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 Book Chapters

1. Jimin Liang, Changhong Chen, Heng Zhao, Haihong Hu, Jie Tian. Gait feature fusion using factorial HMM (Chapter 9). Behavioral Biometrics for Human Identification: Intelligent Applications (Editors: Liang Wang and Xin Geng), IGI-Global, 189-206, 2010.
2. Jie Tian, Jimin Liang, Xueli Chen, and Xiaochao Qu. Molecular Optical Simulation Environment (Chapter 2), Molecular Imaging: Fundamentals and Applications (Editor: Jie Tian), Zhejiang University Press and Springer-Verlag, 15-46, 2012.
3. Xueli Chen, Dongmei Chen, Fenglin Liu, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang, and Jimin Liang. Optical-CT Imaging (Chapter 14), Handbook of Small Animal Imaging: Preclinical Imaging, Therapy, and Applications (Editors: George C. Kagadis, Nancy L. Ford, George K. Loudos, and Dimitrios Karnabatidis), Taylors & Francis Group, 2015.

 Peer Reviewed Publications

2016

1. Xueli Chen, Defu Yang, Fangfang Sun, Xu Cao, Jimin Liang*, Adaptively alternative light-transport-model- based three-dimensional optical imaging for longitudinal and quantitative monitoring of gastric cancerin live animal, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, in press. (IF: 2.347)
2. Fengjun Zhao, Jimin Liang*, Xueli Chen, Junting Liu, Dongmei Chen, Xiang Yang, and Jie Tian, Quantitative analysis of vascular parameters for micro-CT imaging of vascular networks at multi-resolution, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 511-524, 2016. (IF: 1.726)
3. Xiaochao Qu, Xueyuan Gao, Xianhui Xu, Shouping Zhu, Jimin Liang, A hybrid registration-based method for whole-body micro-CT mice images, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2015, DOI:10.1007/s11517-015-1386-4. (IF: 1.726)
4. Yunpeng Dai+, Jipeng Yin+, Yu Huang, Xueli Chen*, Guodong Wang, Yajun Liu, Xianghan Zhang, Yongzhan Nie, Kaichun Wu, and Jimin Liang*, In vivo quantifying molecular specificity of Cy5.5-labeled cyclic 9-mer peptide probe with dynamic fluorescence imaging, Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1149-1159, 2016. (IF: 3.648)
5. Shenghan Ren, Haihong Hu, Gen Li, Xu Cao, Shouping Zhu, Xueli Chen, Jimin Liang*, Multi-atlas registration and adaptive hexahedral voxel discretization for fast bioluminescence tomography, Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1549-1560, 2016. (IF: 3.648)
6. Zhen Qin, Vladimir A. Ljubimov, Cuiqi Zhou, Yunguang Tong* and Jimin Liang*, Cell‑free circulating tumor DNA in cancer, Chinese Journal of Cancer, 35:36, 2016. (IF:2.155)
7. Yunpeng Dai, Xueli Chen*, Jipeng Yin, Xiaoyu Kang, Guodong Wang, Xianghan Zhang, Yongzhan Nie, Kaichun Wu, and Jimin Liang*, Investigation of injection dose and camera integration time on quantifying pharmacokinetics of a Cy5.5-GX1 probe with dynamic fluorescence imaging in vivo, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 21(8):086001, 2016. (IF:2.556)
8. Xiaochao Qu*, Xiaoxiao Li, Jingning Liang, Yanran Wang,Muhan Liu, and Jimin Liang*, Micro-CT Imaging of RGD-Conjugated Gold Nanorods Targeting Tumor In Vivo, Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2016, Article ID 8368154, 2016. (IF: 1.758) 
9. Shenghan Ren, Xueli Chen, Xu Cao, Shouping Zhu, and Jimin Liang*, GPU accelerated simplified harmonic spherical approximation equations for three-dimensional optical imaging, Chinese Optics Letters, 14(7):071701, 2016. (IF: 1.899)
10. Yonghua Zhan, Fanrong Ai, Feng Chen, Hector F. Valdovinos , Hakan Orbay, Haiyan Sun, Jimin Liang, Todd E. Barnhart, Jie Tian*, and Weibo Cai*, Intrinsically Zirconium-89 Labeled Gd2O2S:Eu Nanoprobes for In Vivo Positron Emission Tomography and Gamma-Ray-Induced Radioluminescence Imaging, Small, 12(21):2872-2876, 2016. (IF:8.315)
11. Xu Cao, Yang Li, Yonghua Zhan, Xueli Chen, Fei Kang, Jing Wang, and Jimin Liang*, Removing Noises Induced by Gamma Radiation in Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging Using a Temporal Median Filter, BioMed Research International, Volume 2016, Article ID 7948432, 2016. (IF: 2.134)

