About Me
Yifei Chen

Yifei Chen 陈一飞

Ph.D. @ Tsinghua University

I'm currently a Ph.D. student at the 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, Foundation Model, Nuclear Medicine Imaging.
  • 📣 Feel free to reach out if you're interested in my research or have new ideas for collaboration! 🤝 Email Me!
Google Scholar Google Scholar citation count GitHub GitHub stars across owned and contributed public repositories: 631 WeChat 微信 justlfc03@gmail.com

Intelligence, in Service of Healthcare让智能，服务于医疗

💻 Internships

  1. -
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Smart Lab Laboratory, advised by Professor Hao Chen（陈浩）.
  2. -
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
    SRIBD Laboratory, advised by Professor Changmiao Wang（王昌淼）.

🔥 News

  1. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics!
  2. :
    🎉🎉 Our three papers have been accepted by BIBM 2026!
  3. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Advanced Intelligent Discovery!
  4. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics!
  5. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by BMVC 2026!
  6. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by MICCAI 2026 Workshop on Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis!
  7. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Pattern Recognition!
  8. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics!
  9. :
    🎉🎉 Our two papers have been accepted by MICCAI 2026!
  10. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Biomedical Signal Processing and Control!
  11. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by NeuroImage!
  12. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Pattern Recognition!
  13. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems!
  14. :
    🎉🎉 Our three papers have been early accepted by MICCAI 2026!
  15. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis!
  16. :
    🎉🎉 Our four abstracts have been accepted by OHBM 2026!
  17. :
    🎉🎉 Our two abstracts have been accepted by ISMRM 2026!
  18. :
    🎉🎉 Our two abstracts have been accepted by ISMRM Workshop on Unlocking the Potential of Prenatal MRI!
  19. :
    🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by Biomedical Signal Processing and Control!

📝 Publications

✝ co-first author* corresponding author

Selected Journal Papers

Full list is available in Google Scholar

  1. Unsupervised CT Metal Artifact Reduction via Consistent Artifact Modeling.

    Enyu Bao✝, Yifei Chen✝, Junhao Ye, Xueyan Song, Kasidit Anmahapong, Ziang Wang, Guanyu Zhou, Feiwei Qin*, Yaqi Wang, Changmiao Wang, Huiyu Zhou and Qiyuan Tian*.

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2026.

  2. Multi-center validation of machine learning models for predicting myopia progression across school-based screening and optical intervention settings in Chinese children and adolescents.

    Yitong Zhang✝, Mingxuan Liu✝, Yifei Chen✝, Ying Wu*, Lijun Zhang, Mengyao Guo, Yulan Yan, Runmei Wei, Zihan Cui, Peng Luo, Fang Chen, Bo Yang, Youcang Han, Xiaoyang Liu, Qiyuan Tian*.

    Advanced Intelligent Discovery 2026.

  3. MorVess: Morphology-Aware Pulmonary Vessel Segmentation Network.

    Fuyou Mao✝, Yifei Chen✝, Beining Wu, Lixin Lin, Jinnan Dai, Zhiling Li, Yilei Chen, Yaqi Wang, Hao Zhang, Yan Tang*, Huiyu Zhou, Feiwei Qin*.

    Pattern Recognition 2026.

  4. Multimodal Feature Prototype Learning for Interpretable and Discriminative Cancer Survival Prediction.

    Shuo Jiang, Zhuwen Chen, Liaoman Xu, Yanming Zhu, Changmiao Wang, Jiong Zhang, Feiwei Qin*, Yifei Chen*, Zhu Zhu*.

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2026.

  5. MMLNB: Multi-Modal Learning for Neuroblastoma Subtyping Classification Assisted with Textual Description Generation.

    Huangwei Chen✝, Yifei Chen✝, Zhenyu Yan, Mingyang Ding, Chenlei Li, Feiwei Qin, Daxing Zhang*, Zhu Zhu*.

    Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 2026.

  6. MicroKAN: Mapping Human Brain Microstructure Using Diffusion MRI and Adaptive Nonlinear Modeling.

    Yifei Chen✝, Zihan Li✝, Yuanhan Wang, Yijin Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Tolga Cukur, Qiuyun Fan, Ziyu Li*, Jie Lu*, Qiyuan Tian*.

    NeuroImage 2026.

  7. MUIT-TTA: Annotation-Free Intracranial Hemorrhage Segmentation via Pseudo-Anomaly Synthesis and Test-Time Adaptation.

    Jinying Zong✝, Yifei Chen✝, *, Mingxuan Liu✝, Yuxin Du, Changwei Wu, Beining Wu, Guanyu Zhou, Feiwei Qin*.

