Wei-Ning Lee

Current Research Areas

Elastography; ultrasound strain imaging; shear wave imaging; tissue characterization; imaging methodologies in cardiovascular applications; cardiac mechanics

Education

• Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY, USA
  Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering; Feb 2010
  M.Phil. in Biomedical Engineering; May 2008

• National Taiwan University, College of EECS, Taipei, Taiwan
  M.S. in Electrical Engineering; May 2003
  B.S. in Electrical Engineering; May 2001

Academic Position Held

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2018 Sep- present

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2012 Sep- 2018 Sep

Postdoctoral Fellow, ESPCI ParisTech, Institut Langevin, Paris, France 2010 Jan- 2012 June

Honors/Award

• 2013 Early Career Award, 2013/14 Research Grands Council HKU 739413E
• 2009 New Investigator Award Winner, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) Annual Convention, April 2-5
• 2008 Student Travel Award, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Beijing, China, November
• IEEE-UFFC Cover Page (second author), Vol. 55. No. 10
• 2002 Distinguished Poster Award, Symposium of Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 14-15

Selected Publications

• Y. Zhang+, Y. Guo+, and W.-N. Lee*, “Ultrafast ultrasound imaging using cascaded dual-polarity waves,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 906-917, 2018.
• Y. Guo+, Y. Wang+, E. J.-H. Chang+, and W.-N. Lee*, “Multi-directional estimation of arterial stiffness using vascular guided wave imaging (VGWI) with geometry correction,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 884-896, 2018.
• Zhang+, Y. Guo+, and W.-N. Lee*, “Ultrafast ultrasound imaging using combined transmissions with cross-coherence-based reconstruction,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 337-348, 2018.
• Y. Guo+, H. Lo+, and W.-N. Lee*, “Transmural Transverse Stiffness Estimation in Vascular Shear Wave Imaging: A Simulation and Phantom Study,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 110, 193701, 2017.
• H. Li+ and W.-N. Lee*, “Effects of tissue mechanical and acoustic anisotropies on the performance of a cross-correlation-based ultrasound strain imaging method”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 62, pp. 1456-1479, 2017.
• H. Li+, Y. Guo+, and W.-N. Lee*, “Systematic performance evaluation of a cross-correlation-based ultrasound strain imaging method”, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2436-2456, 2016.
• M. pernot, W.-N. Lee, A. Bel, P. Mateo, M. Couade, M. Tanter, B. Crozatier, and E. Messas, “Shear wave imaging of passive diastolic myocardial stiffness: stunned versus infarcted myocardium,” Journal of American College of Cardiology- Cardiovascular Imaging, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1023-1030, 2016.
• X. Yu, Y. Guo, S.-M. Huang, M.-L. Li, and W.-N. Lee*, “Beamforming Effects on Generalized Nakagami Imaging,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 60, pp. 7513-7531, 2015.
• Y.-Y. Liao, W.-N. Lee, M.-J. Lee, W.-S. Chen, H.-J. Chiou, T.-T. Kuo, and C.-K. Yeh, “Carpal tunnel syndrome: US strain imaging for diagnosis,” Radiology, vol. 275, no. 1, pp. 205-214, 2015. (Featured article)
• W.-N. Lee, B. Larrat, M. Pernot, and M. Tanter, “Ultrasound Elastic Tensor Imaging: Comparison with MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging in the myocardium,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 57, no. 16, pp. 5075-5095, 2012. (Featured Article)
• W.-N. Lee, M. Pernot, M. Couade, E. Messas, P. Bruneval, A. Bel, A. A. Hagège, M. Fink, and M. Tanter, “Mapping Myocardial Fiber Orientation using Echocardiography-Based Shear Wave Imaging,” IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 554-562, 2012.
• W.-N. Lee, J. Provost, K. Fujikura, J. Wang, and E. E. Konofagou, “In Vivo Study of Myocardial Elastography under Graded Ischemia Conditions”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 1155-1172, 2011. (Selected reading listed in 2013 Special Report: ASE Roadmap for 2020)
• W.-N. Lee, Z. Qian, C. L. Tosti, T. R. Brown, D. N. Metaxas, and E. E. Konofagou, “Preliminary Validation of Angle-Independent Myocardial Elastography Using MR Tagging in a Clinical Setting,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 2008 Dec; 34(12):1980-97.
• W.-N. Lee, C. M. Ingrassia, S. D. Fung-Kee-Fung, K. D. Costa, J. W. Holmes, and E. E. Konofagou, “Theoretical Quality Assessment of Myocardial Elastography with In Vivo Validation,” IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, Vol. 54, No. 11, pp.2233-2245, 2007.