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Publications (119)

cs.CV2021

Transformer-based Dual Relation Graph for Multi-label Image Recognition

Jiawei Zhao, Ke Yan, Yifan Zhao +3

The simultaneous recognition of multiple objects in one image remains a challenging task, spanning multiple events in the recognition field such as various object scales, inconsist…

cs.CV2018

Deep Learning for Image Denoising: A Survey

Chunwei Tian, Yong Xu, Lunke Fei +1

Since the proposal of big data analysis and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), the deep learning technology has received a great deal of attention and has been widely applied in the fi…

cs.AI2018

Information Design in Crowdfunding under Thresholding Policies

Wen Shen, Jacob W. Crandall, Ke Yan +1

Crowdfunding has emerged as a prominent way for entrepreneurs to secure funding without sophisticated intermediation. In crowdfunding, an entrepreneur often has to decide how to di…

cs.CY2019

Emerging Privacy Issues and Solutions in Cyber-Enabled Sharing Services: From Multiple Perspectives

Ke Yan, Wen Shen, Huijuan Lu +1

Fast development of sharing services has become a crucial part of the cyber-enabled world construction process, as sharing services reinvent how people exchange and obtain goods or…

cs.CV2021

Deep Lesion Tracker: Monitoring Lesions in 4D Longitudinal Imaging Studies

Jinzheng Cai, Youbao Tang, Ke Yan +4

Monitoring treatment response in longitudinal studies plays an important role in clinical practice. Accurately identifying lesions across serial imaging follow-up is the core to th…

cs.CV2025

CT-GLIP: 3D Grounded Language-Image Pretraining with CT Scans and Radiology Reports for Full-Body Scenarios

Jingyang Lin, Yingda Xia, Jianpeng Zhang +5

3D medical vision-language (VL) pretraining has shown potential in radiology by leveraging large-scale multimodal datasets with CT-report pairs. However, existing methods primarily…

eess.IV2021

Accurate and Generalizable Quantitative Scoring of Liver Steatosis from Ultrasound Images via Scalable Deep Learning

Bowen Li, Dar-In Tai, Ke Yan +7

Background & Aims: Hepatic steatosis is a major cause of chronic liver disease. 2D ultrasound is the most widely used non-invasive tool for screening and monitoring, but associated…

cs.CV2022

Location-free Human Pose Estimation

Xixia Xu, Yingguo Gao, Ke Yan +2

Human pose estimation (HPE) usually requires large-scale training data to reach high performance. However, it is rather time-consuming to collect high-quality and fine-grained anno…

cs.CV2024

From Histopathology Images to Cell Clouds: Learning Slide Representations with Hierarchical Cell Transformer

Zijiang Yang, Zhongwei Qiu, Tiancheng Lin +13

It is clinically crucial and potentially very beneficial to be able to analyze and model directly the spatial distributions of cells in histopathology whole slide images (WSI). How…

cs.CV2025

D2Pruner: Debiased Importance and Structural Diversity for MLLM Token Pruning

Evelyn Zhang, Fufu Yu, Aoqi Wu +5

Processing long visual token sequences poses a significant computational burden on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While token pruning offers a path to acceleration, we f…

cs.LG2024

SAFE: Slow and Fast Parameter-Efficient Tuning for Continual Learning with Pre-Trained Models

Linglan Zhao, Xuerui Zhang, Ke Yan +2

Continual learning aims to incrementally acquire new concepts in data streams while resisting forgetting previous knowledge. With the rise of powerful pre-trained models (PTMs), th…

eess.IV2024

CycleINR: Cycle Implicit Neural Representation for Arbitrary-Scale Volumetric Super-Resolution of Medical Data

Wei Fang, Yuxing Tang, Heng Guo +9

In the realm of medical 3D data, such as CT and MRI images, prevalent anisotropic resolution is characterized by high intra-slice but diminished inter-slice resolution. The lowered…

cs.CV2023

VMT-Adapter: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Multi-Task Dense Scene Understanding

