Yang Yang, PhD

Associate Professor
Assoc. Professor In Residence
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Biography

Dr. Yang holds an MSE in biomedical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in Shaanxi, China, and a PhD in biomedical engineering from University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Dr. Yang has been an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute and Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Yang was also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Yang’s expertise is MR sequence development, non-Cartesian trajectory design and application, robust motion correction, and artificial intelligence.

Education

2022 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Ph.D., 2016 - Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
M.S.E, 2009 - Biomedical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
B.S.E, 2006 - Biomedical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Publications

Pei H, Xia D, Xu X, Yang Y, Wang Y, Liu F, Feng L. Rapid 3D T1 mapping using deep learning-assisted Look-Locker inversion recovery MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2023 08; 90(2):569-582.
Mei X, Liu Z, Singh A, Lange M, Boddu P, Gong JQX, Lee J, DeMarco C, Cao C, Platt S, Sivakumar G, Gross B, Huang M, Masseaux J, Dua S, Bernheim A, Chung M, Deyer T, Jacobi A, Padilla M, Fayad ZA, Yang Y. Interstitial lung disease diagnosis and prognosis using an AI system integrating longitudinal data. Nat Commun. 2023 04 20; 14(1):2272.
Lange M, Boddu P, Singh A, Gross BD, Mei X, Liu Z, Bernheim A, Chung M, Huang M, Masseaux J, Dua S, Platt S, Sivakumar G, DeMarco C, Lee J, Fayad ZA, Yang Y, Padilla M, Jacobi A. Influence of thoracic radiology training on classification of interstitial lung diseases. Clin Imaging. 2023 May; 97:14-21.
Mei X, Liu Z, Robson PM, Marinelli B, Huang M, Doshi A, Jacobi A, Cao C, Link KE, Yang T, Wang Y, Greenspan H, Deyer T, Fayad ZA, Yang Y. RadImageNet: An Open Radiologic Deep Learning Research Dataset for Effective Transfer Learning. Radiol Artif Intell. 2022 Sep; 4(5):e210315.
He B, Chen Y, Wang L, Yang Y, Xia C, Zheng J, Gao F. Compact MR-compatible ergometer and its application in cardiac MR under exercise stress: A preliminary study. Magn Reson Med. 2022 10; 88(4):1927-1936.
Wang K, Zhang W, Li S, Jin H, Jin Y, Wang L, Li R, Yang Y, Zheng J, Cheng J. Noncontrast T1ρ dispersion imaging is sensitive to diffuse fibrosis: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study at 3T in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Magn Reson Imaging. 2022 09; 91:1-8.
Zhou R, Wang J, Weller DS, Yang Y, Mugler JP, Salerno M. Free-breathing self-gated continuous-IR spiral T1 mapping: Comparison of dual flip-angle and Bloch-Siegert B1-corrected techniques. Magn Reson Med. 2022 09; 88(3):1068-1080.
Li Z, Xu X, Yang Y, Feng L. Repeatability and robustness of MP-GRASP T1 mapping. Magn Reson Med. 2022 May; 87(5):2271-2286.
Groves AM, Price AN, Russell-Webster T, Jhaveri S, Yang Y, Battersby EE, Shahid S, Costa Vieira M, Hughes E, Miller F, Briley AL, Singh C, Seed PT, Chowienczyk PJ, Stern KWD, Cohen J, Pasupathy D, Edwards AD, Poston L, Taylor PD. Impact of maternal obesity on neonatal heart rate and cardiac size. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2022 Sep; 107(5):481-487.
Shuman WH, DiRisio A, Carrasquilla A, Lamb CD, Quinones A, Pionteck A, Yang Y, Kurt M, Shrivastava RK. Is there a morphometric cause of Chiari malformation type I? Analysis of existing literature. Neurosurg Rev. 2022 Feb; 45(1):263-273.
