Yi-hwa Liu PhD, MS

Yi-Hwa Liu is an elected senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a full member of Sigma Xi, 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.