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I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) 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.

I am looking for self-motivated Ph. D. students. If you are interested in working with me, please email me 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

News:

June 2025, call for papers, our special issue is now online : Frontiers in Medicine Special Issue on Fostering Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging.
June 2025, after the rebuttal, we have three more papers accepted by MICCAI2025 this year, which results in 7 papers in total acceptance out of 8 submissions !
May 2025, the paper 'Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy in Rare and Common Fundus Diseases with a Knowledge-Rich Vision-Language Model' was accepted by Nature Communications.
May 2025, One paper, 'Health-LLM: Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Disease Prediction System' is accepted by 4th workshop on NLP for Postive Impact, which will be held in ACL2025 in Vienna.
May 2025, Happy to be invited as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Medicine (Ophthalmology)
May 2025, Our Workshop on Synergizing Multi-modal Agents and Large Foundation Models for Bioinformatics and Biomedicine is accepted by IEEE BIBM 2025.
May 2025, Happy to share that four papers have been early accepted by MICCAI 2025 !
Apr 2025, Deligated to join the Program Committee board of IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026), which will be held in London, UK, April 8-11, 2026.
Mar 2025, One paper, 'Are Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Networks for Human Action Recognition Over-Parameterized?' is accepted by CVPR2025.
Feb 2025, Acceptance of a UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI (£45,000 external), partly funded by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust Foundation; the student is expected to start in Autumn 2025.

Jan 2025, I will be serving as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2025, which will be held in South Korean DAEJEON.
Jan 2025, One Mathematics special issue that I am serving as the guest editor is now available to submit, Application of Computational Intelligence and Mathematical Methods to Medical Image Analysis, deadline 30th Sep 2025.
Jan 2025, One EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (EPSRC DLA) 3.5-year PhD studentship at the UK/international tuition fee and UKRI stipend rate are available in my group. The application deadline is 9th Feb 2025. link.
Jan 2025, One Frontiers in Medicine (Ophthalmology) special issue that I am serving as the guest editor is now available to submit, Efficient Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmic Imaging – Volume II, deadline 21st June 2025.
Jan 2025, One IEEE-JBHI special issue that I am serving as the guest editor is now available to submit, Synergizing Multi-modal Agents and Large Foundation Models for Healthcare, deadline 31st May 2025.

Dec 2024, One paper, ‘Incomplete Modality Disentangled Representation for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis’, is accepted by the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) project link.
Dec 2024, Acceptance of two UK-rate PhD studentshipn as PI (£55,000 external and 95,000 external).
Dec 2024, Acceptance of the Royal Society International Exchanges Grant with NSFC as PI (£12,000 external): Intracranial aneurysm reconstruction and segmentation for personalised surgery plan. link

Nov 2024, One paper, 'Exploring Concept Depth: How Large Language Models Acquire Knowledge at Different Layers?' is accepted by the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

Nov 2024, One paper, 'Dynamic Semantic-based Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution Network for Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition' is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE-TIP)
Nov 2024, One paper, 'Randomness-restricted Diffusion Model for Ocular Surface Structure Segmentation,' is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI).
I am recognized as an IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer Bronze Level 2023 – 2024.
Oct 2024, One paper, 'Clinical Insight-Augmented Multi-View Learning for Alzheimer's Detection in Retinal OCTA Images,' is accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2024).
Sep 2024, One paper, 'MR2 -Net: Retinal OCTA Image Stitching via Multi-Scale Representation Learning and Dynamic Location Guidance', is accepted by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE-JBHI).
July 2024, One industry-funded 3-year PhD studentship at the UK tuition fee and UKRI stipend rate is available in my group. The application deadline is 25th Aug 2024. link.
July 2024, One paper, ‘Artificial intelligence – based classification of cardiac autonomic neuropathy from retinal fundus images in patients with diabetes - The Silesia Diabetes Heart Study’ is accepted by Cardiovascular Diabetology.
July 2024, Acceptance of a UK-rate full PhD studentship as PI (£45,000 external), partly funded by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust Foundation and Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science; the student is expected to start in January 2025.
June 2024, One paper, ‘AI-Driven Generalised Polynomial Transformation Models for Unsupervised Fundus Image Registration,’ is accepted by Frontiers in Medicine, section Ophthalmology.
June 2024, Two papers were accepted by MICCAI2024, ‘CLIP-DR: Textual Knowledge-Guided Diabetic Retinopathy Grading with Ranking-aware Prompting’ and ‘Multi-disease Detection in Retinal Images Guided by Disease Causal Estimation’.
May 2024, One paper, ‘Self-Guided Adversarial Network for Domain Adaptive Retinal Layer Segmentation,’ is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (IEEE-TIM).
May 2024, Acceptance of 2024 SeedCorn Fund of Health Technologies@Exeter as PI (£2,500).
May 2024, One paper, ‘The impact of reasoning step length on large language models’, is accepted by ACL 2024 as Findings; congrats to Mingyu and Qinkai as their first-author publications!
April 2024, One industry-funded 3.5-year PhD studentship at the UK tuition fee and UKRI stipend rate is available in my group. The deadline to apply is 15th May 2024. link.
April 2024, One paper, ‘Multi-granularity learning of explicit geometric constraint and contrast for label-efficient medical image segmentation and differentiable clinical function assessment’, is accepted by Medical Image Analysis.
April 2024, Acceptance of an international full PhD studentship as PI (£45,000 external), partly funded by Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science. The student is expected to start in September 2024.

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