Jiong Zhang

Associate Professor
Group of Intelligent Medical Imaging (iMED),
Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering,
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering,
Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Email: jiong.zhang(AT)ieee(DOT)org

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I am currently an associate professor of the Group of Intelligent Medical Imaging (iMED) at Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). I have obtained my PhD degree from the IMAG/e group at Eindoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2017. Afterwards, I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at TU/e. From 2018 I moved to the US and continued my postdoctoral research at Laboratory of NeuroImaging (LONI) at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA. My research interests include AI-based ophthalmic image processing, ophthalmic microvascular and cerebrovascular analysis, shape analysis, and neuroimage analysis. In the last few years, I have published over 70 papers in leading medical imaging journals and conferences, including IEEE TMI, IEEE TIP, MedIA, IEEE TBME, PR, MICCAI and ISBI. I have been actively involved in many academic services including the Publicity Chair of ICCCV (2022), Program Committee of AAAI (2022), CVPR workshop CVPM (2019-2023), ICCV workshop CVPM (2019) , MICCAI workshop OMIA (2017-current), VSIP (2021) and etc.

My research focuses on:

Ophthalmic Image Processing: image enhancement, pathology segmentation/detection, image registration.

Vascular Analysis: retinal microvascular segmentation/analysis (2D/3D), cerebrovascular segmentation/analysis.

Shape Analysis: vascular/cortical surface reconstruction and analysis.

⚡Related Diseases: diabetic retinopathy/neuropathy (DR/DN), age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, alzheimer's disease (AD), ischemic stroke, and moyamoya disease.

⚡Image Modalities: [Eye] OCT, AS-OCT, OCTA, FA, Fundus, UWF, Confocal Microscopy (CM). [Brain] MRI, MRA, CTA, DSA.

Scientist Position: We have several Postdoctoral Positions in AI for Medical Image Analysis available at iMED (CAS), Ningbo, China.

Research Assistant: We have several Research Assistant Positions in AI for Medical Image Analysis available at iMED (CAS), Ningbo, China. This position is opening for candidates with a bachelor/master degree.

Visiting PhD Student: We welcome PhD students from overseas universities to spend a minimum of one to a maximum of two years at iMED (CAS), Ningbo, China.

Professional Activities:

Memberships:
- IEEE Member.
Guest Editor/Chair:
- Sensing and Imaging, Special Issue on “Deep Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction and Analysis”, 2020.
- Publicity Chair on “ICCCV”, 2022.
Area Chair/PC:
- MICCAI-OMIA (2017-2023)
  AAAI (2022)
  CVPR-CVPM (2019-2023)
  ICCV-CVPM (2019)
  VSIP (2021)

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• Xiayu Xu, Peiwei Yang, Hualin Wang, Zhanfeng Xiao, Gang Xing, Xiulan Zhang, Wei Wang, Feng Xu, Jiong Zhang*, Jianqin Lei*. AV-casNet: Fully Automatic Arteriole-Venule Segmentation and Differentiation in OCT Angiography[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022.

• Gang Xing, Li Chen, Hualin Wang, Jiong Zhang, Dongke Sun, Feng Xu, Jianqin Lei, and Xiayu Xu. Multi-scale pathological fluid segmentation in OCT with a novel curvature loss in convolutional neural network[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022, 41(6):1547-1559.

• Hualin Wang, Yuhong Zhou, Jiong Zhang, Jianqin Lei, Dongke Sun, Feng Xu, and Xiayu Xu. "Anomaly Segmentation in Retinal Images with Poisson-Blending Data Augmentation." Medical Image Analysis 81 (2022): 102534.

• Jinkui Hao, Ting Shen, Xueli Zhu, Yonghuai Liu, Ardhendu Behera, Dan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Retinal Structure Detection in OCTA Image via Voting-based Multi-task Learning, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022, 41(12): 3969-3980.

• Huaying Hao, Cong Xu, Qifeng Yan, Dan Zhang, Jiong Zhang*, Yue Liu*, Yitian Zhao, Sparse-based Domain Adaptation Network for OCT-A Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2022, 26(9): 4402-4413.

