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Embedding Tasks into the Latent Space: Cross-Space Consistency for Multi-Dimensional Analysis in Echocardiography.
Zhenxuan Zhang, Chengjin Yu, Heye Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

[paper]
Frequency-Enhanced Geometric-Constrained Reconstruction for Localizing Myocardial Infarction in 12-Lead Electrocardiograms.
Shichang Lian,
Zhifan Gao
, Hui Wang, Xiujian Liu, Lei Xu, Huafeng Liu, Heye Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

[paper]
Explainable Classification of Benign-Malignant Pulmonary Nodules With Neural Networks and Information Bottleneck.
Haixing Zhu, Weipeng Liu,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

[paper]
Accurate 3D Contrast-Free Myocardial Infarction Delineation Using a 4D Dual-Stream Spatiotemporal Feature Learning Framework.
Jinhao Liu, Xinglai Zhu, Chenchu Xu, Lei Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Kemal Polat, Fayadh Alenezi.
Applied Soft Computing

[paper]
Multi-domain Adversarial Variational Bayesian Inference for Domain Generalization.
Zhifan Gao
, Saidi Guo, Chenchu Xu, Jinglin Zhang, Mingming Gong, Javier Del Ser, Shuo Li.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

[paper]
Scale Mutualized Perception for Vessel Border Detection in Intravascular Ultrasound Images.
Xiujian Liu, Tianyuan Feng, Weipeng Liu, Liang Song, Yixuan Yuan, William Kongto Hau, Javier Del Ser,
Zhifan Gao
.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

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Publication

Distraction-aware Hierarchical Learning for Vascular Structure Segmentation in Intravascular Ultrasound Images.
Wenhao Zhong, Heye Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
, William Kongto Hau, Guang Yang, Xiujian Liu, Lin Xu.
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
115:102381, 2024

[paper]
A Deformable Constraint Transport Network for Optimal Aortic Segmentation from CT Images.
Weiyuan Lin,
Zhifan Gao
, Hui Liu, Heye Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
43(4):1462-1475, 2024

[paper]
Iterative Residual Optimization Network for Limited-angle Tomographic Reconstruction.
Jiayi Pan, Hengyong Yu,
Zhifan Gao
, Shaoyu Wang, Heye Zhang, Weiwen Wu.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
33:910-925, 2024

[paper]
Cellular Nucleus Image-Based Smarter Microscope System for Single Cell Analysis.
Wentao Wang, Lin Yang, Hang Sun, Xiaohong Peng, Junjie Yuan, Wenhao Zhong, Jinqi Chen, Xin He, Lingzhi Ye, Yi Zeng,
Zhifan Gao
, Yunhui Li, Xiangmeng Qu.
Biosensors and Bioelectronics
250:116052, 2024

[paper]
A Physics-guided Deep Learning Approach For Functional Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease in IoT-based Smart Health.
Dong Zhang, Xiujian Liu, Jun Xia,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
10(21):18505-18516, 2023

[paper]
Deep Learning–based Prediction of Percutaneous Recanalization in Chronic Total Occlusion Using Coronary CT Angiography.
Zhen Zhou, Yifeng Gao, Weiwei Zhang, Nan Zhang, Hui Wang, Rui Wang,
Zhifan Gao
, Xiaomeng Huang, Shanshan Zhou, Xu Dai, Guang Yang, Heye Zhang, Koen Nieman, Lei Xu.
Radiology
309(2), 2023

[paper]
Conditional Physics-Informed Graph Neural Network for Fractional Flow Reserve Assessment.
Baihong Xie, Xiujian Liu, Heye Zhang, Chenchu Xu, Tieyong Zeng, Yixuan Yuan, Guang Yang,
Zhifan Gao
.
26nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2023.

[paper]
Gradient and Feature Conformity-Steered Medical Image Classification with Noisy Labels.
Xiaohan Xing, Zhen Chen,
Zhifan Gao
, Yixuan Yuan.
26nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2023.

[paper]
Multi-Level Multi-Type Self-Generated Knowledge Fusion for Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation.
Chenjin Yu, Shuang Li, Dhanjoo Ghista,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Javier Del Ser, Lin Xu.
Information Fusion
92: 1-12, 2023

[paper]
Multi-View Stereoscopic Attention Network for 3D Tumor Classification in Automated Breast Ultrasound.
Wanli Ding, Heye Zhang, Shuxin Zhuang, Zhemin Zhuang,
Zhifan Gao
.
Expert Systems with Applications
234(120969), 2023.

