Publications


Journal Papers

  1. [CBM'25] Li Pan, Yupei Zhang, Qiushi Yang, Tan Li, Zhen Chen✉. "Long-tailed Medical Diagnosis with Relation-aware Representation Learning and Iterative Classifier Calibration", Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  2. [IJCARS'25] Yuhao Zhai*, Zhen Chen*, Xingjian Luo*, Zhi Zheng, Haiqiao Zhang, Xi Wang, Xiaosheng Yan, Xiaoye Liu, Jie Yin, Jinqiao Wang, Jun Zhang. "Generation of Surgical Reports for Lymph Node Dissection During Laparoscopic Gastric Cancer Surgery Based on Artificial Intelligence", International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2025.
  3. [JBHI'24] Yupei Zhang, Li Pan, Qiushi Yang, Tan Li, Zhen Chen✉. "Unified Multi-modal Diagnostic Framework with Reconstruction Pre-training and Heterogeneity-combat Tuning", IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  4. [TOMM'24] Caijuan Shi, Yuanfan Zheng, Zhen Chen✉. "Domain Adaptive Thermal Object Detection with Unbiased Granularity Alignment", ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, vol.20, no.9, pp.1-23, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  5. [IJCV'24] Qiushi Yang, Zhen Chen, Zhe Peng, Yixuan Yuan. "Relation-Guided Versatile Regularization for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning", International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024. [Paper]
  6. [TMI'24] Zequn Zhang, Yun Jiang, Yunnan Wang, Baao Xie, Wenyao Zhang, Yuhang Li, Zhen Chen, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng. "Exploring Contrastive Pre-training for Domain Connections in Medical Image Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2024. [Paper]
  7. [MedIA'24] Wenting Chen, Wei Zhao, Zhen Chen, Tianming Liu, Li Liu, Jun Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "Mask-Aware Transformer with Structure Invariant Loss for CT Translation", Medical Image Analysis, vol.96, pp.103205, 2024. [Paper]
  8. [MedIA'24] Xiaohan Xing, Meilu Zhu, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Comprehensive Learning and Adaptive Teaching: Distilling Multi-Modal Knowledge for Pathological Glioma Grading", Medical Image Analysis, vol.91, pp.102990, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  9. [MedIA'23] Zhen Chen, Wuyang Li, Xiaohan Xing, Yixuan Yuan. "Medical Federated Learning with Joint Graph Purification for Noisy Label Learning", Medical Image Analysis, vol.90, pp.102976, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
  10. [IJCV'23] Xinyu Liu, Baopu Li, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Generalized Gradient Flow Based Saliency for Pruning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks", International Journal of Computer Vision, vol.131, no.12, pp.3121-3135, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
  11. [TMI'23] Qiushi Yang, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Hierarchical Bias Mitigation for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Classification", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.42, no.8, pp.2200-2210, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
  12. [MedIA'23] Xiaohan Xing, Zhen Chen, Yuenan Hou, Yixuan Yuan. "Gradient Modulated Contrastive Distillation of Low-Rank Multi-Modal Knowledge for Disease Diagnosis", Medical Image Analysis, vol.88, pp.102874, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
  13. [TMI'23] Meilu Zhu, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "FedDM: Federated Weakly Supervised Segmentation via Annotation Calibration and Gradient De-conflicting", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.42, no.6, pp.1632-1643, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
  14. [IJCARS'23] Yuhao Zhai*, Zhen Chen*, Zhi Zheng, Xi Wang, Xiaosheng Yan, Xiaoye Liu, Jie Yin, Jinqiao Wang, Jun Zhang. "Artificial Intelligence for Automatic Surgical Phase Recognition of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy in Gastric Cancer", International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol.19, pp.345–353, 2023. [Paper]
  15. [TMI'22] Zhen Chen, Chen Yang, Meilu Zhu, Zhe Peng, Yixuan Yuan. "Personalized Retrogress-Resilient Federated Learning Towards Imbalanced Medical Data", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.41, no.12, pp.3663-3674, 2022. [Paper] [Code]
  16. [MedIA'22] Chen Yang, Xiaoqing Guo, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Source Free Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation with Fourier Style Mining", Medical Image Analysis, vol.79, pp.102457, 2022. [Paper] [Code]
  17. [TMI'22] Qiushi Yang, Xiaoqing Guo, Zhen Chen, Peter Y.M. Woo, Yixuan Yuan. "D2-Net: Dual Disentanglement Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Missing Modalities", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.41, no.10, pp.2953-2964, 2022. [Paper] [Code]
  18. [MedIA'22] Zhen Chen, Jie Liu, Meilu Zhu, Peter Y.M. Woo, Yixuan Yuan. "Instance Importance-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for 3D Medical Diagnosis", Medical Image Analysis, vol.78, pp.102421, 2022. [Paper] [Code]
  19. [MedIA'22] Xiaoqing Guo, Zhen Chen, Jun Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "Non-equivalent Images and Pixels: Confidence-aware Resampling with Meta-Learning Mixup for Polyp Segmentation", Medical Image Analysis, vol.78, pp.102394, 2022. [Paper]
  20. [TIP'21] Wuyang Li, Zhen Chen, Baopu Li, Dingwen Zhang, Yixuan Yuan. "HTD: Heterogeneous Task Decoupling for Two-stage Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.30, pp.9456-9469, 2021. [Paper] [Code]
  21. [TMI'21] Meilu Zhu, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "DSI-Net: Deep Synergistic Interaction Network for Joint Classification and Segmentation with Endoscope Images", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.40, no.12, pp.3315-3325, 2021. [Paper] [Code]
  22. [TMI'21] Zhen Chen, Xiaoqing Guo, Peter Y.M. Woo, Yixuan Yuan. "Super-Resolution Enhanced Medical Image Diagnosis with Sample Affinity Interaction", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol.40, no.5, pp.1377-1389, 2021. [Paper] [Code]
  23. [TCAS-I'20] Zhen Chen, Zhibo Chen, Jianxin Lin, Sen Liu, Weiping Li. "Deep Neural Network Acceleration Based on Low-Rank Approximated Channel Pruning", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol.67, no.4, pp.1232-1244, 2020. [Paper] [Code]

