, Macedonia
Computer specialist

Skills and qualifications/ Research interests

Digital signal processing, multi-resolution analysis (MRA), wavelets, NPR-QMF (near perfect reconstruction - quadrature mirror filter) banks, denoising nuclear medicine (NM) images, Matlab (toolboxes: general, signal/image processing, wavelets, GUI), LabView, lectures and presentations.

Project documents

Pre-project: Approach towards creation of an information system for the needs of the Agency for motivation of the agricultural development in the Republic of Macedonia (March, 2000);
Pre-project: TOR for software creation for certain segments of the Information system of the Agency (June, 2001).

Publications

Mitko B. Kostov and Cvetko D. Mitrovski, Problems Collection in Electronics, Faculty of technical Sciences, Bitola, Macedonia (in preparation).

Mitko B. Kostov and Cvetko D. Mitrovski, Problems Collection in Measurement and Data-Acquisition Systems, Faculty of technical Sciences, Bitola, Macedonia (in preparation);
Mitko Kostov and Vesna Ceselkoska, Problems Collection in Electrical engineering I, Faculty of technical Sciences, Bitola, Macedonia (in printing). 

Conference proceedings

[1] Sofija Bogdanova, Mitko Kostov, and Momcilo Bogdanov, “Design of QMF Banks with Reduced Number of Iterations”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Application and Technology, ICSPAT ’99, Orlando, USA, Nov. 1999;

[2] Sofija Bogdanova, Mitko Kostov and Momcilo Bogdanov, “Modified version of Chen and Lee’s algorithm for the design of QMF banks”, Europ. Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD ‘99), pp. 1327-1330, Stresa, Italy, 29 Aug.–2 Sept. 1999;

[3] Mitko Kostov and Momcilo Bogdanov, “On the design of IIR digital filters”, International Scientific Conference on Energy and Information Systems and Technologies EIST 2001, vol. 2 pp. 482-487, Bitola, Macedonia, Jun. 2001;

[4] Mitko B. Kostov and Mile I. Petkovski, “Estimation of the Line Voltage Disturbance in the Wavelet Domain Processing”, Int. Sc. Conf. on Energy and Information Systems and Technologies EIST 2001, vol. 2 pp. 510-515, Bitola, Macedonia, Jun. 2001;

[5] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “On the Preprocessing of Dynamic Nuclear Medicine Images”, International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies ICEST 2002, vol. 1 pp. 201-204, Nis, Serbia and Montenegro, Jun. 2002;

[6] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “A Wavelet Domain Approach On Noise Filtration Of Nuclear Medicine Images”, International Scientific And Applied Science Conference Electronics ET’2002, vol. 2 pp. 33-38, Sozopol, Bulgaria, Sept. 2002;

[7] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “An Approach For Extracting The Vein And Heart Boundaries From Raw NM Images”, VI National Conference ETAI 2003, pp. E69-E72, Ohrid, Macedonia, Sept. 2003;

[8] Vesna Ilievska, Mitko Kostov, Petar Trajkovski “Implementation of the Farm Monitoring System in Macedonia”, International conference PACIOLI 11 – New roads for farm accounting and FADN, pp. 96-104, Przysick, Poland, Oct. 2003;

[9] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “On The Radionuclide Movement Depended Filtering Of Nuclear Medicine Images”, Fourth International Conference for Informatics and Information Technology 2003, Molika, Macedonia, Dec. 2003;

[10] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “On the Wavelet Selection for Nuclear Medicine Images Processing”, XXXIX International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies, vol.1 pp. 135-138, Bitola, Macedonia, Jun. 2004;

[11] Mitko B. Kostov and Cvetko D. Mitrovski, “On The Denoising Of Nuclear Medicine Chest Region Images”, International Scientific And Applied Science Conference Electronics ET’2004, Sozopol, Bulgaria, 22-24 Sept. 2004;

[12] Vesna Ilievska, Mitko Kostov “On the Development of Farm Monitoring System in Macedonia”, International conference PACIOLI 13 - Micro Economic Data on Farm Diversification, Rural Businesses and the Intra-generational Transfer, Hardingasete, Norway, Jun. 2005;

[13] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “QMF Filtering Of Nuclear Medicine Heart Region Images”, Int. Scientific Conf. on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies ICEST 2005, Nis, Serbia and Montenegro, Jun. 2005;

[14] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “A Wavelet Approach on NM Images Filtering Using Adjacent Images Information”, VII National Conference ETAI 2005, Ohrid, Macedonia, Sept. 2005;

[15] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “NM Images Filtering Using NPR QMF Filters Dependent on the Images Spectrum”, 7th International Conference on Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, Nis, Serbia and Montenegro, Sept. 2005;

[16] Cvetko D. Mitrovski and Mitko B. Kostov, “A Wavelet Based GUI for NM Images Filtering Using Variance-Stabilizing Transformation”, International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies ICEST 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria, Jun. 2006;

[17] Mitko Kostov, Cvetko Mitrovski, and Momcilo Bogdanov, “Signal Estimation with NPR-QMF Banks and Multiscale Products”, 14th Telecommunications Forum TELFOR 2006, Belgrade, Serbia, Noe. 2006;

[18] M. Kostov, C. Mitrovski, M. Bogdanov, “Non-uniform Thresholds for Removal of Signal-Dependent Noise in Wavelet Domain”, Int. Scientific Conf. on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies ICEST 2007, Ohrid, Macedonia, Jun. 2007;

[19] M. Kostov, C. Mitrovski, M. Bogdanov, “Threshold Estimation for Wavelet Domain Filtering of Signal-dependent Noise”, 14th Int. Conf. on systems, Signals and Image Processing IWSSIP 2007 and 6th EURASIP Conf. Focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services EC-SIPMCS 2007, Maribor, Slovenia, Jun. 2007;

[20] M. Kostov, C. Mitrovski, M. Bogdanov, “Non-uniform Threshold as an alternative to Uniform Threshold in Denoising in Wavelet Domain”, Int. Scientific Conf. on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies ICEST 2008, Nis, Serbia, Jun. 2008.

Study visits

Information systems, computer networks, databases, Feb. 2005, Stockholm, Sweden;
Information systems, computer networks, databases, Apr. 2005, Orebro, Sweden;
Introducing Two-Tier Studies in the Field of Metrology, Tempus Project N° JEP_19010_2004, Jul. 2007, Krakow, Poland.

Computer Literacy

Engineers programs: Matlab (toolboxes: general, signal/image processing, wavelets, GUI), Electronics Workbench, LabView;
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP;
Servers: Microsoft Windows NT4/2000, Microsoft Internet Information Server;
Programming: Visual Basic, MS Access (VBA), C++, Basic, Pascal;
Relational databases: Microsoft Access, SQL Server;
Documents/Spreadsheet/Internet: Microsoft Office (all incl. apps), IE, Mozilla, Opera;
Images and vector drawing: Corel Draw, Corel Photo Paint, Microsoft Visio;
Web design: Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver;
Creating report programs: Crystal Reports

Membership in profession. organizations

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)

References

Dr Momcilo Bogdanov, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje, Macedonia. Tel. ++ 389 2 3111076, e-mail: bogdanov@mt.net.mk

Dr Cvetko Mitrovski, St. Kliment Ohridski University, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Bitola, Macedonia. Tel. ++ 389 47 257999, e-mail: cvetko.mitrovski@uklo.edu.mk

25-jul-08

 

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