Electronic Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Prof LIU, Li 劉立
Research Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Tianjin University, China), M.Sc. (Tianjin University, China), Ph.D. (University of Bern, Switzerland)
homepage Rm 311, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building phone Tel: +852 3943 4343 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research Interests:

Surgical robotics and navigation, AI empowered medical interventions, image-guided surgery, minimally invasive precision diagnosis and therapy, etc.

Research Highlights

 

 

 

Resume of Career

Li LIU received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He held the position of assistant professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Shenzhen University since 2016. In 2019 he joined CUHK as a faculty member. He has served as Program and Publication Chair of many international conferences including Publication Chair of IEEE ICIA 2017, 2018 and Program Chair of ICIA 2019. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Doctorate Dissertation Award, Swiss Institute of Computer Assisted Surgery (2016), the MICCAI Student Travel Award (2014) and the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICIA (2009).

Current Research Interests

Surgical robotics and navigation, AI empowered medical interventions, image-guided surgery, minimally invasive precision diagnosis and therapy, etc.

Honors and Awards

  • 2016 Distinguished Doctorate Dissertation Award, Swiss Institute of Computer Assisted Surgery
  • 2014 MICCAI Student Travel Award, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society
  • 2009 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA)

External Service

  • Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), 2019.
  • Publication Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), 2017, 2018.
  • Co-organizer, Sino-Swiss Stepping Stone Symposium on Medical Technology, 2014.

Publications

  1. Liu, S., Wang, Y., Yang, X., Lei, B., Liu, L., Li, S. X., Ni, D., & Wang, T. (2019). Deep learning in medical ultrasound analysis: A review. Engineering.
  2. Liu, L., Siebenrock, K., Nolte, L. P., & Zheng, G. (2018). Computer-Assisted Planning, Simulation, and Navigation System for Periacetabular Osteotomy. In Intelligent Orthopaedics (pp. 143-155). Springer, Singapore.
  3. Liu, L., Siebenrock, K., Nolte, L. P., & Zheng, G. (2018). Biomechanical Optimization-Based Planning of Periacetabular Osteotomy. In Intelligent Orthopaedics (pp. 157-168). Springer, Singapore.
  4. Song, S., Zhang, C., Liu, L., & Meng, M. Q. H. (2018). Preliminary study on magnetic tracking-based planar shape sensing and navigation for flexible surgical robots in transoral surgery: methods and phantom experiments. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 13(2), 241-251.
  5. Zhang, C., Lu, Y., Qiu, X., Song, S., Liu, L., & Meng, M. Q. H. (2017, September). Preliminary study on magnetic tracking based navigation for wire-driven flexible robot. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp. 2517-2523). IEEE.
  6. Liu, L., Ecker, T. M., Schumann, S., Siebenrock, K. A., & Zheng, G. (2016). Evaluation of constant thickness cartilage models vs. patient specific cartilage models for an optimized computer-assisted planning of periacetabular osteotomy. PloS one, 11(1), e0146452.
  7. Liu, L., Ecker, T., Xie, L., Schumann, S., Siebenrock, K., & Zheng, G. (2015). Biomechanical validation of computer assisted planning of periacetabular osteotomy: A preliminary study based on finite element analysis. Medical engineering & physics, 37(12), 1169-1173.
  8. Liu, L., Zheng, G., Bastian, J. D., Keel, M. J. B., Nolte, L. P., Siebenrock, K. A., & Ecker, T. M. (2016). Periacetabular osteotomy through the pararectus approach: technical feasibility and control of fragment mobility by a validated surgical navigation system in a cadaver experiment. International orthopaedics, 40(7), 1389-1396.
  9. Pflugi, S., Liu, L., Ecker, T. M., Schumann, S., Cullmann, J. L., Siebenrock, K., & Zheng, G. (2016). A cost-effective surgical navigation solution for periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) surgery. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 11(2), 271-280.
  10. Cheng, H., Liu, L., Yu, W., Zhang, H., Luo, D., & Zheng, G. (2015). Comparison of 2.5 D and 3D quantification of femoral head coverage in normal control subjects and patients with hip dysplasia. PloS one, 10(11), e0143498. (co-first author)
  11. Schumann, S., Liu, L., Tannast, M., Bergmann, M., Nolte, L. P., & Zheng, G. (2013). An integrated system for 3D hip joint reconstruction from 2D X-rays: a preliminary validation study. Annals of biomedical engineering, 41(10), 2077-2087.
  12. Liu, L., Ecker, T. M., Schumann, S., Siebenrock, K. A., & Zheng, G. (2016). Computer Assisted Planning of Periacetabular Osteotomy with Biomechanical Optimization: Constant Thickness Cartilage Models vs. Patient-Specific Cartilage Models. In Computational Biomechanics for Medicine (pp. 3-13). Springer, Cham.
  13. Ecker, T. M., Liu, L., Zheng, G., Albers, C. E., & Siebenrock, K. A. (2016). Preoperative Planning of Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO). In Computational Radiology for Orthopaedic Interventions (pp. 151-171). Springer, Cham.
  14. Pflugi, S., Liu, L., Ecker, T. M., Cullmann, J. L., Siebenrock, K., & Zheng, G. (2016). A cost-effective surgical navigation solution for periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) surgery. In Computational Radiology for Orthopaedic Interventions (pp. 333-348). Springer, Cham.
  15. Chu, C., Chen, C., Liu, L., & Zheng, G. (2015). FACTS: Fully Automatic CT Segmentation of a Hip Joint. Annals of biomedical engineering, 43(5), 1247-1259.
  16. Liu, L., Ecker, T., Schumann, S., Siebenrock, K., Chu, C., & Zheng, G. (2015). Optimization of Acetabulum Reorientation in a Periacetabular Osteotomy by Finite Element Simulation: A Preliminary Study. In Computational Biomechanics for Medicine (pp. 129-139). Springer, Cham.
  17. Liu, L., Ecker, T., Schumann, S., Siebenrock, K., Nolte, L., & Zheng, G. (2014, September). Computer assisted planning and navigation of periacetabular osteotomy with range of motion optimization. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (pp. 643-650). Springer, Cham.
  18. He, Q., Hu, C., Liu, W., Wei, N., Meng, M. Q. H., Liu, L., & Wang, C. (2013). Simple 3-D point reconstruction methods with accuracy prediction for multiocular system. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 18(1), 366-375.
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