About Me

I’m currently a visiting student at BIRTH Lab from School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University and fortunate to be advised by Prof. Qiyuan Tian（田启源）. I was previously advised by Prof. Feiwei Qin（秦飞巍） from School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University and Prof. Changmiao Wang（王昌淼） from Medical Big Data Lab, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data.

My research interests include Artificial Intelligence: Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and AI for Medical (Specializing in). I’m looking to collaborate on: Medical Image Analysis, Multimodal for Medical and Large Model for Medical.

📖 Educations

• 2025.09 - 2030.06, Doctor of Philosophy student: Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate student: Computer Science of Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China.

💻 Internships

• 2024.05 - 2024.08, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Smart Lab Laboratory, Research under Professor Hao Chen（陈浩）
• 2021.09 - 2024.04, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen, SRIBD Laboratory, Research under Professor Changmiao Wang（王昌淼）

🔥 News

• 2025.02.01: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by ISMRM 2025!
• 2025.01.07: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Expert Systems with Applications!
• 2025.01.03: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by ISBI 2025 (Oral Presentation)!
• 2024.12.24: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by ISMRM 2025 Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion!
• 2024.12.21: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by ICASSP 2025!
• 2024.12.17: 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Scientific Data!
• 2024.12.08: 🎉🎉 Won National First Prize in China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition · EDA Elite Challenge!

📝 Publications

Selected JOURNAL PAPERS [Full list is available in Google Scholar]

• A multi-modal dental dataset for semi-supervised deep learning image segmentation, Yaqi Wang, Fan Ye, Yifei Chen, Chengkai Wang, Chengyu Wu, Feng Xu, Zhean Ma, Yi Liu, Yifan Zhang, Mingguo Cao^*, Xiaodiao Chen^*, Scientific Data 2025

• LPUWF-LDM: Enhanced latent diffusion model for precise late-phase UWF-FA generation on limited dataset, Zhaojie Fang, Xiao Yu, Guanyu Zhou, Ke Zhuang, Yifei Chen, Ruiquan Ge^*, Changmiao Wang^*, Gangyong Jia, Qing Wu, Juan Ye, Maimaiti Nuliqiman, Peifang Xu, Ahmed Elazab, Expert Systems with Applications 2025

• Sckansformer: Fine-grained classification of bone marrow cells via kansformer backbone and hierarchical attention mechanisms, Yifei Chen^✝, Zhu Zhu^{✝, *}, Shenghao Zhu, Linwei Qiu, Binfeng Zou, Fan Jia, Yunpeng Zhu, Chenyan Zhang, Zhaojie Fang, Feiwei Qin^*, Jin Fan, Changmiao Wang, Gang Yu, Yu Gao, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2024

• Accurate leukocyte detection based on deformable-DETR and multi-level feature fusion for aiding diagnosis of blood diseases, Yifei Chen, Chenyan Zhang, Ben Chen, Yiyu Huang, Yifei Sun, Changmiao Wang, Xianjun Fu, Yuxing Dai, Feiwei Qin^*, Yong Peng, Yu Gao, Computers in Biology and Medicine 2024

Selected CONFERENCE PAPERS [Full list is available in Google Scholar]

• (Oral) Toward Robust Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease via an Integrated Multimodal Learning Approach, Yifei Chen, Shenghao Zhu, Zhaojie Fang, Chang Liu, Binfeng Zou, Yuhe Wang, Shuo Chang, Fan Jia, Feiwei Qin^*, Jin Fan, Yong Peng, Changmiao Wang, ICASSP 2025

• XLSTM-HVED: Cross-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation and MRI Reconstruction Method Using Vision XLSTM and Heteromodal Variational Encoder-Decoder, Shenghao Zhu, Yifei Chen, Shuo Jiang, Weihong Chen, Chang Liu, Yuanhan Wang, Xu Chen, Yifan Ke, Feiwei Qin^*, Changmiao Wang, Zhu Zhu^*, ISBI 2025

• SCUNet++: Swin-UNet and CNN Bottleneck Hybrid Architecture with Multi-Fusion Dense Skip Connection for Pulmonary Embolism CT Image Segmentation, Yifei Chen, Binfeng Zou, Zhaoxin Guo, Yiyu Huang, Yifan Huang, Feiwei Qin^*, Qinhai Li, Changmiao Wang^*, WACV 2024

• Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation Method Based on Cross-pseudo Labeling Leveraging Strong and Weak Data Augmentation Strategies, Yifei Chen, Chenyan Zhang, Yifan Ke, Yiyu Huang, Xuezhou Dai, Feiwei Qin^*, Yongquan Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, Changmiao Wang^*, ISBI 2024

• (Oral) TC-DiffRecon: Texture coordination MRI reconstruction method based on diffusion model and modified MF-UNet method, Chenyan Zhang, Yifei Chen, Zhenxiong Fan, Yiyu Huang, Wenchao Weng, Ruiquan Ge^*, Dong Zeng, Changmiao Wang^*, ISBI 2024

• Deep Object Detection Network Based Automatic Spinopelvic Parameters Measurement Method for Adult Spinal Deformity Classification, Yifei Chen, Weiqing Hu, Binfeng Zou, Yitong Pan, Yunyang Ge, Feiwei Qin^*, Liang Shan, AINIT 2023

• RTUNet++: Assessment of Osteosarcoma MRI Image Segmentation leveraging Hybrid CNN-Transformer Approach with Dense Skip Connection, Binfeng Zou, Yifei Chen, Zhanghao Chen, Yifei Sun, Yifan Huang, Feiwei Qin^*, Changmiao Wang, ICSIP 2023

Selected CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS [Full list is available in Google Scholar]

• DiffKAN: Convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Improved Diffusion MRI Microstructural Modeling, Yifei Chen, Zihan Li, Yuanhan Wang, Ziyu Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Qiyuan Tian^*, ISMRM 2025

• DiffKAN3D: Efficient and Accurate 3D Diffusion MRI Parameter Estimation for Real-Time Clinical Applications, Yifei Chen, Zihan Li, Shenghao Zhu, Ziyu Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Qiyuan Tian^*, ISMRM 2025 Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion

🏅 Honors and Awards

Doctor of Philosophy [Selected]

• 2024 China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition · EDA Elite Challenge - National First Prize

Undergraduate [Selected]

• 2023-2024 Academic Year, twice University First-Class Scholarships and the National Scholarship
• 2023-2024 Academic Year, Top 10 Students in the 6th “Youth of HDU” program
• 2022-2023 Academic Year, twice University First-Class Scholarships and the National Scholarship
• 2022-2023 Academic Year, “Star of Innovation” in the Top 100 Outstanding Students in the 5th “Youth of HDU” program
• 2021-2022 Academic Year, twice University First-Class Scholarships and the Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship
• 2024 China International College Students’ Innovation Competition - National Gold and International Bronze Awards
• 2024 Higher education ICT industry-teaching integration innovation competition - National Third Prize
• 2024 Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition - National Second Prize
• 2023 China International College Students’ Innovation Competition - National Gold and International Bronze Awards
• 2023 Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition - National First Prize
• 2023 China College Students’ Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - National Third Prize
• 2023 iCAN College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - National First Prize
• 2023 MCM/ICM Mathematical Contest in Modeling - International Second Prize
• 2023 Dimension Cup National College Mathematical Contest in Modeling - National First Prize
• 2022 Certificate Authority Cup International Mathematical Contest in Modeling - National First Prize
• 2022 Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling - National Third Prize

💰 Funding

Undergraduate [Selected]

• 2025 Zhejiang Provincial Undergraduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Activities Program (New Talent Program) (Key Member)
• 2024 National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (Key Member)
• 2024 Zhejiang Provincial Undergraduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Activities Program (New Talent Program) (Project Lead)
• 2023 National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (Project Lead, Key Supporting Field Project)

💬 Academic Activities

• 2025.05.10 Attended the 2025 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Hawaii, United States of America.
• 2025.02.16 Attended the ISMRM 2025 Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion: Past, Present & Future Perspectives in Kyoto, Japan.

👯 Academic Services

• Journal Reviewers of: TIP, TMM, JBHI, TAI, TNSRE, TCBB, BMT, Sci. Rep., IMAVIS, JDIM, BMC AI, MACH VISION APPL, SIGNAL IMAGE VIDEO P.
• Conference Reviewers of: MICCAI2025, CHIL2025, ISMRM 2025, ICECET 2025, ICLR 2025 Workshop (DeLTa, FM-Wild, AI4CHL, XAI4Science), GSP 2025 Workshop.