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Dr. Tianming Liu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UGA. Dr. Liu is also affiliated with the UGA Bioimaging Research Center (BIRC) and the UGA Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB). Before he moved to UGA, Dr. Liu was a faculty member of Weill Medical College of Cornell University (Assistant Professor, 2007-2008) and Harvard Medical School (Instructor, 2005-2007). Dr. Liu was a postdoc in neuroimaging in the University of Pennsylvania (2002-2004) and Harvard Medical School (2004-2005). Dr. Liu received PhD in computer science from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2002. Dr. Liu is the recipient of the Microsoft Fellowship Award (2000-2002) and the NIH NIBIB K01 Career Award (2007-2011). Research: Ongoing Project: Computer Aided Diagnosis and Follow-up of Alzheimer¡¯s Disease (funded by NIH NIBIB Career Award EB006878) Research Interests: neuroimaging, neuroimage computing, computational neuroscience, bioimaging informatics, biomedical informatics, and biomedical image analysis. Publications: Neuroimaging, neuroimage computing, computational neuroscience: 1. Kaiming Li, Lei Guo, Jingxin Nie, Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Review of Methods for Functional Brain Connectivity Detection Using fMRI. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Volume 33, Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 131-139. 2. Gang Li, Lei Guo, Jingxin Nie, Tianming Liu, Automatic Cortical Sulcal Parcellation Based on Surface Principal Direction Flow Field Tracking, Neuroimage, 2009. 3. Jingxin Nie, Zhong Xue, Tianming Liu, Geoffrey S. Young, Kian Setayesh, Lei Guo, Stephen T.C. Wong, Automated brain tumor segmentation using spatial accuracy-weighted hidden Markov Random Field, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Volume 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 431-441. 4. Gang Li, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu. Deformation invariant attribute vector for deformable registration of longitudinal brain MR images, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Volume 33, Issue 5, July 2009, Pages 384-398. 5. Walker LM, Katzir T, Liu T, Ly J, Corriveau K, Barzillai M, Chu F, O'Connor MG, Hackney DB, Chang BS. Gray matter volumes and cognitive ability in the epileptogenic brain malformation of periventricular nodular heterotopia. Epilepsy Behav, 2009. 6. Tianming Liu, Hanchuan Peng and Xiaobo Zhou, Imaging informatics for personalized medicine: applications and challenges, International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine, 2009. 7. Hai Li, Lei Guo, Kaiming Li, Tianming Liu, A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Clustering of White Matter Fibers, NeuroImage, 2009. 8. Gang Li, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu, Grouping of Brain MR Images via Affinity Propagation, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2009, Taiwan. 9. Gang Li, Lei Guo, Jingxin Nie and Tianming Liu, Automatic Cortical Sulcal Parcellation Based on Surface Principal Direction Flow Field Tracking, Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2009. 10. Jingxin Nie, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu, A computational model of cerebral cortex folding, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009. 11. Tuo Zhang, Lei Guo, Gang Li, Jingxin Nie, Tianming Liu, Parametric representation of cortical surface folding via polynomials, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009. 12. Kaiming Li, Lei Guo, Gang Li, Jingxin Nie, Carlos Faraco, Qun Zhao, L. Stephen Miller, Tianming Liu, Gyral folding pattern analysis via surface profiling, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009. 13. Dajiang Zhu, Kaiming Li, Lei Guo, Tianming Liu, Bezier Control Points Image: A Novel Shape Representation Approach for Medical Imaging, 43rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2009. 