Yuxing Tang
Email : tangyuxing87 [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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Yuxing Tang currently holds the position of Staff Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba DAMO Academy, USA. Prior to this role, he served as a Senior Research Scientist at PAII Inc. before being promoted to Staff. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) between 2017 and 2020. Yuxing earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, in 2016. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at Beijing Jiaotong University, China.

His research expertise lies in the fields of computer vision and deep learning, with a particular focus on their applications in medical imaging, computer-aided diagnosis, and weakly supervised object/lesion detection.

  News
  • [Aug. 2021] Our work on the analysis of our AI model on BI-RADS 0 mammograms has been accepted for publication in European Radiology.
  • [July 2021] Two scientific abstracts including one oral presentation are accepted at RSNA 2021.
  • [June 2021] Our work on multi-view mass detection/segmentation in mammograms has been accepted for publication in Medical Image Analysis.
  • [May 2021] Two co-authored papers are accepted at MICCAI 2021. Congratulations Yanbo and Zhenjie!
  • [Mar. 2021] A first-authored paper on semi-supervised mass detection in mammograms is accepted at CVPR 2021.
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  Selected Publications (Full list)
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  • Journal Articles
  • The added value of an artificial intelligence system in assisting radiologists on indeterminate BI-RADS 0 mammograms
    Chunyan Yi*, Yuxing Tang*, Yanbo Zhang, Rushan Ouyang, Zhenjie Cao, Zhicheng Yang, Shibin Wu, Mei Han, Jing Xiao, Peng Chang, Jie Ma (* co-first authors)
    European Radiology, 2021.
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    We found that our mammographic CAD system could assist mid-level radiologists in effectively reducing unnecessary BI-RADS 0 mammogram recalls and the benign biopsy rate without missing highly malignant tumors.

    MommiNet-v2: Mammographic multi-view mass identification networks
    Zhicheng Yang, Zhenjie Cao, Yanbo Zhang, Yuxing Tang, Xiaohui Lin, Rushan Ouyang, Mingxiang Wu, Mei Han, Jing Xiao, Lingyun Huang, Shibin Wu, Peng Chang, Jie Ma
    Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2021.
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    MommiNet-v2 aggregates information from the high-resolution representations of all mammographic views and incorporates the malignancy information from both biopsy and BI-RADS categories.

    A disentangled generative model for disease decomposition in chest X-rays via normal image synthesis
    Youbao Tang, Yuxing Tang, Yingying Zhu, Jing Xiao, Ronald M. Summers
    Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2021.
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    A novel disentangled generative deep model for chest X-ray decomposition that can interpret chest X-rays by outputting disease residue or saliency maps, to improve radiology workflow and patient care.

    Discriminative ensemble learning for few-shot chest x-ray diagnosis
    Angshuman Paul, Yu-Xing Tang, Thomas C. Shen, Ronald M. Summers
    Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2021.
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    A two-step solution for few-shot learning for disease classification in chest X-rays.

    COVID-19-CT-CXR: a freely accessible and weakly labeled chest X-ray and CT image collection on COVID-19 from biomedical literature
    Yifan Peng, Yu-Xing Tang, Sungwon Lee, Yingying Zhu, Ronald M. Summers, Zhiyong Lu
    IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2021.
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    We develop a framework for rapidly constructing a chest X-ray/CT database containing Covid-19 images from PubMed Central® (PMC) full-text articles.

    Automated abnormality classification of chest radiographs using deep convolutional neural networks
    Yu-Xing Tang, You-Bao Tang, Yifan Peng, Ke Yan, Mohammadhadi Bagheri, Bernadette A. Redd, Catherine J. Brandon, Zhiyong Lu, Mei Han, Jing Xiao, Ronald M. Summers
    npj Digital Medicine, Nature Publishing Group, 2020.
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    AI algorithms can distinguish normal and abnormal chest X-rays with accuracy comparable to that of experienced radiologists, allowing these studies to be triaged for priority review.

