Dr. Yujiao ZHAO
Dr. Yujiao ZHAO
Research Assistant Professor
  39178413
  CB-803
Research Interests:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Physics & Engineering; MRI Signal Processing.

Biography

Yujiao Zhao received the Ph.D degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2022, and MSc and BSc degrees from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2015 and 2012, respectively, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research interests include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and signal processing, and MRI engineering. She won Magna Cum Laude Merit Awards from International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in 2022 and 2019 for developing advanced technologies in MRI artifact elimination.

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Selected Publications

  • Zhao Y, Ding Y, Lau V, Man C, Su S, Leong ATL, Wu EX. Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla. Science. 2024, 384(6696): eadm7168.
  • Zhao Y, Xiao L, Hu J, Wu EX. Robust EMI Elimination for RF Shielding-Free MRI through Deep Learning Direct MR Signal Prediction (Deep-DSP). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2024, 92(1):112-127.
  • Zhao Y, Xiao L, Lau V, Liu Y, Leong ATL, Wu EX. Simultaneous sensing and deep learning electromagnetic interference (EMI) prediction for RF Shielding-free MRI. NMR in Biomedicine. 2023, e4956.
  • Lau V*, Xiao L*, Zhao Y* (co-first author), Su S, Ding Y, Man C, Wang X, Tsang A, Lau GKK, Leung GKK, Leong ATL, Wu EX. Pushing the limits of low-cost ultra-low-field magnetic resonance imaging by deep learning. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023, 90(2):400-416.
  • Hu J *, Yi Z*, Zhao Y* (co-first author), Zhang J, Xiao L, Man C, Lau V, Leong ATL, Chen F, Wu EX. Parallel imaging reconstruction using spatial nulling maps. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023, 90(2):502-519.
  • Man C, Su S, Lau V, Zhao Y, Xiao L, Ding Y, Leung GKK, Leong ATL, Wu EW. Deep Learning Enabled Fast 3D Brain MRI at 0.055 Tesla. Science Advance. 2023; 9(38): eadi9327.
  • Yi Z, Hu J, Zhao Y, Xiao L, Liu Y, Man C, Lau V, Chen F, Wu EX. Fast and calibrationless low-rank reconstruction through deep learning estimation of multi-channel spatial support. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2023, 42(6):1644-1655.
  • Zhang J, Yi Z, Zhao Y, Xiao L, Hu J, Man C, Lau V, Su S, Chen F, Leong ATL, Wu EX. Calibrationless reconstruction of uniformly-undersampled multi-channel MR data with deep learning estimated ESPIRiT maps. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023, 90(1):280-294.
  • Zhao Y, Yi Z, Xiao L, Zhang Z, Guo H, Wu EX. Joint denoising of diffusion-weighted image dataset via structured low-rank patch matrix approximation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2022, 88(6): 2461-2474.
  • Zhao Y, Yi Z, Liu Y, Chen F, Xiao L, Leong ATL, Wu EX. Calibrationless multi-slice Cartesian MRI via orthogonally alternating phase encoding direction and joint low-rank tensor completion. NMR in Biomedicine, 2022, e4695.
  • Liu Y*, Leong ATL*, Zhao Y* (co-first author), Xiao L*, Mak HKF, Tsang A, Lau GKK, Leung GKK, Wu EX. A Low-cost and Shielding-free Brain MRI Scanner. Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1): 1-14.
  • Yi Z, Liu Y, Zhao Y, Xiao L, Leong ATL, Feng Y, Chen F, Wu EX. Joint calibrationless reconstruction of highly undersampled multicontrast MR datasets using a low‐rank Hankel tensor completion framework. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2021, 85(6): 3256-3271.