Lei Ying - Associate Professor

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2003
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 1999
B. Eng. Electronics Engineering, Tsinghua University, July 1997

Research Interests

Biomedical imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Image Processing; Multidimensional Signal Reconstruction

Selected Publications 

• L. Ying and J. Sheng, “Joint Image Reconstruction and Sensitivity Estimation in SENSE (JSENSE)”, to appear in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
• L. Yuan, L. Ying, D. Xu, and Z.-P. Liang, “Truncation effects in SENSE reconstruction”, Magnetic Resonance Imaging., vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 1311-1318, Dec. 2006
• L. Ying, Z.-P. Liang, D. C. Munson, Jr., R. Koetter, and B. Frey, “Unwrapping MR phase images by a Markov random field model”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 128-136, Jan. 2006 
• L. Ying, “Phase unwrapping”, Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, 6-Volume Set, Ed. Metin Akay, Wiley, 2006. 
• L. Ying and Z.-P. Liang, “Advanced image reconstruction methods in MRI”, Advanced Image Processing in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ed. L. Landini, V. Positano, and M. F. Santarelli, Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 39-56, 2005. 
• J. Sheng and L. Ying, “A fast image reconstruction algorithm based on penalized-likelihood estimate”, Medical Engineering and Physics, vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 679-686, Oct. 2005
• L. Ying, D. C. Munson, Jr., B. Frey, and R. Koetter, “Multibaseline digital elevation mapping: A dynamic programming approach”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Sept. 2003
• L. Ying, and et al., “A robust and efficient method to unwrap MR phase images”, Proceedings of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting, vol. 11, p. 782, July 2003
• L. Ying, B. Frey, R. Koetter, and D. C. Munson, Jr., “Analysis of an iterative dynamic programming approach to 2-D phase unwrapping”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 829-832, Sept. 2002
• L. Ying, B. Frey, R. Koetter, and D. C. Munson, Jr., “An iterative dynamic programming approach to 2-D phase unwrapping”, Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2002, vol.1, pp. 469-471, June 2002
• M. R. Fetterman, E. Tan, L. Ying, and et al., “Tomographic imaging of foam”, Optics Express, vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 186-197, Aug. 2000
• L. Ying and D. C. Munson, Jr., “Approximation of minmax interpolator”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2000, vol.1, pp. 328-331, June 2000