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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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, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters and Medical Physics, Area Chair of MICCAI (2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026), AAAI (2026) and ICASSP (2025). 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)] [Ocular Surface Disease (OSD)] [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/Editorial Member:
  • IEEE Transcations on Medical Imaging (2021-present).
  • IEEE Transcations on Image Processing (2026-present).
  • Patter Recognition Letters (2026-present).
• General Chair:
  • 12th Medical Imaging Computing Seminar (MICS 2025).
• Area Chair:
  • International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention MICCAI (2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026).
  • International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP (2025).
  • AAAI (2026).
• Committee Member:
  • IEEE Senior Member
  • IEEE Bio Imaging and Signal Processing
• Program Chair:
  • International Conference on Intelligent Medicine and Health (ICIMH 2021, 2022, 2024, 2026).
  • 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),

Recent News:

• 2026-08-28: One paper has been accepted by Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). [Eye<>Stroke<>OCTA].
• 2026-08-28: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Image Process (TIP). [Cross-organ<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2026-08-21: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis . [Cross-organ<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2026-07-21: One paper has been accepted by IOVS . [Eye<>NA<>CF].
• 2026-06-13: We’re bringing 10 papers to MICCAI this year! Let’s meet up and catch up over a coffee in Strasbourg.
• 2026-05-25: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) . [Eye<>NA<>CF].
• 2026-04-17: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis . You Only Label Once for Medical Image Segmentation. [Cross-organ<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2026-04-15: Dr. Zhao has been appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans Image Process. (TIP) .
• 2026-04-06: One paper has been accepted by npj Digital Medicine .[Eye<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2026-04-05: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Image Process. (TIP) .[Eye<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2026-03-25: Wonderful news! My PhD supervisor, Dr. Liu, has just been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters , and I have been appointed to serve on the journal's editorial board.
• 2026-02-20: Two papers have been accepted by IEEE Trans Multimedia (TMM) and IEEE Trans Biomedical Enginnering (TBME) .[Cross-organ<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2025-02-06: Happy to serve as role of Area Chair of MICCAI 2026.
• 2026-01-30: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) .[Cross-organ<>NA<>Multi-modal].
• 2026-01-22: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis .[Eye<>ROP<>CF].
• 2026-01-12: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Image Processing (TIP) .[Eye<>NA<>CF].
• 2026-01-09: It is a great honor that our "Eye-Brain Joint Computing" research has been named one of China's Top Ten Original Advances in Ophthalmology in 2025 (2025年中国眼科学十大原创进展) .
• 2025-12-24: Delighted to receive the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) for 2025.
• 2025-09-18: One paper has been accepted by NeurIPS 2025.[CV]
• 2025-09-17: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Multimedia (TMM) .[CV]
• 2025-08-01: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans pattern analysis and machine intelligence (TPAMI) .[Eye<>CNV<>OCTA]
• 2025-07-23: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) .[Eye<>DE<>CCM]
• 2025-07-22: 由我们团队主办的第十二届医学图像计算青年研讨会（MICS 2025） 在慈溪顺利召开！
• 2025-06-30: Congratulations to Dr. Huaying Hao and Dr. Jiaqi Guo on successfully defending their PhD theses!
• 2025-06-23: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Image Processing (TIP) .[Eye<>NA<>CF]
• 2025-06-18: SIX papers have been accepted by MICCAI 2025 .[Eye<>NA<>OCTA]
• 2025-03-15: One paper has been accepted by Pattern Recognition .[Eye<>NA<>OCTA]
• 2025-02-25: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis .[Lung<>NA<>CT]
• 2025-02-15: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis .[Eye<>AD<>OCTA]
• 2025-02-14: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics .[Eye<>AMD<>OCT]
• 2025-02-03: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) .[Vessel<>CD<>DSA]
• 2025-01-16: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) .[Eye<>Ocular diseases<>OCT]
• 2025-01-16: Happy to serve as role of Area Chair of MICCAI 2025.
• 2024-11-05: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Imag. Process. (TIP) .[CV<>NA<>MM]
• 2024-11-03: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI) .[Eye<>Ocular surface diseases<>MM]
• 2024-10-14: One paper has been accepted by BIBM 2025 .[Eye & Brain<>AD<>OCTA]
• 2024-10-04: One paper has been accepted by npj Digital Medicine .[Eye & Brain<>AD<>MM]
• 2024-09-26: One paper has been accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) .[CV<>NA<>NA]
• 2024-09-10: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.[Eye<>NA<>OCTA]
• 2024-08-24: Jinkui has successfully defended his PhD thesis and recieved the CAS President's Award of Excellence. Well done, Dr Hao!
• 2024-07-18: We have updated our ROSE, CORN, VETO and COSTA datasets and they are now available on the Zenodo platform.
• 2024-07-15: 2025年夏天，我们将承办第十二届医学图像计算青年研讨会（MICS），欢迎来慈溪！
• 2024-07-04: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI).[Brain & Vessel<>NA<>MRA]
• 2024-6-17: Six paper has been accepted by MICCAI-2024 .[Eye & Brain & Vessel<>NA<>MM]
• 2024-5-17: One paper has been accepted by Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science .[Eye & Brain<>CD<>OCTA]
• 2024-4-20: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis .[Eye & Heart<>NA<>MM]
• 2024-4-16: One paper has been accepted by IJCAI-2024 .[CS<>NA<>NA]
• 2024-3-26: One paper has been accepted by Computers in Biology and Medicine .[Eye<>NA<>OCT]
• 2024-2-15: Pleased to join the editorial board of The Innovation journal with IF=32.1.
• 2023-12-08: We have two AAAI papers accepted this year.
• 2023-11-22: Lei has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Hello, Dr Mou!
• 2023-06-25: We have two MICCAI papers accepted this year, and we have reached 20 MICCAI papers in total since 2018.
• 2023-06-15: We have our first IEEE-PAMI paper!
• 2023-05-25: Sorry for being QUIET recent months, we are making a "A-BOMB".
• 2023-01-27: Happy to serve as role of Area Chair of MICCAI 2023.
• 2022-12-22: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering (TBME).[Eye<>NA<>OCTA]
• 2022-12-17: One paper has been accepted by British Journal of Ophthalmology.[Eye, brain<>AD<>OCTA]
• 2022-12-02: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis (MedIA).[Lung<>Covid-19<>CT]
• 2022-11-17: Many congrats to Yuhui Ma, now he is Dr Ma!
• 2022-08-31: I'm glad to serve as an Associate Editor in Medical Physics
• 2022-08-24: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI).[Eye<>NA<>OCTA]
• 2022-08-23: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (TMI).[Eye<>Glaucoma<>CF]
• 2022-08-12: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis (MedIA).[Vessel<>NA<>MM]
• 2022-07-20: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI).[Eye<>NA<>OCTA]
• 2022-06-03: Five papers have been accepted by MICCAI 2022.
• 2022-04-11: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Multimedia.[CV]
• 2022-04-10: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI).[Eye<>NA<>CF]
• 2022-03-02: One paper has been accepted by CVPR (oral).[others]
• 2022-02-28: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging.[Eye<>DE<>CM]
• 2022-02-17: I am appointed as an Associate Editor in IEEE Trans Med. Imaging (IF: 10.048).
• 2022-02-03: One paper has been accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision.[CV]
• 2022-01-27: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans Med. Imaging.[Eye<>CA<>CF]
• 2022-01-16: I will serve as one of Area Chairs of MICCAI 2022.
• 2021-10-15: One paper has been accepted by Nature Machine Intelligence.[Eye, Heart<>CVD<>CF, MRI]

