Billy Y. S. Yiu
Biomedical Ultrasound Laboratory


Research Engineer
(Sept 2009 - present)

MPhil Student
(Aug 2007 - Aug 2009)

B.Eng.(Hon) (MedE, HKU) 2007
M.Phil. (EEE, HKU) 2009

Email: bysyiu@hku.hk

Research Direction: Diagnostic Ultrasound
Project Topic: Advanced Imaging Methods

BIOGRAPHY

Billy is a Research Engineer at the HKU Biomedical Ultrasound Laboratory. He is also the lab's the first batch of MPhil graduates. Billy's current job involves developing various software modules for our group advanced imaging research studies. He received his BEng degree in Medical Engineering from HKU in 2007, and completed his MPhil degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2009. His MPhil research was on synthetic aperture imaging and its motion compensation methods.

RESEARCH OUTPUTS

Journal Articles

  1. GPU-based beamformer: fast realization of plane wave compounding and synthetic aperture imaging
    BYS Yiu, IKH Tsang, ACH Yu. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 1698-1705, 2011.
  2. Medical ultrasound imaging: to GPU or not to GPU?
    HKH So, J Chen, BYS Yiu, ACH Yu. IEEE Micro, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 54-65, 2011. (Special Issue Paper)
  3. Design space exploration of adaptive beamforming acceleration for bedside and portable medical ultrasound imaging
    J Chen, BYS Yiu, B Hamilton, ACH Yu, HKH So. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 20-25, 2011.
  4. Multi-channel pre-beamformed data acquisition system for research on advanced ultrasound imaging methods
    CCP Cheung, ACH Yu, N Salimi, BYS Yiu, IKH Tsang, B Kerby, RZ Azar, K Dickie. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 243-253, 2012.

Conference Proceedings and Abstracts

  1. A modified synthetic aperture imaging approach with axial motion compensation
    BYS Yiu, IKH Tsang, ACH Yu. Proceedings of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1254-1257, 2008.
  2. Towards integrative learning in biomedical engineering: a project course on electrocardiogram monitor design
    ACH Yu, BYS Yiu, IKH Tsang, PYS Cheung. Proceedings of ASEE-IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, No. T4J-1265, 2009.
  3. Design of a multi-channel pre-beamform data acquisition system for an ultrasound research scanner
    IKH Tsang, BYS Yiu, DKH Cheung, HCT Chiu, CCP Cheung, ACH Yu. Proceedings of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1840-1843, 2009.
  4. A least-squares vector flow estimator for synthetic aperture imaging
    IKH Tsang, BYS Yiu, ACH Yu. Proceedings of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1387-1390, 2009.
  5. Real-time GPU-based software beamformer designed for advanced imaging methods research
    BYS Yiu, IKH Tsang, ACH Yu. Proceedings of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1920-1923, 2010.
  6. Real-time GPU-based adaptive beamformer for high quality ultrasound imaging
    J Chen, BYS Yiu, HKH So, ACH Yu. Proceedings of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, No. P1Ac-7, 2011.
  7. High frame rate vector flow imaging of stenotic carotid bifurcation: computational modeling and analysis
    DLS Chan, BYS Yiu, ACH Yu. Proceedings of IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, No. P1Ab-1, 2011.
  8. High frame rate velocity-coded speckle imaging platform for coherent blood flow visualization
    ACH Yu, BYS Yiu. The Acoustics Conference, 2012.