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Boyi Li
Department: 
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Office: 
Room E5001, No.2005 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai
Title: 
Postdoc/Research Assistant
Email: 
liboyi@fudan.edu.cn

Education and Work Background

●August 2024 – Present: Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistant Research Fellow), School of Future Information Innovation, Fudan University.

● August 2020 – August 2024: Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistant Research Fellow), Institute of Medical Engineering, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Fudan University.

● September 2016 – June 2020: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University; Supervisor: Professor Ta De'an.

● September 2013 – June 2016: Inner Mongolia University; Master's degree in Information and Communication Engineering.

● September 2008 – June 2012: Sichuan Agricultural University; Agricultural Electrification and Automation; Bachelor's degree.

Research Direction

● My primary research focuses on multimodal ultrasound imaging techniques and the development of related instrumentation, including: USPACT (ultrasound-photoacoustic tomography), PAM (photoacoustic microscopy), and advanced semiconductor-based PLD/LED-excited photoacoustic imaging; extraction and imaging of bone information via ultrasound backscattering; development of intelligent integrated ultrasound diagnosis and therapy devices; and research on nonlinear acoustic sensing methodologies and corresponding equipment development. I also serve as a committee member of the Instrument Engineering Development Professional Committee of the Shanghai Ultrasonic Medical Engineering Society.

Honors and Awards

● Second Prize (ranked 1/7) in the Young Scholars Category of the China Biomedical Engineering Conference Paper Competition, 2026.

●35th Shanghai Outstanding Invention Competition – "Outstanding Invention Gold Award" (Ranked 3rd out of 10),2024.

●Ultrasonic Bone Density Analyzer (based on directional scattering technology) – "Frontier Technology Pioneer Award" (Group), 2024.

●C.F. Ying Award for Young Ultrasonics Scholars ("International Young Ultrasonics Scholars Award", Individual), 2023.

●Third Prize (Supervisor), Graduate Division, Shanghai Regional Competition of the China Graduate Student Electronic Design Contest, 2023.

●Second Prize (Supervisor), Undergraduate Division, National Finals of the First China Intelligent Medical Device Innovation Competition, 2022.

●First Prize (ranked 3rd out of 4) in the Human Precision Measurement Special Competition of the 3rd China Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2020.

●Third Prize (Ranked 3rd/4th) at the National Finals of the 3rd China Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2020.

●"Grand Prize" (Group) for Outstanding Exhibits in the University Exhibition Area of the China International Industrial Expo, 2019.

●"Best Paper Award" at the National Finals of the 14th China Graduate Electronic Design Competition (ranked 3rd out of 3),2019.

●Third Prize (Ranked 3rd out of 3) at the National Finals of the 14th China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, 2019.

●First Prize (ranked 3rd out of 3) in the Shanghai regional competition of the 14th China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, 2019.

●"Gold Award" at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition (ranked 4th out of 8),2019.

●China International High-Tech Fair "Outstanding Product Award" (Group), 2018.

Scientific Research Project

●General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; funding: 520,000 CNY; Status: Active; Period: January 2026 – December 2029.

●Open Fund for the Whole-System Laboratory of Medical Imaging Science and Technology: 100,000 CNY; Active; June 2026 – May 2028.

●National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund Project (Category C), funding amount: 300,000 CNY; project completed; period: January 2022 – December 2024.

●China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Project (69th Batch), 80,000 CNY, completed, June 2021 – July 2024.

●Shanghai Yangpu District Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base Project: 50,000 CNY; Project Completion: September 2024 – August 2025.

●Open research project of the Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics under the Ministry of Education; funding: 15,000 CNY; project status: completed; period: October 2023 – October 2025.

●Wuhan United Imaging Zhirong Medical Technology Co., Ltd. cross-sector project: 250,000 CNY; project completed; March 2024 – December 2024.

●National Natural Science Foundation of China – National Major Scientific Instrument Development Project; funding amount: 7.2 million yuan; currently underway; period: January 2022 – December 2026.