[paper]
Vessel Contour Detection in Intracoronary Images via Bilateral Cross-Domain Adaptation.
Yihua Zhi, William Kongto Hau, Heye Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
27(7): 3314-3325, 2023.

[paper]
Causal Knowledge Fusion for 3D Cross-Modality Cardiac Image Segmentation.
Saidi Guo, Xiujian Liu, Heye Zhang, Qixin Lin, Lei Xu, Changzheng Shi,
Zhifan Gao
, Antonella Guzzo, Giancarlo Fortino.
Information Fusion
99(101864), 2023.

[paper]
Hierarchical Perception Adversarial Learning Framework for Compressed Sensing MRI.
Zhifan Gao
, Yifeng Guo, Jiajing Zhang, Tieyong Zeng, Guang Yang.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
42(6): 1859-1874, 2023.

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Progressive Perception Learning for Main Coronary Segmentation in X-ray Angiography.
Hongwei Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
, Dong Zhang, William Kongto Hau, Heye Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
42(3): 864-879, 2023.

[paper]
Reliable Mutual Distillation for Medical Image Segmentation Under Imperfect Annotations.
Chaowei Fang, Qian Wang, Lechao Cheng,
Zhifan Gao
, Chengwei Pan, Zhen Cao, Zhaohui Zheng, Dingwen Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
42(6): 1720-1734, 2023.

[paper]
Survival Prediction of Heart Failure Patients Using Motion-Based Analysis Method.
Saidi Guo, Heye Zhang, Yifeng Gao, Hui Wang, Lei Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Antonella Guzzo, Giancarlo Fortino.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
236(107547), 2023.

[paper]
Motion Estimation Based on Projective Information Disentanglement for 3D Reconstruction of Rotational Coronary Angiography.
Xiujian Liu, Si Li, Bin Wang, Lin Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Guang Yang.
Computers in Biology and Medicine
157(106743), 2023.

[paper]
Distance transform learning for structural and functional analysis of coronary artery from dual-view angiography.
Dong Zhang, Heye Zhang, Hongwei Zhang, Lei Xu, Jinglin Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
.
Future Generation Computer Systems
145:136-149, 2023.

[paper]
Multiple Adversarial Learning based Angiography Reconstruction for Ultra-low-dose Contrast Medium CT.
Weiwei Zhang, Zhen Zhou,
Zhifan Gao
, Guang Yang, Lei Xu, Weiwen Wu, Heye Zhang.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
27(1): 409-420, 2023.

[paper]
Intelligent Internet of Things in Mammography Screening using Multicenter Transformation Between Unified Capsules.
Boyan Wang, Xuegang Hu, Jinglin Zhang, Chenchu Xu,
Zhifan Gao
.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
10(2): 1536-1545, 2023.

[paper]
Personalized Coronary Blood Flow Model Based on CT Perfusion to Non-Invasively Calculate Fractional Flow Reserve.
Xiaofei Xue, Xiujian Liu,
Zhifan Gao
, Rui Wang, Lei Xu, Dhanjoo Ghista, Heye Zhang.
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
404(1), 115789, 2023.

[paper]
Unsupervised Tissue Segmentation via Deep Constrained Gaussian Network.
Yang Nan, Peng Tang, Guyue Zhang, Caihong Zeng, Zhihong Liu,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Guang Yang.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
41(12): 3799-3811, 2022.

[paper]
Annealing Genetic GAN for Imbalanced Web Data Learning.
Jingyu Hao, Chengjia Wang, Guang Yang,
Zhifan Gao
, Jinglin Zhang, Heye Zhang.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
24: 1164-1174, 2022.

[paper]
Swin Transformer for Fast MRI.
Jiahao Huang, Yingying Fang, Yinzhe Wu, Huanjun Wu,
Zhifan Gao
, Yang Li, Javier Del Ser, Jun Xia, Guang Yang.
Neurocomputing
493: 281-304, 2022.

[paper]
Physiologically Personalized Coronary Blood Flow Model to Improve the Estimation of Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve.
Xiujian Liu, Chuangye Xu, Simin Rao, Ye Zhang, Dhanjoo Ghista,
Zhifan Gao
, Guang Yang.
Medical Physics
49(1): 583-597, 2022.

[paper]
Vessel-GAN: Angiographic Reconstructions from Myocardial CT Perfusion with Explainable Generative Adversarial Networks.
Chulin Wu, Heye Zhang, Jiaqi Chen,
Zhifan Gao
, Pengfei Zhang, Khan Muhammad, Javier Del Ser.
Future Generation Computer Systems
130: 128-139, 2022.