2015

1. Jun Zhang, Jimin Liang*, Chunhui Zhang, and Heng Zhao, “Scale invariant texture representation based on frequency decomposition and gradient orientation,” Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 51, pp. 57-62, 2015.
2. Chunhui Zhang, Jimin Liang*, Jun Zhang, and Heng Zhao, “A new shape prior model with rotation invariance,” Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 54, pp. 82-88, 2015.
3. Duofang Chen*, Jimin Liang, and Kui Guo, “Temporal Unmixing of Dynamic Fluorescent Images by Blind Source Separation Method with a Convex fr[ant]amework,” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Volume 2015, Article ID 713424, 12 pages, 2015.
4. Defu Yang, Xueli Chen*, Xin Cao, Jing Wang, Jimin Liang, and Jie Tian, “Performance investigation of SP3 and diffusion approximation for three-dimensional whole-body optical imaging of small animals,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2015. In press
5. Xin Cao+, Xueli Chen+, Fei Kang+, Yonghua Zhan, Xu Cao, Jing Wang*, Jimin Liang*, and Jie Tian*, “Intensity Enhanced Cerenkov luminescence imaging using terbium doped Gd₂O₂S microparticles,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,vol. 7, pp. 11775-11782, 2015.
6. Xin Cao, Xueli Chen*, Fei Kang, Xu Cao, Yonghua Zhan, Jing Wang, Kaichun Wu, and Jimin Liang*, “Sensitivity improvement of Cerenkov luminescence endoscope with terbium doped Gd₂O₂S nanoparticles,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 106, 213702, 2015.
7. Fengjun Zhao, Jimin Liang*, Dongmei Chen, Chuan Wang, Xiang Yang, Xueli Chen, and Feng Cao, “Automatic segmentation method for bone and blood vessel in murine hindlimb,”Medical Physics, vol. 42, no. 7, 4043, 2015.
8. Xueli Chen*, Fangfang Sun, Defu Yang, Shenghan Ren, Qian Zhang, and Jimin Liang*, “Hybrid simplified spherical harmonics with diffusion equation for light propagation in tissues,”Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 60, no. 16, pp. 6305-6322, 2015.
9. Chunhui Zhang, Xueli Chen, Shouping Zhu, Lu Wan, Qingguo Xie, and Jimin Liang*, “Performance evaluation of 90^o-rotating dual-head small animal PET system,”Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 60, no. 15, pp. 5873-5890, 2015.

 2014

1. F. Zhao, J. Liu, X. Qu, X. Xu, X. Chen, X. Yang, F. Cao, J. Liang*, and J. Tian, “In vivo quantitative evaluation of vascular parameters for angiogenesis based on sparse principal component analysis and aggregated boosted trees,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 59, no. 24, pp. 7777-7791, 2014.
2. X. Cao, X. Chen, F. Kang, Y. Lin, M. Liu, H. Hu, Y. Nie, K. Wu, J. Wang*, J. Liang*, and J. Tian*, “Performance evaluation of endoscopic Cerenkov luminescence imaging system: in vitro and pseudotumor studies,” Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 3660-3670, 2014.
3. D. Chen, S. Zhu*, X. Chen, T. Chao, X. Cao, F. Zhao, L. Huang, and J. Liang, “Quantitative cone beam X-ray luminescence tomography/X-ray computed tomography imaging,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 105, no. 19, 191104, 2014.
4. X. Chen*, D. Yang, Q. Zhang, and J. Liang*, “L-1/2 regularization based numerical method for effective reconstruction of bioluminescence tomography,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115, no. 18, 184702, 2014.
5. X. Chen*, Q. Zhang, D. Yang, and J. Liang*, “Hybrid radiosity-SP3 equation based bioluminescence tomography reconstruction for turbid medium with low- and non-scattering regions,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115, no. 2, 024702, 2014.
6. J. Liu, W. Fan, M. Liu, X. Lin, Y. Wang, F. Wang, X. Chen, F. Cao*, and J. Liang*, “Spatial vascular volume fraction imaging for quantitative assessment of angiogenesis,” Molecular Imaging and Biology, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 362-371, 2014.
7. F. Wang, Z. Wang, N. Hida, D. Kiesewetter, Y. Ma, K. Yang, P. Rong, J. Liang, J. Tian*, G. Niu*, and X. Chen*, “A cyclic HSV1-TK reporter for real-time PET imaging of apoptosis,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111, no. 14, pp. 5165-5170, 2014.
8. J. Zhang, D. Chen, J. Liang*, H. Xue, J. Lei, Q. Wang, D. Chen, M. Meng, Z. Jin*, and J. Tian, “Incorporating MRI structural information into bioluminescence tomography: system, heterogeneous reconstruction and in vivo quantification,” Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1861-1876, 2014.
9. C. Zhang, J. Zhang, H. Zhao, and J. Liang*, “A part-based probabilistic model for object detection with occlusion,” PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 1, e84624, 2014.
10. Qi Pan, Chao Wang, Xueli Chen, Jimin Liang, Lingling Zhao, Ge Wang, and Xavier Intes*, “Multimodal biomedical optical imaging review: Towards comprehensive investigation of biological tissues,” Current Molecular Imaging, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 72-87, 2014.

