Dr Yanda Meng
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision (Medical Image Analysis)
(Streatham) 3664
01392 723664
Overview
I am a Lecturer at the University of Exeter, Computer Science Department. I am now also an Honorary Lecturer at the Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine Department, University of Liverpool.
I did my PhD with Prof Yalin Zheng and Prof Xiaowei Huang at the Eye and Vision Science Department at the University of Liverpool, with a short-term research visit to Prof Jens Rittscher's group at the Biomedical Engineering Institute, University of Oxford. Then, I did a post-doc with Prof Yalin Zheng and Dr Nicholas AV Beare in Liverpool on a Wellcome Trust-funded AI-assisted OCT device for cerebral malaria disease diagnosis and prognosis. I work closely with Dr Alam Uazman on CCM image-based diabetes neuropathy diagnosis and Prof Gregory Lip on cardiovascular diseases early detection.
My current reserch interest mainly focuses on:- Medical Image Analysis (Cardiovascular, Neurodegenerative, Diabetes, Ophthalmology, etc.) - CT, cMRI, Ultrasound, X-ray, OCT, Colour Fundus, etc.
- Vision Foundation Models, Multi-modality Models (LLM + Vision)
- Data-Efficient Deep Learning (Semi/Weakly)
- Trustworthy AI (Uncertainty Quantification, Federate Learning)
- Geometric Deep Learning (Graph Neural Network)
Publication (See my google scholar for more details):
I have published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and first-authored more than 10 publications at prestigious journals/conferences, selected publications (* means equal contribution, † means corresponding author):- Yanda Meng, et al. Multi-Granularity Learning of Explicit Geometric Constraint and Contrast for Label-Efficient Medical Image Segmentation and Differentiable Clinical Function Assessment. Medical Image Analysis.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Bilateral Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network on CT based COVID-19 Diagnosis with Uncertainty-Aware Consensus-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning. Medical Image Analysis.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Dual Consistency Enabled Weakly and Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Dual Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Graph-based Region and Boundary Aggregation for Biomedical Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
- Frank G Preston*, Yanda Meng*, et al. Artificial intelligence utilising corneal confocal microscopy for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in diabetes mellitus and prediabetes. Diabetologia (front cover).
- Yanda Meng, et al. Transportation Object Counting with Graph-Based Adaptive Auxiliary Learning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Artificial Intelligence Based Analysis of Corneal Confocal Microscopy Images for Diagnosing Peripheral Neurapathy: A Binary Classification Model. Journal of Clinical Medicine.
- Alastair Patefield*, Yanda Meng*, et al. Deep-Learning using preoperative AS-OCT predicts graft detachmeng in DMEK. Translational Vision Science and Technology.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Spatial Uncertainty-Aware Semi-Supervised Crowd Counting. ICCV 2021.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Regression of Instance Boundary by Aggregated CNN and GCN. ECCV 2020.
- Yanda Meng, et al. CNN-GCN Aggregation Enabled Boundary Regression for Biomedical Image Segmentation. MICCAI 2020 (early accept).
- Yanda Meng, et al. Shape-Aware Weakly/Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Regional/Marginal Consistency. MICCAI 2022 (early accept).
- Yanda Meng, et al. BI-GCN: Boundary-Aware Input-Dependent Graph Convolution Network for Biomedical Image Segmentation. BMVC 2021 (oral).
- Yanda Meng, et al. Weakly/Semi-supervised Left Ventricle Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography with Uncertain Region-aware Contrastive Learning. PRCV 2023.
- Yanda Meng, et al. Diagnosis of Diabetic Neuropathy by Artificial Intelligence using Corneal Confocal Microscopy. EAsDEC 2022
- Jianyang Xie, Yanda Meng†, Yitian Zhao, Anh Nguyen, Xiaoyun Yang, Yalin Zheng†. Dynamic Semantic-based Graph Convolution Network for Skeleton-based Human Action Recognotion. AAAI 2024.
Academic Services:
- Lead Guest Editor: Frontiers in Medicine Special Issue on Efficient Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Ophthalmic Imaging
- Reviewer:
Conference: ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, MICCAI, MIDL
Journal: MedIA, IEEE-TMI, IEEE-TIP, IEEE-TCSVT, IEEE-JBHI, Medical Physics, Frontier in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Computers in Biology and Medicine, etc.
Talks:
- Feb 2024, I gave a talk to the CS seminar, Computer Science department, University of Exeter. Thanks for the invitation.
- Feb, 2024, I gave a talk to the Medical Imaging Centre, Department of Health and Care Progessions, University of Exeter. Thanks for the invitation.
- Nov, 2023, I gave a talk at the 6th Belt and Road Forum (一带一路) for Young World Scholars at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thanks for Prof. Yitian Zhao’s invitation.
- May, 2023, I gave a talk at the 1st AI in Healthcare Workshop at the University of Portsmouth, School of Computing. Thanks for Dr. Dongxu Gao’s invitation.
