linmei.zhao@cuanschutz.edu

Before Fellowship

• Fellow in Emergency and Trauma Radiology at University of Colorado Anschutz
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Fellow in Neuroradiology and Body Imaging from Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
• Residency in Diagnostic Radiology at The Third Hospital, Peking University

Honors

• 2026 Michael Patrick Chapman Award.
• 2022 Principal Innovation Award
• 2021 First-class Academic Scholarship
• 2020 National Academic Scholarship and First-class Academic Scholarship
• 2019 First-class Academic Scholarship
• 2018 National Academic Scholarship and First-class Academic Scholarship
• 2017 National Academic Scholarship and First-class Academic Scholarship
• 2016 First-class Academic Scholarship
• 2014 National Motivational Scholarships (Top 10% of the school)
• 2013 First-class university in scholarship
• 2013 National Scholarships (Top 5% of the school)
• 2012 Mittal Scholarship
• 2012 First-class university in scholarship

Research

• Zhao L, Imami MR, Wang Y, Mao Y, Hsu WC, Chen R, Mena E, Li Y, Tang J, Wu J, Voter AF,
  Amindarolzarbi A, Kargilis D, Afyouni S, Gafita A, Chen J, Chin B, Leal JP, Du Y, Lin G, Jiao Z, Choyke PL, Rowe SP, Pomper MG, Liao W, Bai HX. Artificial intelligence-based lesion characterization and outcome prediction of prostate cancer on [18F]DCFPyL PSMA imaging. Radiother Oncol. 2025 Nov 5:111265. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2025.111265.
• Zhao LM, Lancaster AC, Patel R, Zhang H, Duong TQ, Jiao Z, Lin CT, Healey T, Wright T, Wu J, Bai HX. Association of clinical and imaging characteristics with pulmonary function testing in patients with Long-COVID. Heliyon. 2024 Jun 15;10(11).
• Zhao LM, Zhang H, Kim DD, Ghimire K, Hu R, Kargilis DC, Tang L, Meng S, Chen Q, Liao WH, Bai H, Jiao Z, Feng X. Head and neck tumor segmentation convolutional neural network robust to missing PET/CT modalities using channel dropout. Phys Med Biol. 2023 Apr 25;68(9):095011. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/accac9.
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• Zhao LM, Chen X, Zhang YM, Qu ML, Selvarajah D, Tesfaye S, Yang FX, Ou CY, Liao WH, Wu J. Changed cerebral function and morphology serve as neuroimaging evidence for subclinical type 2 diabetic polyneuropathy. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 Nov 24;13:1069437. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1069437.
• Zhao LM, Hu R, Xie FF, Clay Kargilis D, Imami M, Yang S, Guo JQ, Jiao X, Chen RT, Wei-Hua L, Li L. Radiomic-Based MRI for Classification of Solitary Brain Metastases Subtypes From Primary Lymphoma of the Central Nervous System. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2022 Jun 2. doi: 10.1002/jmri.28276.
• Zhao LM, Kang YF, Gao JM, Li L, Chen RT, Zeng JJ, Zhang YM, Liao W. Functional Connectivity Density for Radiation Encephalopathy Prediction in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Front Oncol. 2021 Jul 12;11:687127. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.687127.
• Guo, Haiman, Cheng-Yi Li, Yuli Wang, Robin Wang, Yuwei Dai, Qinghai Peng, Danming Cao, Zhusi Zhong, Thao Vu, and Linmei Zhao. "A Multitask Framework for Automated Interpretation of Multi-Frame Right Upper Quadrant Ultrasound in Clinical Decision Support." arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12174 (2026).
• Haoyue Guan, Yuwei Dai, Shadi Afyouni, Alec Kain, Wen-Chi Hsu, Jiashu Cheng, Sophie Yao, Yuli Wang, Jing Wu, Rishitha Pulakhandam, Lin-Mei Zhao, Chengzhang Zhu, Zhicheng Jiao, Craig Jones, Harrison Bai "Enhancing Radiology Report Interpretation through Modality-Specific Radgraph Fine-Tuning." Paper presented at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025.
• Dai, Yuwei, Maliha Imami, Rong Hu, Chen Zhang, Linmei Zhao, Daniel C Kargilis, Helen Zhang, et al. "Prediction of Motor Symptom Progression of Parkinson’s Disease through Multimodal Imaging-Based Machine Learning." Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (2025): 1–12.
• Yang F, Hu R, Hu J, Zhao L, Zhang Y, Mao Y, Tang J, Li S, He J, Chen R, Guo J, Zhang W, Zhu L, Jiao X, Liu S, Luo G, Zhou H, Fang X, Zheng H, Li L, Han Z, Jiao Z, Bai HX, Li J, Liao W. Automated deep learning-assisted early detection of radiation-induced temporal lobe injury on MRI: a multicenter retrospective analysis. Eur Radiol. 2025 Sep;35(9):5239-5251.
