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Yi-Hwa Liu, PhD

Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Cardiology)
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Appointments

Cardiovascular Medicine
Primary

Additional Titles

Associate Director of Cardiovascular Nuclear Imaging Core Laboratory, Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

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Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Cardiology)

Associate Director of Cardiovascular Nuclear Imaging Core Laboratory, Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Biography

Yi-Hwa Liu is an elected senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a full member of Sigma Xi of The Scientific Research Society of North America. He is the leading editor of two text books: “Cardiovascular Imaging” (ISBN 978-1-84076-109-2, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK) and “Hybrid Imaging in Cardioavascular Medicine“ (ISBN 978-1-4665-9537-8, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, and is also the co-inventor of Wackers-Liu CQÔ (WLCQ) Quantitative Analytic Method for Myocardial Perfusion Tomographic Imaging (FDA-approved Commercial Software Package). Dr. Liu earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1991 and joined the faculty at Yale School of Medicine as Assistant Professor (1998 – 2004) and Associate Professor of Medicine (2004 – 2014). His primary research is focused on non-coherent image restoration, nuclear cardiac image reconstruction and quantification. He is one of the pioneers in the fields of fluorescence microscopic image restoration and nuclear cardiac image reconstruction and quantification.

Appointments

  • Cardiovascular Medicine

    Senior Research Scientist
    Primary

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Education & Training

PhD
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Electrical, Computer and System Engineering (1991)
MS
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, Electrical and Computer Engineering (1987)
BS
Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Biomedical Engineering (1981)

Research

Overview

Medical Research Interests

Cardiology; Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; Nuclear Medicine; Ventricular Function, Left

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Yi-Hwa Liu's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    National American Heart Association (AHA)

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    Journal of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging

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    Medical Physics, AAPM, College Park, MD

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    Faculty Advisory Council to the Dean of Yale School of Medicine

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    Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, Jerusalem, Israel

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