Welcome to the SJTU Cardiac MRI Lab Homepage!
Hi there, my name is Chenxi (胡晨曦). I am a Tenure-Track Associate Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), one of the best institutions in China. I am also an Engineer and MR physicist, who develops state-of-the-art MRI techniques for scientific and diagnostic purposes.
My research interest (also my greatest passion) spans from development of novel pulse sequences, image reconstruction & processing methods, contrast mechanisms, to application of MRI & machine learning to aid or improve clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease. The ultimate goal of my research is to develop improved MR imaging and data analysis tools that lead to sensitive, fast, and robust assessment of cardiovascular diseases and improved patient care.
The website is under continuous update so please be sure to revisit!
Contact Information
If you want to contact me, please write an email to chenxi.hu@sjtu.edu.cn. I'm always looking forward to new connections and interesting thoughts!
Education
-Doctor of Philosophy (2010-15), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA (Advisor/mentor: Stanley J. Reeves & Donald B. Twieg)
-Master of Applied Mathematics (2011-14), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
-Bachelor of Engineering (2005-09), Department of Electrical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Employment
-Tenure-Track Associate Professor (2019-), School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
-Post-Doctoral Associate (2015-19), Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (Advisor: Dana C. Peters)
-Teaching Assistant (2014-15), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Awards and Honors
-W. S. Moore Young Investigator Award Recipient (2018), the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM, https://www.ismrm.org/18m/2018-yia-winners/; https://medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/home/news/)
-Early Career Award Finalist (2018), the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)
I have published around 10 peer-reviewed papers and 30+ abstracts in major conferences in our field. Currently I am very excited to continue my research work, first time as a principal investigator, at the Institute of Medical Imaging Technology, at Biomedical Engineering Department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Things are going great so far, and we are expecting more exciting results to come out at the end of 2020, and through 2021.
Selected Publications
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Robb JS, Hu C*, and Peters DC, 1. “Interleaved, undersampled radial multiple-acquisition steady-state free precession for improved left atrial cine imaging”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2019.10.12
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Hu C, Tokoglu F, Scheinost D, Qiu M, Shen X, Peters DC, Galiana G, Constable RT*. “Dynamic‐flip‐angle ECG‐gating with nuisance signal regression improves resting‐state BOLD functional connectivity mapping by reducing cardiogenic noise”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2019 April 24. Doi: 10.1002/mrm.27775
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Hu C and Peters DC, “SUPER: a blockwise curve-fitting method for accelerating MR parametric mapping with fast reconstruction”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2019 Jan 17. Doi: 10.1002/mrm/27662
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Hu C, Huber S, Santacana-Laffitte G, Latif SR, Mojibian HR, Baldassarre LA, Peters DC. “REPAIRit: improving myocardial nulling and reducing ghosting artifacts in 3D navigator-gated late gadolinium enhancement under arrhythmia”. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2018 Sept 25. doi:10.1002/jmri.26284
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Seemann F, Baldassarre LA, Llanos F, Gonzales R, Grunseich K, Hu C, Sugeng L, Meadows J, Heiberg E, Peters DC. “Assessment of diastolic dysfunction and atrial remodeling by mri—validation and correlation with echocardiography and filling pressure”. Physiology Reports. 2018 Sept 05. doi: 10.14814/phy2.13828
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Hu C, Huber S, Latif SR, Santacana-Laffitte G, Mojibian HR, Baldassarre LA, and Peters DC. “Reverse double inversion-recovery: improving motion robustness of cardiac T2-weighted dark-blood turbo spin-echo sequence”, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2017 Nov 7. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25886
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Hu C, Sinusas AJ, Huber S, Thorn S, Stacy MR, Mojibian H, and Peters DC. “T1-refBlochi: High resolution 3D cardiac post-contrast T1 mapping based on a single 3D late gadolinium enhancement, Bloch equations, and a reference T1”. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2017;19(1):63. doi: 10.1186/s12968-017-0375-1.
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Hu C, Reeves SJ, Peters DC, and Twieg D. “An efficient reconstruction algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers for joint estimation of R2* and off-resonance in fMRI”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2017;36(6):1326-1336. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2667698.
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Hu C and Reeves SJ. “Trust region methods for estimation of complex exponential decay models in MRI with a single-shot trajectory”. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2015;24(11):3694-706. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2015.2442917
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Hu C and Reeves SJ. “An efficient auxiliary variable method for quantification of spin density, R2* decay, and field inhomogeneity maps in magnetic resonance imaging”, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2015), Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Hu C and Reeves SJ. "A regularized trust region method for joint reconstruction of spin magnitude, T2* decay, and off-resonance field map", Oral Presentation, IEEE International Conference on Imaging Processing (ICIP 2014), Paris, France