Yi Xin, Junlong Du, Qiang Wang +2

Large-scale pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks. A standard approach to leverage these models is to fine-tune all model parameters…

cs.CV2025

AIGI-Holmes: Towards Explainable and Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection via Multimodal Large Language Models

Ziyin Zhou, Yunpeng Luo, Yuanchen Wu +7

The rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC) technology has led to the misuse of highly realistic AI-generated images (AIGI) in spreading misinformation, posing a threat to…

cs.CV2024

UAE: Universal Anatomical Embedding on Multi-modality Medical Images

Xiaoyu Bai, Fan Bai, Xiaofei Huo +5

Identifying specific anatomical structures (\textit{e.g.}, lesions or landmarks) in medical images plays a fundamental role in medical image analysis. Exemplar-based landmark detec…

eess.IV2020

Lymph Node Gross Tumor Volume Detection and Segmentation via Distance-based Gating using 3D CT/PET Imaging in Radiotherapy

Zhuotun Zhu, Dakai Jin, Ke Yan +7

Finding, identifying and segmenting suspicious cancer metastasized lymph nodes from 3D multi-modality imaging is a clinical task of paramount importance. In radiotherapy, they are…

cs.AI2025

A critical review of methods and challenges in large language models

Milad Moradi, Ke Yan, David Colwell +2

This critical review provides an in-depth analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs), encompassing their foundational principles, diverse applications, and advanced training methodol…

cs.CV2018

Accurate Weakly-Supervised Deep Lesion Segmentation using Large-Scale Clinical Annotations: Slice-Propagated 3D Mask Generation from 2D RECIST

Jinzheng Cai, Youbao Tang, Le Lu +5

Volumetric lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) images is a powerful means to precisely assess multiple time-point lesion/tumor changes. However, because manual 3D seg…

eess.IV2020

Reliable Liver Fibrosis Assessment from Ultrasound using Global Hetero-Image Fusion and View-Specific Parameterization

Bowen Li, Ke Yan, Dar-In Tai +4

Ultrasound (US) is a critical modality for diagnosing liver fibrosis. Unfortunately, assessment is very subjective, motivating automated approaches. We introduce a principled deep…

eess.IV2020

One Click Lesion RECIST Measurement and Segmentation on CT Scans

Youbao Tang, Ke Yan, Jing Xiao +1

In clinical trials, one of the radiologists' routine work is to measure tumor sizes on medical images using the RECIST criteria (Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors). Howe…

cs.CV2018

CT Image Enhancement Using Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks and Transfer Learning for Lesion Segmentation Improvement

Youbao Tang, Jinzheng Cai, Le Lu +5

Automated lesion segmentation from computed tomography (CT) is an important and challenging task in medical image analysis. While many advancements have been made, there is room fo…

cs.CR2025

INR-Based Generative Steganography by Point Cloud Representation

Zhong Yangjie, Liu Jia, Luo Peng +2

Generative steganography (GS) directly generates stego-media through secret message-driven generation. It makes the hiding capacity of GS higher than that of traditional steganogra…

cs.CV2020

Detecting Scatteredly-Distributed, Small, andCritically Important Objects in 3D OncologyImaging via Decision Stratification

Zhuotun Zhu, Ke Yan, Dakai Jin +9

Finding and identifying scatteredly-distributed, small, and critically important objects in 3D oncology images is very challenging. We focus on the detection and segmentation of on…

cs.CV2025

VISA: Group-wise Visual Token Selection and Aggregation via Graph Summarization for Efficient MLLMs Inference

Pengfei Jiang, Hanjun Li, Linglan Zhao +4

In this study, we introduce a novel method called group-wise \textbf{VI}sual token \textbf{S}election and \textbf{A}ggregation (VISA) to address the issue of inefficient inference…

cs.CV2023

Seeing in Flowing: Adapting CLIP for Action Recognition with Motion Prompts Learning

