Yichi Zhang
Research Interests
My research interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of artificial intelligence and healthcare. My long-term research goal is to build foundation and generalized AI models to unlock new possibilities in medical practice. I have published 10+ papers in prestigious conferences and journals and these works were cited 2000+ times.
Currently, my research direction encompasses following focuses. 1) Developing foundation models applicable for molecular imaging applications. 2) Adapting visual/language foundation models for medical image analysis. 3) Deploying AI techniques in real-world biomedicine and healthcare scenarios. I strongly believe in the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and its potential in fostering influential research outcomes. If you are interested in collaborating on research projects, offering internship opportunities or exchange programs, I would be thrilled to connect with you.
Recent News
[2025.9] ✨ Our project
SAM4MIS received the 1000th star, a milestone moment for us!
[2025.8] 💡 We release
PET2Rep, the first whole-body PET/CT image-report dataset for benchmarking VLMs for radiology report generation.
[2025.8] ✨ Some of my works are ranked among the most-cited papers (2020-2025) by Google Scholar Metrics
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[2025.7] 🎉 Our work
SemiSAM+ on foundation model-driven semi-supervised medical image segmentation was accepted by Medical Image Analysis, thanks to all co-authors.
[2025.6] 🎉 Our work
SegAnyPET on foundation model for universal PET segmentation was accepted by ICCV 2025, thanks to all co-authors.
Selected Publications
Foundation Models for Medical Imaging
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PET2Rep: Towards Vision-Language Model-Drived Automated Radiology Report Generation for Positron Emission Tomography
Yichi Zhang*, Wenbo Zhang*, Zehui Ling*, Gang Feng, Sisi Peng, Deshu Chen, Yuchen Liu, Hongwei Zhang, Shuqi Wang, Lanlan Li, Limei Han, Yuan Cheng, Zixin Hu, Yuan Qi, Le Xue.
arXiv preprint, 2025. [project]
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Data/Label-Efficient Learning for Medical Image Analysis
Dataset/Benchmark for Biomedical Imaging and Healthcare Applications
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Aneumo: A Large-Scale Comprehensive Synthetic Dataset of Aneurysm Hemodynamics
Xigui Li, Yuanye Zhou, Feiyang Xiao, Xin Guo, Yichi Zhang, Chen Jiang, Jianchao Ge, Xiansheng Wang, Qimeng Wang, Taiwei Zhang, Chensen Lin, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi.
arXiv preprint, 2025. [project] [dataset]
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NasalSeg: A Dataset for Automatic Segmentation of Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses from 3D CT Images
Yichi Zhang*, Jing Wang*, Tan Pan, Quanling Jiang, Jingjie Ge, Xin Guo, Chen Jiang, Jie Lu, Jianning Zhang, Xueling Liu, Mei Tian, Yuan Qi, Yuan Cheng, Chuantao Zuo.
Scientific Data, 2024. (SCI Q1, IF=5.8). [project] [dataset]
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Deep learning methods for automatic evaluation of delayed enhancement-MRI. The results of the EMIDEC challenge
Alain Lalande, Zhihao Chen, Thibaut Pommier, Thomas Decourselle, Abdul Qayyum, Michel Salomon, Dominique Ginhac, Youssef Skandarani, Arnaud Boucher, Khawla Brahim, Marleen de Bruijne, Robin Camarasa, Teresa M. Correia, Xue Feng, Kibrom B. Girum, Anja Hennemuth, Markus Huellebrand, Raabid Hussain, Matthias Ivantsits, Jun Ma, Craig Meyer, Rishabh Sharma, Jixi Shi, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, Marta Varela, Xiyue Wang, Sen Yang, Hannu Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Yuncheng Zhou, Xiahai Zhuang, Raphael Couturier, Fabrice Meriaudeau.
Medical Image Analysis, 2022. (SCI Q1 TOP, IF=13.828)
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AbdomenCT-1K: Is Abdominal Organ Segmentation A Solved Problem?
Jun Ma, Yao Zhang, Song Gu, Cheng Zhu, Cheng Ge, Yichi Zhang, Xingle An, Congcong Wang, Qiyuan Wang, Xin Liu, Shucheng Cao, Qi Zhang, Shangqing Liu, Yunpeng Wang, Yuhui Li, Jian He, Xiaoping Yang.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021. (SCI Q1 TOP, IF=17.861) [code]
* ESI Highly Cited Paper
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Model-Centric Advancements for Medical Image Analysis
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DDASR: Domain-Distance Adapted Super-Resolution Reconstruction of MR Brain Images
Shan Cong, Kailong Cui, Yuzun Yang, Yang Zhou, Xinxin Wang, Haoran Luo, Yichi Zhang†, Xiaohui Yao †.
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2024.
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Academic Services
Journal Reviews
Nature Methods
Medical Image Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Information Fusion
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Artificial Intelligence Review
Neural Networks
Knowledge-Based Systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Neurocomputing
Medical Physics
Cancer Medicine
Digital Signal Processing
Scientific Reports
BMC Medical Imaging
BMC Oral Health
Frontiers in Oncology
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine
Systems Science & Control Engineering
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
International Journal of Image and Graphics
Conference Reviews
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'25)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'24-25)
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'25)
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'25)
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'24-25)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25-26)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25)
International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL'22-24)
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'24)
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'25)
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'24)
Honors & Awards
[2024] IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Distinguished Reviewer
[2023] Doctoral Student Forum Award on Data Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University
[2023] Excellent Graduate Award of Beijing
[2023] Excellent Master Thesis of Beihang University
[2022] Finalist of Excellent Graduate Student of Beihang University
[2022] Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2022
[2021] National Scholarship in China (Top 1.6%)
[2020] Graduate President Scholarship for Science and Technology Competition (10 every year in Beihang University)
[2020] Scholarship of Outstanding Graduate Students
[2020] Champion, Myocardial Infarction Segmentation (EMIDEC Challenge in MICCAI 2020)
[2019] First Prize of National Biomedical Engineering Innovation and Design Contest of China (Top 5%)
[2018] Special Prize of Feng Ru Cup Competition of Innovation, Beihang University (Top 0.3%)