Shan Tong, Ph.D.

Shan Tong received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008.

Dr. Tong’s research interests include:

• integrative system approaches to biomedical imaging, image reconstruction and analysis;
  
• signal estimation and processing;
  
• biological modeling;
  
• objective image quality assessment.
  

Her research concentrates on the systematic integration and analysis of quantitative bio-modeling and in vivo observations of the biological/physiological phenomena. With the assistance of biological modeling, signal processing and estimation techniques, complex system theories are applied to analyze medical imaging data, which aims for a better understanding of the physiological and pathological mechanisms and their implications for disease diagnosis and treatment.

Major research works include system modeling and image quality assessment in PET reconstruction, tracer-kinetics-guided dynamic PET reconstruction, and cardiac motion and deformation recovery.