Excited to share that
@yirangs2
's work on LOCA-ULM has been published on
@NatureComms
! When domain mismatch is addressed and context specific loss functions are used, DL indeed provides much better super-resolution ULM performance than existing methods.
Happy to share that my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure has been approved. Huge thanks to my incredible lab team, supportive faculty mentors and the ultrasound community, and the unwavering backing of UIUC leadership for making this milestone possible!
#Grateful
I knew what this should look like but was still taken aback by how pretty this turned out. Such a great way to illustrate backscattering in
#ultrasound
.
Inspired by
#fULM
from
@TanterM
, we also generated videos of microbubbles moving inside a mouse brain. This is indeed a very cool way of presenting
#ULM
data and showing what blood flow looks like in brain tissue!
Extremely humbled and honored to receive the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator award
@ieeeius
. Nothing beats the feeling of receiving this recognition from my home society where I grew up academically and being introduced by my dear friend and colleague
@Oelze_Url
.
Glad to share that our collaborative work with
@LlanoLaboratory
on super-resolution ultrasound for imaging microvascular impairment in Alzheimer's disease mouse models has been published on
#JNeurosci
@SfNJournals
. We've also made the paper open access:
Is
#ULM
on awake mice possible? We think so! Check out our new work led by
@YikeWang003
: we demonstrate awake and longitudinal ULM imaging of 🐭🧠. You can see the impact of anesthetics on cerebral blood flow -- something you can only visualize with ULM!
Humbled and honored to receive the Y. T. Lo Faculty Fellow professorship from
@ECEILLINOIS
and
@uofigrainger
. This recognition will continue to inspire me to push the boundaries of ultrasound and to mentor the future workforce of biomedical imaging. Grateful for the opportunity!
We're thrilled to receive a
@NIBIBgov
R01 grant to develop a novel probe clip-on device that instantly converts 2D ultrasound to 3D, with ultrafast imaging capabilities. Thanks to our collaborators' (
@ShigaoChen
and Jun Zou) help, this application was ranked at 2 percentile!
I am very honored to receive the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award from
@cziscience
. We are very excited to continue advancing super-resolution ultrasound imaging, making it a transformative technology for understanding and combating neurodegeneration. 🏆🔬🧠
As part of our work in
#neuroscience
+
#neurodegeneration
, we are committed to supporting early career researchers across disciplines & expertise.
Meet our second cohort of Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards grantees ⤵️
I'm very proud of YiRang
@yirangs2
who developed LOCA-ULM, which is the first context-aware DL-based ULM method. Our team's conventional method won the super-resolution challenge last year, but now LOCA-ULM has taken the lead.
Check out full paper here:
Very honored to deliver the invited talk for the super-resolution track at
#IUS2022
in Venice. Excited to be back in person again for the IUS since 2019.
Super-resolution ultrasound imaging reveals that aging
#brain
has impaired blood flow velocity and more disorganized subcortical vessels. Check out our preprint paper on a mouse model with
@LlanoLaboratory
@BeckmanInst
I never get tired of seeing these beautiful blood flow images we can get with
#ultrasound
nowadays without using any contrast. Ultrasound is such an excellent modality for imaging vessels deep into the body with high resolution and in real-time!
My first
@GordonConf
is a blast! Very honored to present our work with
@TanterM
and Olivier Couture on super-resolution ultrasound. Lots of amazing feedback and interactions. The field is getting more and more exciting!
Mind-blowing breakthrough alert! 🤯 The
@mikhailshapiro
lab has just achieved calcium imaging with ultrasound - a dream realized for the ultrasound imaging community! Huge congrats to Mikhail and the team on this groundbreaking achievement! 🚀🧠🎉
Can we image intracellular calcium with ultrasound?
Yes, w/ultrasonic reporters of calcium - URoCs!
Congrats to
@ZhiyangJin
and co-authors on creating the first genetically encoded acoustic biosensors of this universal cell signal based on
#gasvesicles
.
A new deep-learning technique will make
#ultrasound
localization microscopy "faster and better" and more practical in clinical and diagnostic settings, according to Beckman researchers at
#ILLINOIS
. 🧠
📰
📗
Special session on
#SuperResolution
#ultrasound
in Denver ASA
@acousticsorg
, with
@AgExner
, Gianmarco Pinton, Meaghan O'Reilly, King Kim, and Katherine Brown. Many thanks to Jeff Ketterling and Michael Oelze for organizing this amazing session!