 2013

1. Jun Zhang, Jimin Liang*, Heng Zhao, Local Energy Pattern for Texture Classification Using Self-Adaptive Quantization Thresholds, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 22(1):31-42, 2013.
2. Jun Zhang, Heng Zhao, Jimin Liang*, Continuous Rotation Invariant Local Desc[ant]riptors for Texton Dictionary-based Texture Classification, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 17(1):56-75, 2013.
3. Jing Xin, Yonghua Zhan, Limin Xia, Hongwu Zhu, Yongzhan Nie, Jimin Liang^*, and Jie Tian^*, ApoG2 as the most potent gossypol derivatives inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis on gastric cancer cells, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 67(1): 88-95, 2013.
4. Defu Yang, Xueli Chen, Shenghan Ren, Xiaochao Qu, Jie Tian, and Jimin Liang*,Influence investigation of void region on modeling light propagation in heterogeneous medium. Applied Optics, 52(3): 400-408, 2013.
5. Dongmei Chen, Shouping Zhu, Huangjian Yi, Xianghan Zhang, Duofang Chen, Jimin Liang*, and Jie Tian*, Cone Beam X-Ray Luminescence Computed Tomography: A Feasibility Study, Medical Physics, 40(3):031111-1-14, 2013.
6. Zhenhua Hu, Weidong Yang, Xiaowei Ma, Wenhui Ma, Xiaochao Qu, Jimin Liang*, Jing Wang*, and Jie Tian*, Cerenkov luminescence tomography of aminopeptidase N (APN/CD13) ex[ant]pression in mice bearing HT1080 tumors, Molecular Imaging, 12(3): 173-181, 2013.
7. Jing Xin+, Yonghua Zhan+, Muhan Liu, Hao Hu, Limin Xia, Yongzhan Nie, Kaichun Wu, Jimin Liang*,and Jie Tian*, ApoG2 induces ER stress-dependent apoptosis in gastric cancer cellsin virtro and its real time evaluation by bioluminescence imaging in vivo. Cancer Letters, 336(2):260-269, 2013.
8. Fu Wang, Xinxing Song, Xiujuan Li, Jing Xin, Shenxu Wang, Weidong Yang, Jing Wang, Kaichun Wu, Xiaoyuan Chen, Jimin Liang*, Jie Tian*, Feng Cao*. Noninvasive visualization of microRNA-16 in the chemoresistance of gastric cancer using a dual reporter gene imaging system. PLoS One, 8(4): e61792-1-11, 2013.
9. Shenghan Ren, Xueli Chen, Hailong Wang, Xiaochao Qu, Ge Wang*, Jimin Liang*, and Jie Tian*. Molecular Optical Simulation Environment (MOSE): A Platform for the Simulation of Light Propagation in Turbid Media. PLoS One, 8(4):e61304-1-11, 2013.
10. Huangjian Yi, Duofang Chen, Wei Li, Shouping Zhu, Xiaorui Wang, Jimin Liang*, Jie Tian*. Reconstruction algorithms based on I1-norm and I2-norm for two imaging models of fluorescence molecular tomography: a comparative study. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 18(5):56013, 2013.