Zhou R, Weller DS, Yang Y, Wang J, Jeelani H, Mugler JP, Salerno M. Erratum to: Dual excitation flip angle simultaneous cine and T1 mapping using SPiral Acquisition with Respiratory and Cardiac Self-gating (CAT-SPARCS) (Magn Reson Med 2021; 86:82-96). Magn Reson Med. 2021 Nov; 86(5):2880.
Schumann CL, Mathew RC, Dean JL, Yang Y, Balfour PC, Shaw PW, Robinson AA, Salerno M, Kramer CM, Bourque JM. Functional and Economic Impact of INOCA and Influence of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 07; 14(7):1369-1379.
Pan JA, Robinson AA, Yang Y, Lozano PR, McHugh S, Holland EM, Meyer CH, Taylor AM, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Diagnostic Accuracy of Spiral Whole-Heart Quantitative Adenosine Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance With Motion Compensated L1-SPIRIT. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2021 10; 54(4):1268-1279.
Wang J, Yang Y, Weller DS, Zhou R, Van Houten M, Sun C, Epstein FH, Meyer CH, Kramer CM, Salerno M. High spatial resolution spiral first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage at 3 T. Magn Reson Med. 2021 08; 86(2):648-662.
Zhou R, Weller DS, Yang Y, Wang J, Jeelani H, Mugler JP, Salerno M. Dual-excitation flip-angle simultaneous cine and T1 mapping using spiral acquisition with respiratory and cardiac self-gating. Magn Reson Med. 2021 07; 86(1):82-96.
Feng L, Liu F, Soultanidis G, Liu C, Benkert T, Block KT, Fayad ZA, Yang Y. Magnetization-prepared GRASP MRI for rapid 3D T1 mapping and fat/water-separated T1 mapping. Magn Reson Med. 2021 07; 86(1):97-114.
Lu L, Eldeniz C, An H, Li R, Yang Y, Schindler TH, Peterson LR, Woodard PK, Zheng J. Quantification of myocardial oxygen extraction fraction: A proof-of-concept study. Magn Reson Med. 2021 06; 85(6):3318-3325.
Abderezaei J, Martinez J, Terem I, Fabris G, Pionteck A, Yang Y, Holdsworth SJ, Nael K, Kurt M. Amplified Flow Imaging (aFlow): A Novel MRI-Based Tool to Unravel the Coupled Dynamics Between the Human Brain and Cerebrovasculature. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2020 12; 39(12):4113-4123.
Ahmed AH, Zhou R, Yang Y, Nagpal P, Salerno M, Jacob M. Free-Breathing and Ungated Dynamic MRI Using Navigator-Less Spiral SToRM. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2020 12; 39(12):3933-3943.
Mei X, Lee HC, Diao KY, Huang M, Lin B, Liu C, Xie Z, Ma Y, Robson PM, Chung M, Bernheim A, Mani V, Calcagno C, Li K, Li S, Shan H, Lv J, Zhao T, Xia J, Long Q, Steinberger S, Jacobi A, Deyer T, Luksza M, Liu F, Little BP, Fayad ZA, Yang Y. Artificial intelligence-enabled rapid diagnosis of patients with COVID-19. Nat Med. 2020 08; 26(8):1224-1228.
Mei X, Lee HC, Diao K, Huang M, Lin B, Liu C, Xie Z, Ma Y, Robson PM, Chung M, Bernheim A, Mani V, Calcagno C, Li K, Li S, Shan H, Lv J, Zhao T, Xia J, Long Q, Steinberger S, Jacobi A, Deyer T, Luksza M, Liu F, Little BP, Fayad ZA, Yang Y. Artificial intelligence-enabled rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 patients. medRxiv. 2020 Apr 17.
Bernheim A, Mei X, Huang M, Yang Y, Fayad ZA, Zhang N, Diao K, Lin B, Zhu X, Li K, Li S, Shan H, Jacobi A, Chung M. Chest CT Findings in Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19): Relationship to Duration of Infection. Radiology. 2020 06; 295(3):200463.
Chung M, Bernheim A, Mei X, Zhang N, Huang M, Zeng X, Cui J, Xu W, Yang Y, Fayad ZA, Jacobi A, Li K, Li S, Shan H. CT Imaging Features of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Radiology. 2020 04; 295(1):202-207.
Sun C, Yang Y, Cai X, Salerno M, Meyer CH, Weller D, Epstein FH. Non-Cartesian slice-GRAPPA and slice-SPIRiT reconstruction methods for multiband spiral cardiac MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2020 04; 83(4):1235-1249.
