Qing Zou, Ph.D.

Dr. Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Radiology, and Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC). Dr. Zou obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. Afterward, he did his postdoctoral training at the University of Iowa on Cardiac MRI. 

Undergraduate

Yangzhou University (2015), Mathematics

Graduate School

University of Iowa (2018), Mathematics

Graduate School

University of Iowa (2021)

• Pulse sequences development for cardiopulmonary MRI
• Theoretical machine learning for MRI understanding
• Unsupervised learning for cardiac MRI processing

Featured Publications

Free-Breathing and Ungated Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Using a Deep Kernel Representation

Zou Q, Ahmed AH, Dzelebdzic S, Hussain T Applied Sciences 2023 13 4 2281

Dynamic imaging using motion-compensated smoothness regularization on manifolds (MoCo-SToRM).

Zou Q, Torres LA, Fain SB, Higano NS, Bates AJ, Jacob M, Phys Med Biol 2022 07 67 14

Dynamic Imaging Using a Deep Generative SToRM (Gen-SToRM) Model.

Zou Q, Ahmed AH, Nagpal P, Kruger S, Jacob M, IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2021 11 40 11 3102-3112

Joint Cardiac T1 Mapping and Cardiac Cine Using Manifold Modeling

Zou Q, Priya S, Nagpal P, Jacob M. Bioengineering 2023 10 3 345

Variational manifold learning from incomplete data: application to multi-slice dynamic MRI.

Zou Q, Ahmed AH, Nagpal P, Priya S, Schulte RF, Jacob M, IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2022 Jul PP

Dynamic Imaging using Deep Bi-linear Unsupervised Representation (DEBLUR).

Ahmed AH, Zou Q, Nagpal P, Jacob M, IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2022 Apr PP

Recovery of surfaces and functions in high dimensions: sampling theory and links to neural networks.

Zou Q, Jacob M, SIAM J Imaging Sci 2021 14 2 580-619

An image inpainting model based on the mixture of Perona-Malik equation and Cahn-Hilliard equation

Zou Q Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing 2021 66 1 21-38

A PDE model for smooth surface reconstruction from 2D parallel slices

Zou Q IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2020 27 1015-1019

Comment on "identities and congruences for the general partition and Ramanujan's tau functions"

Zou Q Indian J Pure Appl Math 2019 2 50 365-366

• Best Paper Award Finalist
  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2022)
• Best Paper Award
  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2021)

• American Heart Association (2022)
• International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2019)
• Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2022)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2018)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2017)