Qiang Wang, Junlong Du, Ke Yan +1

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown remarkable generalization on "zero-shot" training and has applied to many downstream tasks. We explore the ada…

cs.CV2023

Combining Past, Present and Future: A Self-Supervised Approach for Class Incremental Learning

Xiaoshuang Chen, Zhongyi Sun, Ke Yan +2

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to handle the scenario where data of novel classes occur continuously and sequentially. The model should recognize the sequential novel classe…

cs.CV2026

Multi-modal user interface control detection using cross-attention

Milad Moradi, Ke Yan, David Colwell +2

Detecting user interface (UI) controls from software screenshots is a critical task for automated testing, accessibility, and software analytics, yet it remains challenging due to…

cs.CV2018

Accurate Weakly Supervised Deep Lesion Segmentation on CT Scans: Self-Paced 3D Mask Generation from RECIST

Jinzheng Cai, Youbao Tang, Le Lu +5

Volumetric lesion segmentation via medical imaging is a powerful means to precisely assess multiple time-point lesion/tumor changes. Because manual 3D segmentation is prohibitively…

cs.CV2020

Harvesting, Detecting, and Characterizing Liver Lesions from Large-scale Multi-phase CT Data via Deep Dynamic Texture Learning

Yuankai Huo, Jinzheng Cai, Chi-Tung Cheng +7

Non-invasive radiological-based lesion characterization and identification, e.g., to differentiate cancer subtypes, has long been a major aim to enhance oncological diagnosis and t…

cs.CV2026

Predictive Regularization Against Visual Representation Degradation in Multimodal Large Language Models

Enguang Wang, Qiang Wang, Yuanchen Wu +5

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at vision-language tasks, the cost of their language-driven training on internal visual foundational competence remains unclear…

cs.CV2020

Universal Lesion Detection by Learning from Multiple Heterogeneously Labeled Datasets

Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Adam P. Harrison +3

Lesion detection is an important problem within medical imaging analysis. Most previous work focuses on detecting and segmenting a specialized category of lesions (e.g., lung nodul…

eess.IV2021

Lesion Segmentation and RECIST Diameter Prediction via Click-driven Attention and Dual-path Connection

Youbao Tang, Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai +6

Measuring lesion size is an important step to assess tumor growth and monitor disease progression and therapy response in oncology image analysis. Although it is tedious and highly…

eess.IV2025

PLUS: Plug-and-Play Enhanced Liver Lesion Diagnosis Model on Non-Contrast CT Scans

Jiacheng Hao, Xiaoming Zhang, Wei Liu +8

Focal liver lesions (FLL) are common clinical findings during physical examination. Early diagnosis and intervention of liver malignancies are crucial to improving patient survival…

math.DG2020

Some geometric correspondences for homothetic navigation

Ming Xu, Vladimir Matveev, Ke Yan +1

In this paper, we provide conceptional explanations for the geodesic and Jacobi field correspondences for homothetic navigation, and then let them guide us to the shortcuts to some…

cs.CV2023

MmAP : Multi-modal Alignment Prompt for Cross-domain Multi-task Learning

Yi Xin, Junlong Du, Qiang Wang +2

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is designed to train multiple correlated tasks simultaneously, thereby enhancing the performance of individual tasks. Typically, a multi-task network stru…

cs.CV2024

Dual Relation Mining Network for Zero-Shot Learning

Jinwei Han, Yingguo Gao, Zhiwen Lin +4

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize novel classes through transferring shared semantic knowledge (e.g., attributes) from seen classes to unseen classes. Recently, attention-…

cs.CV2019

MULAN: Multitask Universal Lesion Analysis Network for Joint Lesion Detection, Tagging, and Segmentation

Ke Yan, Youbao Tang, Yifan Peng +4

When reading medical images such as a computed tomography (CT) scan, radiologists generally search across the image to find lesions, characterize and measure them, and then describ…

cs.CV2017

Learning Domain-Invariant Subspace using Domain Features and Independence Maximization