• Lei Mou, Hong Qi, Yonghuai Liu, Yalin Zheng, Peter Matthew, Pan Su, Jiang Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yitian Zhao, DeepGrading: Deep Learning Grading of Corneal Nerve Tortuosity, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022, 41(8): 2079-2091.

• Jinkui Hao, Jiang Liu, Ella Pereira, Ri Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yangfan Zhang, Kun Yan, Yan Gong, Jianjun Zheng, Jingfeng Zhang, Yonghuai Liu,Yitian Zhao, Uncertainty-guided Graph Attention Network for Parapneumonic Effusion Diagnosis, Medical Image Analysis, 75: 102217, 2022.

• Q Yan, Y Gu, J Zhao, W Wu, Y Ma, J Liu, Jiong Zhang, Y Zhao，Automatic choroid layer segmentation in OCT images via context efficient adaptive network, Applied Intelligence, 2022: 1-13.

• Jiayu Chen, Lei Mou, Shaodong Ma, Huazhu Fu, Lijun Guo, Yalin Zheng, Jiong Zhang*, Yitian Zhao*. NerveFormer: A Cross-Sample Aggregation Network for Corneal Nerve Segmentation[C]//International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Springer, Cham, 2022: 79-88.

•Yanmiao Bai, Jinkui Hao, Huazhu Fu, Yan Hu, Xinting Ge, Jiang Liu, Yitian Zhao*, Jiong Zhang*. Unsupervised Lesion-Aware Transfer Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading in Ultra-Wide-Field Fundus Photography[C]//International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Springer, Cham, 2022: 560-570.

• Yitian Zhao, Jinyu Zhao, Yuanyuan Gu, Bang Chen, Jiaqi Guo, Jianyang Xie, Qifeng Yan, Yuhui Ma, Yufei Wu, Jiong Zhang*, Qinkang Lu, Jiang Liu, Outer Retinal Layer Thickness Changes in White Matter Hyperintensity and Parkinson's Disease, Frontiers in neuroscience，15, 2021

• Jinghui Lin, Lei Mou, Jiong Zhang, Xingyu Yue, Shengjun Zhou, Zhiqing Lin, Jiang Liu and Yitian Zhao , Automated Segmentation of Trigeminal Nerve and Cerebrovasculature in MR-Angiography Images by Deep Learning, Frontiers in Neuroscience , 15: 744967, 2021

• Muhammad Awais, Xi Long, Bin Yin, Saadullah Farooq Abbasi, Saeed Akbarzadeh, Chunmei Lu, Xinhua Wang, Laishuan Wang, Jiong Zhang, Jeroen Dudink, Wei Chen, A hybrid DCNN-SVM model for classifying neonatal sleep and wake states based on facial expressions in video, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 25 (5), 1441-1449, 2021

• X Ge, D Zhang, Y Qiao, J Zhang, J Xu, Y Zheng, Association of Tau pathology with clinical symptoms in the subfields of hippocampal formation, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,13, 2021

• Amir H Kashani, Samuel Asanad, Jane Chen, Maxwell Singer, Jiong Zhang, Mona Sharifi, Maziar Khansari, Farzan Abdolahi, Yonggang Shi, Alessandro Biffi, Helena Chui, John M Ringman, Past, present and future role of retinal imaging in neurodegenerative disease, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, 100938, 2021

• Hao, Huaying, Yitian Zhao, Qifeng Yan, Risa Higashita, Jiong Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Yanwu Xu, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, and Jiang Liu. "Angle-closure assessment in anterior segment OCT images via deep learning." Medical Image Analysis. 69 (2021): 101956.

• Jiong Zhang, Yonggang Shi. ”Personalized Matching and Analysis of Cortical Folding Patterns via Patch-Based Intrinsic Brain Mapping”. In MICCAI 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, In Press, 2021

• Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang*, Hong Qi, Yalin Zheng, Jiang Liu. ”Automated Tortuosity Analysis of Nerve Fibers in Corneal Confocal Microscopy”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. (2020) vol. 39(9), pp. 2725-2737.