●National Natural Science Foundation of China – National Major Scientific Instrument Development Project; funding amount: 8.623 million yuan; currently underway; period: January 2024 – December 2028.

●National Natural Science Foundation of China – National Major Scientific Instrument Development Project; funding: 7.25 million yuan; project completed (awarded "Excellent"), January 2019 – December 2023.

Talent Program Funding

●China Acoustical Society Young Talent Support Project, 2021.

●Shanghai "Oriental Talents" Program – Youth Project, 2025.

●Shanghai "Super Postdoctoral" Incentive Program, 2020.

●Fudan University "Super Postdoctoral" Incentive Program: 2020,2022,2024.

Academic Appointments

Member of the Instrument Engineering Development Professional Committee of the Shanghai Ultrasonic Medical Engineering Society.

Representative Papers

●Boyi Li, Mengyang Lu, Tianhua Zhou, Mengxu Bu, Wenting Gu, Junyi Wang, Qiuchen Zhu, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta. Removing Artifacts in Transcranial Photoacoustic Imaging with Polarized Self-Attention Dense-UNet. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2024; 50(10): 1530-1543.

●Boyi Li, Chengcheng Liu*, Xin Liu, Tho N.H.T. Tran, Ying Li, Dan Li, Dongsheng Bi, Duwei Liu, Dean Ta*. Amplitude Modulation Excitation for Cancellous Bone Evaluation Using a Portable Ultrasonic Backscatter Instrumentation. Chinese Physics B, 2022; 31(11): 114303-1-11.

●Boyi Li, Mengyang Lu, Chengcheng Liu, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta. Acoustic Hologram Reconstruction with Unsupervised Neural Network. Frontiers in Materials, 2022; 9: 916527-1-9.

●Tao Jiang, Yifang Li, Wenyu Xing, Ran Cao, Ming Yu, Yunkai Zhu, Yaqing Chen, Boyi Li*, Dean Ta*, UltraSAM: A Foundational Medical Ultrasound Segmentation Model with Limited Training Data. Expert Systems with Applications, 2026; 299: 130223-1-16. 一区Top, IF 7.5

●Junyi Wang, Tianhua Zhou, Gaobo Zhang, Boyi Li*, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta*, Pixel-responsive Optimization Beamforming Method for Ultrasound Transcranial Imaging. Medical Image Analysis, 2025; 106: 103762-1-11. 一区Top, IF 11.8

●Jingxian Wang, Boyi Li*, Tianhua Zhou, Chengcheng Liu, Mengyang Lu, Wenting Gu, Xin Liu, Dean Ta. Reconstructing Cancellous Bone from Down-Sampled Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy Images with Deep Learning. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2024; 50(9): 1459-1471.

●Zijian Wang, Jingyi Xiao, Dan Li*, Boyi Li*, Jianqiu Zhang, Dean Ta. Full Waveform Inversion Guided Wave Tomography with a Recurrent Neural Network. Ultrasonics, 2023; 133: 107043-1-10.

●Dongsheng Bi, Lingwei Shi, Boyi Li*, Ying Li, Chengcheng Liu, Lawrence H. Le, Jingchun Luo, Sijia Wang, Dean Ta*. The Protocol of Ultrasonic Backscatter Measurements of Musculoskeletal Properties. Phenomics, 2024; 4: 72-80.

●Xin Liu*, Boyi Li, Bo Pang, Chengcheng Liu, Yuexia Shu, Kailiang Xu, Jianwen Luo, Dean Ta*. Improved Ultrasound Imaging Performance with Complex Cumulant Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022; 69(3): 1281-1289.

●Dongsheng Bi, Chengcheng Liu*, Zhongquan Dai, Zhili Li, Ying Li, Boyi Li*, Dan Li, Linjie Wang, Lina Qu, Yinghui Li, Dean Ta*. Human Bone Loss Assessed by High‑Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography and Ultrasonic Transmission Techniques. Microgravity Science and Technology, 2023; 35(2): 1-12.

●Tao Jiang, Yunkai Zhu, Yaqing Chen, Boyi Li*, Dean Ta*, A Multimodal Ultrasound Adaptive Feature Fusion Network for Prostate Cancer Grading. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2026; 128(2026): 111314-1-14.