[paper]
A Geometry-Constrainted Deformable Attention Network for Aortic Segmentation.
Weiyuan Lin, Hui Liu, Lin Gu,
Zhifan Gao
.
25nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2022.

[paper]
Discrepancy and Gradient-guided Multi-modal Knowledge Distillation for Pathological Glioma Grading.
Xiaohan Xing, Zhen Chen, Meilu Zhu, Yuenan Hou,
Zhifan Gao
, Yixuan Yuan.
25nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2022.

[paper]
CS2: A Controllable and Simultaneous Synthesizer of Images and Annotations with Minimal Human Intervention.
Xiaodan Xing, Jiahao Huang, Yang Nan, Yinzhe Wu, Chengjia Wang,
Zhifan Gao
, Simon Walsh, Guang Yang.
25nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2022.

[paper]
Swin Deformable Attention U-Net Transformer (SDAUT) for Explainable Fast MRI.
Jiahao Huang, Xiaodan Xing,
Zhifan Gao
, Guang Yang.
25nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2022.

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Multi-Level Semantic Adaptation for Few-Shot Segmentation on Cardiac Image Sequences.
Saidi Guo, Lin Xu, Cheng Feng, Huahua Xiong,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang.
Medical Image Analysis
73(102170), 2021.

[paper]
Applying Cross-Modality Data Processing for Infarction Learning in Medical Internet of Things.
Chenchu Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Dong Zhang, Jinglin Zhang, Lei Xu, Shuo Li.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
8(23): 16902-16910, 2021.

[paper]
Joint Segmentation and Quantification of Main Coronary Vessels Using Dual-Branch Multi-scale Attention Network.
Hongwei Zhang, Dong Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang.
24nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2021.

[paper]
Multi-Task Learning for Estimating Multi-Type Cardiac Indices in MRI and CT Based on Adversarial Reverse Mapping.
Chengjin Yu,
Zhifan Gao
, Weiwei Zhang, Guang Yang, Shu Zhao, Heye Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Shuo Li.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
32(2):493-506, 2021.

[paper]
Video salient object detection using dual-stream spatiotemporal attention.
Chenchu Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Shuo Li, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque.
Applied Soft Computing
108(107433), 2021.

[paper]
Industrial Pervasive Edge Computing-based Intelligence IoT for Surveillance Saliency Detection.
Jinglin Zhang, Chenchu Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
17(7): 5012-5020, 2021.

[paper]
Carotid Wall Longitudinal Motion in Ultrasound Imaging: An Expert Consensus Review.
Fereshteh Yousefi Rizi, Jason Au, Heikki Yli-Ollila, Spyretta Golemati, Monika Makūnaitė, Maciej Orkisz, Nassir Navab, Maureen MacDonald, Tiina Marja Laitinen, Hamid Behnam,
Zhifan Gao
, Aimilia Gastounioti, Rytis Jurkonis, Didier Vray, Tomi Laitinen, André Sérusclat, Konstantina S. Nikita, and Guillaume Zahnd.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
46(10):2605-2624, 2020.

[paper]
Privileged Modality Distillation for Vessel Border Detection in Intracoronary Imaging.
Zhifan Gao
, Jonathan Chung, Mohamed Abdelrazek, Stephanie Leung, William Kongto Hau, Zhanchao Xian, Heye Zhang, and Shuo Li.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
39(5):1524-1534, 2020.

[paper]
Learning Physical Properties in Complex Visual Scenes: An Intelligent Machine for Perceiving Blood Flow Dynamics from Static CT Angiography Imaging.
Zhifan Gao
, Xin Wang, Shanhui Sun, Dan Wu, Junjie Bai, Youbing Yin, Xin Liu, Heye Zhang, and Victor Hugo C de Albuquerque.
Neural Networks
123:82-93, 2020.

[paper]
Salient Object Detection in the Distributed Cloud-Edge Intelligent Network.
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Shizhou Dong, Shanhui Sun, Xin Wang, Guang Yang, Wanqing Wu, Shuo Li, and Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque.
IEEE Network
34(2):216-224, 2020.

[paper]
Trustful Internet of Surveillance Things Based on Deeply-Represented Visual Co-Saliency Detection.
Zhifan Gao
, Chenchu Xu, Heye Zhang, Shuo Li, and Victor Hugo C de Albuquerque.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
7(5):4092-4100, 2020.

