American Journal of Signal Processing

American Journal of Signal Processing publishes articles on signal processing research and applications. It covers aspects from fundamental principles to practical implementation, intending to bring up-to-date, emerging and active technical developments, issues, and events to the research, educational, and professional communities.

Qi Duan

Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Signal Processing

Staff Scientist, National Institutes of Health, USA

Research Areas

Medical Imaging and Image Analysis

Education

2002-2007Ph.DBiomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
2000-2002M.S.Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1996-2000B.S.Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Experience

2010-presentStaff Scientist, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Department of Health & Human Services
2007-2010Research Scientist, Department of Radiology, New York University Medical Center
2008Technical Consultant, Precision Imaging Systems, Durham, NC, USA
2002-2007Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
2006Summer Intern, Philips Research North America
2000-2002Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1998-2000Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Academic Achievement

1992 Silver Prize (6th place), Beijing Biology Olympiad, Beijing, China
1992 Exceptional Student Award, Bronze Prize, The 2nd Middle School of Beijing Normal University
1995 Golden Prize (3rd place), Beijing Biology Olympiad, Beijing, China
1995 Silver Prize (8th place), National Biology Olympiad, Harbin, China
1995 3rd place, UNESCO International Biology Competition, Romania
1995 Golden Prize, Scientific Thesis Competition for High School Students, Beijing, China
1995 Exceptional Student Award, Silver Prize, The 2nd Middle School of Beijing Normal University
1997 Scientific Award for Juvenile, Beijing, China
1996-2000 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Awards, Tsinghua University, China
1999 Finalist and 3rd place of the 2nd Tsinghua Entrepreneurship Competition (group member), Tsinghua University, China
2001-2002 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards, Tsinghua University, China
2003 Whitaker Graduate Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2007 Educational Award, Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2007, Berlin, Germany
2007 Award of Distinction to Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. (Limited to top 10% of Ph.D. dissertation degrees recognized for excellence by the dissertation committee).
2008 Educational Award, ISMRM 2008, Toronto, Canada
2008 Student Award, ISBI 2008, Paris, France. (Limited to top 20 student participants as first authors)
2009 Educational Award, ISMRM 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2009 Travel Grant, ISBI 2009, Boston, MA, USA
2010 Not-So-Nobel Prize, Finalist, ISMRM 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 MR Wiki Contest, the First Prize, ISMRM (opened to over 8,000 professional in the society)

Membership

2002-present Member, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
2005-present Member, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2007-2008 Founder and Chair of the student chapter of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Columbia University, Faculty advisor: Prof. Andrew F. Laine (Vice President of Publication, IEEE EMBS)
2008-2010 Member, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
2008-2010 Member, New York Academy of Science

