Yitian Zhao

Professor
Intelligent Medical Imaging (iMED) Lab at Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Email: yitian.zhao@nimte.ac.cn ( 求职、求学、合作等，请与我联系)

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赵一天博士，研究员，博士生导师。现任中国科学院宁波材料技术与工程研究所，智能医学影像（iMED）团队负责人、先进诊疗材料与技术实验室副主任、宁波慈溪生物医学工程研究所副所长。兼任上海科技大学生医工学院特聘教授。先后获国家优秀青年基金、浙江省杰出青年基金、中国科协青年人才托举工程、中科院青促会，宁波3315创新个人等项目支持。2013年在英国艾伯瑞斯特维斯大学计算机科学专业获得博士学位。博士毕业后先后在英国利物浦大学和北京理工大学担任博士后和讲师。现担任The Innovation、 IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging、Medical Physics、Frontiers in Medicine等多个期刊编委/副编，MICCAI （2021、2022、2023）的领域主席（area chair），ICIMH（2021，2022，2024），VSIP（2021）的程序主席，MICCAI-OMIA，MIUA学术会议程序委员会委员，英国利物浦大学荣誉讲师。主要研究方向是医学图像处理、计算机视觉、人工智能技术研究。近几年围绕精准医疗研究，聚焦于眼睛，开展了“眼脑”、“眼心”等跨器官联动研究，旨在实现重大眼病和心脑疾病的计算机辅助诊断研究和智能医疗设备研发。在IEEE TMI, MedIA, MICCAI, PR, IEEE TVCG, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV等领域知名期刊和会议发表论文150余篇，6篇入选ESI高被引论文，一作单篇最高引用超430次。承担参与国家自然科学基金、浙江省科技重点研发计划、浙江省自然科学基金项目十余项。部分研究成果已集成于眼底相机中，协助企业获批医疗器械注册证2件；开发的眼科图像分析平台在多家医院开展应用，服务患者超万人。

Brief Bio:

Dr Yitian Zhao is currently the deputy director and full professor of Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science. He runs the Lab of Intelligent Medical Imaging (iMED), and the lab focuses on ophthalmic medical image processing, vessel structure analysis, eye and multi-organ joint computing and analyzing. He is also serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, and Frontiers in Medicine, Area Chair of MICCAI 2021-2023. He has a contract of honorary lecturer with the Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool. He received his BEng, MSc in 2008 and 2009 in UK, respectively. He finished his PhD degree in 3D Image Analysis from Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University in 2013. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017, and worked as a postdoctoral and lecturer in the Department of Eye and Vision Science at University of Liverpool since 2013 to 2015.

Research Interests:

Organ: [Eye] [Vessel] [Brain] and a little bit [Lung]
Disease: [Glaucoma] [Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)] [Dry Eye (DE)] [Cataract (CA)] [Diabetic Neuropathy (DN)] [Cerebrovascular Disease (CD)] [Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)] [Cadiovascular Diseases (CVD)] [Lung Diseases]
Imaging Modality: [Color Fundus (CF)] [OCT] [OCTA] [AS-OCT] [Confocal Microscopy (CM)] [Flurescein Angiogram (FA)] [MRA] [Endoscopy] [CT] [Multiple Modality (MM)]
Others: [Computer Vision (CV)] [Complex System (CS)]

Activities:

Associate Editor:
- IEEE Transcations on Medical Imaging (2021-present).
- Medical Physics (2022-present).
- Frontiers in Medicine (speciality with opthalmology) (2021-present).
Editorial board member:
- The Innovation (2024-present).
Area Chair:
- International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention MICCAI (2021, 2022, 2023).
Committee Associate Member:
- IEEE Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (2021-present).
Program Chair:
- International Conference on Intelligent Medicine and Health (ICIMH 2021,2022,2024).
- International Conference on Video, Signal and Image Processing (VSIP 2021).
Program Committee:
- International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention workshop OMIA (2017-present),
- Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (2019),
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2021),

Research Highlights:

<Vessel/Nerve Topology Estimation> <Artery/Vein Classification> <Vessel/Nerve Segmentation>
<Medical Image Enhancement> <Angle-closure Assesement>

Released Datasets:

Code: [gitbub site]