Saw students using ChatGPT to generate ultrasound beamforming code in my class when doing homework... mind-blowing stuff😱😱😱 Although it didn't get the delay-and-sum part exactly correct, it's still super impressive...
We are thrilled to receive the
@NIH
@NIBIBgov
Trailblazer Award to develop the next-gen ultrasound super-resolution imaging technologies! Many thanks to
@qlilab
and Yoram Bresler for their strong support. Can’t wait to get started on this exciting project!
🎓🎉 Today, we're thrilled to celebrate
@Zhijie_D
, the first PhD graduate of
@SongLabUIUC
! As my first PhD student, I feel incredibly fortunate to have witnessed his remarkable accomplishments over the past 4 years. Congratulations, Zhijie!
@ECEILLINOIS
@BeckmanInst
Check out our super-resolution ultrasound brain imaging preprint on mice with Alzheimer's disease. We found that the early stage of the disease presented with decreased blood flow velocity in vulnerable brain regions.
@LlanoLaboratory
@BeckmanInst
Humbled to receive the Early Career Award from
@UNL_BSE
. Great day spent with my Master’s adviser Prof. Bashford and the rest of the BSE department. This is the place where everything started. Go Huskers!!
My lab has 1-2 postdoc positions and 2-3 PhD RA positions immediately available. Research topics include ultrafast 3D imaging and super-resolution ultrasound. Please RT and email me if you are interested: songp
@illinois
.edu. Experience with Verasonics is preferred.
🧵1/2 In this new paper we introduce a novel 3D shear wave elastography (SWE) method based on 2D row-column-addressing (RCA) array. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that acoustic radiation force-based 3D SWE is demonstrated on 2D RCAs.
We are very excited to receive the
@NSF
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) award to advance our commercialization effort for 3D ultrasound! Shoutout to our scientific, entrepreneurial, and industrial collaborators: Jun Zou
@TAMUECE
, Jed Taylor
@TECenter
, & Jon Daigle
@verasonics
!
Jihun
@_JihunKim
joined us about a year ago with an interesting question: can we do STED style super-resolution imaging in ultrasound? I said we have to try! He did and it worked! Check out our preprint paper:
Check out our latest paper by
@QiYou2
in
@IEEE_TMI
! We developed a curvelet-based sparsity-promoting method to accelerate super-resolution imaging. Our method uses 80% less data, providing a robust solution for shortening super-res data acquisition.
Check out our new paper led by
@Zhijie_D
where we present a new version of the FASTER probe clip-on device that enables high volume-rate, multimodal 3D ultrasound imaging with regular 1D ultrasound probes (B-mode, Doppler, and super-resolution imaging).
I'm very honored to receive the
@uofigrainger
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research. Many thanks to my Head Bruce Hajek
@ECEILLINOIS
for the nomination! We are fortunate to be part of this great College who always gives us the peace of mind to pursue what is truly exciting.
Fun day teaching the super-resolution ultrasound imaging short course with Olivier Couture at
#IUS2023
@ieeeius
! Will do this again next year in Taiwan
#IUS2024
.
Lots of fun talking about super resolution ultrasound at the
@AIUMultrasound
#ultracon2023
. Great feedback from the clinical community about the future of super resolution imaging.
Today we said farewell to
@Zhijie_D
who will embark on an exciting journey at iota Biosciences. Last group photo with Zhijie
@BeckmanInst
. Also excited to attend the ceremony with my distinguished colleagues to receive the Y. T. Lo Faculty Fellowhip
@ECEILLINOIS
!
In this preprint we introduce CS Doppler, a deep generative neural network-based technique that super-resolves microvessels without using contrast microbubbles. This work was lead by
@QiYou2
and in collaboration with
@AnastasioLab
and
@LlanoLaboratory
.
Thrilled and honored to announce my appointment as an Associate Editor for
@IEEE_TMI
. Throughout my academic journey, TMI has held an esteemed position. Grateful for this opportunity and fully committed to fulfilling my responsibilities as an AE for TMI!
