About
Hi! I’m Zihan, a second-year Ph.D. student at University of Washington, Seattle, advised by Prof. Paul Kinahan (IEEE Life Fellow, FAAPM, FSNMMI, FAIMBE). I received my Master degree from the Department of Computer Science, UIUC in 2023.
My research focuses on the Multimodal Large Language Model including the vision-language model and medical image analysis. I am committed to helping doctors or researchers carry out quantitative analysis and treatment planning for tissues and organs of the human body by combining AI with medical images. I am currently a member of the AAPM-MIDRC subcommittee and MIDRC/CRP-12, dedicated to determining medical image data quality, provenance, and harmonization.
Recent News
- 🔥 [Apr 2025] One abstract is accepted by SIIM 2025 as Oral Presentation.
- 🔥 [Mar 2025] Awarded the Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation’s Ayers Scholarship.
- 🔥 [Dec 2024] Our work ICTC is accepted by ICASSP 2025.
- 🔥 [Oct 2024] One paper is accepted by Medical Physics.
- 🔥 [Aug 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
- 🔥 [May 2024] Our work RAOS is early accepted by MICCAI 2024.
- 🔥 [Apr 2024] One paper is accepted by Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.
- [Feb 2024] Our work ScribFormer is accepted by IEEE TMI.
- [Aug 2023] Our work ScribbleVC is accepted by ACM MM 2023.
- [July 2023] One paper NeRCo is accepted by ICCV 2023.
- [June 2023] Our work LViT is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI).
- [May 2023] We release the first Medical LLM ChatDoctor and its huggingface repo.
- [May 2023] Two papers (SwinMM, CorSegRec) are accepted by MICCAI 2023 as Oral Presentation.
My work and research
My current works focus on multimodal learning, including natural language and radiology reports. At the same time, I pay attention to the corner case datasets to alleviate AI Underrepresentation in the medical field. I have participated in multiple internships in both academia and industry. I have worked as a research intern at the University of Cambridge, Johns Hopkins University, and Peking University, as well as at Alibaba DAMO Academy and Shanghai AI Laboratory. I have worked closely with several respected professors including Prof. Alan L. Yuille, Prof. Pietro Liò, Prof. Dinggang Shen, Prof. Jie Tian, Prof. Yu Qiao, and Dr. Le Lu.
My background and history
I am pursuing my Ph.D. degree from University of Washington and I received Master Degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and received Bachelor Degree from Xiamen University.