Yuchong Rachel Jiang

Biography

• PhD, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Liverpool, UK
• Thesis topic: Image processing and pattern recognition on bone age analysis
• MSc, School of EEE and Info. Technologies, Liverpool Polytechnic, UK
• Has been teaching in higher education since 2000
• Has led a research team on building a software solution for objective method of chronic pain assessment and carried and led a research team on the research project of building a mobile application called auto-assistant system for elderly to help aging populations improve their quality of independent living including an automatic pill management system using mobile devices and a navigation helper which is able to detect road conditions while walking on the road using Microsoft Hololens that improves the mobility of elderly. We applied advanced image processing solutions to build such systems. Three research students of mobile computing degree from Sheridan College was working and supervised on this project.
• Carried on the applied research projects in computer-assisted radiology and surgery, 3D graphics application for medical image analysis in collaboration with doctors and research teams at SunnyBrook Hospital.
• Published papers in the journal of Computer assisted Radiology and Surgery on the research project of 3D treatment planning for Brachy cancer therapy as well as conferences. This paper received 313 reads and 47 citations.
• Developed a few teaching/research projects in Artificial Intelligence and 3D simulations and added to the related course materials.
• Worked with the Centre for Applied AI (formerly known as the Centre for Mobile Innovation) at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning with industry partner CloudX on a research project of patient care monitoring system with mobile applications such as Hololens.
• Grant Holder:
• NSERC ARD Grant for colleges, $75,000 for three years 2020–2022
• NSERC Engage Grants for Colleges , $25,000 Summer 2019–2020
• NSERC Engage Grants for Colleges , $25,000 Summer 2019–2020
• OCE VATA fund $10,000 Summer 2019–2020
• NSERC Discovery Grants $16,000/year, 2002–2007
• Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) $123,000/year, 2006–2008

Contributions to research

Principal Investigator on building a software solution for an objective method of chronic pain assessment. The project was supported by the NSERC-ARD grant (2020-23).

Selected publications

"A 3D computer-assisted treatment planning system for breast cancer brachytherapy treatment," International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery: Volume 10, Issue 4 (2015), Page 373-3812.

"Software Tool for Breast Cancer Brachytherapy Planning using VTK," Y Jiang, etal Invited paper, 6th IEEE international conference on Cognitive Informatics, Lake Tahoe, USA, 2007

"A Novel Segmentation and Navigation Method for Polyps Detection using Mathematical Morphology and Active Contour Models," Y Jiang, Jiang, J Meng, N Jaffer, Invited paper, 6th IEEE international conference on Cognitive Informatics, Lake Tahoe, USA, 2007

"Software Tool for Breast Cancer Brachytherapy using VTK," Y Jiang, etal, XVth International conference on the use of computers in Radiation Therapy, ICCR2007, Toronto, Canada.

"X-ray image segmentation using active contour model with global constraints," 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

"Active Contour Model with Shape Constraints for Bone Fracture Detection," Y Jia, Y Jiang, International Conference, 3rd Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, 2006

"Computer Assisted Diagnosis and Navigation System for CT Colonography," Y Jiang, Jinjie Meng, Lixu Gu, Leonard Berliner, Nasir Jaffer, 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering In Medicine and Biology, 2005

"Improved Diagnosis and Navigation for CT Colonography," Y Jiang, Leonard Berliner, Jinjie Meng, 19th International Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2005

"On incorporation shape priors into Geodesic Active Contours for Bone Fracture Analysis," IASTED conference on "Biomechanics"(BioMech 2004). IASTED: International Association of Science and Technology for Development

"X-ray Bone fracture segmentation by incorporating global shape model priors into Geodesic Active Contours," 18th International Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2004

"X-ray Bone Fracture Subtraction using geodesic active contour and mathematical morphology operations," 17th International Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2003.