Publications

  1. Omar Curiel, Jing-Yuan Huang, Po-Chih Chen, Ji Ma, Qing Dai, Wenqi Zhou, David Lu, Holden H. Wu and Tsu-Chin Tsao. A master-slave robot manipulator for needle-based teleoperation in MRI chamber. Preprint, 2026. link
  2. Qing Dai, Jason Chiang, Shu-Fu Shih, Wenqi Zhou, David S. K. Lu and Holden H. Wu. Active electromagnetic interference suppression for MR thermometry during MR-guided microwave ablation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2026. link
  3. Sule Sahin, Ernesto Diaz, Abhejit Rajagopal, Mansour Abtahi, Samantha Jones, Qing Dai, Sage Kramer, Zhen Jane Wang and Peder E. Z. Larson. UCSF RMaC: University of California San Francisco 3D Multi-Phase Renal Mass CT Dataset with Tumor Segmentations. Preprint, 2026. link
  4. Wenqi Zhou, Qing Dai, Omar Curiel, Tsu-Chin Tsao, Jason Chiang, David S. Lu and Holden H. Wu. Keypoint detection network for needle localization on intra-procedural MRI in MRI-guided liver interventions. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1–14, 2026. link
  5. Qing Dai, Shu-Fu Shih, Omar Curiel, Tsu-Chin Tsao, David S. Lu, Jason Chiang and Holden H. Wu. Volumetric thermometry in moving tissues using stack-of-radial MRI and an image-navigated multi-baseline proton resonance frequency shift method. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 95(2), 803–819, 2026. link
  6. Tian Deng, Qing Dai, Daniel A. Estabrook, John Chapman, Ellen M. Sletten, Holden H. Wu and Jeffrey I. Zink. Thermoresponsive Polymer-Modified SiO₂/Gadolinium-Diethylenetriamine Pentaacetic Acid Composite Nanoparticles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Ultrasound-Modulated Contrast Enhancement at Human Body Temperatures. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 8(47), 22835–22844, 2025. link
  7. Sule Sahin, Anna Bennett Haller, Jeremy Gordon, Yaewon Kim, Jasmine Hu, Tanner Nickles, Qing Dai, Andrew P. Leynes, Daniel B. Vigneron, Zhen Jane Wang and Peder E. Z. Larson. Spatially constrained hyperpolarized ¹³C MRI pharmacokinetic rate constant map estimation using a digital brain phantom and a U-Net. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 371, 107832, 2025. link
  8. Xiaodong Zhong, Marcel D. Nickel, Stephan A. R. Kannengiesser, Brian M. Dale, Fei Han, Chang Gao, Shu-Fu Shih, Qing Dai, Omar Curiel, Tsu-Chin Tsao, Holden H. Wu and Vibhas Deshpande. Accelerated free-breathing liver fat and R₂* quantification using multi-echo stack-of-radial MRI with motion-resolved multidimensional regularized reconstruction: Initial retrospective evaluation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 92(3), 1149–1161, 2024. link
  9. Junying Li, Qingyang Hou, Kaifeng Pang, Qi Miao, Alex Ling Yu Hung, Elif Aygun, Shu-Fu Shih, Qing Dai, Holden H. Wu and Kyunghyun Sung. CoDe: A Self-Supervised Consistency Model Framework for MRI Denoising. 2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2026. link
  10. Bau Pham, Bilwaj Gaonkar, William Whitehead, Steven Moran, Qing Dai, Luke Macyszyn and V. Reggie Edgerton. Cell counting and segmentation of immunohistochemical images in the spinal cord: Comparing deep learning and traditional approaches. 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018. link

Selected Conference Abstracts

  1. Qing Dai, Jason Chiang, Wenqi Zhou, David Lu and Holden H. Wu. Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Thermal Effects of Pulsed Microwave Ablation with Computational Modeling and MR Thermometry. Proc. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, 2026. (Oral, Magna Cum Laude) link
  2. Wenqi Zhou, Qing Dai, Christina Kerr, Shu-Fu Shih, Timoteo Delgado-Esbenshade, Tsu-Chin Tsao, David S. Lu, Jason Chiang and Holden H. Wu. End-to-End Framework for Real-Time Image Reconstruction, Device and Tissue Tracking in MRI-Guided Liver Interventions. Proc. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, 2026. (Oral, Magna Cum Laude)
  3. Qing Dai, Shu-Fu Shih, Jason Chiang, David S. Lu and Holden H. Wu. Active electromagnetic interference suppression for real-time MR thermometry during MR-guided microwave ablation. Proc. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2025. (Oral, Summa Cum Laude & AMPC Selected)
  4. Qing Dai, Glen Nyborg, Shu-Fu Shih, Janet Pham, David S. Lu, Jason Chiang and Holden H. Wu. MR-guided hepatic microwave ablation with real-time MRI guidance and MR thermometry: Initial experience in an oncopig cancer model. 14th Interventional MRI Symposium, Annapolis, MD, USA, 2024.
  5. Qing Dai, Shu-Fu Shih, Omar Curiel, Jason Chiang, David S. Lu, Tsu-Chin Tsao and Holden H. Wu. Dynamic 3D thermometry in moving tissue using accelerated stack-of-radial MRI and an image-navigated multi-baseline PRF method. Proc. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Singapore, 2024. (Oral, Summa Cum Laude & AMPC Selected)