    Learning from multiple datasets with heterogeneous and partial labels for universal lesion detection in CT
    Ke Yan, Jinzheng Cai, Youjing Zheng, Adam P. Harrison, Dakai Jin, Youbao Tang, Yuxing Tang, Lingyun Huang, Jing Xiao, Le Lu
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2020.
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    LENS (Lesion ENSemble) is a universal lesion detection framework that can effectively learn with multiple heterogeneous datasets and mine missing annotations from partially-labeled datasets.

    Visual and semantic knowledge transfer for large scale semi-supervised object detection
    Yuxing Tang, Josiah Wang, Xiaofang Wang, Boyang Gao, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Robert Gaizauskas, Liming Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2018.
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    Can knowledge about visual and semantic similarities of object categories help improve the performance of detectors trained in a semi- or weakly- supervised setting?

    Weakly supervised learning of deformable part-based models for object detection via region proposals
    Yuxing Tang, Xiaofang Wang, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Liming Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2017.
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    Using region proposals to improve the weakly supervised deformable part-based model.

    A global/local affinity graph for image segmentation
    Xiaofang Wang, Yuxing Tang, Simon Masnou, Liming Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2015.
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    A sparse global/local affinity graph over superpixels of an input image to capture both short and long range grouping cues.

      

  • Conference Proceedings
  • Leveraging large-scale weakly labeled data for semi-supervised mass detection in mammograms
    Yuxing Tang, Zhenjie Cao, Yanbo Zhang, Zhicheng Yang, Zongcheng Ji, Yiwei Wang, Mei Han, Jie Ma, Jing Xiao, Peng Chang
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
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    A novel self-training framework for semi-supervised mass detection with soft image-level labels generated from diagnosis reports by a RoBERTa-based NLP model.

    BI-RADS classification of calcification on mammograms
    Yanbo Zhang, Yuxing Tang, Zhenjie Cao, Mei Han, Jing Xiao, Jie Ma, Peng Chang
    International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021.
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    A deep learning-based BI-RADS classification for individual calcification in mammograms. A new evaluation metric for BI-RADS classification which considers the severity of malignancy.

    Supervised contrastive pre-training for mammographic triage screening models
    Zhenjie Cao, Zhicheng Yang, Yuxing Tang, Yanbo Zhang, Mei Han, Jing Xiao, Jie Ma, Peng Chang
    International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021.
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    A framework of supervised contrastive pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning to improve mammographic triage screening models.

    E²Net: An edge enhanced network for accurate liver and tumor segmentation on CT scans
    Youbao Tang, Yuxing Tang, Yingying Zhu, Jing Xiao, Ronald M. Summers
    International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2020.
    | BibTeX | arXiv |

    A two-stage framework (edge enhanced network) for 2D liver and tumor segmentation on CT scans.

      Awards
    • CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2020
    • RSNA Trainee Research Prize, 2019
    • ISBI Travel Award, 2019
    • IAPR Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2018
    • CVPR Doctoral Consortium Travel Grant, 2016
      Services
  •   Journal reviews
    • IEEE TPAMI / TIP / TNNLS / TMI / TMM / TCSVT / JBHI / TBD / Access
      Elsevier MedIA/ PR / PRL / NEUCOM
      Nature Publication Group npj Digital Medicine / Scientific Reports
      RSNA Radiology / Radiology: AI / Cardiothoracic Imaging
      IET Computer Vision / Signal Processing / Image Processing / Electronics Letters
      MDPI Sensors / Remote Sensing / Applied Sciences / Algorithms
      SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging
      Medical Physics, PLOS ONE
  •   Conference reviews or technical/program committee
    • CVPR 2018/2019/2020/2021, ICCV 2019, NeurIPS 2022, ICLR 2022, MICCAI 2018/2019, AAAI 2020, 2022, ECCV 2020, WACV 2022, ACCV 2018, ICHI 2019, PRCV 2019

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