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Email: zzhou82@jh.edu

Tel: 1-(480)738-2575

URL: www.zongweiz.com

Office: 248 Malone Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Overview: Zongwei Zhou is a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University in 2021. His research focuses on developing novel methodologies to reduce the annotation efforts for computer-aided detection and diagnosis. Zongwei was the recipient of the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2022, the Elsevier-MedIA Best Paper Award in 2020, and the MICCAI Young Scientist Award in 2019. In addition to two U.S. patents, Zongwei has published over twenty peer-reviewed journal/conference articles, two of which have been ranked among the most popular articles in IEEE TMI and the highest-cited article in EJNMMI Research. He was named the top 2% of Scientists released by Stanford University in 2022. Zongwei has been elected to the Guest Editor of Sensors and J. Imaging; Reviewer of IEEE TPAMI, MedIA, Information Fusion, IEEE TMI; and he was on the Program Committee for MICCAI in 2020-22; AAAI in 2020-23; CVPR in 2022-23; ICCV in 2021, MIDL in 2022. ORCiD: 0000-0002-3154-9851

Awards and Honors

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Education

Ph.D. Aug 2017-May 2021

Arizona State University

Department: Biomedical Informatics

Thesis: Towards Annotation-Efficient Deep Learning for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award

Advisors: Dr. Jianming Liang

> View Dissertation    > View LaTeX    > View Talk    > View Slides    > View Transcript

B.S. Sep 2012-Jul 2016

Dalian University of Technology

Department: Computer Science

Thesis: Medical image classification based on deep learning
Advisor: Dr. Hongkai Wang

> View Dissertation    > View Slides

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher June 2021-present

Johns Hopkins University

Group: Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning (CCVL)

Projects: Detect signs of pancreatic cancer in CT scans earlier and with more accuracy than humans

Research Internship Jan 2018-July 2018

Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal

Group: Laboratoire clinique de traitement de l’image (LCTI)

Projects: Predictive model of colorectal cancer liver metastases response to chemotherapy

Joint collaboration: Imagia and MILA

Research Internship June 2017-Jul 2017

Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN

Group: Radiology Informatics Lab

Projects: Thyroid Ultrasound Imaging, Tumor Radiogenomics
 

Research

Book Chapters

Intelligent Systems in Medicine and Health: The Role of AI

Interpreting Medical Images

Zongwei Zhou, Michael B. Gotway, Jianming Liang*

> View Book
 

Journal Publications

Medical Image Analysis

Models Genesis

Zongwei Zhou, Vatsal Sodha, Jiaxuan Pang, Michael B. Gotway, Jianming Liang*

MedIA Best Paper Award

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides

Active, Continual Fine Tuning of Convolutional Neural Networks for Reducing Annotation Efforts

Zongwei Zhou, Jae Shin, Suryakanth Gurudu, Michael B. Gotway, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides

Transactions on Medical Imaging

Transferable Visual Words: Exploiting the Semantics of Anatomical Patterns for Self-supervised Learning

Fatemeh Haghighi, Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher, Zongwei Zhou, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code

UNet++: Redesigning Skip Connections to Exploit Multi-Resolution Features in Image Segmentation

Zongwei Zhou, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Nima Tajbakhsh, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code

Journal of Digital Imaging

Integrating Active Learning and Transfer Learning for Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Video Interpretation

Zongwei Zhou, Jae Shin, Ruibin Feng, R. Todd Hurst, Christopher B. Kendall, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication

EJNMMI Research

Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for Classifying Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastasis of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer from 18F-FDG PET/CT Images

Hongkai Wang, Zongwei Zhou, Yingci Li, Zhonghua Chen, Peiou Lu, Wenzhi Wang, Wanyu Liu, Lijuan Yu*

> View Publication

Conference Publications

MICCAI 2023

Learning without Forgetting for Continual Abdominal Multi-Organ and Tumor Segmentation

Yixiao Zhang, Xinyi Li, Huimiao Chen, Alan Yuille, Yaoyao Liu*, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

MetaLR: Meta-tuning of Learning Rates for Transfer Learning in Medical Imaging

Yixiong Chen, Li Liu, Jingxian Li, Hua Jiang, Zongwei Zhou

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

MIDL 2023

Making Your First Choice: To Address Cold Start Problem in Vision Active Learning

Liangyu Chen, Yutong Bai,  Siyu Huang, Yongyi Lu, Bihan Wen, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

CVPR 2023

Label-Free Liver Tumor Segmentation

Qixin Hu, Yixiong Chen, Junfei Xiao, Shuwen Sun, Jie-Neng Chen, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk   > View Alan's Talk
 

SQUID: Deep Feature In-Painting for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Tiange Xiang, Yixiao Zhang, Yongyi Lu, Alan Yuille, Chaoyi Zhang, Weidong Cai, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

Multispectral Video Semantic Segmentation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline

Wei Ji, Jingjing Li, Bian Cheng, Zongwei Zhou, Jiaying Zhao, Alan Yuille, Li Cheng*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

