Jerome Liang

Jerome Liang
Co-Director of Research
Professor of Radiology

Stony Brook Medicine
Department of Radiology
HSC Level 4, Room 120 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8460

Phone: 
(631) 444-7837

Interests

Medical imaging, machine learning, biomedical engineering

Biography

  • Post Doc, Duke University, Durham, NC 
  • Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
  • Ph.D. Physics, City University of New York, NY
  • B.S. Modern Physics, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China

Research

  • Low-dose computed tomography image reconstruction
  • Quantitative image reconstruction for single photon emission computed tomography
  • High resolution positron emission tomography image reconstruction
  • Segmentation of tissue mixtures from multi-spectral magnetic resonance images
  • Computer aided detection of abnormality and diagnosis on the detected abnormality
  • Development of virtual colonoscopy systems

Awards

1981, China-US Physics Examination and Application Program (CUSPEA) Winner (Top 25 among 250,000 canidates.) 1990, National Institutes of Health (NIH) First Investigator Award 1996, American Heart Association (AHA) Established Investigator Award 1996, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Certificate of Merit Award 2002, State University of New York Chancellor's Entrepreneur Award "Whose invention has led to the startup of a company to commercialize the product" 2007, IEEE Society Fellow, "for contributions to medical image reconstruction and virtual colonoscopy." 2011, 2012, SBU, BNL and CSHL Certificate of Excellence in Research and Invention 2013, Stony Brook School of Medicine Award, for "Excellence in Translational Research."