Dementia detection via retinal OCTA images [Code]
"Early Detection of Dementia through Retinal Imaging and Trustworthy AI", npj Digital Medicine, 2024.
Cerebrovascular Segmentation in TOF-MRA [Code]
"COSTA: A Multi-center TOF-MRA Dataset and A Style Self-Consistency Network for Cerebrovascular Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024.
Retinal Structure Detection in OCTA images (vessel, junctions and FAZ) [Code]
"Retinal Structure Detection in OCTA Image via Voting-based Multi-task Learning", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2022.
Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation [Code]
"Dual Consistency Enabled Weakly and Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Dual Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2022.
3D Vessel-like Structure Segmentation [Code]
"3D Vessel-like Structure Segmentation in Medical Images by an Edge-Reinforced Network", Medical Image Analysis, 2022.
Corneal Nerve Tortuosity Grading [Code]
"DeepGrading: Deep Learning Grading of Corneal Nerve Tortuosity", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2022, 41(8): 2079 - 2091.
Medical Image Segmentation by GNN [Code]
"Graph-based Region and Boundary Aggregation for Biomedical Image Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 41(3):690-701, 2022.
Parapneumonic Effusion Diagnosis (Lung disease) [Code]
"Uncertainty-guided Graph Attention Network for Parapneumonic Effusion Diagnosis", Medical Image Analysis, 2022, 75: 102217.
Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Detection [Code]
"Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Detection and Retinal Image Generation", IEEE JBHI, 26(1): 44-55, 2022.
Medical Image Enhancement [Code]
"Structure and Illumination Constrained GAN for Medical Image Enhancement", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 40(12): 3955 – 3967, 2021.
Cerebrovascular Segmentation in MRA images [Code]
"Cerebrovascular Segmentation in MRA via Reverse Edge Attention Network ", MICCAI, 2020, pp. 66-75.
Vessel Segmentation in Retinal OCTA images [Code]
"ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 40(3): 928-939, 2021.
3D Iris Reconstruction based on AS-OCT Images [Code]
"Reconstruction and Quantification of 3D Iris Surface for Angle-Closure Glaucoma Detection in Anterior Segment OCT", MICCAI, 2020.
2D Biomedical Image Segmentation [Code]
"CE-Net: Context Encoder Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 38(10): 2281-2292, 2019.
Vessel and Nerve Fibre Segmentation in 2D Biomedical Images [Code]
"CS-Net: Channel and Spatial Attention Network for Curvilinear Structure Segmentation", MICCAI, 2019, pp. 721-730.
Vessel and Nerve Fibre Segmentation in 2D and 3D Biomedical Images [Code]
"CS2-Net: Deep Learning Segmentation of Curvilinear Structures in Medical Imaging", Medical Image Analysis, 67: 101874, 2021.

Selected Publications:

Google Scholar Profile for full publication list.

2024:

Yanda Meng, Yuchen Zhang, Jianyang Xie, Jinming Duan, Martha Joddrell, Savita Madhusudhan, Tunde Peto, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Multi-granularity learning of explicit geometric constraint and contrast for label-efficient medical image segmentation and differentiable clinical function assessment, Medical Image Analysis, 2024
Dan Zhang, Mengting Liu, Fangsheng Chen, Qinkang Lu,Yitian Zhao, Graph-based multi-level feature fusion network for diabetic retinopathy grading using ultra-wide-field images, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 93:106134, 2024.
Qifeng Yan, Yuhui Ma, Wenjun Wu, Lei Mou, Wei Huang, Jun Cheng, Yitian Zhao, Choroidal Layer Analysis in OCT images via Ambiguous Boundary-aware Attention, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 175: 108386, 2024
Jianyang Xie, Quanyong Yi, Yufei Wu, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Antonella Macerollo, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu, Jiong Zhang, Ardendu Behera, Chenlei Fan, Alejandro Frangi, Jiang Liu, Qinkang Lu, Hong Qi and Yitian Zhao, Deep Segmentation of OCTA for Evaluation and Association of Changes of Retinal Microvasculature with Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment, British Journal of Ophthalmology, 108(3), 432-439, 2024. [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Yuanyuan Gu, Lixin Fang, Lei Mou, Shaodong Ma, Qifeng Yan, Jiong Zhang, Fang Liu, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, A ranking-based multi-scale feature calibration network for nuclear cataract grading in AS-OCT images, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 90:105836, 2024.
Jialu Zhang, Xiaoying Yang, Wentao He, Jianfeng Ren, Qian Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Ruibin Bai, Xiangjian He, Jiang Liu, Scale Optimization Using Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Object Detection on Drone Imagery, AAAI, 410-418, 2024.
Jianyang Xie, Yanda Meng, Yitian Zhao, Anh Nguyen, Xiaoyun Yang, Yalin Zheng, Dynamic Semantic-Based Spatial Graph Convolution Network for Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition, AAAI, 6225-6233, 2024.

