About Me

• I am a 2nd-year Ph.D student at Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, working with Prof. Pew-Thian Yap. I obtained my B.Sc. in Neuroscience from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. I was fortunate to receive the NIMH Conte Center Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship and started my wonderful journey on AI & medical imaging in Prof. Andrew L. Alexander’s group at Waisman Brain Imaging Laboratory, UW-Madison, in 2017.
• I’m into computer vision, image analysis and inverse problems. My current projects include unsupervised MRI reconstruction and accelerated post-processing of MR Fingerprinting.

Under Review

Sparsity Adaptive Reconstruction for Accelerated MRI without Ground Truths
Yilin Liu, Simon Arberet, Yong Chen, Mariappan Nadar, Pew-Thian Yap
(*Work done during the internship)

Highly-Accelerated Non-Cartesian Parallel MRI Using a Deep Graph Network
Feng Cheng, Yilin Liu, Yong Chen, Pew-Thian Yap

Publications

[Conference]
Holistic Acceleration from Acquisition to Reconstruction for Submilimeter 3D MR Fingerprinting
Yilin Liu, Feng Cheng, Yong Chen, Pew-Thian Yap
ISMRM’2022, Virtual. Power Pitch (8%).
[abstract]

Real-Time Mapping of Tissue Properties for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting
Yilin Liu, Yong Chen, Pew-Thian Yap
MICCAI’2021, Virtual. Oral (4%). MICCAI Student Travel Award
[preprint] [video]

5-Minute MR Fingerprinting from Acqusition to Reconstruction for Whole-Brain Coverage with Isotropic Submilimeter Resolution
Yilin Liu, Yong Chen, Pew-Thian Yap
ISMRM’2021, Virtual. ISMRM Merit Award - Magna Cum Laude (Top 15%)
[abstract]

Harmonization and Targeted Feature Dropout for Generalized Segmentation: Application to Multi-site Traumatic Brain Injury Images
Yilin Liu, Gregory R Kirk, Brendon M Nacewicz, Mingren Shen, Martin A Styner, Dong Nie, Nagesh Adluru, Benjamin Yeske, Peter A Ferrazzano and Andrew L. Alexander
MICCAI-DART’2019, Shenzhen. Oral
[paper] [code]

[Journal]
Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Processing for Simultaneous MultiSlice MR Fingerprinting
Yilin Liu, Yong Chen, Pew-Thian Yap
Submitted to IEEE TMI’, 2021.

A 3D Fully Convolutional Neural Network with Top-Down Attention-Guided Refinement for Accurate and Robust Automatic Segmentation of Amygdala and its Subnuclei
Yilin Liu, Brendon M Nacewicz, Gengyan Zhao, Nagesh Adluru, Gregory R Kirk, Peter A Ferrazzano, Martin A. Styner and Andrew L. Alexander
Front. in Neuroscience: Brain Imaging Method, 2020.
[paper] [code] [slide]

Research & Work Experience

Machine Learning Research Intern
PCT Recon Group, Siemens Healthineers, Princeton, NJ
May 2021 - September 2021

Graduate Research Assistant
Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), UNC-Chapel Hill, NC
Aug 2020 - Present

Undergraduate Researcher/Intern
Waisman Brain Imaging Laboratory, UW-Madison, WI
July 2017 - June 2019

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Programmer)
Computational Neuroscience Lab, UW-Madison, WI
June 2016 - September 2016

Misc

I was born in Jingzhou, 1997, growing up in Guangzhou, China.
Love reading, cooking, music (piano & guitar), Karaoke and Elephant chess. I’m also a big fan of billiard! (a totally amateur tho :p)