Yi Li, MD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

She served as chief fellow in Neuroradiology, completing her neuroradiology fellowship in 2017 and clinical instructorship in 2018. In 2018, Li received the Outstanding Fellow/Instructor Teaching Award from the UCSF radiology residents for her contributions toward UCSF resident education. In July 2018, Li became an Assistant Professor in the Neuroradiology Section. Li’s focus within neuroradiology is pediatric neuroimaging.

• Estimate of fetal brain temperature using proton resonance frequency thermometry during 3 Tesla fetal magnetic resonance imaging.
  Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery 2023 Ellison J, Kim K, Li Y, Mu X, Glenn O, Ozhinsky E, Peyvandi S, Xu D
• Advancing brain MRI as a prognostic indicator in hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
  Pediatric research 2023 Wu YW, Wisnowski JL, Glass HC, Mathur AM, Li Y, Monsell SE, Juul SE, McKinstry RC
• Deep Learning to Optimize Magnetic Resonance Imaging Prediction of Motor Outcomes After Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.
  Pediatric neurology 2023 Vesoulis ZA, Trivedi SB, Morris HF, McKinstry RC, Li Y, Mathur AM, Wu YW
• Correlating Quantitative MRI-based Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Metrics with 24-month Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Neonates from the HEAL Trial.
  Radiology 2023 Calabrese E, Wu Y, Scheffler AW, Wisnowski JL, McKinstry RC, Mathur A, Glass HC, Comstock BA, Heagerty PJ, Gillon S, Juul SE, Hess CP, Li Y
• Spectrum of Fetal Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage in COL4A1/A2-Related Disorders.
  Pediatric neurology 2023 George E, Vassar R, Mogga A, Li Y, Norton ME, Gano D, Glenn OA
• Neonatal brain MRI and short-term outcomes after acute provoked seizures.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2023 Li Y, Scheffler A, Barkovich AJ, Chang T, Chu CJ, Massey SL, Abend NS, Lemmon ME, Thomas C, Numis A, Franck LS, Rogers E, Callen A, McCulloch CE, Shellhaas RA, Glass HC
• MR Imaging Findings in a Large Population of Autoimmune Encephalitis.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2023 Gillon S, Chan M, Chen J, Guterman EL, Wu X, Glastonbury CM, Li Y
• Clinical and Radiographic Characteristics of Nocardia vs Non- Nocardia Brain Abscesses
  Neurol Clin Pract. 2023;13(2):e200134. 2023 Lahue SC, Guterman EL, Mikhail M, Li Y, Cha S, Richie M.
• Using Neonatal Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Predict Gross Motor Disability at Four Years in Term-Born Children With Neonatal Encephalopathy.
  Pediatric neurology 2023 Lambing H, Gano D, Li Y, Bach AM, Girvan O, Rogers EE, Ferriero DM, Barkovich AJ, Xu D, McCulloch CE, Glass HC
• Factors and Labor Cost Savings Associated with Successful Pediatric Imaging without Anesthesia: a Single-Institution Study.
  Academic radiology 2023 Chen JV, Zapala MA, Zhou A, Vu N, Meyer L, Smith MD, Kelleher C, Glenn OA, Courtier J, Li Y
• Imaging of pediatric brain tumors: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee/ASPNR White Paper.
  Pediatric blood & cancer 2022 Jaju A, Li Y, Dahmoush H, Gottardo NG, Laughlin S, Mirsky D, Panigrahy A, Sabin ND, Shaw D, Storm PB, Poussaint TY, Patay Z, Bhatia A
• Resting state brain subnetwork relates to prosociality and compassion in adolescents.
  Frontiers in psychology 2022 Sipes BS, Jakary A, Li Y, Max JE, Yang TT, Tymofiyeva O
• Deep Learning to Predict Neonatal and Infant Brain Age from Myelination on Brain MRI Scans.
  Radiology 2022 Chen JV, Chaudhari G, Hess CP, Glenn OA, Sugrue LP, Rauschecker AM, Li Y
• Outcome of Neonates Presenting With Severe Cardiac Failure due to Cerebral Arteriovenous Fistula.
  Pediatric neurology 2022 Cornet MC, Li Y, Simmons RL, Baker A, Fullerton HJ, Hetts SW, Glass HC
• Mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE): timing and pattern of MRI brain injury.
  Pediatric research 2022 Li Y, Wisnowski JL, Chalak L, Mathur AM, McKinstry RC, Licona G, Mayock DE, Chang T, Van Meurs KP, Wu TW, Ahmad KA, Cornet MC, Rao R, Scheffler A, Wu YW
• Rate of head ultrasound abnormalities at one month in very premature and extremely premature infants with normal initial screening ultrasound.
