赵一天博士，研究员，iMED宁波团队负责人。先后入选中国科协青年人才托举工程、中科院青促会，宁波3315创新个人、宁波市领军和拔尖人才培养工程等。2013年在英国艾伯瑞斯特维斯大学计算机科学专业获得博士学位。博士毕业后先后在英国利物浦大学和北京理工大学担任博士后和讲师。现兼任英国利物浦大学荣誉讲师，Scientific Reports眼科方向的编委,MICCAI-OMIA，MIUA学术会议程序委员会委员。主要研究方向是医学图像处理、计算机视觉、虚拟现实与增强现实、人工智能及多学科交叉应用研究。近几年围绕精准医疗研究，开展了眼、脑、血管疾病的计算机辅助诊断研究和智能医疗设备研发。在TMI, MICCAI, PR, TVCG, CVPR, ECCV等领域知名期刊和会议发表论文100余篇。承担参与国家自然科学基金、浙江省科技重点研发计划、浙江省自然科学基金重点项目等项目十余项。
E-mail: yitian.zhao@nimte.ac.cn
招收研究生，课题生以及实习生！DrYitian Zhaois currently the director and professor of Lab ofIntelligent Medical Imaging (iMED)at Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute ofMaterialsTechnologyand Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research expertise is ophthalmic medical imageprocessig, vessel structureanalysis, eye and brain joint computing. In particular, he is interested in understanding the relation betweenretinalvascular changes and a wide spectrum of eye / brain diseases (e.g. diabetic retinopathy, malaria retinopathy, tumors, Alzheimer's disease). Keywords:
Organ - [Eye] [Brain] [Vessel]
Disease - [Glaucoma] [Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)] [Malarial Retinopathy (MR)] [Dry Eye (DE)] [Diabetic Neuropathy (DN)] [Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)]
Imaging Modality - [Color Fundus (CF)] [OCT] [OCTA] [AS-OCT] [Confocal Microscopy (CM)] [Flurescein Angiogram (FA)] [MRA] [Endoscopy]
Others - [Computer Vision (CV)] [Complex System (CS)]
He also has a contract of honorary lecturer with theDepartment of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool. He received his BEng, MSc in 2008 and 2009 in UK, respectively. He finished his PhD degree in 3D Image Analysis fromDepartment of Computer Science at Aberystwyth Universityin 2013. Previously, he was a lecturer at theBeijing Institute of Technologyfrom 2015 to 2017, and worked as a postdoctoral and lecturer in the Department of Eye and Vision Science at University of Liverpool since 2013 to 2015. He is currently also served as aCommittee Associate Member of IEEE BISP (2021-2022),editorial board member (speciality withopthalmology) forScientific Reports(2017-today), Program Co-Chair of ICIMH (2021),Program Committee of MICCAI workshop OMIA (2017-today), MIUA (2019), MICAD (2021) and etc.
Contact info: yitian.zhao[AT]nimte[DOT]ac[DOT]cn
[My Google Scholar site]
Recent News:
2021-03-01: One paper has been accepted by CVPR.[CV]
2021-02-23: I was recognized as a Distinguished Reviewer (Gold Level) of IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging.
2021-01-16: I will serve as one of Area Chairs of MICCAI 2021.
2021-01-08: One paper has been accepted by Pattern Recognition. [CV]
2020-12-23: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis. [Eye<>Glaucoma<>AS-OCTA]
2020-12-17: I will serve as Program Co-chair of ICIMH 2021.
2020-12-15: I have been promoted to Professor now.
2020-12-04: Our retinal OCTA dataset (ROSE) has been released!
2020-12-03: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. [Eye<>AD<>OCTA]
2020-11-26: Congratulations, my first PhD student, Qifeng Yan, has successfully defended his dissertation, and now becoming Dr Yan.
2020-11-16: I have been appointed as an Committee Associate Member of IEEE BISP.
2020-11-01: Our paper Medical Physics paper is featured as cover article of issue 47, vol. 10.
2020-10-06: One paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis. [Eye-brain<>n/a<>CF-OCTA-OCT-CM]
2020-10-04: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. [CS]
2020-09-04: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. [Eye<>n/a<>OCT]
2020-07-03: One paper has been accepted by Medical Physics. [Eye<>DN-DE<>CM]
2020-07-03: Three papers have been accepted by ECCV-2020.