    Pattern Recognition 2026.
  8. Illustration for No Modality Left Behind: Adapting to Missing Modalities via Knowledge Distillation for Brain Tumor Segmentation
    MedIA 2026

    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.
    Citations Code Stars

  9. Towards Practical Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis: A Lightweight and Interpretable Spiking Neural Model.

    Changwei Wu✝, Yifei Chen✝, *, Yuxin Du, Jinying Zong, Jie Dong, Mingxuan Liu, Feiwei Qin*, Yong Peng, Jin Fan, Changmiao Wang.

    Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 2026.

  10. Tc-kanrecon: High-quality and accelerated mri reconstruction via adaptive kan mechanisms and intelligent feature scaling.

    Ruiquan Ge, Xiao Yu, Yifei Chen, Fan Jia, Shenghao Zhu, Dong Zeng, Changmiao Wang, Qiegen Liu*, Shanzhou Niu*.

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2025.

  11. 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.
  12. Illustration for Sckansformer: Fine-grained classification of bone marrow cells via kansformer backbone and hierarchical attention mechanisms
    IEEE JBHI 2024

    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
    Citations Code Stars
  13. Illustration for Accurate leukocyte detection based on deformable-DETR and multi-level feature fusion for aiding diagnosis of blood diseases
    CIBM 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.ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper
    Citations Code Stars

Selected Conference Papers

Full list is available in Google Scholar

  1. Residual-Offset Diffusion for Structure-Consistent Low-Dose PET Reconstruction.

    Yuanhan Wang✝, Enyu Bao✝, Yifei Chen✝, Shixiu Tang, Beining Wu, Guanyu Zhou, Mingxuan Liu, Feiwei Qin*, Lei Xiang, Jian He, Qiyuan Tian*.

    BIBM 2026.Oral

  2. MAG-ADNet: A Modality-Adversarial Gated Network for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis.

    Weihong Chen✝, Beining Wu✝, Qianhan Weng, Liaonan Xu, Feiwei Qin*, Jin Fan, Yong Peng, Wanzhen Wu, Yifei Chen*.

    BIBM short paper 2026.Oral

  3. R2AoP: Reliable and Robust Angle of Progression Estimation from Intrapartum Ultrasound.

    Yuanhan Wang✝, Yifei Chen✝, Beining Wu, Mingxuan Liu, Xiaotian Hu, Chunbo Jiang, Yijin Li, Changmiao Wang, Feiwei Qin*, Qiyuan Tian*.

    MICCAI 2026 Workshop on Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis.Oral
  4. GLeVE model architecture: lesion query encoding, anatomy-prior proposal and verification, and octree refinement for lesion grounding in 3D CT
    MICCAI 2026

    GLeVE: Graph-Guided Lesion Grounding with Proposal Verification in 3D CT

    Shuo Jiang✝, Yuhao Hong✝, Chunbo Jiang, Weihong Chen, Huangwei Chen, Shenghao Zhu, Beining Wu, Mingxuan Liu, Zhu Zhu, Feiwei Qin*, Min Tan, Yifei Chen*.

    MICCAI 2026.Best Paper Award NomineeShortlist (Top 0.5%)
    Citations Code Stars

  5. IE-SRGS: An Internal-External Knowledge Fusion Framework for High-Fidelity 3D Gaussian Splatting Super-Resolution.

    Xiang Feng✝, Tieshi Zhong✝, Shuo Chang, Weiliu Wang, Chengkai Wang, Yifei Chen, Tongyu Hu, Yuhe Wang, Zhenzhong Kuang*, Xuefei Yin, Yanming Zhu*.

    AAAI 2026.

  6. WARPNet: Scale-wise Autoregressive Cross-modal Synthesis for Accurate and Detail-preserving MRI-to-PET Generation.

    Guanyu Zhou✝, Yifei Chen✝, Gaoxiang Ying, Mingxuan Liu, Xuguang Bai, Jialan Zheng, Bixiao Cui, Qiyuan Tian*, Jie Lu*.

    BIBM 2025.Oral

  7. DR-TTA: Dynamic and Robust Test-Time Adaptation Under Low-Quality MRI Conditions for Brain Tumor Segmentation.

    Yuanhan Wang✝, Yifei Chen✝, Shuo Jiang, Wenjing Yu, Mingxuan Liu, Beining Wu, Shenghao Zhu, Feiwei Qin*, Jin Fan, Changmiao Wang*.