[paper]
Simultaneous Left Atrium Anatomy and Scar Segmentations via Deep Learning in Multiview Information with Attention.
Guang Yang, Jun Chen,
Zhifan Gao
, Shuo Li, Hao Ni, Elsa Angelini, Tom Wong, Raad Mohiaddin, Eva Nyktari, Ricardo Wage, Lei Xu, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Heye Zhang, David Firmin, and Jennifer Keegan.
Future Generation Computer Systems
107:215-228, 2020.

[paper]
Unified Model for Interpreting Multi-View Echocardiographic Sequences Without Temporal Information.
Ming Li, Shizhou Dong,
Zhifan Gao
, Cheng Feng, Huahua Xiong, Wei Zheng, Dhanjoo Ghista, Heye Zhang, and Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque.
Applied Soft Computing
88(106049), 2020.

[paper]
Learning the Implicit Strain Reconstruction in Ultrasound Elastography Using Privileged Information.
Zhifan Gao
, Sitong Wu, Zhi Liu, Jianwen Luo, Heye Zhang, Mingming Gong, and Shuo Li.
Medical Image Analysis
58(101534), 2019.

[paper]
Deep Learning for Diagnosis of Chronic Myocardial Infarction on Nonenhanced Cardiac Cine MRI.
Nan Zhang, Guang Yang,
Zhifan Gao
, Chenchu Xu, Yanping Zhang, Rui Shi, Jennifer Keegan, Lei Xu, Heye Zhang, Zhanming Fan, and David Firmin.
Radiology
291:606-617, 2019.

[paper]
Evaluation of Fractional Flow Reserve in Patients with Stable Angina: Can CT Compete with Angiography ?
Xin Liu, Yabin Wang, Heye Zhang, Youbing Yin, Kunlin Cao,
Zhifan Gao
, Huafeng Liu, William Kongto Hau, Lei Gao, Yundai Chen, Feng Cao, and Wenhua Huang.
European Radiology
29:3669-3677, 2019.

[paper]
Automatic Segmentation of Coronary Tree in CT Angiography Images
Zhifan Gao
, Xin Liu, Song Qi, Wanqing Wu, William Kongto Hau, and Heye Zhang.
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
33(8):1239-1247, 2019.

[paper]
Context-Aware Inductive Bias Learning for Vessel Border Detection in Multi-modal Intracoronary Imaging.
Zhifan Gao
and Shuo Li.
22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2019.

[paper]
A Deep Learning Based Left Atrium Anatomy Segmentation and Scar Delineation in 3D Late Gadolinium Enhanced CMR Images.
Guang Yang, Jun Chen,
Zhifan Gao
, Shuo Li, Hao Ni, Elsa Angelini, Tom Wong, Raad Mohiaddin, Eva Nyktari, Ricardo Wage, Lei Xu, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Heye Zhang, David Firmin, Jennifer Keegan.
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting & Exhibition
(ISMRM), 2019.

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Motion Tracking of the Carotid Artery Wall from Ultrasound Image Sequences: a Nonlinear State-Space Approach.
Zhifan Gao
, Yanjie Li, Yuanyuan Sun, Jiayuan Yang, Huahua Xiong, Heye Zhang, Xin Liu, Wanqing Wu, Dong Liang, and Shuo Li.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
37(1):273-283, 2018.

[paper]
Robust Segmentation of Intima-Media Borders with Different Morphologies and Dynamics During the Cardiac Cycle.
Shen Zhao,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Yaoqin Xie, Jianwen Luo, Dhanjoo Ghista, Zhanghong Wei, Xiaojun Bi, Huahua Xiong, Chenchu Xu, and Shuo Li.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
22(5):1571-1582, 2018.

[paper]
Robust recovery of myocardial kinematics using dual H∞ criteria.
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Defeng Wang, Min Guo, Huafeng Liu, Ling Zhuang, and Pengcheng Shi.
Multimedia Tools and Applications
77:23043–23071, 2018.

[paper]
Direct Delineation of Myocardial Infarction without Contrast Agents Using a Joint Motion Feature Learning Architecture.
Chenchu Xu, Lei Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Shen Zhao, Heye Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Shu Zhao, Dhanjoo Ghista, Huafeng Liu, and Shuo Li.
Medical Image Analysis
50:82-94, 2018.

[paper]
A Meshfree Representation for Cardiac Medical Image Computing.
Heye Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
, Lin Xu, Xingjian Yu, Ken C. L. Wong, Huafeng Liu, Ling Zhuang, and Pengcheng Shi.
IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
6:1800212, 2018.