2020-06-27: Six papers have been accepted by MICCAI 2020.
2020-05-27: one paper has been accepted by Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. [Eye<>n/a<>OCT]
2020-01-31: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. [Eye<>DN-DE<>CM]
Released Datasets:
--ROSE: Retinal OCT-Angiography vessel segmentation dataset
--CORN: Corneal nerve fiber dataset ?
--VETO：Vessel topology manual annotation dataset
--MMM-21: Manual vessel annotations on MRA dataset
--ACRO: Artery and vein classification in retinal OCT-Angiography dataset
Code: [gitbub site]
-- Cerebrovascular Segmentation in MRA images [Code]
"?Cerebrovascular Segmentation in MRA via Reverse Edge Attention Network ", MICCAI, 2020, pp. 66-75.
-- Vessel Segmentation in Retinal OCTA images [Code]
"ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2020, in press.
--3D Iris Reconstruction based on AS-OCT Images [Code]
"Reconstruction and Quantification of 3D Iris Surface for Angle-Closure Glaucoma Detection in Anterior Segment OCT", MICCAI, 2020.
--2D Biomedical Image Segmentation [Code]
"CE-Net: Context Encoder Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 2281-2292, 2019.
--Vessel and Nerve Fibre Segmentation in 2D Biomedical Images [Code]
"CS-Net: Channel and Spatial Attention Network for Curvilinear Structure Segmentation", MICCAI, 2019, pp. 721-730.
--Vessel and Nerve Fibre Segmentation in 2D and 3D Biomedical Images [Code]
"CS2-Net: Deep Learning Segmentation of Curvilinear Structures in Medical Imaging", Medical Image Analysis, in press, 2020
^^Selected Publications^^
Edited books：
1. Pan Su, Xuanhao Zhang, Hao Qiu, Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu, Tianhua Chen, Applying Fuzzy Pattern Trees for the Assessment of Corneal Nerve Tortuosity, Fuzzy Logic, Springer, 2020,
2. Ghahremani, M., Liu, Y., Zhao, Y., Ai, L., Song, R., Martin, R., Chen, L., Ren, X., Li, L., Chapter:Rigid Registration.Computer Vision: A Reference Guide, Springer, 2020
3. Yonghuai Liu, Peter Yuen, Yanwei Pang,Yitian Zhao, Paul L. Rosin. Chapter: Range images. Wiley Encylopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2017.
2021
Morteza Ghahremani,Yitian Zhao, Bernard Tiddeman，Yonghuai Liu，Interwoven Texture-Based Description of Interest Points in Images,Pattern Recognition, 107821, 2021.[PDF]
Xingjun Ma, Yuhao Niu，Lin Gu, Yisen Wang,Yitian Zhao, James Bailey, Feng Lu,Understanding Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis Systems，Pattern Recognition,110: 107332, 2021.[PDF]
Huaying Hao,Yitian Zhao, Qifeng Yan, Risa Higashita, Jiong Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Yanwu Xu, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Angle-closure Assessment in Anterior Segment OCT Images via Deep Learning,Medical Image Analysis, 69, 101956, 2021.[PDF]
Weixiang Du, Haochen Liu,Yitian Zhao, Adisorn Sirikham,Sri Addepalli, Yifan Zhao,A miniaturised active thermography system to inspect composite laminates,IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(5): 3314-3323, 2021.[PDF]
Heng Li, Haofeng Liu, Yan Hu, Risa Higashita, Yitian Zhao, Hong Qi, Jiang Liu, Restoration of Cataract Fundus Images via Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, to be appeared in proceeding of ISBI, 2021.
Zhenjie Chai, Jianlong Yang, Kang Zhou, Zhi Chen, Yitian Zhao, Shenghua Gao, Jiang Liu, Memory-assisted Dual-end Adaptation Network for Choroid Segmentation in Multi-domain Optical Coherence Tomography, to be appeared in proceeding of ISBI, 2021.
Shuai Yu, Jianyang Xie, Jinkui Hao, Yalin Zheng, Jiong Zhang, Yan Hu, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao, 3D Vessel Reconstruction in OCT-Angiography via Depth Map Estimation, to be appeared in proceeding of ISBI, 2021.