- Nov, 2022, I gave a talk at the 2nd Dushu (独墅) Youth Academic Forum at Suzhou Institute For Advanced Research, The University of Science and Technology of China. Thanks for Prof. S.Kevin Zhou’s invitation.
- Sep, 2022, I gave a talk at the 5th Belt and Road Forum (一带一路) for Young World Scholars at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thanks for Prof. Yitian Zhao’s invitation.
- Nov, 2021, I gave an oral talk at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2021), with title ‘BI-GCN: Boundary-Aware Input-Dependent Graph Convolution Network for Biomedical Image Segmentation’
I am looking for self-motivated Ph. D. students. If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email about your background (CV, transcripts, etc..)
Some useful links: (1) EPSRC PhD Studentships; (2) Centre for Doctoral Training in Enviornmental Intelligence; (3) China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships
Publications
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2024
- Jin M, Yu Q, Huang J, Zeng Q, Wang Z, Hua W, Zhao H, Mei K, Meng Y, Ding K. (2024) Exploring Concept Depth: How Large Language Models Acquire Knowledge at Different Layers?. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Zhang Y, Xie J, Duan J, Zhao Y, Zheng Y. (2024) Weakly/Semi-supervised Left Ventricle Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography with Uncertain Region-Aware Contrastive Learning, PATTERN RECOGNITION AND COMPUTER VISION, PRCV 2023, PT XIII, volume 14437, pages 98-109, DOI:10.1007/978-981-99-8558-6_9. [PDF]
- Jin M, Yu Q, Shu D, Zhang C, Fan L, Hua W, Zhu S, Meng Y, Wang Z, Du M. (2024) Health-LLM: Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Disease Prediction System. [PDF]
- Jin M, Yu Q, Shu D, Zhao H, Hua W, Meng Y, Zhang Y, Du M. (2024) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models. [PDF]
2023
- Zhang H, Meng Y, Zhao Y, Qian X, Qiao Y, Yang X, Zheng Y. (2023) 3D Human Pose and Shape Reconstruction From Videos via Confidence-Aware Temporal Feature Aggregation, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, volume 25, pages 3868-3880, DOI:10.1109/tmm.2022.3167887. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Bridge J, Zhao Y, Joddrell M, Qiao Y, Yang X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2023) Transportation Object Counting With Graph-Based Adaptive Auxiliary Learning, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, volume 24, no. 3, pages 3422-3437, DOI:10.1109/TITS.2022.3226504. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Bridge J, Addison C, Wang M, Merritt C, Franks S, Mackey M, Messenger S, Sun R, Fitzmaurice T. (2023) Bilateral adaptive graph convolutional network on CT based Covid-19 diagnosis with uncertainty-aware consensus-assisted multiple instance learning, MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS, volume 84, article no. ARTN 102722, DOI:10.1016/j.media.2022.102722. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Gao D, Hamill B, Patri G, Peto T, Madhusudhan S, Zheng Y. (2023) Dual Consistency Enabled Weakly and Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation With Dual Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, volume 42, no. 2, pages 416-429, DOI:10.1109/TMI.2022.3203318. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Preston FG, Ferdousi M, Azmi S, Petropoulos IN, Kaye S, Malik RA, Alam U, Zheng Y. (2023) Artificial Intelligence Based Analysis of Corneal Confocal Microscopy Images for Diagnosing Peripheral Neuropathy: A Binary Classification Model, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, volume 12, no. 4, article no. ARTN 1284, DOI:10.3390/jcm12041284. [PDF]
- Wilson KJ, Dhalla A, Meng Y, Tu Z, Zheng Y, Mhango P, Seydel KB, Beare NAV. (2023) Retinal imaging technologies in cerebral malaria: a systematic review, MALARIA JOURNAL, volume 22, no. 1, article no. ARTN 139, DOI:10.1186/s12936-023-04566-7. [PDF]
- Patefield A, Meng Y, Airaldi M, Coco G, Vaccaro S, Parekh M, Semeraro F, Gadhvi KA, Kaye SB, Zheng Y. (2023) Deep Learning Using Preoperative AS-OCT Predicts Graft Detachment in DMEK, TRANSLATIONAL VISION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, volume 12, no. 5, article no. ARTN 14, DOI:10.1167/tvst.12.5.14. [PDF]
- Zhang H, Burrows L, Meng Y, Sculthorpe D, Mukherjee A, Coupland SE, Chen K, Zheng Y. (2023) Weakly supervised segmentation with point annotations for histopathology images via contrast-based variational model, 2023 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR), pages 15630-15640, DOI:10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01500. [PDF]
- Bridge J, Meng Y, Zhu W, Fitzmaurice T, Mccann C, Addison C, Wang M, Merritt C, Franks S, Mackey M. (2023) Development and external validation of a mixed-effects deep learning model to diagnose COVID-19 from CT imaging, FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE, volume 10, article no. ARTN 1113030, DOI:10.3389/fmed.2023.1113030. [PDF]
- Zhang Y, Meng Y, Zheng Y. (2023) Automatically Segment the Left Atrium and Scars from LGE-MRIs Using a Boundary-focused nnU-Net. [PDF]
- Zhang H, Burrows L, Meng Y, Sculthorpe D, Mukherjee A, Coupland SE, Chen K, Zheng Y. (2023) Weakly supervised segmentation with point annotations for histopathology images via contrast-based variational model. [PDF]
