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Xiao Liu

Xiao Liu

· Associate Professor

Pennsylvania State University · Biomedical Engineering

Active 1989–2026

h-index70
Citations49.5k
Papers1.3k614 last 5y
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About

Xiao Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Penn State University. His research focuses on Neuroimaging, contributing to the field through his work within the Biomedical Engineering Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. He is involved in advancing understanding and applications related to brain imaging and neural data analysis, integrating engineering principles with medical science to improve human health.

Research topics

  • Biology
  • Computer Science
  • Medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Immunology
  • Political Science
  • Genetics
  • Endocrinology
  • Sociology
  • Cell biology

Selected publications

  • Data-driven spatiotemporal modeling reveals personalized trajectories of cortical atrophy in Alzheimer's disease.

    PubMed · 2025-11-12

    articleOpen access

    , tau, neurodegeneration, and cognition-outperforming clinical and neuroimaging benchmarks. Patient-specific parameters reveal distinct progression subtypes and anticipate future cognitive decline more effectively than standard biomarkers. Sensitivity analysis highlights regional drivers of disease spread, reproducing known temporolimbic and frontal vulnerability patterns. This network-based digital-twin framework offers a quantitative, personalized paradigm for AD trajectory prediction, with im…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Kaoru Fujinami

    140 shared

  • Wei Zhang

    Jiangnan University

    100 shared

  • Yu Fujinami‐Yokokawa

    National Hospital Organization

    98 shared

  • Xun Xu

    BGI Research

    96 shared

  • Huanming Yang

    Chinese Academy of Sciences

    94 shared

  • Lizhu Yang

    Peking Union Medical College Hospital

    83 shared

  • Gavin Arno

    University College London

    74 shared

  • Jinghua Wu

    64 shared

Education

  • PhD, Biology

    University of Copenhagen

  • Master, Biochemistry and molecular biology

    Nanjing University

  • Bachelor, Chemistry

    Nanjing University

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