ISBI 2023

Label-Assemble: Leveraging Multiple Datasets with Partial Labels

Mintong Kang, Bowen Li, Zengle Zhu, Yongyi Lu, Elliot K. Fishman, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

ICLR 2023

Which Layer is Learning Faster? A Systematic Exploration of Layer-wise Convergence Rate for Deep Neural Networks

Yixiong Chen, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

WACV 2023

Delving into Masked Autoencoders for Multi-Label Thorax Disease Classification

Junfei Xiao, Yutong Bai, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

DART 2022

CateNorm: Categorical Normalization for Robust Medical Image Segmentation

Best Paper Award Honourable Mention
Junfei Xiao*, Lequan Yu, Zongwei Zhou, Yutong Bai, Lei Xing, Alan Yuille, Yuyin Zhou

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

CVPR 2022

Learning from Temporal Gradient for Semi-supervised Action Recognition

Junfei Xiao, Longlong Jing, Lin Zhang, Ju He, Qi She, Zongwei Zhou, Alan Yuille, Yingwei Li*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

MICCAI 2020

Learning Semantics-enriched Representation via Self-discovery, Self-classification, and Self-restoration

Fatemeh Haghighi, Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher, Zongwei Zhou, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk

ICCV 2019

Learning Fixed Points in Generative Adversarial Networks: From Image-to-Image Translation to Disease Detection and Localization

Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Zongwei Zhou, Ruibin Feng, Nima Tajbakhsh, Michael Gotway, Yoshua Bengio, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk

MICCAI 2019

Models Genesis: Generic Autodidactic Models for 3D Medical Image Analysis

Zongwei Zhou, Vatsal Sodha, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Ruibin Feng, Nima Tajbakhsh, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang*

Young Scientist Award
Young Scientist Publication Impact Award, Finalist

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DLMIA 2018

UNet++: A Nested U-Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation

Zongwei Zhou, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Nima Tajbakhsh, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk

CVPR 2017

Fine-tuning Convolutional Neural Networks for Biomedical Image Analysis: Actively and Incrementally

Zongwei Zhou, Jae Shin, Lei Zhang, Suryakanth Gurudu, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk

Preprints

Annotating 8,000 Abdominal CT Volumes for Multi-Organ Segmentation in Three Weeks

Chongyu Qu, Tiezheng Zhang, Hualin Qiao, Jie Liu, Yucheng Tang,  Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

> View Publication   > View Code   > View Slides   > View Poster   > View Talk
 

CLIP-Driven Universal Model for Organ Segmentation and Tumor Detection

Rank first in Medical Segmentation Decathlon (MSD) Competition
Jie Liu, Yixiao
Zhang, Jie-Neng Chen, Junfei Xiao, Yongyi Lu, Yixuan Yuan, Alan Yuille, Yucheng Tang*, Zongwei Zhou*

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US Patents

Methods, Systems, and Media for Discriminating and Generating Translated Images

Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Zongwei Zhou, Ruibin Feng, Nima Tajbakhsh, Jianming Liang

Granted on November 2, 2021; US Patent 11,164,021

Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Implementing a Multi-resolution Neural Network for Use with Imaging Intensive Applications Including Medical Imaging

Zongwei Zhou, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Nima Tajbakhsh, Jianming Liang

Granted on November 2, 2021; US Patent 11,164,067

Invited Talks

Invited Talks

Scaling Datasets, Annotations, and Algorithms for Medical Image Analysis

Weill Cornell Radiology July 6, 2023

> View Blog    > View Slides    > View Talk
 

How to deal with publicly available datasets?

HIT Webinar Dec 16, 2022

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How to develop a quality organization of doctoral dissertations and thesis defenses?

Seminar at University of Missouri-Columbia Dec 8, 2022

> View Blog    > View Slides    > View Talk
 

Towards Annotation-Efficient Deep Learning for Computer-Aided Diagnosis 

CMLR at Peking University May 7, 2023
> View Slides
Du’Shu Forum/The 2nd Youth Academic Forum Nov 26, 2022
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AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium Nov 7, 2022

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Medical Image Computing Seminar (MICS) Aug 3, 2021

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BMI Seminar Sep 4, 2020

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Phoenix Symposium on Data Analytics in Healthcare Aug 13, 2020

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Data, Assemble: Towards Efficient Medical Image Analysis 

MICCAI 2021 FLARE Challenge Keynote Oct 1, 2021

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The Will of Computer Vision

VALSE Student Webinar Jan 28, 2021

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Models Genesis: Generic Autodidactic Models for 3D Medical Image Analysis

AI Journal club Feb 29, 2020

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Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute Nov 11, 2019

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AI Research Club Oct 24, 2019

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MICS Webinar Sep 24, 2019

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UNet++: A Nested U-Net Architecture for Medical Image Segmentation

AI Research Club Sep 18, 2018

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How to Cut Annotation Cost in Biomedical Imaging

Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal May 22, 2018

> View Slides

Gallary

Travel

Yellowstone National Park

黄石公园攻略

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Western United States

美西15日自驾游攻略

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Cambodia

柬埔寨旅游攻略

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Zongwei Zhou, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

 

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