 2012

1. Qiuju Yang, Jimin Liang*, Zejun Hu, Heng Zhao, Auroral sequences representation and classification using hidden Markov models, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 50(12):5049-5060, 2012.
2. Qitan Zhang, Xueli Chen, Xiaochao Qu, Jimin Liang^*, and Jie Tian^*,Comparative studies of lp-regularization-based reconstruction algorithms for bioluminescencetomography, Biomedical Optics Express, 3(11):2816-2836, 2012
3. Wei Li, Huangjian Yi, Qitan Zhang, Duofang Chen, Jimin Liang*, Extended finite element method with simplified spherical harmonics approximation for the forward model of optical molecular imaging, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Volume 2012, Article ID 394374, 2012.
4. Zhenhua Hu, Xueli Chen, Jimin Liang*, Xiaochao Qu, Duofang Chen, Weidong Yang, Jing Wang, Feng Cao, and Jie Tian*, Single photon emission computed tomography-guided Cerenkov luminescence tomography, Journal of Applied Physics, 112:024703, 2012.
5. Qiuju Yang, Jimin Liang*, Zejun Hu*, Zanyang Xing, Heng Zhao, Automatic recognition of poleward moving auroras from all-sky image sequences based on HMM and SVM, Planetary and Space Science, 69:40-48, 2012.
6. Xueli Chen+, Defu Yang+, Xiaochao Qu, Hao Hu, Jimin Liang*, Xinbo Gao, and Jie Tian*, Comparisons of hybrid radiosity-diffusion model and diffusion equation for bioluminescence tomography in cavity cancer detection, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 17(6), 066015, 2012.
7. Huangjian Yi, Duofang Chen, Xiaochao Qu, Kuan Peng, Xueli Chen, Yuanyuan Zhou, Jie Tian, Jimin Liang*, A multilevel, hybrid regularization method for reconstruction for fluorescence molecular tomography, Applied Optics, 51(7):975-986, 2012.
8. Xueli Chen,Jimin Liang*, Xiaochao Qu, Yanbin Hou, Shouping Zhu, Duofang Chen, Xinbo Gao, and Jie Tian*, Mapping of bioluminescent images onto CT volume surface for dual-modality BLT and CT imaging, Journal of X-ray Sciences and Technology, 2012, 20：31-44.
9. Fengjun Zhao, Xiaochao Qu, Xin Zhang, Ting-Chung Poon, and Jimin Liang*, Solving inverse problem for optical scanning holography using an adaptively iterative shrinkage- thresholding algorithm, Optics Express, 20(6):5942–5954, 2012.
10. Eryun Liu, Heng Zhao, Jimin Liang*, Liaojun Pang, Hongtao Chen, Jie Tian, Random local region desc[ant]riptor (RLRD): A new method for fixed-length feature representation of fingerprint image and its application to template protection, Future Generation Computer Systems, 28:236–243, 2012.
11. Wei Li, Heng Zhao, Xiaochao Qu, Yanbin Hou, Xueli Chen, Duofang Chen, Xiaowei He, Qitan Zhang and Jimin Liang*, A novel adaptive FEM algorithm for bioluminescence tomography based on a dual-mesh alternation strategy, Chinese Optics Letters, 10(2): 021701-1-4, 2012.

 2011

1. Xueli Chen, Jimin Liang*, Heng Zhao, Xiaochao Qu, Duofang Chen, Qitan Zhang, Xinbo Gao, and Jie Tian*, Modeling and reconstruction of optical tomography for endoscopic applications: Simulation demonstration, Applied Physics Letters, 99(7):073702, 2011.
2. Changhong Chen*, Jimin Liang, Xiuchang Zhu, Gait recognition based on improved dynamic Bayesian networks, Pattern Recognition, 44(4):988-995, 2011.
3. Eryun Liu, Heng Zhao, Jimin Liang*, Liaojun Pang, Min Xie, Hongtao Chen, Yanhua Li, Peng Li, Jie Tian, A key binding system based on n-nearest minutiae structure of fingerprint, Pattern Recognition Letters, 32(5):666-675, 2011.
4. Eryun Liu, Heng Zhao, Liaojun Pang, Kai Cao, Jimin Liang*, Jie Tian, Method for fingerprint orientation field reconstruction from minutia template, Electronics Letters, 47(2): 98-100, 2011.
5. Nunu Ren, Heng Zhao, Shouping Zhu, Xiaochao Qu, Hongliang Liu, Zhenhua Hu, Jimin Liang*, Jie Tian*. Voxel classification methodology for rapid Monte Carlo simulation of light propagation in complex media. Chinese Optics Letters, 9(4): 041701-1-4, 2011.