2023:

Yang Qu, Zitong Niu, Qiaojiao Ding, Taowa Zhao, Tong Kong, Bing Bai, Jianwei Ma, Yitian Zhao, Jianping Zheng, Ensemble Learning with Supervised Methods Based on Large-Scale Protein Language Models for Protein Mutation Effects Prediction, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(22):16496 2023.
Yanda Meng, Yuchen Zhang, Jianyang Xie, Jinming Duan, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, eakly/Semi-supervised Left Ventricle Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography with Uncertain Region-Aware Contrastive Learning, PRCV, 98-109, 2023.
Shouyue Liu, Jinkui Hao, Yanwu Xu, Xinyu Guo Jiang Liu, Yalin ZHeng, Yonghuai Liu Jiong zhang and Yitian Zhao, Polar-Net: A Clinical-Friendly Model for Alzheimer's Disease Detection in OCTA Images, MICCAI, 607-617, 2023. [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Tao Chen, Yitian Zhao, Lei Mou, Dan Zhang, Mengting Liu, Xiayu Xu, Huazhu Fu, Jiong Zhang RBGNet: Reliable Boundary-Guided Segmentation of Choroidal Neovascularization, MICCAI, 163-172, 2023.
Yuhui Ma, Qifeng Yan, Yonghuai Liu, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang and Yitian Zhao, StruNet: Perceptual and low-rank regularized transformer for medical image denoising, Medical Physics, 2023.
Jiaqi Guo, Dan Zhang, Yan Gong, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang and Yitian Zhao, Association of Retinal Microvascular Abnormalities and Neuromyelitis Optica with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023.
Qifeng Yan, Yuanyuan Gu, Jinyu Zhao, Wenjun Wu, Yuhui Ma, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Automatic choroid layer segmentation in OCT images via context efficient adaptive network, Applied Intelligence , 53(5): 5554-5566, 2023.
Ran Song, Wei Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Paul Rosin, 3D Visual Saliency: An Independent Perceptual Measure or A Derivative of 2D Image Saliency? IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE-PAMI), 2023.
Xinyu GUo, Zhouqian Wang, Huaying Hao, Qinxiang Zheng, Jiong Zhang, Wei Chen and Yitian Zhao, Structure Constrained Diffusion Models for Pterygium Segmentation ISBI, 1-5, 2023.
Hanlin Liu, Huaying Hao, Yuhui Ma, Lijun Guo and Yitian Zhao, SPC-Net: structure-aware pixel-level contrastive learning network for OCTA A/V segmentation and differentiation CGI, 230-245, 2023.
Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhao, Pew-Thian Yap, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Alejandro F Frangi, Guest Editorial Special Issue on Geometric Deep Learning in Medical Imaging IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 42(2): 332-335, 2023.
Yanda Meng, Joshua Bridge, Cliff Addison, Manhui Wang, Cristin Merritt, Stu Franks, Maria Mackey, Steve Messenger, Renrong Sun, Thomas Fitzmaurice, Caroline McCann, Qiang Li, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Bilateral Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network on CT based COVID-19 Diagnosis with Uncertainty-Aware Consensus-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning, Medical Image Analysis, 84: 102722, 2023.
Jiansheng Fang, Ming Zeng, Xiaoqing Zhang, Hongbo Liu, Yitian Zhao, Peng Zhang, Hong Yang, Junling Liu, Hanpei Miao, Yan Hu, Jiang Liu, Deep metric learning with mirror attention and fine triplet loss for fundus image retrieval in ophthalmology, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 80: 104277, 2023.
Amrest Chinkamol, Vetit Kanjaras, Phattarapong Sawangjai, Yitian ZhaoIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 70(6): 1931-1942, 2023.

2022:

Yanda Meng, Joshua Bridge, Yitian Zhao, Martha Joddrell, Yihong Qiao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, and Yalin Zheng, Transportation Object Counting with Graph-Based Adaptive Auxiliary Learning, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(3): 3422-3437 2022.
Xuening Zhang, William Robert Kwapong, Jiang Shuai, Jianyang Xie, Chen Ye, Yuying Yan, Le Cao, Yitian Zhao, Bo Wu, Differences in retinal microvasculature between large artery atherosclerosis and small artery disease: an optical coherence tomography angiography studys, Frontiers Aging Neuroscience, 2022. [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Hongyu Duan; Jianyang Xie; Yifan Zhou; Hui Zhang; Yiyun Liu; Chuhao Tang; Yitian Zhao; Yitian Zhao; Hong Qi, Characterization of the Retinal Microvasculature and FAZ Changes in Ischemic Stroke and Its Different Types, Translational Vision Science & Technology, 11(21): 2022. [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Jinkui Hao, Ting Shen, Xueli Zhu, Yonghuai Liu, Ardhendu Behera, Dan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Retinal Structure Detection in OCTA Image via Voting-based Multi-task Learning, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 41(12): 3969-3980, 2022
Yanda Meng, Yitian Zhao, Dongxu Gao, Barbra Hamill, Godhuli Patri, Tunde Peto, Savita Madhusudhan, Yalin Zheng, Dual Consistency Enabled Weakly and Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Dual Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022
Likun Xia, Hao Zhang, Yufei Wu, Ran Song, Yuhui Ma, Lei Mou, Jiang Liu, Yixuan Xie, Ming Ma, Yitian Zhao, 3D Vessel-like Structure Segmentation in Medical Images by an Edge-Reinforced Network, Sparse-based Domain Adaptation Network for OCT-A Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction, Medical Image Analysis, 82, 102581, 2022
Huaying Hao, Cong Xu, Qifeng Yan, Dan Zhang, Jiong Zhang, Yue Liu, Yitian Zhao, Sparse-based Domain Adaptation Network for OCT-A Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(9): 4402 - 4413, 2022
Wendan Tao, William Robert Kwapong, Jianyang Xie, Zetao Wang, Xiaonan Guo, Junfeng Liu, Chen Ye, Bo Wu, Yitian Zhao and Ming Liu, Retinal microvasculature and imaging markers of brain frailty in normal aging adults, Front. Aging Neurosci., 2022 [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Jiayu Chen, Lei Mou, Shaodong Ma, Huazhu Fu, Lijun Guo, Yalin Zheng, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, NerveFormer: A Cross-Sample Aggregation Network for Corneal Nerve Segmentation, MICCAI, pp. 79–88, 2022
Xingyue Wang, Hneg Li, Zunjie Xiao, Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhaoo, Richu Jin, Shuting Zhang, William Robert Kwapong, Hanpei Miao, Jiang Liu, Screening of Dementia on OCTA Images via Multi-projection Consistency and Complementarity, MICCAI, pp 688–698, 2022 [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Yanmiao Bai, Jinkui Hao, Huazhu Fu, Yan Hu, Xinting Ge, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang, Unsupervised Lesion-Aware Transfer Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading in Ultra-Wide-Field Fundus Photography, MICCAI, pp 560–570, 2022
Yanda Meng, Xu Chen, Yitian Zhao, Dongxu Gao, Barbra Hamill, Godhuli Patri,Tunde Peto, Savita Madhusudhan, Yaling Zheng, Shape-Aware Weakly/Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Regional/Marginal Consistency, MICCAI, pp 524–534, 2022
Heng Li, Haofeng Liu, Huazhu Fu, Hai Shu, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoling Luo, Yan Hu, Jiang Liu, Structure-consistent Restoration Network for Cataract Fundus Image Enhancement, MICCAI, pp 487–496, 2022
Hanlin Liu, Jianyang Xie, Yonghuai Liu, Lijun Guo, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Topology-aware Learning for Semi-supervised Cross-domain Retinal Artery/Vein Classification, Computer Graphics International (CGI), 2022
Jingfei Hu, Hua Wang, Guang Wu, Zhaohui Cao, Lei Mou, Yitian Zhao, Jicong Zhang, Multi-scale Interactive Network with Artery/Vein Discriminator for Retinal Vessel Classification, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics,26(8): 3896 - 3905, 2022
Hongrun Zhang, Yanda Meng, Yitian Zhao, Xuesheng Qian, Yihong Qiao, Xiaoyun Yang, Yalin Zheng, 3D Human Pose and Shape Reconstruction from Videos via Confidence-Aware Temporal Feature Aggregation, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022
Tingting Yang, Baikai Ma, Jianyang Xie, Yifan Zhou, Rongjun Liu, Hongyu Duan, Yitian Zhao, Hong Qi, Evaluation of Ocular Surface Characteristics in Dry Eye Disease With and Without Soft Contact Lens Wear: A Comparative Study, Eye & Contact Lens, 48(9):377-383, 2022
Lei Mou, Hong Qi, Yonghuai Liu, Yalin Zheng, Peter Matthew, Pan Su, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, DeepGrading: Deep Learning Grading of Corneal Nerve Tortuosity, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 41(8): 2079-2091, 2022
Ran Song, Wei Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Unsupervised Multi-View CNN for Salient View Selection of 3D Objects and Scenes, International Journal of Computer Vision, 130 (5): 1210-1227 2022,
Heng Li, Haofeng Liu, Yanhu, Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu, An Annotation-free Restoration Network for Cataractous Fundus Images, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 41(7): 1699-1710, 2022
Andres Diaz-Pinto, Nishant Ravikumara, Rahman Attara, Avan Suinesiaputraa, Yitian Zhao, Alejandro F. Frangi et al., Myocardial Infarction through your Retinal Scans and Minimal Personal Information, Nature Machine Intelligence , pp 55–61, 2022. [Eye and Heart joint computing]
Jinkui Hao, Jiang Liu, Ella Pereira, Ri Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yangfan Zhang, Kun Yan, Yan Gong, Jianjun Zheng, Jingfeng Zhang, Yonghuai Liu,Yitian Zhao, Uncertainty-guided Graph Attention Network for Parapneumonic Effusion Diagnosis, Medical Image Analysis, 75: 102217, 2022
Vito Romano, Bernhard Steger, Mohammad Ahmad, Giulia Coco, Luca Pagano, Sajjad Ahmad, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Stephen B Kaye, Imaging of vascular abnormalities in ocular surface disease, Survey of Ophthalmology, 67(1): 31-51, 2022.
Jinkui Hao, Fei Li, Huaying Hao, Yanwu Xu, Huazhu Fu, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Hybrid Variation-aware Network for Angle-closure Assessment in AS-OCT, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 41(2): 254 - 265, 2022
Yanda Meng, Hongrun Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Yihong Qiao, Ian JC MacCormick, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng, Graph-based region and boundary aggregation for biomedical image segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 41(3):690-701, 2022