2020
Yuhui Ma, Huaying Hao, Jianyang Xie, Huazhu Fu, Jiong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Zhen Wang, Jiang Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yitian Zhao, ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, in press, 2020. [Dataset: ROSE][PDF][Code]
Lei Mou,Yitian Zhao, Huazhu Fu, Yonghuai Liu, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Jianlong Yang, Li Chen, Alejandro Frangi, Masahiro Akiba, Jiang Liu, CS²-Net: Deep Learning Segmentation of Curvilinear Structures in Medical Imaging,Medical Image Analysis, 2020, 67: 101874. [PDF][Code]
Huihong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Kang Zhou, Liyang Fang, Fei Li, Yan Hu, Yitian Zhao, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Automatic Segmentation and Visualization of Choroid in OCT with Knowledge Infused Deep Learning, IEEE-JBHI,24(12): 3408-3420, 2020.[PDF]
Pan Su, Tianhua Chen, Jianyang Xie, Yalin Zheng, Hong Qi, Davide Borroni, Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu.Corneal Nerve Tortuosity Grading via Ordered Weighted Averaging-based Feature Extraction, Medical Physics, 2020, 47(10): 4983-4996. (featured cover article)[PDF]
Joshua Bridge, Yanda Meng,Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng,Introducing the GEV Activation Function for Highly Unbalanced Data to Develop COVID-19 Diagnostic Models, IEEE-JBHI, 2020, 24(10): 2776-2786. [PDF]
Ran Song, Wei Zhang,Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu,Unsupervised Multi-View CNN for Salient View Selection of 3D Objects and Scenes.ECCV,2020, pp. 454-470[Dataset][PDF]
Yanda Meng, Meng Wei, Dongxu Gao,Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng, Regression of Instance Boundary by Aggregated CNN and GCN.ECCV,2020, pp. 190-207[PDF]
Yuhui Ma, Yonghuai Liu, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Morteza Ghahremani, Honghan Chen, Jiang Liu,Yitian Zhao, Cycle Structure and Illumination Constrained GAN for Medical Image Enhancement,Proceeding ofMICCAI, 2020, pp. 667-677.[Dataset: CORN-2]
Hao Zhang, Likun Xia, Ran Song, Jianlong Yang, Huaying Hao, Jiang Liu,Yitian Zhao, Cerebrovascular Segmentation in MRA via Reverse Edge Attention Network,Proceeding ofMICCAI, 2020, pp. 66-75.[Code]
Yanda Meng, Meng Wei, Dongxu Gao,Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng, CNN-GCN Aggregation Enabled Boundary Regression for Biomedical Image Segmentation,Proceeding ofMICCAI, 2020, pp. 352-362.
Jinkui Hao, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu, Yan Hu, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu,Yitian Zhao, Reconstruction and Quantification of 3D Iris Surface for Angle-Closure Glaucoma Detection in Anterior Segment OCT,Proceeding ofMICCAI, 2020, pp. 704-714.[PDF][Code]
Huaying Hao, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu, Jianlong Yang, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu,Yitian Zhao, Open-Narrow-Synechiae Anterior Chamber Angle Classification in AS-OCT Sequences,Proceeding ofMICCAI, 2020, pp. 515-724.[PDF]
Jianyang Xie, Yonghuai Liu, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Yan Hu, Jianlong Yang, Jiang Liu,Yitian Zhao, Classification of Retinal Vessels into Artery-Vein in OCT Angiography Guided by Fundus Images,Proceeding ofMICCAI, 2020,pp.117-127.[Dataset: ACRO]
Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang,Ella Pereira, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Jianyang Xie, Yifan Zhao, Yonggang Shi, Hong Qi, Jiang Liu, Yonghuai Liu,Automated Tortuosity Analysis of Nerve Fibers in Corneal Confocal Microscopy,IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,2020, 39(9): 2725-2737. [Dataset: CORN-3]
Brayn Williams, Davide Borroni, Rongjun Liu,Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang,... Yalin Zheng, An aritifical intenlligence-based deep learning algorithm for the diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy using corneal confocal microscopy: a development and validation study,Diabetologia, 63(2): 419-430, 2020
Yitian Zhao, Jianyang Xie, Huaizhong Zhang, Yalin Zheng, Yifan Zhao, Hong Qi, Yangchun Zhao, Pan Su, Jiang Liu and Yonghuai Liu. Retinal Vascular Network Topology Reconstruction and Artery/Vein Classification via Dominant Set Clustering,IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,2020, 39(2): 341-356. [Dataset: VETO]
Lei Mou, Li Chen, Jun Cheng, Zaiwang Gu,Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu, Dense Dilated Network with Probability Regularized Walk for Vessel Detection,IEEE Transcation on Medical Imaging, 39(5): 1392-1403, 2020.