2022
- Preston FG, Meng Y, Burgess J, Ferdousi M, Azmi S, Petropoulos IN, Kaye S, Malik RA, Zheng Y, Alam U. (2022) Artificial intelligence utilising corneal confocal microscopy for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in diabetes mellitus and prediabetes, DIABETOLOGIA, volume 65, no. 3, pages 457-466, DOI:10.1007/s00125-021-05617-x. [PDF]
- Preston FG, Meng Y, Zheng Y, Hsuan J, Hamill KJ, McCormick AG. (2022) Informed Consent In Facial Photograph Publishing: A Cross-sectional Pilot Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of Deidentification Methods, JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON HUMAN RESEARCH ETHICS, volume 17, no. 3, pages 373-381, article no. ARTN 15562646221075459, DOI:10.1177/15562646221075459. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Yang X, Qiao Y, MacCormick IJC, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2022) Graph-Based Region and Boundary Aggregation for Biomedical Image Segmentation, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, volume 41, no. 3, pages 690-701, DOI:10.1109/TMI.2021.3123567. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Chen X, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Gao D, Hamill B, Patri G, Peto T, Madhusudhan S, Zheng Y. (2022) Shape-Aware Weakly/Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Regional/Marginal Consistency, MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION, MICCAI 2022, PT IV, volume 13434, pages 524-534, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-16440-8_50. [PDF]
- Alam U, Anson M, Meng Y, Preston F, Kirthi V, Jackson TL, Nderitu P, Cuthbertson DJ, Malik RA, Zheng Y. (2022) Artificial Intelligence and Corneal Confocal Microscopy: The Start of a Beautiful Relationship, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, volume 11, no. 20, article no. ARTN 6199, DOI:10.3390/jcm11206199. [PDF]
- Zhang H, Meng Y, Zhao Y, Qiao Y, Yang X, Coupland SE, Zheng Y. (2022) DTFD-MIL: Double-Tier Feature Distillation Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Classification, 2022 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2022), pages 18780-18790, DOI:10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01824. [PDF]
- Zhang H, Meng Y, Zhao Y, Qiao Y, Yang X, Coupland SE, Zheng Y. (2022) DTFD-MIL: Double-Tier Feature Distillation Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Classification. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Chen X, Gao D, Zhao Y, Yang X, Qiao Y, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2022) 3D Dense Face Alignment with Fused Features by Aggregating CNNs and GCNs. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Bridge J, Wei M, Zhao Y, Qiao Y, Yang X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2022) Counting with Adaptive Auxiliary Learning. [PDF]
2021
- Meng Y, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Yang X, Qian X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2021) Spatial Uncertainty-Aware Semi-Supervised Crowd Counting, 2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION (ICCV 2021), pages 15529-15539, DOI:10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.01526. [PDF]
- Chen X, Meng Y, Zhao Y, Williams R, Vallabhaneni SR, Zheng Y. (2021) Learning Unsupervised Parameter-Specific Affine Transformation for Medical Images Registration, MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2021, PT IV, volume 12904, pages 24-34, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-87202-1_3. [PDF]
- Deng K, Meng Y, Gao D, Bridge J, Shen Y, Lip G, Zhao Y, Zheng Y. (2021) TransBridge: A Lightweight Transformer for Left Ventricle Segmentation in Echocardiography, SIMPLIFYING MEDICAL ULTRASOUND, volume 12967, pages 63-72, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-87583-1_7. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Zhang H, Gao D, Zhao Y, Yang X, Qian X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2021) BI-GCN: Boundary-Aware Input-Dependent Graph Convolution Network for Biomedical Image Segmentation. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Yang X, Qian X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2021) Spatial Uncertainty-Aware Semi-Supervised Crowd Counting. [PDF]
2020
- Meng Y, Meng W, Gao D, Zhao Y, Yang X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2020) Regression of Instance Boundary by Aggregated CNN and GCN, Computer Vision – ECCV 2020, Springer International Publishing, 190-207, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-58598-3_12. [PDF]
- Meng Y, Wei M, Gao D, Zhao Y, Yang X, Huang X, Zheng Y. (2020) CNN-GCN Aggregation Enabled Boundary Regression for Biomedical Image Segmentation, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020, Springer International Publishing, 352-362, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-59719-1_35. [PDF]
- Bridge J, Meng Y, Zhao Y, Du Y, Zhao M, Sun R, Zheng Y. (2020) Introducing the GEV Activation Function for Highly Unbalanced Data to Develop COVID-19 Diagnostic Models, IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS, volume 24, no. 10, pages 2776-2786, DOI:10.1109/JBHI.2020.3012383. [PDF]