2021:

Jinkui Hao, Jianyang Xie, Ri Liu, Huaying Hao, Yuhui Ma, Kun Yan, Ruihui Liu, Yalin Zheng, Jianjun Zheng, Jiang Liu, Jingfeng Zhang and Yitian Zhao, Automatic Sequence-based Network for Lung Diseases Detection in Chest CT, Frontiers in Oncology, 11: 781798, 2021
Likun Xia,Yixuan Xie,Qiwang Wang,Hao Zhang,Cheng He,Xiaonan Yang,Jinghui Lin,Ran Song,Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, A nested parallel multiscale convolution for cerebrovascular segmentation, Medical Physics, 48(12): 7971-7983, 2021
Yuhao Niu, Lin Gu, Yitian Zhao, and Feng Lu, Explainable Diabetic Retinopathy Detection and Retinal Image Generation, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1): 44-55, 2022
Yitian Zhao, Jinyu Zhao, Yuanyuan Gu, Bang Chen, Jiaqi Guo, Jianyang Xie, Qifeng Yan, Yuhui Ma, Yufei Wu, Jiong Zhang, Qinkang Lu and Jiang Liu, Outer Retinal Layer Thickness Changes in White Matter Hyperintensity and Parkinson's Disease, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15: 741651, 2021 [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Ruili Wei, Jianyang Xie , Huihui Wu , Fangping He , Fanxia Meng , Jiang Liu , Yitian Zhao, Superficial macula capillary complexity changes are associated with disability in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders, Frontiers in Neurology, 12: 724946, 2021 [Eye and Brain joint computing]
Yuhui Ma, Jiang Liu, Yonghuai Liu, Huazhu Fu, Yan Hu, Jun Cheng, Hong Qi, Yufei Wu, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Structure and Illumination Constrained GAN for Medical Image Enhancement, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(12): 3955 – 3967, 2021.
Yanda Meng, Hongrun Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xuesheng Qian, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng, Spaitial Uncertainty-Aware Semi-Supervised Crowd Counting, ICCV, 15549-15559, 2021.
Jingyu Zhao, Jiong Zhang, Bin Deng, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu, Ran Song, Yitian Zhao, Guided Adversarial Adaptation Network for Retinal and Choroidal Layer Segmentation, MICCAI @ OMIA, pp.82-91, 2021. [Best Paper Award]
Shuai Yu, Yonghuai Liu, Jiong Zhang, Jianyang Xie, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Cross-domain Depth Estimation Network for 3D Vessel Reconstruction in OCT Angiography, MICCAI, pp.13-23, 2021.
Xu Chen, Yanda Meng, Yitian Zhao, Rachel Williams, Srinivasa Vallabhaneni, Yalin Zheng, Unsupervised Parameter-specific Affine Registration for 2D/3D Medical Images using Convolutional Neural Networks, MICCAI, pp.24-34, 2021.
Ran Song, Wei Zhao, Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Paul Rosin, Mesh Saliency: An Independent Perceptual Measure or A Derivative of Image Saliency? CVPR, pp. 8853-8862, 2021.
Baikai Ma, Jianyang Xie, Tingting Yang, Pan Su, Rongjun Liu, Tong Sun, Yifan Zhou, Haiwei Wang, Xue Feng, Siyi Ma, Yitian Zhao, Hong Qi, Quantification of Increased Corneal Subbasal Nerve Tortuosity in Dry Eye Disease and Its Correlation with Clinical Parameters, Translational vision science and technology, 10(6): 26, 2021.
Tianhua Chen, Changjing Shang, Pan Su, Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou, Yitian Zhao, Grigoris Antoniou, Qiang Shen,A decision tree-initialised neuro-fuzzy approach for clinical decision support, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 111: 101986, 2021.
Xingjun Ma, Yuhao Niu, Lin Gu, Yisen Wang, Yitian Zhao, James Bailey, Feng Lu, Understanding Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis Systems，Pattern Recognition,110: 107332, 2021.
Morteza Ghahremani, Yitian Zhao, Bernard Tiddeman，Yonghuai Liu，Interwoven Texture-Based Description of Interest Points in Images, Pattern Recognition, 113: 107821, 2021.
Huaying Hao, Yitian Zhao, Qifeng Yan, Risa Higashita, Jiong Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Yanwu Xu, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Angle-closure Assessment in Anterior Segment OCT Images via Deep Learning, Medical Image Analysis, 69: 101956, 2021
Heng Li, Haofeng Liu, Yan Hu, Risa Higashita, Yitian Zhao, Hong Qi, Jiang Liu, Restoration of Cataract Fundus Images via Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, to be appeared in proceeding of ISBI, pp. 516-520, 2021.
Zhenjie Chai, Jianlong Yang, Kang Zhou, Zhi Chen, Yitian Zhao, Shenghua Gao, Jiang Liu, Memory-assisted Dual-end Adaptation Network for Choroid Segmentation in Multi-domain Optical Coherence Tomography, to be appeared in proceeding of ISBI, pp. 1614-1617, 202.
Shuai Yu, Jianyang Xie, Jinkui Hao, Yalin Zheng, Jiong Zhang, Yan Hu, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, 3D Vessel Reconstruction in OCT-Angiography via Depth Map Estimation, to be appeared in proceeding of ISBI, pp. 1609-1613, 2021.
Yuhui Ma, Huaying Hao, Jianyang Xie, Huazhu Fu, Jiong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Zhen Wang, Jiang Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yitian Zhao, ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(3): 928-939, 2021. [Dataset: ROSE] [Paper] [Code]
Weixiang Du, Haochen Liu, Yitian Zhao, Adisorn Sirikham, Sri Addepalli, Yifan Zhao, A miniaturised active thermography system to inspect composite laminates, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(5):3314-3323, 2021. [Paper]
Lei Mou, Yitian Zhao, Huazhu Fu, Yonghuai Liu, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Jianlong Yang, Li Chen, Alejandro Frangi, Masahiro Akiba, Jiang Liu, CS2-Net: Deep Learning Segmentation of Curvilinear Structures in Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, 67: 101874, 2021. [Paper] [Code]