Research Highlights:

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

Released Datasets:

• COSTA: Cerebrovascular Segmentation in TOF-MRA [(Multi-vendor data and the largest scale of data to date in the research field)]
• ROSE: Retinal structure detection in OCTA images [(Recently updated, including more annotations: vessel, junctions and FAZ)]
• CORN: Corneal nerve fiber dataset [(Multple tasks: nerve /cell segmentation, image enhancement, nerve tuotorsity grading)]
• VETO: Vessel topology manual annotation dataset

Code: [gitbub site]

• Transparent Multi-Modal Diagnosis with CFP-Only Inference [Code]
      "Angiography-free Diagnosis of Eetinal Diseases via Interpretable Multi-modal Larning", npj Digital Medicine, 2026.
• Cross-Modal Medical Image Enhancement [Code]
      "A Frequency-aware Dual-domain Collaborative Framework for Medical Image Enhancement", Medical Image Analysis, 2026.
• YoloSeg: You Only Label Once for Medical Image Segmentation [Code]
      "YoloSeg: You Only Label Once for Medical Image Segmentation", Medical Image Analysis, 2026.
• Retinal Vasculature Parsing (Artery-vein segmentation and classification) [Code]
      "Multi-Granularity Topological Reasoning for Anatomically Consistent Vasculature Parsing", IEEE Trans Image Processing, 2026.
• Nerve Fiber and Cell Segmentation in Confocal Microscopy [Code]
      "Progressive distillation for incremental learning in corneal confocal microscopy segmentation", IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, 2025.
• Ocular Surface Structures Segmentation [Code]
      "R²diff: Randomness-restricted Diffusion Model for Ocular Surface Structure Segmentation", IEEE Trans Medical Imaging, 2025.
• 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.