Selected Journal Papers:

Summary:  IEEE TPAMI (3) + IJCV (4)+ other IEEE Transactions (22) + IEEE TMI (8) + Medical Image Analysis (7) + IEEE TBME (4) + IEEE JBHI (6). 

53. SegMamba-V2: Long-range Sequential ModelingMamba For General 3D Medical Image

Zhaohu Xing, Tian Ye, Yijun Yang, Du Cai, Baowen Gai, Xiao-Jian Wu, Feng Gao, and Lei Zhu*,

To appear in IEEE TMI, 2025.

52. DiffMIC-v2: Medical Image Classification via Improved Diffusion Network

Yijun Yang, Huazhu Fu, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Zhaohu Xing, and Lei Zhu*,

IEEE TMI, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp.2244 - 2255, 2025.

51. A Diffusion Embedded Network for Robust 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Zhaohu Xing, Liang Wan, Huazhu Fu, Guang Yang, Yijun Yang, Lequan Yu, Baiying Lei, and Lei Zhu*,

To appear in Medical Image Analysis, 2025.

50. Temporal Prompt Learning with Depth Memory for Video Mirror Detection

Zhaohu Xing, Tian Ye, Xin Yang, Sixiang Chen, Huazhu Fu, Yan Nei Law, and Lei Zhu*,

To appear in IEEE TMM, 2025.

49. Vivim: a Video Vision Mamba for Medical Video Segmentation

Yijun Yang, Zhaohu Xing, Lequan Yu, Huazhu Fu, Chunwang Huang, and Lei Zhu*,

To appear in IEEE TCSVT, 2025.

48. Enhancing Visual Reasoning with LLM-Powered Knowledge Graphs for Visual Question Localized-Answering in Robotic Surgery

Pengfei Hao, Hongqiu Wang, Guang Yang , and Lei Zhu*,

To appear in IEEE JBHI, 2025.

47. Federated Pseudo Modality Generation for Incomplete Multi-Modal MRI Reconstruction

Yunlu Yan, Chun-Mei Feng, Yuexiang Li, Ping Li, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Baiying Lei, Weiming Wang, David Dagan Feng, and  Lei Zhu*,

To appear in IEEE JBHI, 2025.

46. Unifying Physically-Informed Weather Priors in a Single Model for Image Restoration Across Multiple Adverse Weather Conditions

Jiaqi Xu, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, and Pheng-Ann Heng,

To appear in IEEE TCSVT, 2025. 

45. Revisiting Medical Image Retrieval via Knowledge Consolidation

Yang Nan, Huichi Zhou, Xiaodan Xing, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Lei Zhu, Zhifan Gao, Alejandro F Fangi, Guang Yang

To appear in Medical Image Analysis, 2025. 

44. Modality-aware Distillation Network for Microvascular Invasion Prediction of Hepatocellar Carcinoma from MRI Images

Yinghao Zhang, Hong Liu, Lei Zhu*, Huanhuan Chong, Huazhu Fu, Lequan Yu, Ping Li, Jing Qin, David Dagan Feng, and Liansheng Wang*.

To appear in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE TBME), 2025.

43. Triplane-Smoothed Video Dehazing with CLIP-Enhanced Generalization

Jingjing Ren, Tian Ye, Haoyu Chen, Hongtao Wu, and Lei Zhu*.

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol.133, pp. 475–488, 2025.. [CCF A]

42. ViDSOD-100: A New Dataset and A Baseline Model for RGB-D Video Salient Object Detection, 

Junhao Lin, Lei Zhu*, Jiaxing Shen, Huazhu Fu, Qing Zhang, and Liansheng Wang

To appear in International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024. [CCF A]

41. Towards High-Resolution Specular Highlight Detection

Gang Fu, Qing Zhang, Lei Zhu, Qifeng Lin, Yihao Wang, Siyuan Fan, and Chunxia Xiao

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV),  132, pp. 95–117, 2024.  [CCF A]

40. Video-Instrument Synergistic Network for Referring Video Object Segmentation in Surgical Videos

Hongqiu Wang, Guang Yang, Shichen Zhang, Jing Qin, Yike Guo, Bo Xu, Yueming Jin*, and Lei Zhu*

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), Vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 4457-4469, 2024. .

