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Zhi-Pei Liang

Professor

Primary Affiliation

Computational Imaging

Affiliations

Status Full-time Faculty

Home Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Phone 244-4023

Email z-liang@illinois.edu

Address 4257 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue

  • Biography

    Zhi-Pei Liang received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1989. He is a professor in the U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Bioimaging Science and Technology group. His fields of professional interest are magnetic resonance imaging, imaging informatics, and machine learning.

  • Honors

    Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society (1999); Senior Member, IEEE (1998); Daily Illini Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers (1998, 1999); Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC (1997); Outstanding Staff Member Award, the Panhellenic Council of UIUC (1995); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995); National Science Foundation RIA Award (1994); Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield (Best Paper) Award, Medical Physics (1990).

  • Research

    Zhi-Pei Liang's work in the Beckman Institute is primarily focused on two areas: (1) fast and efficient magnetic resonance imaging methods and (2) intelligent computational algorithms for image processing and pattern recognition. In the first area, he and his students are developing advanced data acquisition and image reconstruction schemes to enable high-resolution spatiotemporal imaging of moving objects. In the second area, they are focusing on developing statistical and kernel-based learning methods with application, registration, and recognition.

    Liang's sources of research support are the NIH and the NSF.

  • 2014

    • Lam, F.; Liang, Z. P., A Subspace Approach to High-Resolution Spectroscopic Imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014, 71, (4), 1349-1357, DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25168.

    2013

    • Christodoulou, A. G.; Zhang, H. S.; Zhao, B.; Hitchens, T. K.; Ho, C.; Liang, Z. P., High-Resolution Cardiovascular MRI by Integrating Parallel Imaging with Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2013, 60, (11), 3083-3092, DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2013.2266096.
    • Gai, J. D.; Obeid, N.; Holtrop, J. L.; Wu, X. L.; Lam, F.; Fu, M. J.; Haldar, J. P.; Hwu, W. M. W.; Liang, Z. P.; Sutton, B. P., More Impatient: A Gridding-Accelerated Toeplitz-Based Strategy for Non-Cartesian High-Resolution 3D MRI on GPUs. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 2013, 73, (5), 686-697.
    • Haldar, J. P.; Hernando, D.; Liang, Z. P., Compressed-Sensing MRI with Random Encoding (Vol 30, Pg 893, 2011). IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2013, 32, (7), 1362-1362, DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2013.2270927.
    • Haldar, J. P.; Wedeen, V. J.; Nezamzadeh, M.; Dai, G. P.; Weiner, M. W.; Schuff, N.; Liang, Z. P., Improved Diffusion Imaging through SNR-Enhancing Joint Reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2013, 69, (1), 277-289.
    • Lam, F.; Ma, C.; Liang, Z. P. Performance Analysis of Denoising with Low-Rank and Sparsity Constraints, In 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. IEEE, New York, 2013, 1223-1226.
    • Ma, C.; Xu, D.; King, K. F.; Liang, Z. P., Reduced Field-of-View Excitation Using Second-Order Gradients and Spatial-Spectral Radiofrequency Pulses. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2013, 69, (2), 503-508.
    • Nguyen, H. M.; Peng, X.; Do, M. N.; Liang, Z. P., Denoising Mr Spectroscopic Imaging Data with Low-Rank Approximations. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2013, 60, (1), 78-89.

    2012

    • Zhao, B.; Haldar, J. P.; Christodoulou, A. G.; Liang, Z. P., Image Reconstruction from Highly Undersampled (k, t)-Space Data with Joint Partial Separability and Sparsity Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2012, 31, (9), 1809-1820.

    2011

    • Haldar, J. P.; Hernando, D.; Liang, Z. P.>, Compressed-Sensing MRI with Random Encoding. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2011, 30, (4), 893-903.
    • Haldar, J. P.; Wang, Z.; Popescu, G.; Liang, Z. P., Deconvolved Spatial Light Interference Microscopy for Live Cell Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2011, 58, (9), 2489-2497.
    • Hernando, D.; Karampinos, D. C.; King, K. F.; Haldar, J. P.; Majumdar, S.; Georgiadis, J. G.; Liang, Z. P., Removal of Olefinic Fat Chemical Shift Artifact in Diffusion MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2011, 65, (3), 692-701.
    • Ma, C.; Xu, D.; King, K. F.; Liang, Z. P., Joint Design of Spoke Trajectories and RF Pulses for Parallel Excitation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2011, 65, (4), 973-985.