2020:

Huihong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Kang Zhou, Liyang Fang, Fei Li, Yan Hu, Yitian Zhao, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Automatic Segmentation and Visualization of Choroid in OCT with Knowledge Infused Deep Learning, IEEE-JBHI, 24(12): 3408-3420, 2020. [Paper]
Pan Su, Tianhua Chen, Jianyang Xie, Yalin Zheng, Hong Qi, Davide Borroni, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu. Corneal Nerve Tortuosity Grading via Ordered Weighted Averaging-based Feature Extraction, Medical Physics, 2020, 47(10): 4983-4996. (featured cover article) [Paper]
Joshua Bridge, Yanda Meng, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Introducing the GEV Activation Function for Highly Unbalanced Data to Develop COVID-19 Diagnostic Models, IEEE-JBHI, 2020, 24(10): 2776-2786. [Paper]
Ran Song, Wei Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Unsupervised Multi-View CNN for Salient View Selection of 3D Objects and Scenes. Proceeding of ECCV, 2020, pp. 454-470 [Dataset] [Paper]
Yanda Meng, Meng Wei, Dongxu Gao, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng, Regression of Instance Boundary by Aggregated CNN and GCN. Proceeding of ECCV, 2020, pp. 190-207 [Paper]
Yuhui Ma, Yonghuai Liu, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Morteza Ghahremani, Honghan Chen, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Cycle Structure and Illumination Constrained GAN for Medical Image Enhancement. Proceeding of MICCAI, 2020, pp. 667-677. [Dataset: CORN-2]
Hao Zhang, Likun Xia, Ran Song, Jianlong Yang, Huaying Hao, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Cerebrovascular Segmentation in MRA via Reverse Edge Attention Network. Proceeding of ICCAI, 2020, pp. 66-75. [Code]
Yanda Meng, Meng Wei, Dongxu Gao, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng, CNN-GCN Aggregation Enabled Boundary Regression for Biomedical Image Segmentation. Proceeding of MICCAI, 2020, pp. 352-362.
Jinkui Hao, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu, Yan Hu, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Reconstruction and Quantification of 3D Iris Surface for Angle-Closure Glaucoma Detection in Anterior Segment OCT. Proceeding of MICCAI, 2020, pp. 704-714. [Paper] [Code]
Huaying Hao, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu, Jianlong Yang, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Open-Narrow-Synechiae Anterior Chamber Angle Classification in AS-OCT Sequences. Proceeding of MICCAI, 2020, pp. 515-724. [Paper]
Jianyang Xie, Yonghuai Liu, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Yan Hu, Jianlong Yang, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, Classification of Retinal Vessels into Artery-Vein in OCT Angiography Guided by Fundus Images. Proceeding of MICCAI, 2020, pp.117-127. [Dataset: ACRO]
Xingjun Ma, Yuhao Niu，Lin Gu, Yisen Wang, Yitian Zhao, James Bailey, Feng Lu, Understanding Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis Systems, Pattern Recognition,110: 107332, 2021. [Paper]
Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang, Ella Pereira, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Jianyang Xie, Yifan Zhao, Yonggang Shi, Hong Qi, Jiang Liu, Yonghuai Liu, Automated Tortuosity Analysis of Nerve Fibers in Corneal Confocal Microscopy, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2020, 39(9): 2725-2737. [Dataset: CORN-3]
Brayn Williams, Davide Borroni, Rongjun Liu, Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang, Yalin Zheng, An aritifical intenlligence-based deep learning algorithm for the diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy using corneal confocal microscopy: a development and validation study, Diabetologia, 63(2): 419-430, 2020
Yitian Zhao, Jianyang Xie, Huaizhong Zhang, Yalin Zheng, Yifan Zhao, Hong Qi, Yangchun Zhao, Pan Su, Jiang Liu and Yonghuai Liu. Retinal Vascular Network Topology Reconstruction and Artery/Vein Classification via Dominant Set Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2020, 39(2): 341-356. [Dataset: VETO]
Lei Mou, Li Chen, Jun Cheng, Zaiwang Gu, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu, Dense Dilated Network with Probability Regularized Walk for Vessel Detection, IEEE Transcation on Medical Imaging, 39(5): 1392-1403, 2020.
Yuting Xiao, Shenghua Gao, Zhenjie Chai, Kang Zhou, Tianyang Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu, Open-Set Oct Image Recognition with Synthetic Learning. Proceeding of ISBI, 2020, pp. 1788-1792.
Kang Zhou, Shenghua Gao , Jun Cheng, Zaiwang Gu, Huazhu Fu, Zhi Tu, Jianlong Yang, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu, Sparse-GAN: Sparsity-Constrained Generative Adversarial Network for Retinal OCT Image Anomaly Detection. Proceeding of ISBI, 2020, pp. 1227-1231.

