Yong Yue, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Mentor: Hemant Tagare

Contact
Address:
Yale University, School of Medicine
Yale Image Processing and Analysis Group
BML-332, 310 Cedar Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8042
United States
Email: yong.yue@yale.edu
Telephone: (203) 785-2428
Fax: (203) 737-4273
Education
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 2007
Please click here for Curriculum Vitae 
Research Interests
My research interests are in the area of biomedical image analysis, with emphasis on modeling the fundamental biomedical imaging problems: image enhancement, segmentation, registration, motion tracking, and massive data computing.
Selected Publications
- Y. Yue, M.M. Croitoru, A. Bidani, J.B. Zwischenberger, and J.W. Clark Jr., “Nonlinear Multiscale Wavelet Diffusion for Speckle Suppression and Edge Enhancement in Ultrasound Images", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.25, No.3, 297-311, Mar. 2006
- Y. Yue and J.W. Clark Jr., “Speckle suppression for 3-D ultrasound images using nonlinear Multi- scale Wavelet Diffusion", SPIE Medical Imaging 2007, San Diego, CA
- J. Wang, D.S. Khoury, Y. Yue, G. Torre-Amione, S.F. Nagueh, “Left ventricular untwisting rate by speckle tracking echocardiography”, Circulation, vol.116, No.22, 2580-6, Nov. 2007
- Y. Yue, H.D. Tagare, E.L. Madsen, G.R. Frank, and M.A. Hobson ”Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultra- sound Segmentation Algorithm with a Phantom Study", Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2008, New York, NY
- J. Wang, D.S. Khoury, Y. Yue, G. Torre-Amione, S.F. Nagueh, “Preserved left ventricular twist and circumferential deformation, but depressed longitudinal and radial deformation in patients with diastolic heart failure", European Heart Journal, vol. 29, No. 10, 1283-9, May, 2008
- Y. Yue, J.W. Clark Jr., and D.S. Khoury, “Speckle Tracking in Intracardiac Echocardiography for the Assessment of Myocardial Deformation." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. (in press)
- Y. Yue, and H.D. Tagare, “Comprehensive Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation Algorithm", Medical Image Analysis.