    2010

    • Hernando, D.; Kellman, P.; Haldar, J. P.; Liang, Z. P., Robust Water/Fat Separation in the Presence of Large Field Inhomogeneities Using a Graph Cut Algorithm. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2010, 63, (1), 79-90.
    • Ying, L.; Liang, Z.-P., Parallel MRI using phased array coils: Multichannel sampling theorem meets spin physics. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2010, 90-98.
    • Brinegar, C.; Schmitter, S. S.; Mistry, N. N.; Johnson, G. A.; Liang, Z. P., Improving Temporal Resolution of Pulmonary Perfusion Imaging in Rats Using the Partially Separable Functions Model. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2010, 64, (4), 1162-1170.
    • Hernando, D.; Liang, Z. P.; Kellman, P., Chemical Shift-Based Water/Fat Separation: A Comparison of Signal Models. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2010, 64, (3), 811-822.

    2009

    • Kellaman, P.; Hernando, D.; Shah, S.; Zuehlsdorff, S.; Jerecic, R.; Mancini, C.; Liang, Z.-P.; Arai, A. E., Multi-echo Dixon fat and water separation method for detecting fibro-fatty infiltration in the myocardium. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2009, 61, 215-221.
    • Kim, J. H.; Haldar, J.; Liang, Z. P.; Song, S. K., Diffusion tensor imaging of mouse brain stem and cervical spinal cord. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2009, 176, (2), 186-191.

    2008

    • Haldar, J. P.; Hernando, D.; Song, S. K.; Liang, Z. P., Anatomically constrained reconstruction from noisy data. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2008, 59, (4), 810-818.
    • Hernando, D.; Haldar, J. P.; Sutton, B. P.; Ma, J.; Kellman, P.; Liang, Z. P., Joint estimation of water/fat images and field inhomogeneity map. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2008, 59, (3), 571-580.
    • Stone, S. S.; Haldar, J. P.; Tsao, S. C.; Hwu, W. M. W.; Sutton, B. P.; Liang, Z. P., Accelerating advanced MRI reconstructions on GPUs. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 2008, 68, (10), 1307-1318.
    • Xu, D.; King, K. F.; Zhu, Y.; McKinnon, G. C.; Liang, Z. P., Designing multichannel, multidimensional, arbitrary flip angle RF pulses using an optimal control approach. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2008, 59, (3), 547-560.

    2007

    • Jacob, M.; Zhu, X. P.; Ebel, A.; Schuff, N.; Liang, Z. P., Improved model-based magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2007, 26, (10), 1305-1318.
    • Xu, D.; King, K. F.; Liang, Z. P., Variable slew-rate spiral design: Theory and application to peak B-1 amplitude reduction in 2D RF pulse design. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2007, 58, (4), 835-842.
    • Xu, D.; King, K. F.; Zhu, Y. D.; McKinnon, G. C.; Liang, Z. P., A noniterative method to design large-tip-angle multidimensional spatially-selective radio frequency pulses for parallel transmission. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2007, 58, (2), 326-334.
    • Xu, D.; King, K. F.; Liang, Z. P., Improving k-t SENSE by adaptive regularization. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2007, 57, (5), 918-930.

    2006

    • Yuan, L.; Ying, L.; Xu, D.; Liang, Z. P., Truncation effects in SENSE reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2006, 24, (10), 1311-1318.

    1999

    • Hess, C. P., Liang, Z.-P., and Lauterbur, P. C. (1999) "Maximum Cross-entropy Generalized Series Reconstruction," International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 10/3, pp. 258-265.
    • Liang, Z.-P. and Lauterbur, P. C. (1999), Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (IEEE Press).

    1998

    • Boada, F., Liang, Z.-P., and Haacke, E. M. (1998), "Improved Parametric Reconstruction Using Variable Projection Optimization," Inverse Problems, 14/1, pp. 19-27.
    • Zhou, X., Liang, Z.-P., Gewalt, S. L., Cofer, G. P., Lauterbur, P. C., and Johnson, G. A. (1998), "Fast Spin-echo Technique with Circular Sampling," Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 39/1, pp. 23-27.

    1997

    • Liang, Z.-P., Jiang, H., Hess, C. P., and Lauterbur, P. C. (1997), "Dynamic Imaging by Model Estimation," International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 8/6, pp. 551-557.
    • Liang, Z.-P., Pan, H., Magin, R. L., Ahuja, N., and Huang, T. S. (1997), "Automated Image Registration by Maximization of a Region Similarity Metric," International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 8/6, pp. 513-518.