Haiyan Xu, Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

• B.S., Electronic Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Machinery, P.R.China, 2005
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R.China, 2008
• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation: 

Ultrasound Shear Strain Imaging for Breast Cancer Classification, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013.

Positions

• 08/2008-06/2012, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 06/2013-03/2015, Video Algorithm Engineer, Magnum Semiconductors, San Francisco, CA.
• 03/2015-Present, Senior Software Engineer, IDT - Integrated Device Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA.

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Student Member, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)
• Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publications @ UW

• H. Xu, T Varghese, "Normal and shear strain imaging using 2D deformation tracking on beam-steered linear array datasets", Medical Physics, Vol. 40, No. 1, 012902, 2013. [Abstract]
• H. Xu, T. Varghese, J. Jiang, J.A. Zagzebski, "In-vivo classification of breast masses using features derived from axial-strain and axial-shear images", Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 222-236, 2012. [Abstract]
• Xu H, Varghese T, Madsen EL, Analysis of shear strain imaging for classifying breast masses: Finite element and phantom results, Med Phys, 2011 Nov; 38(11):6119-6127. [Abstract]
• Xu H, Rao M, Varghese T, Sommer A, Baker S, Hall TJ, Sisney GA, Burnside ES, Axial-shear strain imaging for differentiating benign and malignant breast masses, Ultrasound med Biol, 2010 Nov; 36 (11); 1813-24. [Abstract]

Browse Dr. Xu's publications on PubMed