Conference Papers

  1. [ICRA'25] Zhen Chen*, Xingjian Luo*, Jinlin Wu, Long Bai, Zhen Lei, Hongliang Ren, Sebastien Ourselin, Hongbin Liu. "SurgPLAN++: Universal Surgical Phase Localization Network for Online and Offline Inference", IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, USA, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  2. [ICRA'25] Shengyuan Liu*, Zhen Chen*, Qiushi Yang, Weihao Yu, Di Dong, Jiancong Hu, Yixuan Yuan. "Polyp-Gen: Realistic and Diverse Polyp Image Generation for Endoscopic Dataset Expansion", IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, USA, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  3. [ICRA'25] Yiming Huang, Beilei Cui, Long Bai, Zhen Chen, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Lei, Hongbin Liu, Hongliang Ren. "Advancing Dense Endoscopic Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting-driven Surface Normal-aware Tracking and Mapping", IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, USA, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  4. [AAAI'25] Yuanfan Zheng, Jinlin Wu, Wuyang Li, Zhen Chen✉. "Universal Domain Adaptive Object Detection via Dual Probabilistic Alignment", The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, USA, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  5. [AAAI'25] Chenxin Li, Xinyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Cheng Wang, Hengyu Liu, Yifan Liu, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "U-KAN Makes Strong Backbone for Medical Image Segmentation and Generation", The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, USA, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  6. [IROS'24] Zhen Chen, Zongmin Zhang, Wenwu Guo, Xingjian Luo, Long Bai, Jinlin Wu, Hongliang Ren, Hongbin Liu. "ASI-Seg: Audio-Driven Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Surgeon Intention Understanding", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024. (Oral) [Paper] [Code]
  7. [NeurIPS'24] Chenxin Li, Wuyang Li, Hengyu Liu, Xinyu Liu, Qing Xu, Zhen Chen, Yue Huang, Yixuan Yuan. "Flaws can be Applause: Unleashing Potential of Segmenting Ambiguous Objects in SAM", The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  8. [MICCAI'24] Xinyu Liu*, Zhen Chen*, Yixuan Yuan. "MOST: Multi-Formation Soft Masking for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Marrakesh, Moroccan, 2024. (Early Accept: 11%) [Paper] [Code]
  9. [MICCAI'24] Huan Xu, Jinlin Wu, Guanglin Cao, Zhen Chen✉, Zhen Lei, Hongbin Liu. "Transforming Surgical Interventions with Embodied Intelligence for Ultrasound Robotics", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Marrakesh, Moroccan, 2024. (Oral: 2.8%) [Paper] [Code]
  10. [MICCAI'24] Qingyao Tian, Zhen Chen, Huai Liao, Xinyan Huang, Bingyu Yang, Lujie Li, Hongbin Liu. "PANS: Probabilistic Airway Navigation System for Real-time Robust Bronchoscope Localization", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Marrakesh, Moroccan, 2024. [Paper]
  11. [MICCAI'24] Chenxin Li, Brandon Feng, Hengyu Liu, Yifan Liu, Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Zhen Chen, Jing Shao, Yixuan Yuan. "Endora: Video Generation Models as Endoscopy Simulators", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Moroccan, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  12. [MICCAI'24] Qi Chen, Xiaohan Xing, Zhen Chen, Zhiwei Xiong. "Accelerated Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction via Frequency and Spatial Mutual Learning", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Marrakesh, Moroccan, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  13. [MICCAI'24] Long Bai, Qiaozhi Tan, Tong Chen, Wanjun Nah, Yanheng Li, Zhicheng He, Sishen Yuan, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Chen, Mobarakol Islam, Zhen Li, Hongbin Liu, Hongliang Ren. "EndoUIC: Promptable Diffusion Transformer for Unified Illumination Correction in Capsule Endoscopy", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Moroccan, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  14. [BIBM'24] Zhen Chen, Xingjian Luo, Jinlin Wu, Danny T.M. Chan, Zhen Lei, Sebastien Ourselin, Hongbin Liu. "SurgFC: Multimodal Surgical Function Calling Framework on the Demand of Surgeons", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  15. [BIBM'24] Li Pan, Yupei Zhang, Qiushi Yang, Tan Li, Xiaohan Xing, Maximus C.F. Yeung, Zhen Chen✉. "Focus on Focus: Focus-oriented Representation Learning and Multi-view Cross-modal Alignment for Glioma Grading", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  16. [BigData'24] Jinlin Wu, Xusheng Liang, Xuexue Bai, Zhen Chen✉. "SurgBox: Agent-Driven Operating Room Sandbox with Surgery Copilot", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Washington DC, USA, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  17. [BigData'24] Tan Li, Yanming Gong, Hai Liu, Zhen Chen, Linqi Song. "Communication-Efficient Multi-Modal Federated Learning via Dynamic Client-Modality Matching", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Washington DC, USA, 2024.