39. DSMT-Net: Dual Self-supervised Multi-operator Transformation for Multi-source Endoscopic Ultrasound Diagnosis

Jiajia Li, Pingping Zhang, Teng Wang, Lei Zhu, Ruhan Liu, Xia Yang, Kaixuan Wang, Dinggang Shen, and Bin Sheng

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 64-75, 2024.

38. Hybrid Masked Image Modeling for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Zhaohu Xing, Lei Zhu*, Lequan Yu, Zhiheng Xing, and Liang Wan*

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Vol. 28, No. 4, pp.2115-2125, 2024.

37. Cross-Modal Vertical Federated Learning for MRI Reconstruction

Yunlu Yan, Hong Wang, Yawen Huang, Nanjun He, Lei Zhu*, Yong Xu, Yuexiang Li*, Yefeng Zheng

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Vol. 28, No. 11, pp.6384-6394, 2024. 

36. Cascaded Inner-Outer Clip Retformer for Ultrasound Video Object Segmentation

Jialu Li, Lei Zhu, Baoliang Zhao, Ying Hu, Faqin Lv, and Qiong Wang

To appear in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), 2024.

35. S2P-Matching: Self-supervised Patch-based Matching Using Transformer for Capsule Endoscopic Images

Feng Lu, Dao Zhou, Haoyang Chen, Shuai Liu, Xianliang Ling, Lei Zhu, Tingting Gong, Bin Sheng, Ping Li, and David Dagan Feng 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE TBME), Vol. 72, No. 2, pp.540 - 551, 2025. 

34. Learning Motion-guided Multi-scale Memory Features for Video Shadow Detection, 

Junhao Lin, Jiaxing Shen, Xin Yang, Huazhu Fu, Qing Zhang, Ping Li, Bin Sheng, Liansheng Wang, and Lei Zhu*, 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), Vol. 34, No. 12, pp.12288-12300, 2024.

33. Learning Physical-Spatio-Temporal Features for Video Shadow Removal

Zhihao Chen, Liang Wan, Yefan Xiao, Lei Zhu, and Huazhu Fu 

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), Vol. 34, No. 7, pp.5830-5842, 2024.

32. Overcoming Modality Bias in Question-Driven Sign Language Video Translation

Liqing Gao, Peng Shi, Lei Zhu, Junfu Pu, Liang Wan, and Wei Feng

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), Vol. 34, No. 11, pp.11724-11738, 2024.

31. Self-mining the Confident Prototypes for Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Image Segmentation

Yuntong Tian, Jiaxi Li, Huazhu Fu, Lei Zhu, Lequan Yu, Liang Wan

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), Vol. 26, pp. 7709-7720, 2024.

30. Norest-Net: Normal Estimation Neural Networks for 3D Noisy Point Cloud

Yingkui Zhang, Mingqiang Wei, Lei Zhu, Guibao Shen, Qiong Wang, and Jing Qin

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), Vol. 36, No. 2, pp.2246-2258, 2025.

29. Unsupervised Fusion Feature Matching for Data Bias in Uncertainty Active Learning

Wei Huang, Shuzhou Sun, Xiao Lin, Ping Li, Lei Zhu, Jihong Wang, C. L. Philip Chen, and Bin Sheng

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Vol. 35, No.4, pp. 5749-5763, 2024.

28. S3Net: Self-supervised Self-ensembling Network for Semi-supervised RGB-D Salient Object Detection

Lei Zhu, Xiaoqiang Wang, Ping Li, Xin Yang, Qing Zhang, Weiming Wang, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"{o}nlieb, and C. L. Philip Chen.

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), Vol. 25, pp. 677 – 689, 2023.

27. Deep Texture-Aware Features for Camouflaged Object Detection

Jingjing Ren, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xuemiao Xu, Yangyang Xu, Weiming Wang, Zijun Deng, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 1157-1167, 2023.

26. Learning to Remove Shadows from a Single Image

Hao Jiang, Qing Zhang, Yongwei Nie, Lei Zhu, and Wei-Shi Zheng

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 131, pp. 2471–2488, 2023. [CCF A]

25. MNGNAS: Distilling Adaptive Combination of Multiple Searched Networks for One-Shot Neural Architecture Search 

Zhihua Chen, Guhao Qiu, Ping Li, Lei Zhu, Xiaokang Yang, and Bin Sheng

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Volume 45, Issue 11, pp. 13489-13508, 2023. [CCF A]

24. Multi-modal Learning for Predicting Genotypes of Glioma

Yiran Wei, Xi Chen, Lei Zhu, Lipei Zhang, Stephen Price, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, and Chao Li, 

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 3167-3178, 2023.