• Jiong Zhang, Yuchuan Qiao, Maziyar M. Khansari, Jin Kyu Gahm, Mona Sharifi, Amir H. Kashani and Yonggang Shi. ”3D Shape Modeling and Analysis of Retinal Microvasculature in OCT-Angiography Images”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. vol. 39 (5), pp. 1335–1346, 2020

• Ma, Yuhui, Huaying Hao, Jianyang Xie, Huazhu Fu, Jiong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Zhen Wang, Jiang Liu, Yalin Zheng, and Yitian Zhao. "ROSE: a retinal OCT-angiography vessel segmentation dataset and new model." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 40, no. 3 (2020): 928-939.

• Sarabi, Mona Sharifi, Maziyar M. Khansari, Jiong Zhang, Sam Kushner-Lenhoff, Jin Kyu Gahm, Yuchuan Qiao, Amir H. Kashani, and Yonggang Shi. "3D Retinal Vessel Density Mapping With OCT-Angiography." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 24, no. 12 (2020): 3466-3479.

• Maziyar M. Khansari, Jiong Zhang, Yuchuan Qiao, Jin Kyu Gahm, Mona Sharifi, Amir H. Kashani and Yonggang Shi. “Automated Deformation-based Analysis of 3D Optical Coherence Tomography in Diabetic Retinopathy”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. vol. 39 (1), pp. 236–245, 2019

• Jiong Zhang, Amir H. Kashani and Yonggang Shi. ”3D Surface-Based Geometric and Topological Quan- tification of Retinal Microvasculature in OCT-Angiography via Reeb Analysis”. In MICCAI 2019, , vol. 11764, pp. 57-65, Springer International Publishing, 2019

• Da Chen, Jiong Zhang*and Laurent Cohen. “Minimal Paths for Tubular Structure Segmentation with Coherence Penalty and Adaptive Anisotropy”. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. vol. 28 (3), pp. 1271–1284, 2019

• Zhang Li, Fan Huang, Jiong Zhang et al. ”Multi-modal and multi-vendor retina image registration”. Biomedical Optics Express. vol. 9 (2), pp. 410–422, 2018

• Jiong Zhang, Erik Bekkers, Da Chen, Tos TJM Berendschot, Jan Schouten, Josien Pluim, Yonggang Shi, Behdad Dashtbozorg and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Reconnection of interrupted curvilinear structures via cortically inspired completion for ophthalmologic images”. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. vol. 65 (5), pp. 1151–1165, 2018

• Behdad Dashtbozorg, Jiong Zhang*, Fan Huang and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Retinal microaneurysms detection using local convergence index features”. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. vol. 27 (7), pp. 3300–3315, 2018

• Jiong Zhang, Yuan Chen, Erik Bekkers, Meili Wang, Behdad Dashtbozorg and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Retinal vessel delineation using a brain-inspired wavelet transform and random forest”. Pattern Recognition. vol. 69 (2017), pp. 107–123, 2017

• Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani, Jiong Zhang, Remco Duits and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Retrieving challenging vessel connections in retinal images by line co-occurrence statistics”. Biological Cybernetics, vol. 111 (3), pp. 237–247, 2017

• Jiong Zhang, Behdad Dashtbozorg, Erik Bekkers, Josien Pluim, Remco Duits and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Robust retinal vessel segmentation via locally adaptive derivative frames in orientation scores”. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. vol. 35 (12), pp. 2631–2644, 2016

• Bart ter Haar Romeny, Erik Bekkers, Jiong Zhang et al. ”Brain-Inspired Algorithms for Retinal Image Analysis”. Machine Vision and Applications, pp. 1-19, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s00138-016-0771-9

• Fan Huang, Behdad Dashtbozorg, Jiong Zhang, Erik Bekkers, Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani, Tos J.M. Berend- schot and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Reliability of using retinal vascular fractal dimension as a biomarker in the diabetic retinopathy detection”. Journal of Ophthalmology, 2016:6259047, pp.1-13, 2016

• Jiong Zhang, Remco Duits, Gonzalo Sanguinetti, and Bart ter Haar Romeny. ”Numerical approaches for linear left-invariant diffusions on SE(2), their comparison to exact solutions, and their applications in retinal imaging”. Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications (NM-TMA), vol. 9 (1), pp. 1-50, 2015

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