14. Tianming Liu, Jingxin Nie, Ashley Tarokh, Lei Guo, Stephen TC Wong, Reconstruction of Central Cortical Surface from MRI Brain Images: Method and Application. NeuroImage, 40(3):991-1002, 2008. 15. Tianming Liu, Winnie CW Chu, Geoffrey Young, Kaiming Li, Benson HY Yeung, Lei Guo, Gene CW Man, Wynnie WM Lam, Stephen TC Wong, Jack CY Cheng, MR analysis of Regional Brain Volume in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis ¨C neurological manifestation of a systemic disease, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 27(4):732-6, 2008. 16. Tianming Liu, Hai Li, Kelvin Wong, Ashley Tarokh, Lei Guo, Stephen Wong, Brain Tissue Segmentation Based on DTI Data, NeuroImage, 38(1):114-23, 2007. 17. Tianming Liu, Geoffrey Young, Ling Huang, Nan-Kuei Chen, Stephen Wong. 76-space Analysis of Grey Matter Diffusivity: Methods and Applications. Neuroimage. 2006;15(31):51-65. 18. Tianming Liu, Dinggang Shen, and Christos Davatzikos. Deformable Registration of Cortical Structures via Hybrid Volumetric and Surface Warping. NeuroImage. 2004;22(4):1790-801. 19. Bernard S. Chang, M.D.* Tami Katzir, Ph.D.* Tianming Liu, Kathleen Corriveau, Mirit Barzillai, Kira A Apse, Adria Bodell, David Hackney, David Alsop, Stephen Wong, Christopher A. Walsh, A structural basis for reading fluency: White matter fiber tracts and reading disability in a neuronal migration disorder *These authors contributed equally to this work, Neurology, 69: 2146-2154, 2007. 20. V Mok, Tianming Liu, W.W.M. Lam, A Wong, X Hu, L Guo; XY Chen, KS Wong, S Wong, Neuroimaging predictors for cognitive impairment in confluent white matter lesion: Volumetric analyses of 99 brain regions, Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 25(1):67-73, 2007. 21. Sibel Kantarci, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Robert S. Hill, Dian Donnai, Graeme C.M. Black, Eric Bieth, Nicolas Chassaing, Didier Lacombe, Koen Devriendt, Ahmad Teebi, Maria Loscertales, Caroline Robson, Tianming Liu, David T. MacLaughlin, Kristin M. Noonan, Meaghan K. Russell, Christopher A. Walsh, Patricia K. Donahoe, Barbara R. Pober, Mutations in megalin, a multi-ligand receptor, cause Donnai-Barrow syndrome characterized by corpus callosum, ocular, neurosensory, craniofacial, and diaphragmatic defects, Nature Genetics, 39(8):957-959, 2007. 22. Jingxin Nie, Tianming Liu, Gang Li, Geoffrey Young, Ashley Tarokh, Lei Guo, Stephen TC Wong, Least-Square Conformal Brain Mapping with Spring Energy, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 31(8):656-664, 2007. 23. William A. Campbell, Henrik Zetterberg, Stephanie Baulac, Tianming Liu, Stephen T. C. Wong, Tao Zhong, Weiming Xia. Zebrafish lacking Alzheimer presenilin enhancer 2 (Pen-2) demonstrate excessive p53-dependent apoptosis and neuronal loss. Journal of Neurochemistry. 2006;96:1423-40. 24. Tianming Liu, J Lu, Y Wang, William A Campbell, Ling Huang, J Zhu, Weiming Xia, Stephen Wong. Computerized Image Analysis for Quantitative Neuronal Phenotyping in Zebrafish. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2006;153(2):190-202. 25. Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Jingxin Nie, Lei Guo, Stephen Wong, A Novel Method for Cortical Sulcal Fundi Extraction, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Sept. 2008. 26. Nie J, Tianming Liu, Guo L, Stephen TC Wong. Reconstruction of central cortical surface from brain MRI images: Method and Application. In: International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC. April 2007. 27. Li H, Tianming Liu, Guo L, Stephen TC Wong. Deformable registration of DTI and SPGR images. In: International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC. April 2007. 28. Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Geoffrey Young, Lei Guo, and Stephen TC Wong. Deformation invariant attribute vector for 3D medical image registration. In: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC. 2006. p. 1308 - 1311. 29. Jingxin Nie, Tianming Liu, Geoffrey Young, Lei Guo, and Stephen TC Wong. Least-square conformal mapping with spring energy. In: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC. ;2006. p. 1308 - 1311. 30. Hai Li, Tianming Liu, Geoffrey Young, Lei Guo, and Stephen TC Wong. Brain tissue segmentation based on DWI/DTI data. In: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC. 2006. p. 442 - 445. 31. Tianming Liu, Geoffrey Young, Ling Huang, Nan-Kuei Chen, Stephen TC Wong. 76-space Analysis of Grey Matter Diffusivity: Methods and Applications. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI); Palm Springs. 2005. p. 148-155. 32. Tianming Liu, Dinggang Shen, and Christos Davatzikos. Predictive Modeling of Anatomic Structures Using Canonical Correlation Analysis. In: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC. 2004. p. 1279- 1282. 33. Tianming Liu, Dinggang Shen, and Christos Davatzikos. Deformable Registration of Tumor-diseased Brain Images. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI); St. Malo, France. 2004. p. 720-728. 34. Tianming Liu, Dinggang Shen, and Christos Davatzikos. Deformable Registration of Cortical Structures via Hybrid Volumetric and Surface Warping. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI); Montreal, Canada. 2003. p. 780-787. Bioimaging informatics, biomedical informatics, biomedical image analysis 35. Tianming Liu, Gang Li, Jingxin Nie, Ashley Tarokh, Xiaobo Zhou, Lei Guo, Jarema Malicki, Weiming Xia, Stephen TC Wong, An Automated Cell Detection Method for Cell Detection in Zebrafish, Neuroinformatics, 6(1):5-21, 2008. 36. Tianming Liu, Jingxin Nie, Gang Li, Lei Guo, Stephen Wong, ZFIQ: a software package for zebrafish biology, Bioinformatics, 24(3):438-9, 2007. 37. Tianming Liu. A quantitative zebrafish phenotyping tool for developmental biology and disease modeling. IEEE Signal and Processing Magazine. 2007;24(1):126-129. 38. Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Jingxin Nie, Lei Guo, Jarema Malicki, Andrew Mara, Scott Holley, Weiming Xia, Stephen Wong. Detection of Blob Objects in Microscopic Zebrafish Images Based on Gradient Vector Diffusion. Cytometry A. 71(10):835-45, 2007. 39. Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Jingxin N, Guo L, Andrew M, Holley S, Zhu J, Chen J, Wong STC. Segmentation of touching cell nuclei using gradient flow tracking, Journal of Microscopy, 231(1): 47-58, 2008. 40. Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Ashley Tarokh, Jingxin Nie, Lei Guo, Andrew Mara, Scott Holley, Stephen TC Wong, 3D Cell Segmentation Based on Gradient Flow Tracking, BMC Cell Biology, 8(1):40, 2007. 41. Li G, Tianming Liu, Nie J, Guo L, Stephen TC Wong. Segmentation of touching cells using gradient flow tracking. In: International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI); Washington DC, April 2007. 42. Lu JF, Tianming Liu, Ding J, Zhu JM, Yang J, Xia WM, and Stephen TC Wong. Automated Quantization of Zebrafish Somites in High-throughput Screens. In: IEEE/NLM International Workshop on Life Science Systems and Applications; Bethesda; MD, 2006. p. 1 - 2. 43. Tianming Liu and A Docef. Eval-Ware: Medical Imaging Resources. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 2006;23(4):136-137. 44. Tianming Liu, Hong-Jiang Zhang, and Feihu Qi. A Systematic Rate Controller for MPEG-4 FGS Video Streaming. ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems. 2004;8(5):369-379. 45. Tianming Liu, Hong-Jiang Zhang, and Feihu Qi. A Novel Video Key Frame Extraction Algorithm based on Perceived Motion Energy Model. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2003;13(10):1006-1013. Additional Information: Education and working experience ¡¡ |