Ke Yan, Lu Kou, David Zhang

Domain adaptation algorithms are useful when the distributions of the training and the test data are different. In this paper, we focus on the problem of instrumental variation and…

cs.CV2025

Fuse Before Transfer: Knowledge Fusion for Heterogeneous Distillation

Guopeng Li, Qiang Wang, Ke Yan +3

Most knowledge distillation (KD) methodologies predominantly focus on teacher-student pairs with similar architectures, such as both being convolutional neural networks (CNNs). How…

cs.CV2025

LaRE: Latent Reconstruction Error Based Method for Diffusion-Generated Image Detection

Yunpeng Luo, Junlong Du, Ke Yan +1

The evolution of Diffusion Models has dramatically improved image generation quality, making it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and generated images. This deve…

cs.CV2018

3D Context Enhanced Region-based Convolutional Neural Network for End-to-End Lesion Detection

Ke Yan, Mohammadhadi Bagheri, Ronald M. Summers

Detecting lesions from computed tomography (CT) scans is an important but difficult problem because non-lesions and true lesions can appear similar. 3D context is known to be helpf…

cs.CV2017

DeepLesion: Automated Deep Mining, Categorization and Detection of Significant Radiology Image Findings using Large-Scale Clinical Lesion Annotations

Ke Yan, Xiaosong Wang, Le Lu +1

Extracting, harvesting and building large-scale annotated radiological image datasets is a greatly important yet challenging problem. It is also the bottleneck to designing more ef…

cs.CV2024

Modality-Agnostic Structural Image Representation Learning for Deformable Multi-Modality Medical Image Registration

Tony C. W. Mok, Zi Li, Yunhao Bai +9

Establishing dense anatomical correspondence across distinct imaging modalities is a foundational yet challenging procedure for numerous medical image analysis studies and image-gu…

cs.CV2022

Expanding Low-Density Latent Regions for Open-Set Object Detection

Jiaming Han, Yuqiang Ren, Jian Ding +3

Modern object detectors have achieved impressive progress under the close-set setup. However, open-set object detection (OSOD) remains challenging since objects of unknown categori…

cs.CV2021

Learning from Multiple Datasets with Heterogeneous and Partial Labels for Universal Lesion Detection in CT

Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Youjing Zheng +7

Large-scale datasets with high-quality labels are desired for training accurate deep learning models. However, due to the annotation cost, datasets in medical imaging are often eit…

cs.CV2025

Antidote: A Unified Framework for Mitigating LVLM Hallucinations in Counterfactual Presupposition and Object Perception

Yuanchen Wu, Lu Zhang, Hang Yao +5

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results across various cross-modal tasks. However, hallucinations, i.e., the models generating counterfactual response…

cs.LG2024

Decision Transformer vs. Decision Mamba: Analysing the Complexity of Sequential Decision Making in Atari Games

Ke Yan

This work analyses the disparity in performance between Decision Transformer (DT) and Decision Mamba (DM) in sequence modelling reinforcement learning tasks for different Atari gam…

cond-mat.soft2024

Surface mobility gradient and emergent facilitation in glassy films

Qiang Zhai, Xin-Yuan Gao, Chun-Shing Lee +5

Confining glassy polymer into films can substantially modify their local and film-averaged properties. We present a lattice model of film geometry with void-mediated facilitation b…

cs.CV2023

SLPT: Selective Labeling Meets Prompt Tuning on Label-Limited Lesion Segmentation

Fan Bai, Ke Yan, Xiaoyu Bai +6

Medical image analysis using deep learning is often challenged by limited labeled data and high annotation costs. Fine-tuning the entire network in label-limited scenarios can lead…

cs.CV2018

Deep Lesion Graphs in the Wild: Relationship Learning and Organization of Significant Radiology Image Findings in a Diverse Large-scale Lesion Database

Ke Yan, Xiaosong Wang, Le Lu +4

Radiologists in their daily work routinely find and annotate significant abnormalities on a large number of radiology images. Such abnormalities, or lesions, have collected over ye…

cs.CL2024

Model Tailor: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-modal Large Language Models

