I am Shihao Zeng, an upcoming PhD student and Research Assistant at AIM lab, HKU. I hold a BEng degree in Biomedical Engineering (1st honour, class rank #2) from the University of Hong Kong in 2024. My research interests are chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI, CEST simulation, and deep learning for medical imaging. I am exploring Bloch-McConnell equation simulations and analytical solutions, as well as quantitative CEST and associated acquisition schemes and sequences. I am also focusing on clinical translations of CEST imaging, particularly on ischemic / hemorrhagic stroke and small vessel diseases. I am looking forward to highly efficient molecular imaging capabilities in the clinic for fast and evident diagnosis of strokes, as well as novel approach to demystify underlying mechanisms in brain metabolism and pathophysiologies.
BEng in Biomedical Engineering, 2024
The University of Hong Kong
research on Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI.
research on Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Deep learning for lung Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) reconstruction, supervised by Dr. Adrien Touboul & Dr. Russell W. Chan
This review on CEST MRI presented recent developments in both clinical and preclinical studies for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and Huntington’s disease. The findings suggest that chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging has the potential to detect molecular changes and altered metabolism, which may aid in early diagnosis and assessment of the severity of neurodegenerative diseases.
Recently, deep learning based methods have shown potential as alternative approaches for lung time difference electrical impedance tomography (tdEIT) reconstruction other than traditional regularized least square methods, that have inherent severe ill-posedness and low spatial resolution posing challenges for further interpretation. However, the validation of deep learning reconstruction quality is mainly focused on simulated data rather than in vivo human chest data, and on image quality rather than clinical indicator accuracy. In this study, a variational autoencoder is trained on high-resolution human chest simulations, and inference results on an EIT dataset collected from 22 healthy subjects performing various breathing paradigms are benchmarked with simultaneous spirometry measurements. The deep learning reconstructed global conductivity is significantly correlated with measured volume-time curves with correlation > 0.9. EIT lung function indicators from the reconstruction are also highly correlated with standard spirometry indicators with correlation > 0.75.Clinical Relevance— Our deep learning reconstruction method of lung tdEIT can predict lung volume and spirometry indicators while generating high-resolution EIT images, revealing potential of being a competitive approach in clinical settings.
I cannot really see msg below. email me