2019
Qifeng Yan,Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng,Yonghuai Liu,Kang Zhou,Alejandro Frangi,Jiang Liu,Automated retinal lesion detection via image saliency analysis,Medical Physics, 46(10): 4531-4544, 2019.
Tianyang Zhang, Huazhu Fu,Yitian Zhao, Jun Cheng, ... Jiang Liu,SkrGAN: Sketching-rendering Unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Medical Image Synthesis, Proceeding ofMICCAI2019, pp. 777-785.
Pan Su,Yitian Zhao, Tianhua Che, Jianyang Xie, Yifan Zhao, Hong Qi, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu,Exploiting Reliability-guided Aggregation for the Assessment of Curvilinear Structure Tortuosity,Proceeding ofMICCAI2019, pp. 12-20.
Lei Mou,Yitian Zhao, Li Chen, Jun Cheng,Hong Qi, Yalin Zheng, Alejandro Frangi, Jiang Liu,CS-Net: Channel and Spatial Attention Network for Curvilinear Structure Segmentation,Proceeding ofMICCAI2019, pp. 721-730.[Dataset: CORN-1][Code]
Pholpat Durongbhan, Yifan Zhao,Liangyu Chen, Panagiotis Zis, Matteo De Marco, Zoe C. Unwin, Annalena Venneri, Xiongxiong He, Sheng Li,Yitian Zhao, Daniel J. Blackburn, and Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis. A Dementia Classification Framework using Frequency and Time-frequency Features based on EEG signals.IEEETransactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 27(5): 826-835, 2019.
Pan Su, Tianhua Chen, Haoyu Mao, Jianyang Xie,Yitian Zhao, Jiang Liu. On the Application of Preaggregation Functions to Fuzzy Pattern Tree,FUZZ-IEEE2019.
Zaiwang Gu, Jun Cheng, Huazhu Fu,Yitian Zhao, Tianyang Zhang, Huaying Hao, Kang Zhou, Jiang Liu, CE-Net: Context Encoder Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation,IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,38(10): 2281-2292,2019.[Code]
Jianyang Xie,Yitian Zhao,Yonghuai Liu, Pan Su, Yalin Zheng, Yifan Zhao, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu, Topology Reconstruction of Tree-like Structure in Images via Structural Similarity Measure and Dominant Set Clustering,CVPR, Long Beach, USA, June, pp. 8505-8513, 2019.
Jun Cheng,Yitian Zhao, Yan Hu and Jiang Liu,Pixel Reconstruction for Speckle Reduction in 3D Optical Coherence Tomography of Retina,International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019), Venice, Italy,pp. 1424-1427 2019.
2018
Yonghuai Liu,Yitian Zhao, Yanquan Zhou, Yongjun Wang, Wei Huang, Jiwan Han, Yiguang Liu,Logistic Regression of Point Matches for Accurate Transformation Estimation, Proceedings ofInternational Conference on 3D Vision (3DV),pp. 409-417，Verona, Italy, September, 2018.
Yitian ZhaoYalin Zheng, Zhili Chen, Peng Liu, Yifan Zhao, Jiang Liu,Uniqueness-Driven Saliency Analysis For Automated Abnormalities Detection with Application to Retinal Diseases,Proceedings ofMICCAI, pp. 109-118, Granada, Spain,September,2018.
Yitian Zhao, Jianyang Xie, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Pan Su, Yifan Zhao, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu,Retinal Artery and Vein Classification via Dominant Sets Clustering-based Vascular Topology Estimation,Proceedings ofMICCAI, pp. 56-64, Granada, Spain, September,2018.[Dataset: VETO]
Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu, Yongtian Wang, Retinal Vascular Topology Estimation Via Dominant Sets Clustering. Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018), Washington DC, USA, April, 2018.
