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qiang.zhang@cardiov.ox.ac.uk



Qiang Zhang

PhD, FSCMR

Associate Professor of AI in Cardiovascular Imaging

  • British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship
  • British Heart Foundation CRE Transition Fellowship

I am a deep learning (machine learning) scientist, with cross-domain knowledge of cardiovascular disease, MR physics and scan protocols. My research programme focuses on (i) advancing cardiac imaging and (ii) enriching clinical research, with AI:

(i)   Advancing cardiovascular MRI with Generative AI. A representative work is Virtual Native Enhancement (VNE) imaging, where we developed AI techniques that could serve as "virtual contrast" in enhancing MR images, without the need for contrast injections. This may lead to more informative, needle-free, faster and safer heart MR scans.

(ii)   Developing automated image processing pipeline for cardiac imaging big data, and AI-enhanced cardiac biomarkers to drive new discoveries in clinical research.