  18. [ISBI'24] Xingjian Luo, You Pang, Zhen Chen✉, Jinlin Wu, Zongmin Zhang, Zhen Lei, Hongbin Liu. "SurgPLAN: Surgical Phase Localization Network for Phase Recognition", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Athens, Greece, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  19. [ICIP'24] Zhen Sun, Huan Xu, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Chen✉, Hongbin Liu, Zhen Lei. "PWISeg: Weakly-supervised Surgical Instrument Instance Segmentation", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  20. [ICONIP'24] Kunrong Li, Xinyu Liu, Zhen Chen✉. "Semantic Consistency Regularization with Large Language Models for Semi-supervised Sentiment Analysis", International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Auckland, New Zealand, 2024.
  21. [MICCAI'23] Zhen Chen, Qingyu Guo, Leo K.T. Yeung, Danny T.M. Chan, Zhen Lei, Hongbin Liu, Jinqiao Wang. "Surgical Video Captioning with Mutual-Modal Concept Alignment", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Vancouver, Canada, 2023. (Early Accept: 13%) [Paper] [Code]
  22. [MICCAI'23] Li Pan, Yupei Zhang, Qiushi Yang, Tan Li, Zhen Chen✉. "Combat Long-tails in Medical Classification with Relation-aware Consistency and Virtual Features Compensation", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Vancouver, Canada, 2023. (Early Accept: 13%) [Paper] [Code]
  23. [MICCAI'23] Xiaohan Xing, Zhen Chen, Zhifan Gao, Yixuan Yuan. "Gradient and Feature Conformity-Steered Medical Image Classification with Noisy Labels", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Vancouver, Canada, 2023. [Paper]
  24. [BIBM'23] Zhen Chen, Yuhao Zhai, Jun Zhang, Jinqiao Wang. "Surgical Temporal Action-aware Network with Sequence Regularization for Phase Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Istanbul, Turkey, 2023. [Paper]
  25. [MICCAI'22] Xiaohan Xing, Zhen Chen, Meilu Zhu, Yuenan Hou, Zhifan Gao, Yixuan Yuan. "Discrepancy and Gradient-guided Multi-modal Knowledge Distillation for Pathological Glioma Grading", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Singapore, 2022. (Early Accept, Oral: 2.3%) (MICCAI Young Scientist Award 2022, Top-5 in 1,825 submissions) [Paper] [Code]
  26. [MICCAI'22] Qiushi Yang, Xinyu Liu, Zhen Chen, Bulat Ibragimov, Yixuan Yuan. "Semi-Supervised Medical Image Classification with Temporal Knowledge-Aware Regularization", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Singapore, 2022. [Paper] [Code]
  27. [MICCAI'21] Zhen Chen, Meilu Zhu, Chen Yang, Yixuan Yuan. "Personalized Retrogress-Resilient Framework for Real-World Medical Federated Learning", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Strasbourg, France, 2021. (Early Accept, Oral: 3.6%) (MICCAI 2021 Student Travel Award) [Paper] [Code]
  28. [ACM MM'21] Xinyu Liu, Baopu Li, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Exploring Gradient Flow Based Saliency for DNN Model Compression", ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2021. [Paper] [Code]
  29. [AAAI'21] Zhen Chen*, Jun Zhang*, Shuanlong Che, Junzhou Huang, Xiao Han, Yixuan Yuan. "Diagnose Like A Pathologist: Weakly-Supervised Pathologist-Tree Network for Slide-Level Immunohistochemical Scoring", Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. [Paper] [Code]
  30. [MICCAI'20] Zhen Chen, Xiaoqing Guo, Chen Yang, Bulat Ibragimov, Yixuan Yuan. "Joint Spatial-Wavelet Dual-Stream Network for Super-Resolution", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, Lima, Peru, 2020. (Early Accept: 13%) [Paper] [Code]
  31. [ISBI'20] Xiaoqing Guo, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Complementary Network with Adaptive Receptive Fields for Melanoma Segmentation", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Iowa City, USA, 2020. [Paper] [Code]
  32. [VCIP'19] Zikun Liu, Zhen Chen, Weiping Li. "Importance-Aware Filter Selection for Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration", IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Sydney, Australia, 2019. [Paper]
  33. [ISCAS'19] Zhen Chen, Jianxin Lin, Sen Liu, Zhibo Chen, Weiping Li, Jin Zhao, Wei Yan. "Exploiting Weight-Level Sparsity in Channel Pruning with Low-Rank Approximation", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sapporo, Japan, 2019. (Oral) [Paper] [Code]
  34. [IPCCC'18] Zhen Chen, Jianxin Lin, Sen Liu, Jun Xia, Weiping Li. "Decouple and Stretch: A Boost to Channel Pruning", IEEE 37th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Orlando, USA, 2018. [Paper]