Löffler AI, Pan JA, Balfour PC, Shaw PW, Yang Y, Nasir M, Auger DA, Epstein FH, Kramer CM, Gan LM, Salerno M. Frequency of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis (Measured by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance) in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction. Am J Cardiol. 2019 11 15; 124(10):1584-1589.
Zhou R, Yang Y, Mathew RC, Mugler JP, Weller DS, Kramer CM, Ahmed AH, Jacob M, Salerno M. Free-breathing cine imaging with motion-corrected reconstruction at 3T using SPiral Acquisition with Respiratory correction and Cardiac Self-gating (SPARCS). Magn Reson Med. 2019 08; 82(2):706-720.
Yang Y, Meyer CH, Epstein FH, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Whole-heart spiral simultaneous multi-slice first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2019 02; 81(2):852-862.
Zhou R, Huang W, Yang Y, Chen X, Weller DS, Kramer CM, Kozerke S, Salerno M. Correction to: Simple motion correction strategy reduces respiratory-induced motion artifacts for k-t accelerated and compressed-sensing cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2018 03 26; 20(1):23.
Zorach B, Shaw PW, Bourque J, Kuruvilla S, Balfour PC, Yang Y, Mathew R, Pan J, Gonzalez JA, Taylor AM, Meyer CH, Epstein FH, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging identifies reduced flow reserve in microvascular coronary artery disease. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2018 02 22; 20(1):14.
Zhou R, Huang W, Yang Y, Chen X, Weller DS, Kramer CM, Kozerke S, Salerno M. Simple motion correction strategy reduces respiratory-induced motion artifacts for k-t accelerated and compressed-sensing cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2018 02 01; 20(1):6.
Yang Y, Zhao L, Chen X, Shaw PW, Gonzalez JA, Epstein FH, Meyer CH, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Reduced field of view single-shot spiral perfusion imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2018 Jan; 79(1):208-216.
Chow K, Yang Y, Shaw P, Kramer CM, Salerno M. Robust free-breathing SASHA T1 mapping with high-contrast image registration. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2016 08 17; 18(1):47.
Chen X, Yang Y, Cai X, Auger DA, Meyer CH, Salerno M, Epstein FH. Accelerated two-dimensional cine DENSE cardiovascular magnetic resonance using compressed sensing and parallel imaging. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2016 06 14; 18(1):38.
Yang Y, Kramer CM, Shaw PW, Meyer CH, Salerno M. First-pass myocardial perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage using L1-SPIRiT accelerated variable density spiral trajectories. Magn Reson Med. 2016 11; 76(5):1375-1387.
Salerno M, Taylor A, Yang Y, Kuruvilla S, Ragosta M, Meyer CH, Kramer CM. Adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance with variable-density spiral pulse sequences accurately detects coronary artery disease: initial clinical evaluation. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Jul; 7(4):639-46.
Chen X, Salerno M, Yang Y, Epstein FH. Motion-compensated compressed sensing for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI using regional spatiotemporal sparsity and region tracking: block low-rank sparsity with motion-guidance (BLOSM). Magn Reson Med. 2014 Oct; 72(4):1028-38.
Salerno M, Janardhanan R, Jiji RS, Brooks J, Adenaw N, Mehta B, Yang Y, Antkowiak P, Kramer CM, Epstein FH. Comparison of methods for determining the partition coefficient of gadolinium in the myocardium using T1 mapping. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Jul; 38(1):217-24.
Yap PT, Chen Y, An H, Yang Y, Gilmore JH, Lin W, Shen D. SPHERE: SPherical Harmonic Elastic REgistration of HARDI data. Neuroimage. 2011 Mar 15; 55(2):545-56.