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Bei Zhang, Daniel K Sodickson, Riccardo Lattanzi, Qi Duan, Bernd Stoeckel, and Graham C. Wiggins, "Whole Body Travelling Wave Magnetic Resonance Imaging at High Field Strength: Homogeneity, Efficiency, and Energy Deposition as Compared with Traditional Excitation Mechanism, " Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, published online, Aug. 12, 2011. doi: 10.1002/mrm.23107.
[2]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Andrew Laine, "Real Time Segmentation by Active Geometric Functions, " Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 223-230, June 2010. doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.09.001.
[3]  Ricardo Otazo, Li Feng, Ruth Lim, Qi Duan, Graham C. Wiggins, Daniel K Sodickson, and Daniel Kim, "Accelerated 3D carotid MRI using compressed sensing and parallel imaging, " Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, vol. 12, Suppl 1, P147, 2010. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-12-S1-P147.
[4]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Andrew Laine, "Surface Function Actives, " Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol.20, No. 7, pp. 478-490, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.jvcir.2009.06.002.
[5]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Susan L. Herz, Christopher M. Ingrassia, Kevin D. Costa, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine, "Optical Flow Based Endocardium Tracking on Real-Time Three-Dimensional Ultrasound, " Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 256-265, 2009. PMCID: PMC2649777, NIHMSID: NIHMS92427, doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.08.012.
[6]  Armen R Kherlopian, Ting Song, Qi Duan, Mathew A Neimark, Ming J Po, John K Gohagan, Andrew F Laine, "A Review of Imaging Techniques for Systems Biology, " BMC Systems Biology, Vol. 2, 2:74, 39 pages, 2008. PMCID: PMC2533300, doi:10.1186/1752-0509-2-74.
[7]  Qi Duan, D. Ye, and Y. Cao, "Perspective of Hearing Aid Devices, " Beijing Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 294-297, 2002.
[8]  Auranuch Lorsakul, Qi Duan, Member, Ming Jack Po, Elsa Angelini, Shunichi Homma, and Andrew F. Laine, "Parameterization of Real-Time 3D Speckle Tracking Framework for Cardiac Strain Assessment", Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. (EMBC2011), Aug 30-Sep 3, Boston, MA, USA.
[9]  M. J. Po, A. Lorsakul, Qi Duan, K. J. Yeroushalmi, E. Hyodo, Y. Oe, S. Homma, and A. F. Laine, "In-Vivo Clinical Validation of Cardiac Deformation and Strain Measurements from 4D Ultrasound", Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. (EMBC2010), Aug 31-Sep 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, vol. 1, pp. 41-44, 2010. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626332.
[10]  Qi Duan, Katherine M. Parker, Auranuch Lorsakul, Elsa D. Angelini, Eiichi Hyodo, Shunichi Homma, Jeffrey W. Holmes, and Andrew F. Laine, "Quantitative Validation of Optical Flow Based Myocardial Strain Measures Using Sonomicrometry, " The Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'09), June 28-July 1, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 454-457, 2009. PMCID: PMC2916658, NIHMSID: NIHMS186932, doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193082.
[11]  Qi Duan, Elsa D. Angelini, Auranuch Lorsakul, Shunichi Homma, Jeffrey W. Holmes, and Andrew F. Laine, "Coronary Occlusion Detection with 4D Optical Flow Based Strain Estimation on 4D Ultrasound, " Fifth International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart 2009, June 3-5, Nice, France, LNCS 5528, pp. 211-219, 2009. PMCID: PMC2872498, NIHMSID: NIHMS186935, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-01932-6_23.
[12]  Qi Duan, Ricardo Otazo, Jian Xu, Daniel K. Sodickson, "Regularization of Parallel MRI Reconstruction Using in vivo Coil Sensitivities", SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA, 7-12 February 2009, vol. 7258, pp. 72580Z-1-72580Z-8, 2009. doi: 10.1117/12.812440.
[13]  Graham C. Wiggins, Qi Duan, Bei Zhang, Daniel Sodickson, "Simulation and Evaluation of Neck Coil Designs for 7T Carotid and Cervical Spine Imaging", ISMRM Workshop on High Field Systems and Applications: "What's Special about 7T+?", Rome, Italy, 15-17 October 2008.
[14]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Andrew F. Laine, "Real Time Segmentation by Active Geometric Functions", High-Performance Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention, the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2008), September 10, 2008, New York City, NY, USA, 2008.
[15]  Qi Duan, Andrew F. Laine, Vinay M. Pai, "Real-Time Myocardial Segmentation Using Coupled Active Geometric Functions", 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 20-24, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 3385-3388, 2008. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649932.
[16]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine, "Real-Time Segmentation of 4D Ultrasound by Active Geometric Functions, " 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, May 14-17, 2008, Paris, France, pp. 233-236, 2008. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540975.
