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Overview: Zongwei Zhou is a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University advised by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alan Yuille. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University advised by Dr. Jianming Liang. He has also spent time at Mayo Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, and Université de Montréal. His research focuses on developing novel methodologies to minimize the annotation efforts for computer-aided detection and diagnosis. Zongwei is the recipient of several prestigious awards in biomedical informatics, including the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2022, the MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award Finalist 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 ten 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, respectively. Zongwei has been elected to the Guest Editor of Sensors; Reviewer of IEEE TPAMI, MedIA, Information Fusion, IEEE TMI; and he was on the Program Committee for MICCAI in 2020-21; AAAI in 2020-22; CVPR in 2022; ICCV in 2021, MIDL in 2022. ORCiD: 0000-0002-3154-9851

Recent News

My Ph.D. dissertation received the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award Sep 2022
Six abstracts were accepted to RSNA 2022 Aug 2022
We are organizing ICML 2022 workshop on "Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare"
One paper was accepted to CVPR 2022 Mar 2022
Two new US patents (11,164,067 and 11,164,021) were granted Nov 2021
I am serving as the Guest Editor of Sensor: "Advances of Deep Learning in Medical Image Interpretation"
I gave a keynote talk in MICCAI 2021 FLARE Challenge Oct 2021

Awards and Honors

AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award Sep 2022
MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award Finalist Sep 2022
Elsevier-MedIA Best Paper Award Oct 2020
Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University Mar 2020
MICCAI Young Scientist Award Oct 2019
MICCAI Best Presentation Award Finalist Oct 2019
Outstanding Graduate, Dalian University of Technology June 2016

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

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

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

MIDL 2022

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation through Shape Modeling for Medical Image Segmentation

Yuan Yao, Fengze Liu, Zongwei Zhou, Yan Wang, Wei Shen, Alan Yuille, Yongyi Lu*

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

MLMI 2021

Seeking an Optimal Approach for Computer-Aided Pulmonary Embolism Detection

Nahid Ul Islam, Shiv Gehlot, Zongwei Zhou, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang*

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

DART 2020

Parts2Whole: Self-supervised Contrastive Learning via Reconstruction

Ruibin Feng, Zongwei Zhou, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang*

> 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

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

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

arXiv Preprints & Abstracts

arXiv Preprints

MT-TransUNet: Mediating Multi-Task Tokens in Transformers for Skin Lesion Segmentation and Classification

Jingye Chen, Jieneng Chen, Zongwei Zhou, Bin Li, Alan Yuille, Yongyi Lu*

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In-painting Radiography Images for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

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

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

Label-Assemble: Leveraging Multiple Datasets with Partial Labels

Mintong Kang, Yongyi Lu, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou*

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Frequency of Rational Fractions on [0, 1]

Zongwei Zhou, Dawei Lu*

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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

Data, Assemble: Towards Efficient Medical Image Analysis

MICCAI 2021 FLARE Challenge Keynote Oct 1, 2021

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Towards Annotation-Efficient Deep Learning for Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Medical Image Computing Seminar (MICS) Aug 3, 2021

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The Will of Computer Vision

VALSE Student Webinar Jan 28, 2021

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Computer-aided Diagnosis and Therapy in Medical Imaging

BMI Seminar Sep 4, 2020

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Cost-Effective Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Lung Cancer in Chest Computed Tomography

Recent News​

My Ph.D. dissertation received the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award Sep 2022

Six abstracts were accepted to RSNA 2022 Aug 2022

We are organizing ICML 2022 workshop on "Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare"

One paper was accepted to CVPR 2022 Mar 2022

Two new US patents (11,164,067 and 11,164,021) were granted Nov 2021

I am serving as the Guest Editor of Sensor: "Advances of Deep Learning in Medical Image Interpretation"

I gave a keynote talk in MICCAI 2021 FLARE Challenge Oct 2021

Awards and Honors

AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award Sep 2022

MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award Finalist Sep 2022

Elsevier-MedIA Best Paper Award Oct 2020

Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University Mar 2020

MICCAI Young Scientist Award Oct 2019

MICCAI Best Presentation Award Finalist Oct 2019

Outstanding Graduate, Dalian University of Technology June 2016

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

​

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

​

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

Journal Publications

Medical Image Analysis

Models Genesis

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

​

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

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

​

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*

​

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

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

​

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*

​

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*

​

Conference Publications

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

MIDL 2022

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation through Shape Modeling for Medical Image Segmentation

Yuan Yao, Fengze Liu, Zongwei Zhou, Yan Wang, Wei Shen, Alan Yuille, Yongyi Lu*

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

Recent News

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

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

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

Young Scientist Award
Young Scientist Publication Impact Award, Finalist