Didi Zhu, Zhongyi Sun, Zexi Li +5

Catastrophic forgetting emerges as a critical challenge when fine-tuning multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), where improving performance on unseen tasks often leads to a sig…

cs.CV2024

SGTC: Semantic-Guided Triplet Co-training for Sparsely Annotated Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Ke Yan, Qing Cai, Fan Zhang +2

Although semi-supervised learning has made significant advances in the field of medical image segmentation, fully annotating a volumetric sample slice by slice remains a costly and…

cs.CV2025

From Slices to Sequences: Autoregressive Tracking Transformer for Cohesive and Consistent 3D Lymph Node Detection in CT Scans

Qinji Yu, Yirui Wang, Ke Yan +11

Lymph node (LN) assessment is an essential task in the routine radiology workflow, providing valuable insights for cancer staging, treatment planning and beyond. Identifying scatte…

cs.CV2023

Devil is in the Queries: Advancing Mask Transformers for Real-world Medical Image Segmentation and Out-of-Distribution Localization

Mingze Yuan, Yingda Xia, Hexin Dong +13

Real-world medical image segmentation has tremendous long-tailed complexity of objects, among which tail conditions correlate with relatively rare diseases and are clinically signi…

cs.CV2022

SIOD: Single Instance Annotated Per Category Per Image for Object Detection

Hanjun Li, Xingjia Pan, Ke Yan +2

Object detection under imperfect data receives great attention recently. Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) suffers from severe localization issues due to the lack of instan…

cs.CV2023

SAM: Self-supervised Learning of Pixel-wise Anatomical Embeddings in Radiological Images

Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Dakai Jin +7

Radiological images such as computed tomography (CT) and X-rays render anatomy with intrinsic structures. Being able to reliably locate the same anatomical structure across varying…

eess.IV2022

A New Probabilistic V-Net Model with Hierarchical Spatial Feature Transform for Efficient Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation

Minfeng Xu, Heng Guo, Jianfeng Zhang +2

Accurate and robust abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT imaging of different modalities is a challenging task due to complex inter- and intra-organ shape and appearance vari…

cs.CV2023

Continual Segment: Towards a Single, Unified and Accessible Continual Segmentation Model of 143 Whole-body Organs in CT Scans

Zhanghexuan Ji, Dazhou Guo, Puyang Wang +9

Deep learning empowers the mainstream medical image segmentation methods. Nevertheless current deep segmentation approaches are not capable of efficiently and effectively adapting…

cs.CV2019

ULDor: A Universal Lesion Detector for CT Scans with Pseudo Masks and Hard Negative Example Mining

Youbao Tang, Ke Yan, Yuxing Tang +3

Automatic lesion detection from computed tomography (CT) scans is an important task in medical imaging analysis. It is still very challenging due to similar appearances (e.g. inten…

cs.CV2025

MUSE: Multi-Scale Dense Self-Distillation for Nucleus Detection and Classification

Zijiang Yang, Hanqing Chao, Bokai Zhao +10

Nucleus detection and classification (NDC) in histopathology analysis is a fundamental task that underpins a wide range of high-level pathology applications. However, existing meth…

math.OC2023

Incomplete Information Linear-Quadratic Mean-Field Games and Related Riccati Equations

Min Li, Tianyang Nie, Shunjun Wang +1

We study a class of linear-quadratic mean-field games with incomplete information. For each agent, the state is given by a linear forward stochastic differential equation with comm…

cs.CV2023

Matching in the Wild: Learning Anatomical Embeddings for Multi-Modality Images

Xiaoyu Bai, Fan Bai, Xiaofei Huo +10

Radiotherapists require accurate registration of MR/CT images to effectively use information from both modalities. In a typical registration pipeline, rigid or affine transformatio…

cs.CV2021

Learning from Subjective Ratings Using Auto-Decoded Deep Latent Embeddings

Bowen Li, Xinping Ren, Ke Yan +6

Depending on the application, radiological diagnoses can be associated with high inter- and intra-rater variabilities. Most computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) solutions treat such data…

cs.CV2020

Deep Volumetric Universal Lesion Detection using Light-Weight Pseudo 3D Convolution and Surface Point Regression