Had an amazing time visiting
@USC_ZilkhaNeuro
and I was truly inspired by the brilliant neuroscientists I had the privilege to meet. They shared fantastic insights and I'm eager to go back and explore these amazing ideas! Huge thanks to
@ZZhao_USC
and Qifa Zhou for hosting me!
❗️Upcoming
#ZNISeminarSeries
❗️
"A new era of deep brain microvascular imaging in animal models of disease using super-resolution ultrasound" with Dr. Pengfei Song.
🗓️Wednesday, 10/25/23
⏰12-1pm
🚩Herklotz Seminar Room/ZNI 112 (and Zoom)
Assistant Professor Pengfei Song has received the prestigious
@NSF
CAREER Award – congratulations! Song is working on a super-resolution ultrasound imaging technology to take a noninvasive look deep into the human brain. 🤯
@SongLabUIUC
Another exciting
#superresolution
#ultrasound
imaging study published in IEEE TBME! These amazing vascular images revealed combination therapy effects between chemotherapy and anti-angiogenic agents on colorectal carcinoma tumors.
Congrats to YiRang
@yirangs2
on her article being selected as the 50 best papers recently published in the "Biotechnology and Methods" area of
@NatureComms
!
Pleased to co-write this review with esteemed wearable ultrasound colleagues including
@XugroupUCSD
@sikdar
Keith Wear, Michael Andre Parag Chitnis Ted Croy. The paper is now published on
@IEEE_UFFC_Soc
spotlight issue on wearable ultrasound.
Free PDF:
Check out our presentations at the virtual
@ieeeius2020
! Proud of the excellent work from my students (Zhijie Dong and Xi Chen) and postdoc (
@MRLowerison
). Looking forward to the exciting program this year!
Had an illuminating and fun day at the
@czi
headquarters for the
@cziscience
Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award retreat! Engaging sessions and discussions on the future of neuroscience, career development, and mentoring. Excited for day 2 of the retreat! 🧠🚀
Check out our latest
@IEEE_TMI
paper by
@XiChen956316941
and
@MRLowerison
! We present our deep-learning based technique for super-resolution ultrasound that makes efficient use of microbubble flow info to provide real-time super-resolution capability.
Fun week at
@GordonConf
Tissue Microstructure Imaging! Great discussion across multiple imaging modalities. Nice to meet with friends in ultrasound!
🧵1/7 It was a lot of fun writing this short review with Dr. Jon Rubin
@UMichRadiology
and
@MRLowerison
to provide an update for super-resolution ultrasound imaging. The full paper is open access and can be found here:
Honored to be featured in this great article from
@uofigrainger
with
@AnastasioLab
and Oelze Lab.
@UofIllinois
is known for excellent biomedical ultrasound research for 75+ years. We are very proud to contribute to this ongoing story.
Glad to share that
@YikeWang003
's work on longitudinal and awake ULM imaging has been published as a reviewed preprint
@eLife
. The quality of the review was outstanding. We will keep improving the paper towards the final version of record.
Last lecture of the semester is always my favorite - live demonstrations and hands-on experiences with ultrasound imaging in classroom! Many thanks to the assistance from my students
@QiYou2
@yirangs2
@BingZeLin0313
! It was a lot of fun!
What a beautiful day to celebrate
@SongLabUIUC
’s first PhD graduate Dr. Zhijie Dong
@Zhijie_D
! Great hooding ceremony and a day full of memories for decades to come. Best of luck Zhijie and we hope you all the best!! Come back and see us often. 🎓🎉🥳
Super-resolution ultrasound imaging can be done faster and better with microbubble separation. Check out our new
@SciReports
paper in collaboration with
@ChengwuH
& Shigao Chen from
@MayoRadiology
!
➡️
This is such a cool application of ultrafast ultrasound in revealing the source of the Korotkoff sounds! Congratulations to
@TanterM
and his team for yet another master piece!
One method of assessing blood pressure involves listening for “Korotkoff sounds,” often described as tapping or thumping noises.
Research out this week in Science Advances shows Korotkoff sounds are caused by shear vibrations in the surrounding tissues:
Check out our new work demonstrating that
#superresolution
imaging (with flow velocity) can be done without microbubble localization! Our
#deeplearning
based method is both accurate and fast, and has the potential to be implemented in real time!
Honored to have been elected as Secretary of the BS&I Community
@AIUMultrasound
! Excited to serve with
@kevinhaworth
and
@AlfredYu_LITMUS
to bridge the basic research and the medical ultrasound communities. Looking forward to seeing everyone at
#UltraCon2024
in Austin!