  Pediatric radiology 2022 Liu AR, Gano D, Li Y, Diwakar M, Courtier JL, Zapala MA
• Feeding and developmental outcomes after neonatal seizures – a prospective observational study
  Annals of the Child Neurology Society. 2022 Roberts KH, Barks JDE, Glass HC, Soul JS, Chang T, Wusthoff CJ, Chu CJ, Massey SL, Abend NS, Lemmon ME, Thomas C, Guillet R, Rogers EE, Franck LS, McCaffrey H, Li Y, McCulloch CE, Shellhaas RA.
• Predictors of successful natural sleep MRI for sensorineural hearing loss in infants
  International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2022 Liao EN, Li Y, Fung A, Lawless L, Czechowicz J, Ho M, Luu K, Meyer L, Mohamad NI, Nadaraja GS, Taketa E, Virbalas J, Weinstein JE, Tsai T, Chan DK
• Long-term cognitive outcomes in term newborns with watershed injury caused by neonatal encephalopathy.
  Pediatric research 2021 Lee BL, Gano D, Rogers EE, Xu D, Cox S, James Barkovich A, Li Y, Ferriero DM, Glass HC
• Prenatal Diagnosis of Third and Fourth Branchial Apparatus Anomalies: Case Series and Comparison with Lymphatic Malformation.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Li Y, Mashhood A, Mamlouk MD, Lindan CE, Feldstein VA, Glenn OA
• Systemic and Craniospinal Rosai Dorfman Disease with Intraparenchymal, Intramedullary and Leptomeningeal Disease.
  International journal of hematology-oncology and stem cell research 2021 Li Y, Sloan E, Bollen A, Solomon D, Theodosopoulos P, Cha S
• Pediatric moyamoya MRI score: an imaging-based scale to predict outcomes in surgically treated pediatric patients with moyamoya.
  Neurosurgical focus 2021 Garcia JH, Morshed RA, Winkler EA, Li Y, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Rutledge C, Beniwal AS, Lawton MT, Abla AA, Gupta N, Hetts SW
• Rates of Incidental Findings in Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children.
  JAMA neurology 2021 Li Y, Thompson WK, Reuter C, Nillo R, Jernigan T, Dale A, Sugrue LP, ABCD Consortium, Brown J, Dougherty RF, Rauschecker A, Rudie J, Barch DM, Calhoun V, Hagler D, Hatton S, Tanabe J, Marshall A, Sher…
• Bilateral Choroid Plexus Papillomas Diagnosed by Prenatal Ultrasound and MRI.
  Cureus 2021 Li Y, Chetty S, Feldstein VA, Glenn OA
• Early Identification of Cerebral Palsy Using Neonatal MRI and General Movements Assessment in a Cohort of High-Risk Term Neonates.
  Pediatric neurology 2021 Glass HC, Li Y, Gardner M, Barkovich AJ, Novak I, McCulloch CE, Rogers EE
• Intracranial temporal bone angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma: illustrative case
  J Neurosurg Case Lessons 2021 Gillon S, Junn J, Sloan EA, Gupta N, Reddy A, Li Y
• Neuroimaging manifestations in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a multinational, multicentre collaborative study.
  The Lancet. Child & adolescent health 2020 Lindan CE, Mankad K, Ram D, Kociolek LK, Silvera VM, Boddaert N, Stivaros SM, Palasis S, ASPNR PECOBIG Collaborator Group
• Risk for infantile spasms after acute symptomatic neonatal seizures.
  Epilepsia 2020 Glass HC, Grinspan ZM, Li Y, McNamara NA, Chang T, Chu CJ, Massey SL, Abend NS, Lemmon ME, Thomas C, McCulloch CE, Shellhaas RA, Neonatal Seizure Registry Study Group
• Clinical Reasoning: An 11-year-old girl with focal seizures, fevers, and unilateral, enhancing cortical lesions.
  Neurology 2020 Russ JB, Timbie CM, Li Y, Gonzalez-Giraldo E
• Involvement of the Olfactory Apparatus by Gliomas.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2020 Wu X, Li Y, Glastonbury CM, Cha S
• Diffusion Characteristics of Pediatric Diffuse Midline Gliomas with Histone H3-K27M Mutation Using Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Histogram Analysis.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2019 Aboian MS, Tong E, Solomon DA, Kline C, Gautam A, Vardapetyan A, Tamrazi B, Li Y, Jordan CD, Felton E, Weinberg B, Braunstein S, Mueller S, Cha S
• Recurrent non-canonical histone H3 mutations in spinal cord diffuse gliomas.
  Acta neuropathologica 2019 Sloan EA, Cooney T, Oberheim Bush NA, Buerki R, Taylor J, Clarke JL, Torkildson J, Kline C, Reddy A, Mueller S, Banerjee A, Butowski N, Chang S, Mummaneni PV, Chou D, Tan L, Theodosopoulos P, …
• Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.
