Name: Zengqiang Yan

Academic Title: Associate Professor

Email: z_yan@hust.edu.cn

Research Interests:

Deep learning: domain adaptation, federated learning

Medical imaging: retinal vessel segmentation, gland instance segmentation, prostate cancer detection

Education:

2016.09-2020.08    

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Supervisor: Prof. Tim Cheng, IEEE Fellow

2013.09-2016.06    

M.S. in Information Engineering

Huazhong University of Science and Technology Supervisor: Prof. Li Yu

2009.09-2013.06    

B.S. in Information Engineering

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Employment and Working Experience:

2020.09 - 2021.09    

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

2015.06 - 2015.12     Intern

Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing Mentor: Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi, IEEE Fellow

Accomplishment: Project selected to Microsoft TechFest 2016

2014.12 - 2015.04     Visiting Student

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX Advisor: Prof. Zixiang Xiong, IEEE Fellow

Accomplishment: Paper awarded IEEE MMSP 2015 Top 10% Paper Award

Selected Publications:

1. 2020     Z. Yan, J. Wicaksana, Z. Wang, X. Yang, and K. -T. Cheng. "Variation-Aware Federated Learning with Multi-Source Decentralized Medical Image Data." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, in press.

2. 2020     Z. Yan, X. Yang, and K. -T. Cheng. "Enabling a Single Deep Learning Model for Accurate Gland Instance Segmentation: A Shape-Aware Adversarial Learning Framework." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 39 (6), 2176-2189, 2020.

3. 2019     Z. Yan, X. Yang, and K. -T. Cheng. "A Three-Stage Deep Learning Model for Accurate Retinal Vessel Segmentation." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23 (4), 1427-1436, 2019. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

4. 2018     Z. Yan, X. Yang, and K. -T. Cheng. "Joint Segment-Level and Pixel-Wise Losses for Deep Learning based Retinal Vessel Segmentation." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 65 (9), 1912-1923, 2018. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

5. 2018 Z. Yan, X. Yang, and K. -T. Cheng. "A Skeletal Similarity Metric for Quality Evaluation of Vessel Segmentation." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 37 (4), 1045-1057, 2018.

Conference Proceedings

1. 2018     Z. Yan, X. Yang, and K. -T. Cheng. "A Deep Model with Shape-Preserving Loss for Gland Instance Segmentation." International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 138-146, 2018.

2. 2021     Shichao Li, Z. Yan, Hongyang Li, and K. -T. Cheng. "Exploring Intermediate Representation for Monocular Vehicle Pose Estimation." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.

Awards and Honors

2015 Top 10% Paper Award, IEEE MMSP

2015  Travel Award, IEEE ICIP

Service

Academic Journal Peer Review

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Academic Conference Peer Review

MICCAI