Jinzheng Cai, Ke Yan, Chi-Tung Cheng +4

Identifying, measuring and reporting lesions accurately and comprehensively from patient CT scans are important yet time-consuming procedures for physicians. Computer-aided lesion/…

cs.CV2021

Heterogeneous Relational Complement for Vehicle Re-identification

Jiajian Zhao, Yifan Zhao, Jia Li +2

The crucial problem in vehicle re-identification is to find the same vehicle identity when reviewing this object from cross-view cameras, which sets a higher demand for learning vi…

cs.CV2024

SAME++: A Self-supervised Anatomical eMbeddings Enhanced medical image registration framework using stable sampling and regularized transformation

Lin Tian, Zi Li, Fengze Liu +7

Image registration is a fundamental medical image analysis task. Ideally, registration should focus on aligning semantically corresponding voxels, i.e., the same anatomical locatio…

cs.CV2023

Anatomy-Aware Lymph Node Detection in Chest CT using Implicit Station Stratification

Ke Yan, Dakai Jin, Dazhou Guo +5

Finding abnormal lymph nodes in radiological images is highly important for various medical tasks such as cancer metastasis staging and radiotherapy planning. Lymph nodes (LNs) are…

cs.CV2023

Anatomical Invariance Modeling and Semantic Alignment for Self-supervised Learning in 3D Medical Image Analysis

Yankai Jiang, Mingze Sun, Heng Guo +4

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently achieved promising performance for 3D medical image analysis tasks. Most current methods follow existing SSL paradigm originally designe…

cs.CV2021

Sequential Learning on Liver Tumor Boundary Semantics and Prognostic Biomarker Mining

Jieneng Chen, Ke Yan, Yu-Dong Zhang +9

The boundary of tumors (hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC) contains rich semantics: capsular invasion, visibility, smoothness, folding and protuberance, etc. Capsular invasion on tu…

cs.CV2020

CFAD: Coarse-to-Fine Action Detector for Spatiotemporal Action Localization

Yuxi Li, Weiyao Lin, John See +4

Most current pipelines for spatio-temporal action localization connect frame-wise or clip-wise detection results to generate action proposals, where only local information is explo…

cs.CV2020

Lymph Node Gross Tumor Volume Detection in Oncology Imaging via Relationship Learning Using Graph Neural Network

Chun-Hung Chao, Zhuotun Zhu, Dazhou Guo +10

Determining the spread of GTV is essential in defining the respective resection or irradiating regions for the downstream workflows of surgical resection and radiotherapy fo…

cs.CV2019

Fine-grained lesion annotation in CT images with knowledge mined from radiology reports

Ke Yan, Yifan Peng, Zhiyong Lu +1

In radiologists' routine work, one major task is to read a medical image, e.g., a CT scan, find significant lesions, and write sentences in the radiology report to describe them. I…

cs.CV2021

Discriminator-Free Generative Adversarial Attack

Shaohao Lu, Yuqiao Xian, Ke Yan +5

The Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable toadversarial exam-ples(Figure 1), making the DNNs-based systems collapsed byadding the inconspicuous perturbations to the images. Most of t…

cs.CV2018

Unsupervised Body Part Regression via Spatially Self-ordering Convolutional Neural Networks

Ke Yan, Le Lu, Ronald M. Summers

Automatic body part recognition for CT slices can benefit various medical image applications. Recent deep learning methods demonstrate promising performance, with the requirement o…

cs.LG2025

ITPP: Learning Disentangled Event Dynamics in Marked Temporal Point Processes

Wang-Tao Zhou, Zhao Kang, Ke Yan +1

Marked Temporal Point Processes (MTPPs) provide a principled framework for modeling asynchronous event sequences by conditioning on the history of past events. However, most existi…

eess.IV2023

A Cascaded Approach for ultraly High Performance Lesion Detection and False Positive Removal in Liver CT Scans