Yitian Zhao,Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Yifan Zhao, Lingling Luo, Siyuan Yang, Tong Na, Yongtian Wang, Jiang Liu, Automatic 2D/3D Vessel Enhancement in Multiple Modality Images Using a Weighted Symmetry Filter,IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 37(2): 438-450, 2018.[Dataset: MMM-21]
2017
Pan Su, Changjing Shang,Yitian Zhao, Tianhua Chen and Qiang Shen, Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection Based on OWA Aggregation of Fuzzy Relations,FUZZ-IEEE,Naples, Italy, 1-6, 2017. [Oral]
Gabriela Czanner, Ian James MacCormick, Yalin Zheng, Silvester Czanner,Yitian Zhao, Peter Diggle, Simon P Harding, Spatial distribution modelling of retinal lesions with application to retinal capillary non-perfusion in malarial retinopathy,Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8): 4819, 2017.(Abstract)
Yalin Zheng, Bryan M Williams, Harry Pratt, Baidaa Al-Bander, Xiangqian Wu,Yitian Zhao, Computer aided diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration in 3D OCT images by deep learning,Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8): 824, 2017. (Abstract)
Lingling Luo, Yitian Zhao, Jian Yang, Yalin Zheng, Danni Ai, Yongtian Wang, Cerebral Vascular Enhancement Using a Weighted 3D Symmetry Filter. Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 1945-8452, 2017.
Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Yonghuai Liu, Jian Yang, Yifan Zhao, Yongtian Wang, Intensity and Compactness Enabled Saliency Estimation for Leakage Detection in Diabetic and Malarial Retinopathy,IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 36(1): 51-63, 2017.[Dataset: LIMA]
Jingfan Fan, Jian Yang,Yitian Zhao, Danni Ai, Yonghuai Liu, Ge Wang, Yongtian Wang, Convex Hull Aided Registration Method (CHARM),IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(9): 2042-2055, 2017
2016
Yonghuai Liu, Honghai Liu, Ralph R. Martin, Luigi De Dominicis, Ran Song, Yitian Zhao, Accurately Estimating Rigid Transformations in Registration using a Boosting-Inspired Mechanism, Pattern Recognition, 60: 849–862, 2016.
Sebastian Amrogowicz,Yitian Zhao, Yifan Zhao, An Edge Detection Method using Outer Totalistic Cellular Automata,Neurocomputing, 214(19): 643-653, 2016.
Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Yongjun Wang, Baogang Wei, Jian Yang, Yifan Zhao, Yongtian Wang:Region-based saliency estimation for 3D shape analysis and understanding.Neurocomputing, 197: 1-13, 2016.
Jingfan Fan,Jian Yang, Danni Ai, Likun Xia,Yitian Zhao, Yongtian Wang: Convex Hull indexed Gaussian Mixture Model (CH-GMM) for Non-rigid Point Set Registration,Pattern Recognition. 59: 126-141, 2016.
Jingfan Fan,Jian Yang, Feng Lu, Danni Ai,Yitian Zhao, Yongtian Wang: 3-Points Convex Hull Matching (3PCHM) for Fast and Robust Point Set Registration,Neurocomputing, 194: 227-240, 2016.
2015
Yitian Zhao,Lavdie Rada, Ke Chen, Simon Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Vessel Segmentation Using Infinite Perimeter Active Contour Model with Hybrid Region Information with Application to Retina Images.IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(9): 1797-1807, 2015.[Top 2 Most Frequently Downloaded Paper of T-MI in2015]
Yitian Zhao,Ian J. C. MacCormick, David G. Parry, Nicholas A. V. Beare, Simon P. Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Detection of Vessel Abnormalities on Fluorescein Angiogram in Malarial Retinopathy.Scientific Reports, 5: srep11154, 2015.
Yitian Zhao, Yonghuai Liu, Xiangqian Wu, Simon P Harding, Yalin Zheng: Retinal Vessel Segmentation: An Efficient Graph Cut Approach with Retinex and Local Phase.PLoS ONE,10(4): **, 2015.[ESI highly cited paper, ESI高被引论文]
Yitian Zhao, Ian J C MacCormick, David G Parry, Sophie Leach, Nick Beare, Simon P Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Detection of Leakage in Fluorescein Angiography Images with Application to Malarial Retinopathy.Scientific Reports, 5: srep10425, 2015.
Yonghuai Liu, Honghai Liu,Yitian Zhao, Ran Song: Performance calibration through partly peer assessment. Proceedings ofInternational Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2015), Porto, Portugal, 62-66, (AR=33%),. [Oral]