Yue Li

Yue Li

Principal Research Scientist

Contact

CSIRO ICT Centre
Cnr Vimiera and Pembroke Roads
Marsfield, NSW 2122

Tel: + 61 2 9372 4467
Fax: +61 2 9372 4488
Yue.Li@csiro.au

Themes

  • Breed Engineering

Projects

  • AGP-AQ1

Science Area

  • Communications and Signal Processing

Biography

Yue Li joined CSIRO in May 1992. Since that time he has worked on a range of different projects related to image formation and processing.

During the period 1992 to 2002, he was involved in a contracted project aimed at developing an underwater high resolution acoustic mine imaging system. His responsibilities include underwater acoustic signal coherence measurement, image formation algorithm development, and transducer element position calibration. He developed an algorithm for the calibration of the phase and 3D position of transducer elements in a two-dimensional sparse array and two IEEE journal papers have been published on this algorithm.

From 1993 to 2005, He also undertook research on phase-aberration correction in medical ultrasound images. He developed a near-field signal-redundancy adaptive focusing algorithm to improve the resolution of medical ultrasound images. Two USA patents have been issued on this algorithm and a contracted project with a company has been setup to further test the performance of this algorithm.

In 2003, he became a member of the multi-spectral imaging project. The goal of this project is to develop a mm-wave imaging system for security purposes. His main responsibility includes algorithm design for image formation and restoration.

In addition to these major commitments, over the years at CSIRO, he has also been involved in an ultrasonic blood volume-flow measurement project (contracted, 1997-1998) and a medical-image processing project (2002-2003).

His key research skills and interests are algorithm development for sensor-array signal processing, adaptive beam formation, sensor localization, image formation, restoration, and segmentation.

Academic Qualifications

1990 PhD, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Biomedical Engineering
1985 MSc, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Physics
1982 BSc, Peking University, Beijing, China, Physics

Recent Professional Experience

2002-Present CSIRO ICT Centre, mm-wave imaging; phase-aberration correction in medical ultrasound images; medical image processing.
1997-2002 Acoustics Laboratory, Division of Industrial Physics, CSIRO. Project leader, Phase-aberration correction in medical ultrasound images; Acoustic mine imaging.
1992-1997 Ultrasonics Laboratory, Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, phase-aberration correction in medical ultrasound images; high resolution underwater acoustic mine imaging; blood flow measurement with Doppler ultrasound.

Science Citizenship

2008-2011 Program Committee, Acivs (Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems) 2008.
2008-2011 Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies.
Senior-Member IEEE
Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Reviewer International Journal of Systems Science
Reviewer IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Y. Li, J. Archer, J. Tello, G. Rosolen, F. Ceccato, S.. Hay, A.Hellicar, and Y. Guo, “Performance Evaluation of a Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 57, No. 10, pp. 2391- 2405, October 2009.
Y. Li, “Timing-error-difference calibration using reciprocal signals,” IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 2405-2417, November 2008.
Y. Li and B. Robinson, "The Cross algorithm for phase-aberration correction in medical ultrasound images formed with two-dimensional arrays," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 588-601, March 2008.
Y. Li, J. Archer, G. Rosolen, S. Hay, G. Timms and Y. J. Guo, "Fringe Management for a T-Shaped Millimeter-Wave Imaging System," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1246-1254, June 2007.
Y. Li, I. Sharp, M. Hedley, P. Ho, and Y. J. Guo, "Single- and Double-Difference Algorithms for Position and Time-Delay Calibration of Transducer-Elements in a Sparse Array," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1188-1198, June 2007.
Y. Li, "Position and time-delay calibration of transducer elements in a sparse array for underwater ultrasound imaging," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 1458-1466, August 2006.
Y. Li, "The influences of ambiguity phase aberration profiles on focusing quality in the very near field -- part I: single range focusing on transmission." IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 57-71, January 2002.
Y. Li, "Small-element-array algorithm for correcting phase aberration using near-field signal redundancy -- part I: principles." IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 29-48, January 2000.
Y. Li, "Phase-aberration correction using near-field signal redundancy -- part I: Principles." IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Cont., vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 355-371, March 1997.
Y. Li, “Correction of phase aberrations in medical ultrasound images using signal redundancy,” Ultrasound Imaging: Medical Applications, Chapter 4, pp. 47-72, InTech, ISBN 978-953-307-279-1, August 2011.