●Chunshan Yang, Boyi Li*, Chuanxin Zhang, Dean Ta*, A Multi-Modal Ultrasonic Instrumentation Integrated Attention-Based Y-Shaped Network for Bone Imaging Correction, Chinese Physics B, 2026.

●Duwei Liu, Boyi Li*, Dongsheng Bi, Tho N.H.T. Tran, Yifang Li, Dan Liu, Ying Li, Dean Ta*. Assessment of Cortical Bone Fatigue Using Coded Nonlinear Ultrasound. Chinese Physics B, 2021; 30(9): 094301-1-11.

●Mengyang Lu, Jingxian Wang, Jiayuan Peng, Boyi Li, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta*. Multi-Wavelength Graph Convolutional Network for High-Performance Sparse Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography. Photoacoustics, 2025; 46:100775-1–12. Top-ranked in Q1, IF 6.8

●Yiyuan Li, Shuxin Sun*, Boyi Li, Ying Li, Chengcheng Liu*, Dean Ta. Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Relieved the Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in Mice via Anti-Oxidative Stress Mechanism. Ultrasonics, 2025; 150(2025): 107618-1-12.

●Yuanyuan Li, Yi Lin, Boyi Li, Ting Feng, Dan Li, Ying Li*, Yi Wu, Dean Ta. Enhancing Ischemic Stroke Evaluation by a Model-Based Photoacoustic Tomography Algorithm. Journal of Biophotonics, 2024; e202400203: 1-11.

●Qiuchen Zhu, Mengxu Bu, Boyi Li, Xue Jiang, Xin Liu*. Acoustic Holographic Lenses for Transcranial Focusing in an Ex Vivo Human Skull. Applied Physics Letters, 2024; 125: 194104-1-7.

●Mengxu Bu, Wenting Gu, Boyi Li, Qiuchen Zhu, Xue Jiang*, Dean Ta, Xin Liu*. A Deep Learning-Based Method of Acoustic Holographic Lens Generation for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound. AIP Advances, 2024; 14: 125026-1-9.

●Jiayuan Peng, Mengyang Lu, Boyi Li, Jiazhou Wang, Weigang Hu, Xin Liu*. Frequency-Aware Denoising Using a Diffusion Model for Enhanced Band-Limited and White Noise Removal in X-Ray Acoustic Computed Tomography. Medical Physics, 2025 52(5): 3325-3335.

●Tianhua Zhou, Boyi Li, Xin Liu*, and Dean Ta*. Data-Driven Method of Super-Resolution Image Recovery for Speckle-Illumination Photoacoustic Computed Tomography. Optics Letters, 2024; 49(8): 1949-1952.

●Lingwei Shi, Dongsheng Bi, Jingchun Luo, Wei Chen, Cuiwei Yang, Yan Zheng, Ju Hao, Ke Chang, Boyi Li*, Chengcheng Liu*, Dean Ta. Associations Between Electrocardiogram and Carotid Ultrasound Parameters: a Healthy Chinese Group Study. Frontiers in Physiology, 2022; 13: 976254-1-10.

●Fei Dai, Wenyu Xing, Yunkai Zhu, Boyi Li, Yaqing Chen, Dean Ta*. DF-GAM: Cross-Domain Ultrasound Image High-Quality Reconstruction Using a Dual Frequency-Domain Guided Adaptation Model. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2024; 50(9): 1403-1414.

●Chuanxin Zhang, Xue Jiang*, Shuai Han, Jiajie He, Yan Zheng, Boyi Li, Dean Ta*. Converged Wireless Infrastructure with Acoustic Holographic Array. Applied Physics Reviews, 2022; 9(4):041413-1–8. Top-ranked in Zone 1, IF 19.527

●Boyi Li, Shuai Han, Qiang Xie, Chunshan Yang, Tianhua Zhou, Ying Li , Ting Feng, Dan Li, Kailiang Xu, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta*. A Wide Field of Vision Photoacoustic Imaging Method Based on Axial-Lateral Multi-Angle Laser Excitation and Coherent Compounding Technique: A Simulation and Experiment Study. IEEE UFFC Latin America Ultrasonics Symposium, 2024.05.08-10, Montevideo, Uruguay.

