Current Professional Societies

1. Reviewer of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Computers in biology and medicine, Brain Topography, etc.

2. Member of Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering

Research Areas

1. Multimodality MRI and MEG analysis;

2. Brain network analysis and its applications;

3. Computer-aided in diagnosis and neurosurgery like epilepsy focus localization.

Honors

1. Member of Beijing Nova Program, 2016;

2. Outstanding Young Talents of Beijing Municipal University, 2013;

3. Excellent Talents of Beijing Organization Department of municipal Party committee, 2011;

4. Excellent Teacher of Beijing University of Technology, 2016;

5. Second Prize of Teaching Ability Competition held in Beijing University of Technology, 2015.

Publications

1.Chunlan Yang, Yining Zhang, Min Lu^*, Jiechuan Ren, Zhimei Li, White matter structural brain connectivity of young healthy individuals with high trait anxiety, Frontiers in Neurology, 2020, 10: 1421.

2.Chunlan Yang^*, Wenxiao Wu, Yingnan Nie, Qun Wang, Jiechuan Ren. EasyMEG: an easy-to-use toolbox for MEG analysis, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2020, 186:105199.

3.Yue Shi, Xin Zhang,Chunlan Yang^*, Jiechuan Ren, Zhimei Li, Qun Wang. A Review on epileptic foci localization using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2020, 17(3):2496-2515.

4.Wan Li,Chunlan Yang^*, Shuicai Wu, Yingnan Nie, Xin Zhang, Min Lu, Tongpeng Chu, Feng Shi*, Alterations of graphic properties and related cognitive functioning changes in mild Alzheimer's disease revealed by individual morphological brain network, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018, 12:927.

5.Yang Chunlan^*, Lu Min, Duan Yanhua, Liu Bing, An efficient optic cup segmentation method decreasing the influences of blood vessels,BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2018, 17: 130.

6.Wan Li,Chunlan Yang^*, Feng Shi, Shuicai Wu, Qun Wang, Yingnan Nie, Xin Zhang, Construction of individual morphological brain networks with multiple morphometric features, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2017, 11: 34.

7.Wan Li,Chunlan Yang^*, Feng Shi, Qun Wang, ShuicaiWu, Wangsheng Lu, Shaowu Li, Yingnan Nie, Xin Zhang. Alterations in NormalAging Revealed by Cortical Brain Network Constructed Using IBASPM, BrainTopography, 2018, 31(4):577-590.

8.Min Lu,Chunlan Yang^*, Tongpeng Chu, ShuicaiWu.Cerebral White MatterChanges in Young Healthy Individuals With High Trait Anxiety: A Tract-BasedSpatial Statistics Study, Frontiers in Neurology, 2018,9：704.

9.Farnaz Farokhian#,Chunlan Yang^#, Iman Beheshti*, HiroshiMatsuda, Shuicai Wu*.Age-Related Gray and WhiteMatter Changes in Normal Adult Brains, Aging and Disease, 2017, 8(6):899-909.

10.Farnaz Farokhian#,Chunlan Yang^#, Hasan Demirel,Shuicai Wu*, Iman Beheshti*. Automatic Parameters Selection of Gabor filterswith the Imperialism Competitive Algorithm with application to Retinal VesselSegmentation, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 37:246-254.

11.Chunlan Yang, Shuicai Wu*, Wangsheng Lu, Yanping Bai, Hongjian Gao. Brain differences in first-episode schizophrenia treated with quetiapine: a deformation-based morphometric study, Psychopharmacology, 2015, 232 (2):369-377.

12.Chunlan Yang*, Qian Wang, Weiwei Wu, Wangsheng Lu. Thalamic segmentation based on improved fuzzy connectedness in structural MRI. Computers in biology and medicine, 2015, 66:222-234.

13.Chunlan Yang, Shuicai Wu, Wangsheng Lu, Yanping Bai, Hongjian Gao.Anatomic Differences in Early Blindness: A Deformation-Based Morphometry MRI Study. Journal of Neuroimaging, 2014, 24: 68-73.

14.Chunlan Yang, Wan Li, Wu Weiwei, Shuicai Wu, Wangsheng Lu. A review: detecting alterations of brain connectivity in schizophrenia based on structural MRI. Journal of psychiatry, 2014, 17: 1000159.

15.Chunlan Yang, Hao Zhu, Shuicai Wu, Yanping Bai, Hongjian Gao. Correlations between B-mode Ultrasonic Image Texture Features and Tissue Temperature in Microwave Ablation. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine,2010,29:1787-1799.

16.Yang Chunlan, Wu Shuicai, Bai Yanping, Hou Cailan, Gao Hongjian. Voxel Based Morphometric Study of Brain Structure in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Chapter 3). Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2010, Nova Science Publishers.

Personal statement

Yang Chunlan, associate professor and master supervisor, worked in College of Life Science and Bioengineering since she graduated in 2007. She is interested in medical image analysis special in neuroimaging. She mastered several research projects on computer- aided neurosurgery including the focus segmentation, localization, and predictions with multimodality images. She published several high level SCI indexed papers in neuroscience and granted several Chinese patents and one U.S. patent. She has been awarded Beijing Nova Program (in 2016), Outstanding young talents of Beijing Municipal University (in 2013), Excellent talents of Beijing Organization Department of municipal Party committee (in 2011) etc. She teaches C Programming for undergraduates and Programming in Biomedical Image Processing for graduates.