On the morning of December 15, 2014, an excellent academic lecture entitled “A Window into the Brain through MRI: From Structure, Function to Metabolism” was held by the School of Automation Science and Engineering in Building 3.The lecture was given by Professor Zhipei Liang, who is a professor of Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, and the president of IEEE-EMBS during 2011-2012. His research interests include image formation theory, algorithms, and biomedical applications. Because of his great achievement he won NSF CAREER Award in 1995, the IEEE-EMBC Best Paper Award of 2010-2011, and Technical Achievement Award in 2014.
The lecture was hosted by Prof. Yuanqing Li, the dean of School of Automation Science and Engineering. At the beginning of this lecture, Prof. Liang introduced the concept of spin and its application in brain imaging--Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The students have heard the conception of fMRI for a long time, but they didn’t learn about the development and the details of fMRI until this lecture. Furthermore, Prof. Liang presented the great potential of fMRI in the field of brain structure, function and metabolism. Throughout the whole lecture, the students were curious about the mechanism of brain and the discussion between Prof. Liang and students was frequent.
