Our Research

We are a group working at medical artificial intelligence, exploring the new technologies and applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The following themes outline our current research interest:

Medical image analsys

Medical natural language processing

Bioinformatics

In the end, we are trying to integrating all modalities (including medical images, patient demographics, clinical notes, and genes) to develop a large multi-modal model and explore its new applications in healthcare.

Meet The Team
  • 2024
    Founded
  • 1
    Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 12
    Visiting Students
  • 4
    Assistants
Principal Investigator
Yefeng Zheng, PH.D.

School of Engineering

Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Yefeng Zheng was born in the city of Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, in 1975. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 2005. From 2006 to 2017, he worked at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey, USA on medical image analysis. From 2018 to 2024, he was a Distinguished Scientist and Director of Tencent Jarvis Lab, leading the company's initiative on medical artificial intelligence. He joined Westlake University in July 2024 as a tenured full professor. He has invented 90+ US patents and published 300+ papers, which have been cited more than 24,000 times with an h-index of 77. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He was a Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021, served as an area chair for various top conferences in artificial intelligence (e.g., NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, and MICCAI).

Recent Publications
Dec, 2024
npj Digital Medicine 2024

A Multimodal Multidomain Multilingual Medical Foundation Model for Zero Shot Clinical Diagnosis (In Press)

F. Liu, Z. Li, Q. Yin, J. Huang, X. Wu, A. Thakur, K. Branson, P. Schwab, B. Yin, Y. Zheng, J. Luo, and D. Clifton

Dec, 2024
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2024

Unlocking the Potential of Weakly Labeled Data: A Co-Evolutionary Learning Framework for Abnormality Detection and Report Generation (In Press)

J. Sun, D. Wei, Z. Xu, D. Lu, H. Liu, H. Wang, L. Wang, and Y. Zheng

Dec, 2024
International Journal of Computer Vision 2024

Learning to Generalize Heterogeneous Representation for Cross-Modality Image Synthesis via Multiple Domain Interventions (In Press)

Y. Huang, H. Huang, H. Zheng, Y. Li, F. Zheng, X. Zhen, and Y. Zheng

Dec, 2024
NeurIPS 2024, poster

MedJourney: Benchmark and Evaluation of Large Language Models over Patient Clinical Journey

Xian Wu, Yutian Zhao, Yunyan Zhang, Jiageng Wu, Zhihong Zhu, Yingying Zhang, Yi Ouyang, Ziheng Zhang, Huimin Wang, Zhenxi Lin, Jie Yang, Shuang Zhao, Yefeng Zheng

Dec, 2024
NeurIPS 2024, poster

Learning Frequency-Adapted Vision Foundation Model for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation

Qi Bi, Jingjun Yi, Hao Zheng, Haolan Zhan, Yawen Huang, Wei Ji, Yuexiang Li, Yefeng Zheng

Dec, 2024
NeurIPS 2024, Poster

Samba: Severity-aware Recurrent Modeling for Cross-domain Medical Image Grading

Qi Bi, Jingjun Yi, Hao Zheng, Wei Ji, Haolan Zhan, Yawen Huang, Yuexiang Li, Yefeng Zheng

Dec, 2024
NeurIPS 2024, Spotlight

LLM-ESR: Large Language Models Enhancement for Long-tailed Sequential Recommendation

Qidong Liu, Xian Wu, Yejing Wang, Zijian Zhang, Feng Tian, Yefeng Zheng, Xiangyu Zhao

Nov, 2024
EMNLP 2024, Findings

Can LLMs Replace Clinical Doctors? Exploring Bias in Disease Diagnosis by Large Language Models

Yutian Zhao, Huimin Wang, Yuqi Liu, Wu Suhuang, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng

Nov, 2024
EMNLP 2024, Findings

Mitigating Hallucinations of Large Language Models in Medical Information Extraction via Contrastive Decoding

Derong Xu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhihong Zhu, Zhenxi Lin, Qidong Liu, Xian Wu, Tong Xu, Xiangyu Zhao, Yefeng Zheng, Enhong Chen

Nov, 2024
EMNLP 2024, main

DGLF: A Dual Graph-based Learning Framework for Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection

Zhihong Zhu, Kefan Shen, Zhaorun Chen, Yunyan Zhang, Yuyan Chen, Xiaoqi Jiao, Zhongwei Wan, Shaorong Xie, Wei Liu, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng

Latest News
2024.12.13

One paper got accepted by AAAI 2025. Congrats to all co-authors.

2024.12.13

One paper got accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision! One paper got accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging! Congrats to all co-authors.

2024.12.11

One paper got accepted by npj Digital Medicine! Congrats to all co-authors.

2024.11.29

Congratulations to Shikun Li on concluding the visit and starting a new role at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

2024.11.01

Three papers got accepted by EMNLP 2024! Congrats to all co-authors.

2024.11.01

Dr. Meihong Pan from Shanghai Jiao Tong University joins Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

2024.10.01

Three papers got accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024! Congrats to all co-authors.

2024.10.01

One paper got accepted by CIKM 2024! Congrats to all co-authors.

2024.09.26

Four papers got accepted by NeurIPS 2024! Congrats to Qi Bi and all co-authors.

2024.07.29

Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has been officially established!

Join Us

The Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Westlake University currently has multiple openings for PhD students, postdocs, and research assistants, and welcome motivated applicants to join our research adventures. Candidates with a background in computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, or other related fields are encouraged to apply.