  NeuroImage 2019 Hagler DJ, Hatton S, Cornejo MD, Makowski C, Fair DA, Dick AS, Sutherland MT, Casey BJ, Barch DM, Harms MP, Watts R, Bjork JM, Garavan HP, Hilmer L, Pung CJ, Sicat CS, Kuperman J, Bartsch H, Xue F, …
• Congenital Oral Masses: An Anatomic Approach to Diagnosis.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2019 Chapman MC, Soares BP, Li Y, Shum DJ, Glenn OA, Glastonbury CM, Courtier JL
• Efficacy of using a 3D printed lumbosacral spine phantom in improving trainee proficiency and confidence in CT-guided spine procedures.
  3D printing in medicine 2018 Li Y, Li Z, Ammanuel S, Gillan D, Shah V
• Regionally specific TSC1 and TSC2 gene expression in tuberous sclerosis complex.
  Scientific reports 2018 Li Y, Barkovich MJ, Karch CM, Nillo RM, Fan CC, Broce IJ, Tan CH, Cuneo D, Hess CP, Dillon WP, Glenn OA, Glastonbury CM, Olney N, Yokoyama JS, Bonham LW, Miller B, Kao A, Schmansky N, Fischl B, …
• Abnormal Morphology of Select Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Neurofibromatosis Type 1.
  Radiology 2018 Barkovich MJ, Tan CH, Nillo RM, Li Y, Xu D, Glastonbury CM, Glenn OA, Dillon WP, Hess CP, Mueller S, Kline C, Dale AM, Jernigan TL, Sugrue LP, Barkovich AJ, Desikan RS
• Challenges in pediatric neuroimaging.
  NeuroImage 2018 Barkovich MJ, Li Y, Desikan RS, Barkovich AJ, Xu D
• CXCR4 involvement in neurodegenerative diseases.
  Translational psychiatry 2018 Bonham LW, Karch CM, Fan CC, Tan C, Geier EG, Wang Y, Wen N, Broce IJ, Li Y, Barkovich MJ, Ferrari R, Hardy J, Momeni P, Höglinger G, Müller U, Hess CP, Sugrue LP, Dillon WP, Schellenberg GD, Miller …
• Early detection of recurrent medulloblastoma: the critical role of diffusion-weighted imaging.
  Neuro-oncology practice 2018 Aboian MS, Kline CN, Li Y, Solomon DA, Felton E, Banerjee A, Braunstein SE, Mueller S, Dillon WP, Cha S
• Assessing 3D T2 FSE sequence for identification of the normal appendix: working toward a single-sequence MR appendicitis protocol.
  Emergency radiology 2017 Leelakanok N, Phelps AS, Zapala MA, Kato K, Ohliger M, Li Y, Courtier J
• Intravoxel incoherent motion analysis of renal allograft diffusion with clinical and histopathological correlation in pediatric kidney transplant patients: A preliminary cross-sectional observational study.
  Pediatric transplantation 2017 Poynton CB, Lee MM, Li Y, Laszik Z, Worters PW, Mackenzie JD, Courtier J
• Bevacizumab in Recurrent Glioma: Patterns of Treatment Failure and Implications.
  Brain tumor research and treatment 2017 Li Y, Ali S, Clarke J, Cha S
• Pilot Study of Renal Diffusion Tensor Imaging as a Correlate to Histopathology in Pediatric Renal Allografts.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2017 Li Y, Lee MM, Worters PW, MacKenzie JD, Laszik Z, Courtier JL
• Beyond Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Expanding the Differential Diagnosis in Prostate Pathologic Conditions.
  Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc 2016 Li Y, Mongan J, Behr SC, Sud S, Coakley FV, Simko J, Westphalen AC
• Magnetic resonance imaging of Müllerian duct anomalies in children.
  Pediatric radiology 2016 Li Y, Phelps A, Zapala MA, MacKenzie JD, MacKenzie TC, Courtier J
• Clinical Series: Five Simple MR Imaging Features to Identify Tumor Mimics
  Neurographics 2016 Starkey J, Li Y, Tihan T, Cha S
• Callosal dysgenesis in fetuses with ventriculomegaly: levels of agreement between imaging modalities and postnatal outcome.
  Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2012 Li Y, Estroff JA, Khwaja O, Mehta TS, Poussaint TY, Robson CD, Feldman HA, Ware J, Levine D
• Ultrasound and MRI of fetuses with ventriculomegaly: can cortical development be used to predict postnatal outcome?
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2011 Li Y, Estroff JA, Mehta TS, Robertson RL, Robson CD, Poussaint TY, Feldman HA, Ware J, Levine D
• Magnetic resonance volumetric assessments of brains in fetuses with ventriculomegaly correlated to outcomes.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2011 Pier DB, Levine D, Kataoka ML, Estroff JA, Werdich XQ, Ware J, Beeghly M, Poussaint TY, Duplessis A, Li Y, Feldman HA
• Outcome of fetuses with cerebral ventriculomegaly and septum pellucidum leaflet abnormalities.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2011 Li Y, Sansgiri RK, Estroff JA, Mehta TS, Poussaint TY, Robertson RL, Robson CD, Feldman HA, Barnewolt C, Levine D