Fakai Wang, Chi-Tung Cheng, Chien-Wei Peng +5

Liver cancer has high morbidity and mortality rates in the world. Multi-phase CT is a main medical imaging modality for detecting/identifying and diagnosing liver tumors. Automatic…

cs.CV2025

Vision-Language Models for Automated 3D PET/CT Report Generation

Wenpei Jiao, Kun Shang, Hui Li +8

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is essential in oncology, yet the rapid expansion of scanners has outpaced the availability of trained specialists, making…

eess.IV2021

SAME: Deformable Image Registration based on Self-supervised Anatomical Embeddings

Fengze Liu, Ke Yan, Adam Harrison +8

In this work, we introduce a fast and accurate method for unsupervised 3D medical image registration. This work is built on top of a recent algorithm SAM, which is capable of compu…

cs.LG2021

Distilling Self-Knowledge From Contrastive Links to Classify Graph Nodes Without Passing Messages

Yi Luo, Aiguo Chen, Ke Yan +1

Nowadays, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) following the Message Passing paradigm become the dominant way to learn on graphic data. Models in this paradigm have to spend extra space to…

eess.IV2025

HarmonySeg: Tubular Structure Segmentation with Deep-Shallow Feature Fusion and Growth-Suppression Balanced Loss

Yi Huang, Ke Zhang, Wei Liu +6

Accurate segmentation of tubular structures in medical images, such as vessels and airway trees, is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, radiotherapy, and surgical planning. Howev…

cs.CV2020

Lesion Harvester: Iteratively Mining Unlabeled Lesions and Hard-Negative Examples at Scale

Jinzheng Cai, Adam P. Harrison, Youjing Zheng +5

Acquiring large-scale medical image data, necessary for training machine learning algorithms, is frequently intractable, due to prohibitive expert-driven annotation costs. Recent d…

cs.CV2024

Model-agnostic explainable artificial intelligence for object detection in image data

Milad Moradi, Ke Yan, David Colwell +2

In recent years, deep neural networks have been widely used for building high-performance Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for computer vision applications. Object detection is…

physics.app-ph2019

Integrating high-quality dielectrics with one-nanometer equivalent oxide thickness on two-dimensional electronic devices

Weisheng Li, Jian Zhou, Songhua Cai +21

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are widely recognized as attractive channel materials for low-power electronics. However, an unresolved challenge is the integration of high-qua…

cs.CV2026

TARDis: Time Attenuated Representation Disentanglement for Incomplete Multi-Modal Tumor Segmentation and Classification

Zishuo Wan, Qinqin Kang, Na Li +6

The accurate diagnosis and segmentation of tumors in contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) are fundamentally driven by the distinctive hemodynamic profiles of contrast agents…

cs.SE2026

An empirical study of LoRA-based fine-tuning of large language models for automated test case generation

Milad Moradi, Ke Yan, David Colwell +1

Automated test case generation from natural language requirements remains a challenging problem in software engineering due to the ambiguity of requirements and the need to produce…

cs.CR2024

Image steganography based on generative implicit neural representation

Zhong Yangjie, Liu Jia, Ke Yan +1

In the realm of advanced steganography, the scale of the model typically correlates directly with the resolution of the fundamental grid, necessitating the training of a distinct n…

eess.IV2024

End-to-end Multi-source Visual Prompt Tuning for Survival Analysis in Whole Slide Images

Zhongwei Qiu, Hanqing Chao, Wenbin Liu +6

Survival analysis using pathology images poses a considerable challenge, as it requires the localization of relevant information from the multitude of tiles within whole slide imag…

cs.CV2025

Effective Lymph Nodes Detection in CT Scans Using Location Debiased Query Selection and Contrastive Query Representation in Transformer