2019:

Qifeng Yan, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Kang Zhou, Alejandro Frangi, Jiang Liu, Automated retinal lesion detection via image saliency analysis, Medical Physics, 46(10): 4531-4544, 2019.
Tianyang Zhang, Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhao, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu, SkrGAN: Sketching-rendering Unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Medical Image Synthesis, Proceeding of MICCAI 2019, pp. 777-785.
Pan Su, Yitian Zhao, Tianhua Che, Jianyang Xie, Yifan Zhao, Hong Qi, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu, Exploiting Reliability-guided Aggregation for the Assessment of Curvilinear Structure Tortuosity, Proceeding of MICCAI 2019, pp. 12-20.
Lei Mou, Yitian Zhao, Li Chen, Jun Cheng,Hong Qi, Yalin Zheng, Alejandro Frangi, Jiang Liu, CS-Net: Channel and Spatial Attention Network for Curvilinear Structure Segmentation, Proceeding of MICCAI 2019, pp. 721-730. [Dataset: CORN-1] [Code]
Pholpat Durongbhan, Yifan Zhao, Liangyu Chen, Panagiotis Zis, Matteo De Marco, Zoe C. Unwin, Annalena Venneri, Xiongxiong He, Sheng Li, Yitian Zhao, Daniel J. Blackburn, and Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis. A Dementia Classification Framework using Frequency and Time-frequency Features based on EEG signals. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 27(5): 826-835, 2019.
Pan Su, Tianhua Chen, Haoyu Mao, Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu. On the Application of Preaggregation Functions to Fuzzy Pattern Tree, FUZZ-IEEE 2019.
Zaiwang Gu, Jun Cheng, Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhao, Tianyang Zhang, Huaying Hao, Kang Zhou, Jiang Liu, CE-Net: Context Encoder Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 38(10): 2281-2292, 2019. [Code]
Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Pan Su, Yalin Zheng, Yifan Zhao, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu, Topology Reconstruction of Tree-like Structure in Images via Structural Similarity Measure and Dominant Set Clustering, Proceeding of CVPR, Long Beach, USA, June, pp. 8505-8513, 2019.
Jun Cheng, Yitian Zhao, Yan Hu and Jiang Liu, Pixel Reconstruction for Speckle Reduction in 3D Optical Coherence Tomography of Retina, Proceeding of ISBI, Venice, Italy, pp. 1424-1427 2019.