Workshop Papers

  1. [ICLR'25 FM-Wild] Guankun Wang, Long Bai, Wan Jun Nah, Jie Wang, Zhaoxi Zhang, Zhen Chen, Jinlin Wu, Mobarakol Islam, Hongbin Liu, Hongliang Ren. "Surgical-LVLM: Learning to Adapt Large Vision-Language Model for Grounded Visual Question Answering in Robotic Surgery", International Conference on Learning Representations Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild, Singapore, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  2. [MICCAI'24 EARTH] Wenwu Guo, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Chen✉, Qingxiang Zhao, Miao Xu, Hongbin Liu, Zhen Lei. "SurgTrack: 3D Tracking of Real-world Surgical Instruments", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Workshop on Embodied AI and Robotics for Healthcare, Marrakesh, Moroccan, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  3. [ICRA'24 C4SR] Huan Xu, Jinlin Wu, Guanglin Cao, Zhen Lei, Zhen Chen✉, Hongbin Liu. "Enhancing Surgical Robots with Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on C4 Surgical Robotic Systems in the Embodied AI Era, Yokohama, Japan, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
  4. [ICRA'24 C4SR] Rongfeng Wei, Jinlin Wu, Xuexue Bai, Ming Feng, Zhen Lei, Hongbin Liu, Zhen Chen✉. "Weakly Supervised YOLO Network for Surgical Instrument Localization in Endoscopic Videos", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on C4 Surgical Robotic Systems in the Embodied AI Era, Yokohama, Japan, 2024. [Paper] [Code]

Editorship

  1. Emre Celebi, Mauricio Reyes, Zhen Chen, Xiaoxiao Li. "Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024 Workshops", ISIC 2024, iMIMIC 2024, EARTH 2024, DeCaF 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6–10, 2024. [Proceedings]