Yirui Wang, Qinji Yu, Ke Yan +9

Lymph node (LN) assessment is a critical, indispensable yet very challenging task in the routine clinical workflow of radiology and oncology. Accurate LN analysis is essential for…

cs.CV2025

Towards Rationale-Answer Alignment of LVLMs via Self-Rationale Calibration

Yuanchen Wu, Ke Yan, Shouhong Ding +2

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have manifested strong visual question answering capability. However, they still struggle with aligning the rationale and the generated answer,…

cs.CV2025

ToVE: Efficient Vision-Language Learning via Knowledge Transfer from Vision Experts

Yuanchen Wu, Junlong Du, Ke Yan +2

Vision-language (VL) learning requires extensive visual perception capabilities, such as fine-grained object recognition and spatial perception. Recent works typically rely on trai…

cs.CV2017

Learning a Repression Network for Precise Vehicle Search

Qiantong Xu, Ke Yan, Yonghong Tian

The growing explosion in the use of surveillance cameras in public security highlights the importance of vehicle search from large-scale image databases. Precise vehicle search, ai…

cs.CL2019

A self-attention based deep learning method for lesion attribute detection from CT reports

Yifan Peng, Ke Yan, Veit Sandfort +2

In radiology, radiologists not only detect lesions from the medical image, but also describe them with various attributes such as their type, location, size, shape, and intensity.…

cs.CV2024

From Pixels to Gigapixels: Bridging Local Inductive Bias and Long-Range Dependencies with Pixel-Mamba

Zhongwei Qiu, Hanqing Chao, Tiancheng Lin +12

Histopathology plays a critical role in medical diagnostics, with whole slide images (WSIs) offering valuable insights that directly influence clinical decision-making. However, th…

cs.CV2024

LIDIA: Precise Liver Tumor Diagnosis on Multi-Phase Contrast-Enhanced CT via Iterative Fusion and Asymmetric Contrastive Learning

Wei Huang, Wei Liu, Xiaoming Zhang +9

The early detection and precise diagnosis of liver tumors are tasks of critical clinical value, yet they pose significant challenges due to the high heterogeneity and variability o…

eess.IV2024

Improved Esophageal Varices Assessment from Non-Contrast CT Scans

Chunli Li, Xiaoming Zhang, Yuan Gao +5

Esophageal varices (EV), a serious health concern resulting from portal hypertension, are traditionally diagnosed through invasive endoscopic procedures. Despite non-contrast compu…

cs.CV2025

Non-Contrast CT Esophageal Varices Grading through Clinical Prior-Enhanced Multi-Organ Analysis

Xiaoming Zhang, Chunli Li, Jiacheng Hao +9

Esophageal varices (EV) represent a critical complication of portal hypertension, affecting approximately 60% of cirrhosis patients with a significant bleeding risk of ~30%. While…

cs.CV2024

Anchor-based Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language Models

Jinwei Han, Zhiwen Lin, Zhongyisun Sun +5

We aim at finetuning a vision-language model without hurting its out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. We address two types of OOD generalization, i.e., i) domain shift such as…

cs.CV2023

Few-Shot Object Detection via Variational Feature Aggregation

Jiaming Han, Yuqiang Ren, Jian Ding +2

As few-shot object detectors are often trained with abundant base samples and fine-tuned on few-shot novel examples,the learned models are usually biased to base classes and sensit…

eess.IV2025

A Continual Learning-driven Model for Accurate and Generalizable Segmentation of Clinically Comprehensive and Fine-grained Whole-body Anatomies in CT

Dazhou Guo, Zhanghexuan Ji, Yanzhou Su +31

Precision medicine in the quantitative management of chronic diseases and oncology would be greatly improved if the Computed Tomography (CT) scan of any patient could be segmented,…

cs.CV2023

HODN: Disentangling Human-Object Feature for HOI Detection

Shuman Fang, Zhiwen Lin, Ke Yan +3

The task of Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is to detect humans and their interactions with surrounding objects, where transformer-based methods show dominant advances cur…