[paper]
Holistic and Deep Feature Pyramids for Saliency Detection.
Shizhou Dong,
Zhifan Gao
, Shanhui Sun, Xin Wang, Ming Li, Heye Zhang, Guang Yang, Huafeng Liu and Shuo Li.
British Machine Vision Conference
(BMVC), 2018.

[paper]
Deep Learning Intra-Image and Inter-Images Features for Co-Saliency Detection.
Min Li, Shizhou Dong, Kun Zhang,
Zhifan Gao
, Xi Wu, Heye Zhang, Guang Yang, and Shuo Li.
British Machine Vision Conference
(BMVC), 2018.

[paper]
Direct Reconstruction of Ultrasound Elastography Using an End-to-End Deep Neural Network.
Sitong Wu,
Zhifan Gao
, Zhi Liu, Jianwen Luo, Heye Zhang, and Shuo Li.
21nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2018.

[paper]
Multiview Two-Task Recursive Attention Model for Left Atrium and Atrial Scars Segmentation.
Jun Chen, Guang Yang,
Zhifan Gao
, Hao Ni, Elsa Angelini, Raad Mohiaddin, Tom Wong, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Heye Zhang, Jennifer Keegan, and David Firmin.
21nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2018.

[paper]
Multiview Sequential Learning and Dilated Residual Learning for a Fully Automatic Delineation of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins from Late Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac MRI Images.
Guang Yang, Jun Chen,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Hao Ni, Elsa Angelini, Raad Mohiaddin, Tom Wong, Jennifer Keegan, and David Firmin.
40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBC), 2018.

[paper]
Robust Estimation of Carotid Artery Wall Motion Using the Elasticity-Based State-Space Approach.
Zhifan Gao
, Huahua Xiong, Xin Liu, Heye Zhang, Dhanjoo Ghista, Wanqing Wu, and Shuo Li.
Medical Image Analysis
37:1-21, 2017.

[paper]
An Artificial Neural Network Method for Lumen and Media-Adventitia Border Detection in IVUS.
Shengran Su, Zhenghui Hu, Qiang Lin, William Kongto Hau,
Zhifan Gao
, and Heye Zhang.
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
57(4):29-39, 2017.

[paper]
Direct Detection of Pixel-Level Myocardial Infarction Areas via a Deep-Learning Algorithm.
Chenchu Xu, Lei Xu,
Zhifan Gao
, Shen Zhao, Heye Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Xiuquan Du, Shu Zhao, Dhanjoo Ghista, Shuo Li.
20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2017.

[paper]
Detection of Lumen and Media-Adventitia Borders in IVUS Images Using Sparse Auto-Encoder Neural Network.
Shengran Su,
Zhifan Gao
, Heye Zhang, Qiang Lin, William Kongto Hau, and Shuo Li.
14th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
(ISBI), 2017.

[paper]
Carotid Artery Wall Motion Estimated from Ultrasound Imaging Sequences Using a Nonlinear State Space Approach.
Zhifan Gao
, Yuanyuan Sun, Heye Zhang, Dhanjoo Ghista, Yanjie Li, Huahua Xiong, Xin Liu, Yaoqin Xie, Wanqing Wu, and Shuo Li.
19nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2016.

[paper]
Functional Assessment of the Stenotic Carotid Artery by CFD-Based Pressure Gradient Evaluation.
Xin Liu, Heye Zhang, Lijie Ren, Huahua Xiong,
Zhifan Gao
, Pengcheng Xu, Wenhua Huang, and Wanqing Wu.
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
311(3):H645-H653, 2016.

[paper]
Three-Dimensional Hemodynamics Analysis of the Circle of Willis in the Patient-Specific Non-Integral Arterial Structures.
Xin Liu,
Zhifan Gao
, Huahua Xiong, Dhanjoo Ghista, Lijie Ren, Heye Zhang, Wanqing Wu, Wenhua Huang, and William Kongto Hau.
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
37(1):273-283, 2016.

[paper]
Motion Estimation of Common Carotid Artery Wall Using a H∞ Filter Based Block Matching Method.
Zhifan Gao
, Huahua Xiong, Heye Zhang, Dan Wu, Minhua Lu, Wanqing Wu, Kelvin K.L. Wong, and Yuan-Ting Zhang.
18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
(MICCAI), 2015.

[paper]
An Automated Framework for Detecting Lumen and Media-Adventitia Borders in Intravascular Ultrasound Imagesd.
Zhifan Gao
, William Kongto Hau, Minhua Lu, Wenhua Huang, Heye Zhang, Wanqing Wu, Xin Liu, and Yuan-Ting Zhang.
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biologyn
37(1):273-283, 2015.

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