Yichi Zhang

Ph.D Candidate, Fudan University. Email: zhangyichi23@m.fudan.edu.cn

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• Developing Foundation Models for Universal Segmentation from 3D Whole-Body Positron Emission Tomography
  Yichi Zhang*, Le Xue*, Wenbo Zhang, Lanlan Li, Feiyang Xiao, Yuchen Liu, Xiaohui Zhang, Hongwei Zhang, Shuqi Wang, Gang Feng, Liling Peng, Xin Gao, Yuanfan Xu, Yuan Qi, Kuangyu Shi, Hong Zhang, Yuan Cheng, Mei Tian, Zixin Hu.
  In Submission, 2026. [code] [model]

• SegAnyPET: Universal Promptable Segmentation from Positron Emission Tomography Images
  Yichi Zhang, Le Xue, Wenbo Zhang, Lanlan Li, Yuchen Liu, Chen Jiang, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi.
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. [code] [model]

• SemiSAM-O1: How far can we push the boundary of annotation-efficient medical image segmentation?
  Yichi Zhang, Le Xue, Bichun Xu, Judong Luo, Zhigang Wu, Yu Fu, Zixin Hu, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi.
  In Submission, 2026. [code]

• SemiSAM+: Rethinking Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation in the Era of Foundation Models
  Yichi Zhang, Bohao Lv, Le Xue, Wenbo Zhang, Yuchen Liu, Yu Fu, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi.
  Medical Image Analysis, 2025. (SCI Q1 TOP, IF=11.8) [code] [video@MICS]

• SemiSAM: Enhancing Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation via SAM-Assisted Consistency Regularization
  Yichi Zhang, Jin Yang, Yuchen Liu, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi.
  International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2024. [code]

• Segment Anything Model for Medical Image Segmentation: Current Applications and Future Directions
  Yichi Zhang^†, Zhenrong Shen, Rushi Jiao.
  Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024. (SCI Q1, IF=7.7) [project]
  * Open-source project summary with 1000+ stars on Github
  * ESI Highly Cited Paper

• Unleashing the Potential of Generalist Segmentation Foundation Models for Biomedical Image and Video Analysis
  Yichi Zhang, Zhenrong Shen, Lanlan Li, Wenbo Zhang, Le Xue.
  iRadiology, 2026.

• Enhancing the Reliability of Auto-Prompting SAM for Medical Image Segmentation with Uncertainty Estimation and Rectification
  Yichi Zhang, Shiyao Hu, Le Xue, Sijie Ren, Zixin Hu, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi.
  International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCV-W), 2025.

• 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.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026. [project] [dataset]

• Uncovering Modality Discrepancy and Generalization Illusion for General-Purpose 3D Medical Segmentation
  Yichi Zhang*, Feiyang Xiao*, Le Xue, Wenbo Zhang, Gang Feng, Chenguang Zheng, Yuan Qi, Yuan Cheng, Zixin Hu.
  In Submission, 2026. [project]

• PETWB-REP: A Multi-Cancer Whole-Body FDG PET/CT Dataset with Corresponding Radiology Reports
  Le Xue, Gang Feng, Wenbo Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Lanlan Li, Shuqi Wang, Liling Peng, Sisi Peng, Xin Gao.
  Scientific Data, 2026. [code] [dataset]

• PET-F2I: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs for PET/CT Report Impression Generation
  Yuchen Liu, Wenbo Zhang, Liling Peng, Yichi Zhang, Yu Fu, Xin Guo, Chao Qu, Yuan Qi, Le Xue.
  In Submission, 2026.

• IAVS: A Multi-Center Dataset and Applicability Evaluation System for Computational Fluid Dynamics-Oriented Intracranial Aneurysm Segmentation
  Feiyang Xiao*, Yichi Zhang*, Xigui Li*, Yuanye Zhou, Chen Jiang, Xin Guo, Limei Han, Yuxin Li, Fengping Zhu, Yuan Cheng.
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2026. (early accept)

• 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.
  In Submission, 2025. [project] [dataset]

• 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]

• Bridging 2D and 3D Segmentation Networks for Computation Efficient Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation: An Empirical Study of 2.5D Solutions
  Yichi Zhang, Qingcheng Liao, Le Ding, Jicong Zhang.
  Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2022. (SCI Q1, IF=7.422)

• 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)

• 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

• Topological-Aware Regularization for Semi-Supervised Intracranial Aneurysm Vessel Segmentation
  Feiyang Xiao*, Yichi Zhang*, Xigui Li, Yuanye Zhou, Chen Jiang, Xin Guo, Limei Han, Yuxin Li, Fengping Zhu, Yuan Cheng.
  Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2026.

• Learning with Limited Annotations: A Survey on Deep Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation
  Rushi Jiao*, Yichi Zhang*, Le Ding, Bingsen Xue, Jicong Zhang, Rong Cai, Cheng Jin.
  Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023. (SCI Q1, IF=7.7)
  * ESI Highly Cited Paper

• Competitive Ensembling Teacher-Student Framework for Semi-Supervised Left Atrium MRI Segmentation
  Yuyan Shi, Yichi Zhang^†, Shasha Wang.
  International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2023.

• Uncertainty-Guided Mutual Consistency Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
  Yichi Zhang, Rushi Jiao, Qingcheng Liao, Dongyang Li, Jicong Zhang.
  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2023. (SCI Q1 TOP, IF=7.5) [code]

• Exploiting Shared Knowledge from Non-COVID Lesions for Annotation-Efficient COVID-19 CT Lung Infection Segmentation
  Yichi Zhang*, Qingcheng Liao*, Lin Yuan, He Zhu, Jiezhen Xing, Jicong Zhang.
  IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2021. (SCI Q1 TOP, IF=5.77) [video@MICS]

• Dual-Task Mutual Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
  Yichi Zhang, Jicong Zhang.
  Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), 2021. [code]

• D-Net: Dynamic large kernel with dynamic feature fusion for volumetric medical image segmentation
  Jin Yang, Peijie Qiu, Yichi Zhang, Daniel S. Marcus, Aristeidis Sotiras.
  Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2025. (SCI Q1, IF=4.9)

• 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.

• Mamba-UNet: UNet-Like Pure Visual Mamba for Medical Image Segmentation
  Ziyang Wang, Jian-Qing Zheng, Yichi Zhang, Ge Cui, Lei Li.
  arXiv preprint, 2024. [code]

• SAU-Net: Efficient 3D Spine MRI Segmentation Using Inter-Slice Attention
  Yichi Zhang, Lin Yuan, Yujia Wang, Jicong Zhang.
  Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2020. [video@MIDL]

• Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Myocardial Infarction Segmentation from Delayed Enhancement Cardiac MRI
  Yichi Zhang ^†
  International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, 2020.
  * Ranked 1st Place of MICCAI 2020 EMIDEC Segmentation Challenge.