Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo, Japan

Research Scholar, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. LI Bing Nan

Email: bingnan@live.com; bingnan@nus.edu.sg
Office: VIP Lab, E4A, #05-03, NUS, Singapore 117576
Phone: +65 6516 6332; +81 03 5841 7480
Education
Ph.D. (Bioengineering)
NUS, Singapore
Ph.D., M.Sc. (EEE)
UMac, Macau
B.Eng. (BME)
SEU, Nanjing, China
Honors and Awards
2008 2010: Fellowship
NGS, NUS, Singapore
2004 2007: Studentship
FST, UMac, Macau
2001 2004: Fellowship
Macao Foundation
2010: Marquis Whos Who
in the World
2006: Student Award
ISSS-MDBS06
2006: Student Award
ICISIP05
2000: Hwa Dzan Award
SEU, Nanjing, China
1998 2000: Studentship
SEU, Nanjing, China
Professional Editorship
and Service
2008 : Associate Editor
Int. J. Artif. Intell.
2007 : Editor Board
J. Data Prot. Secur.
2008 : Young Investigator
Committee, WFSC
2007: Program Committee
ISDA07
2005: Session Co-Chair
IEEE EMBC05
Reviewing for:
IEEE TBME, IEEE
TIM, IET Sign. Proc.,
Comp. Bio. Med.,
Int. J. Med. Info.

Research Summary
Dr. LI Bing Nan obtained dual Ph.D. degrees in bioengineering and electronics
engineering respectively. He owns around 10 years of research experience in
the interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering. Dr. Li has made
significant contributions to physiological measurements as well as biomedical
computing. His works on magnetic resonance elastography were jointly
supported by the National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore) and the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, Japan). His works on
cardiovascular health monitoring and computational interpretation attracted
over 2-million grants from the Macau Science & Technology Development
Fund (FDCT, Macau) and the Research Committee of University of Macau
(UMRC). The outcomes contributed to 2 patents, over 15 referred papers, and
5 oral presentations in premier conferences. Dr. Li was a major contributor to
the blood band information system for the Macau Blood Transfusion Center.
His works on blood bank computing have been reported in 1 book chapter and
4 journal papers. Currently Dr. Li sits in the editorial boards of two
international journals, and serves to 5 SCI journals for peer reviewing.

Research Descriptions
Magnetic Resonance Elastography
This was a JSPS-NUS project. Manual
palpation is subjective and limited to
accessible organs. Magnetic resonance
elastography (MRE) enables us to
conduct quantitative palpation on
internal organs. The objective of this
project was to develop an efficient MRE
system for noninvasive elasticity
imaging. We have made significant
contributions to MRE actuation systems,
imaging sequences and the algorithms
for elasticity reconstruction.
Level Set Methods
Level set methods (LSM) provide a powerful numerical framework for partial
differential equations. We contributed a
new unified level set formulation to deal
with the shortcomings of traditional
Hamilton-Jacobi and Mumford-Shah
models. We explored the potentials of
LSM for medical image enhancement
and soft tissue modeling. The works
have led to over 6 refereed papers.

Research Interests
Fundamental
Biomedical Electronics
Computational Intelligence
Hybrid Computing
Level Set Methods
Medical Imaging
Wavelet Neural Networks

Applications
Biomedical Signal Analysis
Blood Bank Computing
e-Healthcare
Medical Image Analysis

Areas of Expertise and

Keywords
Biomedical Computing
Biomedical Electronics
Health Engineering
Medical Imaging
Medical Informatics

Cardiovascular Health Monitoring

This research has been supported by 2 FDCT projects and 2 UMRC projects.
We are working on smart biosensors for cardiovascular health monitoring. On
the one hand, we designed the compact bioelectronic systems for health
monitoring. On the other hand, we investigated the efficient algorithms for
health interpretation on embedded platforms. Over 3 patents and 15 referred
papers have been published on this topic. The relevant works are now further
supported by FDCT and UMRC with grants over 2 millions.
Hybrid Intelligent Computing
This was a UMRC project. The theme was on the fusion of hard computing
(HC) and soft computing (SC) for physiological signal interpretation. HC is
efficient for hardware implementation, but SC is good at uncertainty. Both are
important for home healthcare. Therefore we proposed hybrid intelligent
computing by novel wavelet neural networks and fuzzy expert systems. Our
contributions include principal wavelet networks for adaptive physiological
signal clustering and discriminant wavelet networks for supervised health
prognosis. We are now supported by FDCT to implement them for mobile
cardiovascular health monitoring.

Blood Bank Computing and Automation

This was an industrial project with Macau Blood Transfusion Center. Other
than database programming, we contributed the barcode system and the
electronic donor card system. Furthermore, we investigated the potentials of
decision making support for blood bank automation. The relevant works have
been reported in 4 journal and magazine papers.

Selected Publications
1. B.N. Li, et al. (2009) Modeling cardiovascular physiological signals using
adaptive Hermite and wavelet basis functions. IET Sig. Proc., in press.
2. B.N. Li, et al. (2008) On decision making support in blood bank information
systems. Exp. Sys. Appl. 34(2) 1522-32.
3. B.N. Li, et al. (2007) SIBAS: A blood bank information system and its 5year implementation at Macau. Comp. Bio. Med. 37(5) 588-97.
4. B.N. Li, et al. (2005) A novel intelligent sphygmogram analyzer for health
monitoring of cardiovascular system. Exp. Sys. Appl. 28(4) 693-700.