●Boyi Li, Qiang Xie, Tianhua Zhou, Shuai Han, Chunshan Yang, Chengcheng Liu, Ying Li, Dan Li, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta*. A Dual-modal Imaging System for Bone Measurement Using the Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging. The 2023 International Congress on Ultrasonics, 2023.09.18-21, Beijing, China.

●Qiang Xie, Boyi Li, Tianhua Zhou, Xin Liu*, Shuai Han, Chengcheng Liu, Chunshan Yang, Ying Li, Dan Li, Dean Ta*. The Deterioration of Microstructure and Biochemical Components in Cancellous Bone Characterizing by the Photoacoustic Microscopy Imaging. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2025.

●Tianhua Zhou, Boyi Li, Jingxian Wang, Xin Liu*, Dean Ta. Photoacoustic Microscopic Evaluation of Sub-Surface Trabeculae in Cancellous Bone. The 2023 IEEE IUS, 2023.09.03-08, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

●Boyi Li, Tianhua Zhou, Xin Liu, Chengcheng Liu*, Tho N.H.T. Tran, Ying Li, Dan Li, Yifang Li, Dongsheng Bi, Dean Ta*. A Photoacoustic Spectrum Feature Extraction Method to Characterize the Hydroxyapatite Degradation Process in Cortical Bone. The 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 2022.10.10-13, Venice, Italy.

●Boyi Li, Chengcheng Liu*, Ying Li, Tho N.H.T. Tran, Dean Ta*. An Amplitude Modulation Ultrasonic Backscatter Method for Estimation Characterization of Cancellous Bones. The 2021 IEEE IUS, 2021.09.11-16, Xi'an, China.

Patents

●Nonlinear ultrasonic guided wave detection system and method based on multi-channel reception, ZL202411270015.X, 2026.

●An ultra-resolution ultrasound imaging method based on acoustic metamaterials using a single array element, ZL202310192090.8, 2026.

●An ultrasonic backscattering bone density detection method and apparatus, ZL202310532767.8, 2025.

●Fast generation method and system for transcranial focused acoustic holographic lenses based on deep learning, ZL202411322843.3, 2025.

●A fast ultrasonic localization micro-imaging method based on generative adversarial networks, ZL202210460857.6, 2024.

●An acoustic-induced ultrasound imaging method, ZL202111227183.7, 2023.

●Nonlinear ultrasonic guided wave detection system and method based on PWM-encoded excitation, ZL201911185788.7, 2022.

●A nonlinear ultrasonic guided wave detection system and method based on a linear power amplifier, ZL201911184623.8, 2022.

Software Copyright Authorization

●Base software for frequency-modulated ultrasound therapy device, 2025SR0179320,2025.

●Real-time ultrasound imaging control software, 2025SR0179365,2025.

●Control software for small animal photoacoustic data acquisition and imaging system, 2025SR0180260,2025.

●Photoacoustic Real-Time Imaging Control Software, 2025SR0183301,2025.

●Intelligent Palm Super-Imaging and Diagnostic Analysis System [abbreviated as: Intelligent Palm Super System] V1.0, 2025SR0664138,2025.

●Phased-array multi-channel nonlinear ultrasonic non-destructive testing analysis software, 2025SR1221825,2025.

●PAUSMIS: Cross-Scale High-Resolution Multimodal Bone Imaging Analysis Software, 2023SR0410966,2023.

●Ultrasonic frequency-domain bone imaging system, 2023SR0411007,2023.

●ULMfast Super-Resolution Ultrasonic Positioning Microscopy Software, 2023SR0411038,2023.

●Ultrasonic Time-Domain Bone Imaging System, 2023SR0411039,2023.

●Cross-scale high-resolution multimodal bone imaging acquisition control software, 2023SR0731235,2023.