[Dec 2025] Two papers Co-Seg++ and UniUltra have been accepted by TMI and TMM. Congrats to Qing and Yue!

[Dec 2025] Honored to receive IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Distinguished Reviewer Award for the third consecutive year

[Nov 2025] Our paper Light-UNETR has been accepted by TPAMI. Congrats to Xinyu!

[Jun 2025] Two papers Co-Seg and PRO-VPT have been accepted by MICCAI 2025 and ICCV 2025. Congrats to Qing and co-authors!

[Apr 2025] Our paper UN-SAM has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Jan 2025] Three papers SurgPLAN++, Polyp-Gen and Endo-2DTAM have been accepted by ​ICRA 2025

[Jan 2025] Our paper Long-tailed Medical Diagnosis has been accepted by Computers in Biology and Medicine

[Jan 2025] Invited to serve as Mentor of MICCAI 2025 Young Researcher Excellence Training Program

[Jan 2025] Invited to serve as Area Chair of MICCAI 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea

[Dec 2024] Our paper FedRVR: “Relation-Guided Versatile Regularization for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning” has been accepted by ​International Journal of Computer Vision

[Dec 2024] Two papers Dual Probabilistic Alignment for UniDAOD and U-KAN have been accepted by ​AAAI 2025

[Dec 2024] Our paper MedCon: “Exploring Contrastive Pre-training for Domain Connections in Medical Image Segmentation” has been accepted by ​IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

[Nov 2024] I moved to Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University

[Oct 2024] Our MICCAI 2024 Workshop on Embodied AI and Robotics for HealTHcare (EARTH) was held successfully at Marrakesh, Morocco. Great honor to have Prof. Nassir Navab and Prof. Nicolas Padoy as keynote speakers

[Oct 2024] Two papers Surgery Copilot and FedDCM have been accepted by IEEE Big Data 2024

[Sep 2024] Our paper “Flaws can be Applause: Unleashing Potential of Segmenting Ambiguous Objects in SAM” has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024

[Jun 2024] Two papers Surgical Function-calling and Focus on Focus have been accepted by BIBM 2024

[Jun 2024] Our paper “ASI-Seg: Audio-Driven Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Surgeon Intention Understanding” has been accepted by IROS 2024 as Oral

[Jun 2024] Five more papers EmbodiedUS, PANS, Endora, EndoUIC and FSMNet have been accepted by MICCAI 2024

[May 2024] Our paper “Mask-Aware Transformer with Structure Invariant Loss for CT Translation” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[May 2024] Our paper UGA: “Domain Adaptive Thermal Object Detection with Unbiased Granularity Alignment” has been accepted by TOMM

[May 2024] Our ICRA 2024 Workshop on C4 Surgical Robotic Systems in the Embodied AI Era (C4SR+) was held successfully at Yokohama, Japan

[May 2024] Our paper “MOST: Multi-Formation Soft Masking for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation” has been early accepted by MICCAI 2024

[Jan 2024] Invited to serve as Area Chair of MICCAI 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

[Dec 2023] I honorably won Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2023, as the only awardee in the engineering field of Hong Kong

[Oct 2023] Our paper STAR-Net: “Surgical Temporal Action-aware Network with Sequence Regularization for Phase Recognition” has been accepted by BIBM 2023

[Oct 2023] Our paper “Comprehensive Learning and Adaptive Teaching: Distilling Multi-Modal Knowledge for Pathological Glioma Grading” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Sep 2023] Our paper FedGP: “Medical Federated Learning with Joint Graph Purification for Noisy Label Learning” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Aug 2023] Our IJCAI 2023 Symposium on Medical Large Models was held successfully at Macao

[Jul 2023] Our paper GFBS: “Generalized Gradient Flow Based Saliency for Pruning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks” has been accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision

[Jun 2023] Our paper “Gradient and Feature Conformity-Steered Medical Image Classification with Noisy Labels” has been accepted by MICCAI 2023

[Jun 2023] Our paper “Gradient Modulated Contrastive Distillation of Low-Rank Multi-Modal Knowledge for Disease Diagnosis” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[May 2023] Two papers SurgCA-Net: “Surgical Video Captioning with Mutual-Modal Concept Alignment” and “Combat Long-tails in Medical Classification with Relation-aware Consistency and Virtual Features Compensation” have been early accepted by MICCAI 2023

[Nov 2022] Our paper “Hierarchical Bias Mitigation for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Classification” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

[Nov 2022] Our paper “FedDM: Federated Weakly Supervised Segmentation via Annotation Calibration and Gradient De-conflicting” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

[Oct 2022] I joined CAIR, HKISI-CAS as an Assistant Professor

[Sep 2022] Our paper “Discrepancy and Gradient-guided Multi-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Pathological Glioma Grading” won MICCAI Society Young Scientist Award 2022

[May 2022] Our paper Fed-PRR: “Personalized Retrogress-Resilient Federated Learning Towards Imbalanced Medical Data” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

[May 2022] Two papers Discrepancy and Gradient-guided Distillation and TEAR have been accepted by MICCAI 2022. Congrats to Xiaohan and Qiushi!

[Apr 2022] Our paper “Source Free Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation with Fourier Style Mining” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Mar 2022] Our paper “D2-Net: Dual Disentanglement Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Missing Modalities” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Mar 2022] Our paper I²GCN: “Instance Importance-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for 3D Medical Diagnosis” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Feb 2022] Our paper “Non-equivalent images and pixels: confidence-aware resampling with meta-learning mixup for polyp segmentation” has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis

[Jan 2022] I passed the Ph.D. oral defense