[17]  Qi Duan, Shunichi Homma, and Andrew F. Laine, "Analysis of 4D Ultrasound for Dynamic Measures of Cardiac Function, " 2007 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, October 29-31, New York City, NY, USA, pp. 1492-1495, 2007.
[18]  Qi Duan, Philippe Moireau, Elsa D. Angelini, Dominique Chapelle, and Andrew F. Laine, "Simulation of 3D Ultrasound with a Realistic Electro-Mechanical Model of the Heart, " Fourth International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart 2007, June 7-9, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, LNCS 4466, pp. 463-473, 2007. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-72907-5_47.
[19]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine , "Validation of Optical-Flow for Quantification of Myocardial Deformations on Simulated RT3D Ultrasound, " 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, April 12-15, 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA, pp. 944-947, 2007. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.357009.
[20]  Qi Duan, Guy Shechter, Luis F. Gutierrez, Douglas Stanton, Lyubomir Zagorchev, Andrew F. Laine, Daniel Elgort, "Augmenting CT Cardiac Roadmaps with Segmented Streaming Ultrasound", SPIE International Symposium, Medical Imaging 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, Vol. 6509, 65090V1-11, 2007. doi: 10.1117/12.711431.
[21]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine, "Tracking Endocardium Using Optical Flow along Iso-Value Curve, " IEEE 2006 International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 30-Sept. 3, 2006, New York, NY, USA, pp. 707-710, 2006. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260172.
[22]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Olivier Gerard, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine , "Comparing Optical-Flow Based Methods for Quantification of Myocardial Deformations on RT3D Ultrasound, " 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, April 6-9, 2006, Arlington, Virginia, USA, pp.173-176, 2006. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2006.1624880.
[23]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Susan L. Herz, Christopher M. Ingrassia, Olivier Gerard, Kevin D. Costa, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine , "Dynamic Cardiac Information From Optical Flow Using Four Dimensional Ultrasound, " 27th Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), September 1-4, 2005 Shanghai, China, pp. 4465-4468, 2005. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615458.
[24]  Qi Duan, Elsa D. Angelini, Susan L. Herz, Olivier Gerard, Pascal Allain, Christopher M. Ingrassia, Kevin D. Costa, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Shunichi Homma, and Andrew F. Laine, "Tracking of LV Endocardial Surface on Real-Time Three-Dimensional Ultrasound with Optical Flow, " Third International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart 2005, June 2-4, Barcelona, Spain, LNCS 3504, pp. 434-445, 2005. doi: 10.1007/11494621_43.
[25]  Qi Duan, Elsa D. Angelini, Susan L. Herz, Christopher M. Ingrassia, Olivier Gerard, Kevin D. Costa, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Andrew F. Laine , "Evaluation of Optical Flow Algorithms for Tracking Endocardial Surfaces on Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Data, " SPIE International Symposium, Medical Imaging 2005, San Diego, CA, USA, Vol. 5750, pp. 159-169, 2005. doi:10.1117/12.596890.
[26]  Gert Schoonenberg, Marc Schrijverc, Qi Duan, Richard Kemkers, Andrew Laine, "Adaptive spatial-temporal filtering applied to x-ray fluoroscopy angiography, " Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5744 Medical Imaging 2005: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, San Diego, CA, USA, Vol. 5744, pp. 870-878, 2005. doi:10.1117/12.596535.
[27]  Qi Duan, E.D. Angelini, A.F. Laine, "Assessment of fast anisotropic diffusion and scan conversion of real-time three-dimensional spherical ultrasound data for visual quality and spatial accuracy, " SPIE International Symposium, Medical Imaging 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, Vol. 5373, pp. 331-342, 2004. doi: 10.1117/12.535813.
[28]  Qi Duan, E.D. Angelini, T. Song, and A.F. Laine, "Fast interpolation algorithms for three-dimensional real-time cardiac ultrasound, " 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 1192-1195, 2003. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279463.
[29]  Qi Duan, Andrew F. Laine, Jasjit S. Suri , "Real Time 4D Cardiac Segmentation by Active Geometric Functions, " Recent Advances in Ultrasound Imaging and Its Applications, J. Miguel Sanches, Andrew F. Laine, Jasjit Suri Eds., Springer, in press.
[30]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Olivier Gerard, Kevin D. Costa, Jeffrey W. Holmes, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine , "Cardiac Motion Analysis Based on Optical Flow on Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Data, " Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound Imaging for Medical Applications, Suri et al Eds., Artech House Press, ISBN 978-1-59693-144-2, pp. 227-246, June 30, 2008.
[31]  Qi Duan, Elsa Angelini, Shunichi Homma, Andrew Laine , "Chapter 14: Tracking Endocardium Using Optical Flow along Iso-Value Curve, " Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis, Dhawan et al Eds., World Scientific Publishing Company, ISBN 978-981-270-534-1, pp.337-360, March 2008.