• Dai Y, Imami M, Hu R, Zhang C, Zhao L, Kargilis DC, Zhang H, Yu G, Liao WH, Jiao Z, Zhu C, Yang L, Bai HX. Prediction of Motor Symptom Progression of Parkinson's Disease Through Multimodal Imaging-Based Machine Learning. J Imaging Inform Med. 2025 Jul 7.
• Nguyen DT, Imami M, Zhao LM, Wu J, Borhani A, Mohseni A, Khunte M, Zhong Z, Shi V, Yao S, Wang Y, Loizou N, Silva AC, Zhang PJ, Zhang Z, Jiao Z, Kamel I, Liao WH, Bai H. Federated Learning for Renal Tumor Segmentation and Classification on Multi-Center MRI Dataset. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2025 Sep;62(3):814-824.
• Li, Yang, Maliha R. Imami, Linmei Zhao, Alireza Amindarolzarbi, Esther Mena, Jeffrey Leal, Junyu Chen et al. "An Automated Deep Learning-Based Framework for Uptake Segmentation and Classification on PSMA PET/CT Imaging of Patients with Prostate Cancer." Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (2024): 1-10.
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• Hazhirkarzar, Bita, Lin-Mei Zhao, Maliha Imami, Uzair Javaid, Somya Shesadri, Li Yang, Yu-wei Dai, Rong Hu, and Harrison Bai. Machine Learning for Prediction of Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Dat-Spect Imaging and Multimodal Mri. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2024.
• Leary OP, Zhong Z, Bi L, Jiao Z, Dai YW, Ma K, Sayied S, Kargilis D, Imami M, Zhao LM, Feng X. MRI-Based Prediction of Clinical Improvement Following Ventricular Shunt Placement for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH): Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Multi-Sequence Machine Learning Algorithm. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2024 Jun 12.
• Ruiting, CHEN, ZHAO Linmei, YANG Fangxue, ZHOU Gaofeng, WANG Dongcui, ZHAO Qing, and LIAO Weihua. "Causes of Missed Mri Diagnosis of Radiotherapy-Induced Temporal Lobe Injury in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma." Journal of Central South University Medical Sciences 49, no. 5 (2024): 698.
• Xie F, Mao T, Tang J, Zhao L, Guo J, Lin H, Wang D, Zhou G. Evaluation of iron deposition in the motor CSTC loop of a Chinese family with paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia using quantitative susceptibility mapping. Front Neurol. 2023 Jul 6;14:1164600. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1164600.
• Tang J, Xie Y, Liao W, Zhang Y, Yang F, Zhao L, Zhou G, Zhang Y, Jiang H, Xing W. Association between cortical gyrification and white matter integrity in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. Cereb Cortex. 2022 May 15:bhac199. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac199.
• Yang F, Qu M, Zhang Y, Zhao L, Xing W, Zhou G, Tang J, Wu J, Zhang Y, Liao W. Aberrant Brain Network Integration and Segregation in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Revealed by Structural Connectomics. Front Neurosci. 2020 Dec 4;14:585588. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.585588 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=JKYzwG0AAAAJ
• Linmei Zhao, Gaofeng Huang, Daniel Kargilis, BA, Yuwei Dai, Weihua Liao, Xue Feng, Ihab R. Kamel, Harrison X. Bai. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PIPELINE FOR DETECTION, SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF METASTATIC LYMPH NODES OF TUMOR ACROSS WHOLE BODY, RSNA 2025, Oral presentation.
• Zhao LM, Kang YF, Gao JM, Li L, Chen RT, Zeng JJ, Zhang YM, Liao W. Functional Connectivity Density for Radiation Encephalopathy Prediction in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, The 13th Asian-Oceanian Congress of Neuroradiology (AOCNR 2021). Oral Presentation
• A. C. Lancaster, L. Zhao, R. Patel, H. Zhang, Z. Jiao, C. Lin, H. Bai. Association Of Clinical And Imaging Characteristics With Pulmonary Function Testing In Patients With Long-Covid.ATS2023, Oral Presentation
• Fangxue Yang, Linmei Zhao, Madour Joseph, Rong Hu, Youming Zhang, Yitao Mao, Jingyi Tang, Shulin Liu, Guanghua Luo, Hong Zhou, Xiangjun Fang, Haijun Zheng, Liang Li, Zaide Han, Ruiting Chen, Zhicheng Jiao, Harrison X. Bai, Wei-Hua Liao. Structured Reporting and Deep Learning to Reduce Miss Rate of Radiation-induced Temporal Lobe Injury on MRI of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. RSNA2023. Oral Presentation