    BIBM 2025.Oral

  8. FetalExtract-LLM: Structured Information Extraction from Free-Text Fetal MRI Reports Based on Privacy-Ensuring Open-weights Large Language Models.

    Mingxuan Liu✝, Yijin Li✝, Juncheng Zhu✝, Hongjia Yang, Yiming Huang, Haoxiang Li, Yifei Chen, Xuguang Bai, Yi Liao, Haibo Qu, Qiyuan Tian*.

    MICCAI 2025 Workshop on Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis.Oral
  9. Illustration for Bridging the Gap in Missing Modalities: Leveraging Knowledge Distillation and Style Matching for Brain Tumor Segmentation
    MICCAI 2025

    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.
    Citations Code Stars

  10. Chest-OMDL: Organ-specific Multidisease Detection and Localization in Chest CT Using Weakly Supervised Deep Learning from Free-text Radiology Report.

    Xuguang Bai✝, Mingxuan Liu✝, Yifei Chen, Hongjia Yang, Qiyuan Tian*.

    MIDL 2025.

  11. Toward Robust Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease via an Integrated Multimodal Learning Approach.

    Yifei Chen, Shenghao Zhu, Zhaojie Fang, Chang Liu, Binfeng Zou, Linwei Qiu, Yuhe Wang, Shuo Chang, Fan Jia, Feiwei Qin*, Jin Fan, Yong Peng, Changmiao Wang.

    ICASSP 2025.

  12. 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.Oral
  13. Illustration for SCUNet++: Swin-UNet and CNN Bottleneck Hybrid Architecture with Multi-Fusion Dense Skip Connection for Pulmonary Embolism CT Image Segmentation
    WACV 2024

    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.
    Citations Code Stars

  14. 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.

  15. 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.Oral

🎖 Honors

Scholarships

2025–26Awarded National Scholarship. (¥ 20,000)
2024–25Awarded 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

MICCAI 2026 certificate awarded to 3DVLab for overall third place in the Foundation Model Challenge for Ultrasound Biometry

MICCAI IUGC Challenge

3rd Place

3DVLab · Team Lead

autoPET 2025 winner certificate awarded to BIRTH, including Yifei Chen, for first place in Task 1

MICCAI autoPET Challenge

1st Place

BIRTH · Key Member

VLM3D Challenge 2025 certificate awarded to Yifei Chen of Birthlab for second place in the Multi-Abnormality Localization Task

MICCAI VLM3D Challenge

2nd Place

Birthlab · Key Member

HECKTOR Challenge 2025 certificate awarded to HDUMedAI Team for third place in Task 2, Prognosis

MICCAI HECKTOR Challenge

3rd Place

HDUMedAI · Team Lead

National Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition for College Student
First Prize
Key Member
2025
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
2024
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
Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM)
Honorable Mention
Team Lead
2023

💰 Funding

Young Science and Technology Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST - Doctoral Student Special Plan
¥ 10,000
Recipient
2026
Zhejiang Provincial Undergraduate Scientific and Technological Innovation Activities Program
¥ 5,000
Key Member
2025
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
2024
National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program
(Key Supporting Field Project)
¥ 20,000
Project Lead
2023

🔖 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
ICLR 2026CVPR 2026AAAI 2026ECCV 2026MICCAI 2026MIDL 2026ICME 2026ICASSP 2026BMVC 2026ISMRM 2026NeurIPS 2025AAAI 2025ECAI 2025MICCAI 2025BMVC 2025CHIL 2025SciPy 2025

👯 Academic Activities

  1. 2026 China Conference on Stereology and Image AnalysisFuzhou, China
  2. 2026 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted InterventionStrasbourg, France
  3. 2026 Magnetic Resonance Brain–Computer Interface ConferenceTianjin, China
  4. 2026 Medical Imaging Computing SeminarBeijing, China
  5. 2026 ISMRM Workshop on Unlocking the Potential of Prenatal MRIWashington, D.C., USA
  6. 2025 International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital MedicineBeijing, China
  7. 2025 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted InterventionDaejeon, Korea
  8. 2025 Beijing Radiological Imaging Quality Control ConferenceBeijing, China
  9. 2025 Medical Imaging Computing SeminarCixi, Zhejiang, China
  10. 2025 China Biomedical Engineering Conference & Medical Innovation SummitSuzhou, Jiangsu, China
  11. 2025 ISMRM Workshop on 40 Years of Diffusion: Past, Present & Future PerspectivesKyoto, Japan