I’m currently a PhD 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.

  • 👯 I am looking to collaborate on Medical Image Analysis, Multimodal Learning, Large Model, AI for Medicine.
  • 📣 Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating on my research 🤝! Email Me!

💻 Internships

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

🔥 News

📝 Publications

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

MedIA 2026
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No Modality Left Behind: Adapting to Missing Modalities via Knowledge Distillation for Brain Tumor Segmentation Shenghao Zhu, Yifei Chen, Weihong Chen, Shuo Jiang, Guanyu Zhou, Yuanhan Wang, Feiwei Qin*, Changmiao Wang, Qiyuan Tian*. Medical Image Analysis 2026.

IEEE JBHI 2024
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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 2025.

ESI Hot Paper

CIBM 2024
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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.

ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper

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

MICCAI 2025
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Bridging the Gap in Missing Modalities: Leveraging Knowledge Distillation and Style Matching for Brain Tumor Segmentation Shenghao Zhu, Yifei Chen, Weihong Chen, Yuanhan Wang, Chang Liu, Shuo Jiang, Feiwei Qin*, Changmiao Wang*. MICCAI 2025.

WACV 2024
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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.

🎖 Honors

Scholarships
2025–26Awarded Tsinghua University College Scholarship. (¥ 5,000)
2024–25Awarded Graduate Entrance Examination Scholarship. (¥ 1,500)
2023–24Awarded National Scholarship. (¥ 8,000)
2023–24Awarded University First-Class Scholarships twice. (¥ 1,500)
2022–23Awarded National Scholarship. (¥ 8,000)
2022–23Awarded University First-Class Scholarships twice. (¥ 1,500)
2021–22Awarded Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship. (¥ 6,000)
2021–22Awarded University First-Class Scholarships twice. (¥ 1,500)
Recognitions
2024–25Recognized as Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province.
2022–23Recognized as Star of Innovation in the 5th “Youth of HDU” program.
2023–24Recognized as Top 10 Outstanding Students in the 6th “Youth of HDU” program.
2022–23Recognized as Merit Student at HDU.
2023–24Recognized as Outstanding Student Cadre at HDU.
2022–23Recognized as Outstanding Student Cadre at HDU.
2022–23Recognized as Advanced Individual at HDU.
2021–22Recognized as Outstanding Student Cadre at HDU.

🏅 Awards

2025
MICCAI autoPET Challenge
1st Place
Key Member
2025
MICCAI VLM3D Challenge
2nd Place
Key Member
2025
MICCAI HECKTOR Challenge
3rd Place
Team Lead
2025
National Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Student
First Prize
Key Member
2024
China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition · EDA Elite Challenge
First Prize
Key Member
2024
China International College Students’ Innovation Competition
Gold Award
Key Member
2024
Higher Education ICT Industry-teaching Integration Innovation Competition
Third Prize
Key Member
2023
Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition, Big Data Practice Track
First Prize
Team Lead
2023
China College Students’ Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Enterprise Proposition Category
Third Prize
Team Lead
2023
iCAN College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Digital Entrepreneurship Simulation Challenge
First Prize
Team Lead
2023
MCM/ICM Mathematical Contest in Modeling
Second Prize
Team Lead

💰 Funding

2025
Zhejiang Provincial Undergraduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Activities Program
¥ 5,000
Key Member
2024
National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program
¥ 10,000
Key Member
2024
Zhejiang Provincial Undergraduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Activities Program
¥ 5,000
Project Lead
2023
National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program
(Key Supporting Field Project)
¥ 20,000
Project Lead

🔖 Academic Services

Conference Organization
Medical Imaging Computing Seminar (MICS), 2026.
International Workshop on Accessible Medical Imaging Diagnosis, 2026.
Teaching Assistantship
Medical Image Processing (Undergraduate Course), School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2025, 2026.
Journal Reviewer
Medical Image AnalysisPattern RecognitionIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video TechnologyIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health InformaticsEngineering Applications of Artificial IntelligenceKnowledge-Based SystemsExpert Systems with ApplicationsNeurocomputingComputers and Electronics in AgricultureComputers in IndustryComputerized Medical Imaging and GraphicsComputers in Biology and MedicineBiomedical Signal Processing and ControlJournal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
Conference Reviewer
CVPR 2026AAAI 2026ECCV 2026MICCAI 2026MIDL 2026ICME 2026ICASSP 2026BMVC 2026ISMRM 2026NeurIPS 2025AAAI 2025ECAI 2025MICCAI 2025BMVC 2025CHIL 2025SciPy 2025

👯 Academic Activities

2026.08.22
2026 Magnetic Resonance Brain–Computer Interface Conference Tianjing, China
2026.07.10
2026 Medical Imaging Computing Seminar Beijing, China
2026.03.02
2026 ISMRM Workshop on Unlocking the Potential of Prenatal MRI Washington, D.C., USA
2025.10.10
2025 International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital Medicine Beijing, China
2025.09.23
2025 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Daejeon, Korea
2025.09.09
2025 Beijing Radiology Quality Control Conference Beijing, China
2025.07.18
2025 Medical Imaging Computing Seminar Cixi, Zhejiang, China
2025.06.20
2025 China Biomedical Engineering Conference & Medical Innovation Summit Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
2025.02.16
2025 ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion: Past, Present & Future Perspectives Kyoto, Japan