Biosketch
Dr. Liu received her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, where she developed a patented automated technique for optimal boundary detection in medical images. Dr. Liu holds an MS and BS in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Normal University in China. She is currently a Staff Scientist in the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Laboratory, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Liu’s research interests include medical image analysis in general with a focus on segmentation, registration and computer-aided detection. She is an associate editor of Medical Physics and reviewer for IEEE TMI, IEEE TBME, Medical Physics, Pattern Recognition Letters, and MICCAI.
Selected Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Liu J, Kabadi S, Uitert R, Petrick N, Deriche R, Summers R, Improved Computer-Aided Detection of Small Polyps in CT Colonography using Interpolation for Curvature Estimation, Medical Physics, 38 (7): 4276-4284, 2011.
Summers RM, Baecher N, Yao J, Liu J, Pickhardt PJ, Choi J, Hill Suvimol, Feasibility of Simultaneous Computed Tomographic Colonography and Fully Automated Bone Mineral Densitometry in a Single Examination, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 35(2): 212-216, 2011.
Summers RM, Liu J, Rehani B, Stafford P, Brown L, Louie A, Barlow DS, Jensen DW, Cash B, Choi RJ, Pickhardt PJ, Petrick N, CT Colonography Computer-Aided Polyp Detection: Effect on Radiologist Observers of Polyp Identification by CAD on Both the Supine and Prone Scans, Academic Radiology, 17(8): 948-959, 2010.
Liu J, Udupa JK, Oriented Active Shape Models, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 28(4):571-584, 2009.
Li J, Huang A, Yao J, Liu J, Van Uitert R, Petrick N, and Summers RM, Optimizing Automatic Colonic Polyp Detection by Evolving the Pareto Front, Medical physics, 36(1): 201-212, 2009.
Summers RM, Liu J, Yao J, Brown L, Choi JR, Pickhardt PJ. Automated measurement of colorectal polyp height at CT colonography: hyperplastic polyps are flatter than adenomatous polyps, American Journal of Roentgenology, 193(5):1305-10, 2009.
Zhuge Y, Udupa JK, Liu J, Saha PK, Image background inhomogeneity correction in MRI via intensity standardization, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 33(1):7-16, 2009.
Wang S, Yao J, Liu J, Petrick P, Uitert RV, Periaswamy S, Summers RM, Registration of prone and supine CT colonography scans using correlation optimized warping and canonical correlation analysis, Medical Physics, 36(12): 5595-603, 2009.
Liu J, Yao J, Summers RM, Scale-based Scatter Correction for Computer-aided Polyp Detection in CT colonography, Medical Physics, 35(12): 5664–5671, 2008.
Liu J, Udupa JK, Saha PK, Odhner D, Hirsch BE, Siegler S, Simon S, Winkelstein BA, Rigid Model-based 3D Segmentation of the Bones of Joints in MR and CT images, Medical Physics, 35(8):3637-3649, 2008.
Summers RM, Frentz S, Liu J, Yao J, Brown L, Louie A, Barlow DS, Jensen DW, Dwyer AJ, Pickhardt P, Conspicuity of Colorectal Polyps at CT Colonography: Visual Assessment, CAD Performance, and the Role of the Flat Polyp, Academic Radiology, 16(1): 4-14, 2008.
Ringleb S, Udupa JK, Siegler S, Imhauser CW, Hirsch BE, Liu J, Odhner D, Okereke E, Roach N, The Effect of Ankle Ligament Damage and Surgical Reconstruction on the Mechanics of the Ankle and Subtalar Joints Revealed by Three-dimensional Stress MRI, Journal of Orthopedic Research, 23: 743-749, 2005.
Yao L, Liu J, Medical Image Segmentation Based on Cellular Neural Network, Science of China, Series E, vol. 44, No.1, 2001.
PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS
Chang K, Liu J, Yao J, Summers R, Improved method for predicting polyp location from CT colonography for optical colonoscopy, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010, 4365-4368, Hong Kong, China.
Liu J, White JM, Summers RM, Automated detection of blob structures by Hessian analysis and object scale, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010, 841-844, Hong Kong, China.
Wang S, Yao J, Liu J, Petrick N, and Summers RM. Centerline registration of prone and supine CT Colonography scans based on correlation optimized warping and anatomical landmarks. 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Boston, Massachusetts, 2009.
PATENTS
Jayaram K. Udupa and Jiamin Liu, “Segmentation method using an oriented active shape model”, University of Pennsylvania, US Patent No. 8,050,473, November 2011.
Anna Jerebko, Jiamin Liu, and Xiang zhou, “System and Method for Spinal Cord and Vertebrae Segmentation”, Siemens Corporation, Patent pending, filed in September 2007, File No. 2006P17359US01.