2018:

Yonghuai Liu, Yitian Zhao, Yanquan Zhou, Yongjun Wang, Wei Huang, Jiwan Han, Yiguang Liu, Logistic Regression of Point Matches for Accurate Transformation Estimation, Proceedings of International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), pp. 409-417，Verona, Italy, September, 2018.
Yitian Zhao,Yalin Zheng, Zhili Chen, Peng Liu, Yifan Zhao, Jiang Liu, Uniqueness-Driven Saliency Analysis For Automated Abnormalities Detection with Application to Retinal Diseases, Proceedings of MICCAI, pp. 109-118, Granada, Spain, September, 2018.
Yitian Zhao, Jianyang Xie, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Pan Su, Yifan Zhao, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu, Retinal Artery and Vein Classification via Dominant Sets Clustering-based Vascular Topology Estimation, Proceedings of MICCAI, pp. 56-64, Granada, Spain, September, 2018. [Dataset: VETO]
Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu, Yongtian Wang, Retinal Vascular Topology Estimation Via Dominant Sets Clustering. Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018), Washington DC, USA, April, 2018.
Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Yifan Zhao, Lingling Luo, Siyuan Yang, Tong Na, Yongtian Wang, Jiang Liu, Automatic 2D/3D Vessel Enhancement in Multiple Modality Images Using a Weighted Symmetry Filter, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 37(2): 438-450, 2018. [Dataset: MMM-21]

2017:

Pan Su, Changjing Shang, Yitian Zhao, Tianhua Chen and Qiang Shen, Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection Based on OWA Aggregation of Fuzzy Relations, FUZZ-IEEE, Naples, Italy, 1-6, 2017. [Oral]
Gabriela Czanner, Ian James MacCormick, Yalin Zheng, Silvester Czanner, Yitian Zhao, Peter Diggle, Simon P Harding, Spatial distribution modelling of retinal lesions with application to retinal capillary non-perfusion in malarial retinopathy, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8): 4819, 2017. (Abstract)
Yalin Zheng, Bryan M Williams, Harry Pratt, Baidaa Al-Bander, Xiangqian Wu, Yitian Zhao, Computer aided diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration in 3D OCT images by deep learning, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8): 824, 2017. (Abstract)
Lingling Luo, Yitian Zhao, Jian Yang, Yalin Zheng, Danni Ai, Yongtian Wang, Cerebral Vascular Enhancement Using a Weighted 3D Symmetry Filter. Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 1945-8452, 2017.
Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Jian Yang, Yifan Zhao, Yongtian Wang, Intensity and Compactness Enabled Saliency Estimation for Leakage Detection in Diabetic and Malarial Retinopathy, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 36(1): 51-63, 2017. [Dataset: LIMA]
Jingfan Fan, Jian Yang, Yitian Zhao, Danni Ai, Yonghuai Liu, Ge Wang, Yongtian Wang, Convex Hull Aided Registration Method (CHARM), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(9): 2042-2055, 2017

2016:

Yonghuai Liu, Honghai Liu, Ralph R. Martin, Luigi De Dominicis, Ran Song, Yitian Zhao, Accurately Estimating Rigid Transformations in Registration using a Boosting-Inspired Mechanism, Pattern Recognition, 60: 849–862, 2016.
Sebastian Amrogowicz, Yitian Zhao, Yifan Zhao, An Edge Detection Method using Outer Totalistic Cellular Automata, Neurocomputing, 214(19): 643-653, 2016.
Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Yongjun Wang, Baogang Wei, Jian Yang, Yifan Zhao, Yongtian Wang: Region-based saliency estimation for 3D shape analysis and understanding. Neurocomputing, 197: 1-13, 2016.
Jingfan Fan, Jian Yang, Danni Ai, Likun Xia, Yitian Zhao, Yongtian Wang: Convex Hull indexed Gaussian Mixture Model (CH-GMM) for Non-rigid Point Set Registration, Pattern Recognition. 59: 126-141, 2016.
Jingfan Fan, Jian Yang, Feng Lu, Danni Ai, Yitian Zhao, Yongtian Wang: 3-Points Convex Hull Matching (3PCHM) for Fast and Robust Point Set Registration, Neurocomputing, 194: 227-240, 2016.

2015:

Yitian Zhao, Lavdie Rada, Ke Chen, Simon Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Vessel Segmentation Using Infinite Perimeter Active Contour Model with Hybrid Region Information with Application to Retina Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(9): 1797-1807, 2015. [Top 2 Most Frequently Downloaded Paper of T-MI in 2015]
Yitian Zhao, Ian J. C. MacCormick, David G. Parry, Nicholas A. V. Beare, Simon P. Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Detection of Vessel Abnormalities on Fluorescein Angiogram in Malarial Retinopathy. Scientific Reports, 5: srep11154, 2015.
Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Xiangqian Wu, Simon P Harding, Yalin Zheng: Retinal Vessel Segmentation: An Efficient Graph Cut Approach with Retinex and Local Phase. PLoS ONE,10(4): 0122332, 2015. [ESI highly cited paper]
Yitian Zhao, Ian J C MacCormick, David G Parry, Sophie Leach, Nick Beare, Simon P Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Detection of Leakage in Fluorescein Angiography Images with Application to Malarial Retinopathy. Scientific Reports, 5: srep10425, 2015.
Yonghuai Liu, Honghai Liu, Yitian Zhao, Ran Song: Performance calibration through partly peer assessment. Proceedings of International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2015), Porto, Portugal, 62-66, (AR=33%),. [Oral]