NAME: Zhou, Yongjin

POSITION TITLE: Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Head of Department of Medical Electronics, Shenzhen University School of Medicine

EDUCATION/TRAINING

1.    Personal Statement

My long-standing research interests lie in biomedical signal/imaging processing with machine intelligence, and applied to skeletal muscles, eye and lung.

2.    Positions and Honors

Positions and Employment

03/2005 – 3/2012        Research Associate/Project Officer, Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, China

04/2012 – 3/2014        School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

03/2014 – 12/2017      School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

12/2017 – present       Head of Department of Medical Electronics, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Other Experience and Honors

1.    Editorial Board Member, Biomedical signal processing & control (IF: 2.2): 2018-present

2.    Lead Guest Editor, BMRI (IF: 2.2) special issue : “Translational and Emerging Clinical Applications of Medical Ultrasound”, 2017

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

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

1.    Ultrasound imaging in medicine

Ultrasonography has been widely employed to estimate the morphological changes of muscle during contraction, and we contributed in past years on computerized methods for measurement of muscle thickness, pennation angle, fascicle length and cross-sectional area.

2.    Corneal biomechanics

The cornea is located at the forefront of the eyeball and consists of transparent tissue that provides protection and major refractive power to the eyeball. We contributed to methods for automatic classification of keratoconus and normal cornea based on image sequences of the cornea.

Research Support

Ongoing Research Support

Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2015A020214022)                01/01/2016 to 12/31/2018

Yongjin Zhou, PI                                                                 ￥300,000

Development of virtual reality rehabilitation training platform for patients with motor control disorders

Completed Research Support

NSFC (China) 61640018

Yongjin Zhou, PI                                                                 ￥160,000

Automatic and shape-robust estimation of fascicle length in ultrasonography

4.    Representative Peer-reviewed publications (*: corresponding author)

1.      Congzhi Wang, Jingyi Guo, Tianjie Li, Yongjin Zhou*, Wenxiu Shi, Yongping Zheng, Age and Sex Effects on the Active Stiffness of Vastus Intermedius under Isometric Contraction, BioMed Research International,2017, 2017(2017): 9469548

2.      Xin Chen, Xudong Zhang, Wenxiu Shi, Jun Wang, Yun Xiang, Yongjin Zhou*, Wanzhang Yang, Ultrasonic Measurement of Dynamic Muscle Behavior for Poststroke Hemiparetic Gait, BioMed Research International, 2017, 2017(2017): 8208764

3.      Xiguang Wei, Jinyong Zhang, Shingchow Chan, Hochun Wu, Yongjin Zhou*, Yongping Zheng, Automatic Extraction of Central Tendon of Rectus Femoris (CT-RF) in Ultrasound Images Using a New Intensity-Compensated Free-Form Deformation-Based Tracking Algorithm with Local Shape Refinement, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2017, 21(4): 1058-1068

4.      Yongjin Zhou, Xiaojuan Yang, Wanzhang Yang, Wenxiu Shi, Yaoyao Cui, Guo Dan, Xin Chen*, Recent progress in automatic processing of skeletal muscles morphology using ultrasound: A brief review, Current Medical Imaging Review, 2018, 14(2): 179-185

5.      Jizhou Li, Yongjin Zhou*, Yongping Zheng, Guanglin Li, An attempt to bridge muscle architecture dynamics and its instantaneous rate of force development using ultrasonography, Ultrasonics, 2015, 61:71-78

6.      Jizhou Li, Yongjin Zhou*, Yi Lu, Guangquan Zhou, Lei Wang, Yongping Zheng, The Sensitive and Efficient Detection of Quadriceps Muscle Thickness Changes in Cross-sectional Plane using Ultrasonography: A Feasibility Investigation, IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 2014, 18(2): 628-635

7.      Jizhou Li, Yongjin Zhou*, Ivanov, Kanmen, Yongping Zheng, Estimation and Visualization of Longitudinal Muscle Motion using ultrasonography: A Feasibility Study, Ultrasonics, 2014, 54(3): 779-788

8.      Shan Ling, Yongjin Zhou*, Ye Chen, Yuqian Zhao, Lei Wang, Yongping Zheng, Automatic Tracking of Aponeuroses and Estimation of Muscle Thickness in Ultrasonography: A Feasibility Study. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 2013, 17(6):1031-1038

9.      Yongjin Zhou*, Yongping Zheng, Longitudinal enhancement of the hyperechoic regions in ultrasonography of muscles using a Gabor filter bank approach: a preparation for semi-automatic muscle fiber orientation estimation, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2011, 37(4): 665-673

10.  Yongjin Zhou*, Yonping Zheng, A motion estimation refinement framework for real-time tissue axial strain estimation with freehand ultrasound, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2010, 57(9): 1943-1951

11.  Yongjin Zhou, Yongping Zheng*, Estimation of muscle fiber orientation in ultrasound images using revoting hough transform (RVHT), Ultrasound in medicine & Biology, 2008, 34(9): 1474-1481.