Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, where she developed a patented automated technique for optimal boundary detection in medical images. Dr. Liu holds an MS and BS in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Normal University in China. Her research interests include medical image analysis in general with a focus on segmentation, registration and computer-aided detection. Dr. Liu is currently a Staff Scientist in the Advanced Imaging and Microscopy (AIM) Resource, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, at the National Institutes of Health. She is an associate editor of Medical Physics and reviewer for IEEE TMI, IEEE TBME, Medical Physics, Pattern Recognition Letters, and MICCAI.