 2010

1. Qian Wang, Jimin Liang*, Zejun Hu, Haihong Hu, Heng Zhao, Hongqiao Hu, Xinbo Gao, Huigen Yang*. Spatial texture based automatic classification of dayside aurora in all-sky images. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72(5-6): 498-508, 2010.
2. Changhong Chen, Jimin Liang*, Heng Zhao, Licheng Jiao. la[ant]yered time series model for gait recognition. Electronics Letters, 46(6):412-414, 2010.
3. Eryun Liu, Jimin Liang*, Liaojun Pang, Min Xie and Jie Tian. Minutiae and Modified Biocode Fusion for Fingerprint-based Key Generation. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 33(3):221-235, 2010.
4. Zhenhua Hu, Jimin Liang, Weidong Yang, Weiwei Fan, Congye Li, Xiaowei Ma, Xueli Chen, Xiaopeng Ma, Xiangsi Li, Xiaochao Qu, Jing Wang*, Feng Cao*, and Jie Tian*, Experimental Cerenkov luminescence tomography of the mouse model with SPECT imaging validation, Optics Express, 18(24), 24441-24450, 2010.
5. Xiaowei He, Jimin Liang, Xiaorui Wang, Jingjing Yu, Xiaochao Qu, Xiaodong Wang, Yanbin Hou, Duofang Chen, Fang Liu, and Jie Tian*. Sparse reconstruction for quantitative bioluminescence tomography based on the incomplete variables truncated conjugate gradient method, Optics Express, 18(24): 24825-24841, 2010.
6. Nunu Ren, Jimin Liang, Xiaochao Qu, Jianfeng Li, Bingjia Lu, Jie Tian*. GPU-based Monte Carlo Simulation for Light Propagation in Complex Heterogeneous Tissues, Optics Express, 18(7):6811-6823, 2010.
7. Junting Liu, Duofang Chen, Xiangsi Li, Xiaopeng Ma, Haichao Chen, Weiwei Fan, Fu Wang, Xiaochao Qu, Jimin Liang, Feng Cao, and Jie Tian*. In vivo quantitative reconstruction studies of bioluminescence tomography: effects of peak wavelength shift and model deviation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57(10): 2579-2582, 2010.
8. Junting Liu, Yabin Wang, Xiaochao Qu, Xiangsi Li, Xiaopeng Ma, Runqiang Han, Zhenhua Hu, Xueli Chen, Dongdong Sun, Rongqing Zhang, Duofang Chen, Dan Chen, Xiaoyuan Chen, Jimin Liang*, Feng Cao*, Jie Tian*. In vivo quantitative bioluminescence tomography using heterogeneous and homogeneous mouse models. Optics Express, 18(12): 13102-13113, 2010.

 2009

1. Changhong Chen, Jimin Liang*, Heng Zhao, Haihong Hu, Jie Tian. Factorial HMM and parallel HMM for gait recognition. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics-Part C: Applications and Reviews,  39(1): 114-123, 2009.
2. Changhong Chen, Jimin Liang*, Heng Zhao, Haihong Hu, Jie Tian. fr[ant]ame difference energy image for gait recognition with incomplete silhouettes, Pattern Recognition Letters, 30(11): 977-984, 2009.
3. Runqiang Han, Jimin Liang, Xiaochao Qu, Yanbin Hou, Nunu Ren, Jingjing Mao, Jie Tian*. A source reconstruction algorithm based on adaptive hp-FEM for bioluminescence tomography. Optics Express, 17(17):14481-14494, 2009.
4. Jixin Liu, Jimin Liang, Wei Qin, Jie Tian*, Kai Yuan, Lijun Bai, Yi Zhang, Wei Wang, Yarong Wang, Qiang Li, Liyan Zhao, Lin Lu, Karen M. von Deneen, Yijun Liu, Mark S. Gold, Dysfunctional connectivity patterns in chronic heroin users: An fMRI study. Neuroscience Letters, 460(1): 72-77, 2009.
5. Yi Zhang, Jimin Liang, Wei Qin, Peng Liu, Karen M. von Deneen, Peng Chen,  Lijun Bai, Jie Tian*, Yijun Liu. Comparison of visual cortical activations induced by electro-acupuncture at vision and nonvision-related acupoints. Neuroscience Letters, 458(1): 6-10, 2009.

 授权专利

1. 梁继民 等，一种CT/FT/PET三模态同步成像数据采集系统，专利号：ZL201410076679.2，2016
2. 梁继民 等，切伦科夫荧光成像中gamma射线的去除方法，专利号：ZL201310051432.0，2015
3. 梁继民 等，基于生物组织特异性的光学三维成像方法，专利号：ZL201110148500.6，2013
4. 梁继民 等，密钥生成方法，专利号：ZL200910024380.1，2013
5. 梁继民 等，全光学生物发光断层成像方法，国家发明专利，专利号：ZL201010290252.4，2012
6. 梁继民 等，数字视频目标跟踪中的目标匹配方法，国家发明专利，专利号：ZL200810232716.9，2011
7. 梁继民 等，定量光学分子断层成像装置和重建方法，国家发明专利，专利号：ZL201010173473.3，2011
8. 梁继民 等，基于秘密共享的Fuzzy Vault加密方法，国家发明专利，专利号：ZL200910022010.4，2011