NAME: Wang, Yi

POSITION TITLE: Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University

EDUCATION/TRAINING

A.   Personal Statement

My research interests include medical image computing (especially in medical image registration), medical imaging, computer vision, and machine learning. I have published several papers in the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) , International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and other high impact journals . I have good relationship with clinical scientists and various research groups, and value practical techniques that can be transferred to clinically applicable systems.

B.   Positions and Honors

Positions and Employment

0 6 /2017 – present       Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

C.   Contributions to Science (*: corresponding/co-corresponding author)

A selected list of my publications is enclosed at the end of this document.

1.    MR-TRUS Fusion based Targeted Biopsy System

In this project, we aimed to develop a planning, training and intraoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system and real-time transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images for targeted biopsy guidance to improve the positioning accuracy. The research and development challenges included 3D US-MR image registration for compensating the large and heterogeneous prostate deformation due to the factors of TRUS probe zones, interactive navigation and visualization, and real-time intraoperative guidance requirements. We proposed a non-rigid registration method based on the prior knowledge of the patient-specific biomechanical deformation, and further implemented our registration method using GPU-based acceleration approach to ensure the real-time advantage of our system for intraoperative guidance. Our proposed deformable MR-TRUS registration achieves state-of-the-art performance.

1)    Yi Wang, Jie-Zhi Cheng, Dong Ni, Muqing Lin, Jing Qin, Xiongbiao Luo, Ming Xu, XiaoyanXie, Pheng-Ann Heng, Towards Personalized Statistical Deformable Model and Hybrid Point Matching for Robust MR-TRUS Registration, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2016, 35(2): 589-604.

2)    Yi Wang*, Qingqing Zheng, Pheng-Ann Heng, Online Robust Projective Dictionary Learning: Shape Modelling for MR-TRUS Registration, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2017.

D.   Research Support

Ongoing Research Support

NSFC (China) (61701312)                                   01/01/2018 to 12/31/2020

Yi Wang, PI                                                          ￥255,000 (direct cost)

Detection of Tumor in Automated Breast Ultrasound based on Weakly Supervised Learning with Progressive Adaptation

E.    Peer-reviewed publications (*: corresponding author)

1. Jing Li, Yi Wang*, Baiying Lei, Jie-Zhi Cheng, Jing Qin, Tianfu Wang, Shengli Li, Dong Ni, Automatic Fetal Head Circumference Measurement in Ultrasound using Random Forest and Fast Ellipse Fitting, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2018, 22(1): 215-223.
2. Yi Wang *, Qingqing Zheng, Pheng-Ann Heng, Online Robust Projective Dictionary Learning: Shape Modelling for MR-TRUS Registration, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2017.
3. Yi Wang , Jie-Zhi Cheng, Dong Ni, Muqing Lin, Jing Qin, Xiongbiao Luo, Ming Xu, XiaoyanXie, Pheng-Ann Heng, Towards Personalized Statistical Deformable Model and Hybrid Point Matching for Robust MR-TRUS Registration, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2016, 35(2): 589-604.
4. Qingqing Zheng, Yi Wang*, Pheng-Ann Heng, Online Robust Image Alignment via Subspace Learning from Gradient Orientations, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017: 1753-1762.
5. Xin Yang, Lequan Yu, Lingyun Wu, Yi Wang, Dong Ni, Jing Qin, Pheng-Ann Heng, Fine-Grained Recurrent Neural Networks for Automatic Prostate Segmentation in Ultrasound Images, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017: 1633-1639.
6. Yi Wang , Dong Ni, Jing Qin, Ming Xu, XiaoyanXie, Pheng-Ann Heng, Patient-specific Deformation Modelling via Elastography: Application to Image-guided Prostate Interventions, Scientific Reports 2016, 6: 27386.
7. Yi Wang , Siping Chen, Tianfu Wang, Ting Zhou, Qiaoliang Li, Yi Zhen, Xin Chen, Development of a generic ultrasound vibro-acoustic imaging platform for tissue elasticity and viscosity, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2012, 5(01): 1250002.