We are thrilled to host Prof. Mark Borden who is visiting us from CU Boulder. I’m always humbled by how little I know about microbubbles after hearing Mark’s talk. Also interesting for two ultrasound guys to stand in front of one of the world’s first MRI machines for pictures.
Two
#ILLINOIS
and Mayo Clinic Researchers were awarded $2.2M for a breast cancer imaging study.
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Pengfei Song hopes the study benefits millions of breast cancer patients both in the US and around the world.
What a nice way to finish a busy semester and welcoming YiRang Shin
@yirangs2
to join our lab as a new PhD student! Looking forward to a fun and productive summer with this amazing group of people!
In this paper we demonstrate the robustness of deep learning-based microbubble (MB) localization for super-resolution imaging, especially under high MB concentrations. Our results also indicate the need of temporal MB information for further improvement.
If you want to learn how to use sound 🔊 and light 💡to image and treat the human body, come and join the
@BIOENGatIL
Distinguished Seminar this Friday at 2PM in Everitt Lab 2310, which will be presented by Prof. Xueding Wang
@UMBME
. Don’t miss out this enlightening session!
Our newest work on using Null Subtraction Imaing (NSI) to improve both spatial resolution and contrast of power Doppler imaging has been disclosed on the arXiv.
Prof. Song and his group members' supports are crucial to the accomplishment of this work. Link in image description.
The placenta is a crucial organ during pregnancy, yet much about it remains a mystery.
@yaojj02
and colleagues at
@DukeUBME
have captured high-res images of the mouse placenta in real time, providing an unprecedented view of its development. Take a look:
Great pleasure to be selected to receive the Illinois Proof-of-Concept award from the Office of Technology Management! Excited to make real-time super-resolution imaging ready for commercial licensing soon!
I'm extremely honored to receive a call from the President
@fowlkes1
of
@AIUMultrasound
informing me that I've been elected as a Fellow of AIUM! The recognition renews my commitment to the AIUM society and medical ultrasound. Looking forward to contributing more to the community!
Congratulations to YiRang
@yirangs2
on receiving the prestigious
@BeckmanInst
Graduate Research Assistantship!! Also many thanks to
@LlanoLaboratory
for the wholehearted support of YiRang's projects!
There is nothing more rewarding than getting the nod from your students for excellence in teaching. I am so grateful for all the students who demonstrated incredible perseverance and passion for knowledge. This is my 1st time making it to the list but I can't wait to do it again!
Many thanks to
@BeckmanInst
for the great story!! Looking forward to our continuing collaboration with the
@LlanoLaboratory
. Congrats to
@QiYou2
for the nice paper!
#ILLINOIS
researchers developed a new technique for imaging microscopic vessels and measuring blood flow in the brain. 🧠
Their work could help enable future research into the neurovascular mechanisms behind conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and stroke▶️
Thank you
@Mechanophore
for your great leadership and mentorship
@BeckmanInst
! I will never forget all your help and incredibly helpful feedback. You inspire me to become a better researcher and mentor. “Farewell” and look forward to continuing working with you at Beckman!
Part of a study on neuropathic pain, this image by Kunzan Liu captures the complexities of the tissue microenvironment within a mouse whisker pad.
#KIimages
Check out our latest publication in IEEE TUFFC! We designed a pixel oriented adaptive apodization to improve coherent plane-wave compounding. This technique has great potential for a multiple of imaging modalities based on
#UltrafastUltrasound
imaging.
We greatly benefited from
@EmilieMaceLab
's Nature Protocol paper on head-fixed fUS imaging in our recent awake ULM work. This is another great teaching article for people like us who start to adopt the technology. So many details being openly shared! Truly amazing work!
✨New preprint✨ Ever dreamed of combining brain-wide fUS imaging, two-photon imaging, ephys, and optogenetics in mice during your favorite head-fixed task? Want to also capture their facial expressions? We present the COMBO window to facilitate all these techniques!
We are at the beautiful Chautauqua park attending
#Artimino2022
! The Flatirons are impressive, the hiking not so much… 😂😂 more workout is warranted 🏋️♀️🏋️♀️! Can’t wait to engage in the great discussion about ultrasound!