23. Fine-grained and Multi-class Classification for Alzheimer's Disease with Wavelet Convolution Unit Network,

Jinyu Wen, Yang Li, Meie Fang, Lei Zhu, Ping Li, and David Dagan Feng,

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE TBME), Vol. 70, No. 9, pp. 2592-2603, 2023.

22. Uncertainty-aware Multi-dimensional Mutual Learning for Brain and Brain Tumor Segmentation,

Junting Zhao, Zhaohu Xing, Zhihao Chen, Liang Wan, Tong Han, Huazhu Fu, and Lei Zhu.

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Vol. 27, No. 9, pp.4362-4372, 2023.

21. Dual Multi-scale Mean Teacher Network for Semi-supervised Infection Segmentation in Chest CT Volume for COVID-19

Liansheng Wang, Jiacheng Wang, Lei Zhu*, Huazhu Fu, Ping Li, Gary Cheng, Zhipeng Feng, Shuo Li, and Pheng-Ann Heng. 

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCyb), Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 6363–6375, 2023. [Code]

20. Boosting RGB-D Saliency Detection by Leveraging Unlabeled RGB Images

Xiaoqiang Wang, Lei Zhu, Siliang Tang, Huazhu Fu, Ping Li, Fei Wu, Yi Yang, and Yueting Zhuang

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), Vol.31, pp. 1107 - 1119, 2022. [Code] [CCF A]

19. Mixed-weight Neural Bagging for Detecting m$^{6}$A Modifications in SARS-CoV-2 RNA Sequencing

Ruhan Liu, Liang Ou, Bin Sheng, Ping Li, ..., Lei Zhu, ... and David Dagan Feng

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), Vol. 69, No.8, pp. 2557-2568, 2022. 

18. A Blind Color Separation Model for Faithful Palette-based Image Recoloring

Qing Zhang, Yongwei Nie, Lei Zhu, Chunxia Xiao, and Wei-Shi Zheng

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Vol. 24, pp. 1545–1557, 2022.

17. Fast Camouflaged Object Detection via Edge-based Reversible Recalibration Network

Ge-Peng Ji, Lei Zhu, Mingchen Zhuge, and Keren Fu

Pattern Recognition (PR), Vol. 123, 108414, 2022. [Code]

16. Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition Using Internal Self-similarity Cues

Qing Zhang, Jin Zhou, Lei Zhu, Wei Sun, Chunxia Xiao, and Wei-Shi Zheng

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Vol. 44, No. 12, pp. 9669–9686, 2022. [CCF A]

15. Global Guidance Network for Breast Lesion Segmentation in Ultrasound Images

Cheng Xue, Lei Zhu#, Huazhu Fu, Xiaowei Hu, Xiaomeng Li, Hai Zhang, and Pheng-Ann Heng

Medical Image Analysis ( MIA ), Vol.70, 101989, 2021. [GitHub]

14. Single-Image Real-Time Rain Removal Based on Depth-Guided Non-Local Features

Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu#, Tianyu Wang, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), Vol. 30, pp. 1759 - 1770, 2021. [GitHub] [CCF A]

13. DNF-Net: a Deep Normal Filtering Network for Mesh Denoising

Xianzhi Li, Ruihui Li, Lei Zhu, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG),  Vol. 27, No.10, pp.4060-4072, 2021. [CCF A]

12. Deep Sub-region Network for Salient Object Detection

Liansheng Wang, Rongzhen Chen, Lei Zhu#, Haoran Xie, and Xiaomeng Li

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 728-741, 2021. [GitHub]

11. SAC-Net: Spatial Attenuation Context for Salient Object Detection

Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Lei Zhu#, Tianyu Wang, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 1079-1090, 2021. [GitHub]

10. Learning Gated Non-local Residual for Single-image Rain Streak Removal

Lei Zhu, Zijun Deng, Xiaowei Hu, Haoran Xie, Xuemiao Xu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 2147–2159, 2021.

9. Comparative validation of multi-instance instrument segmentation in endoscopy: results of the ROBUST-MIS 2019 challenge

Tobias Ro, ... Lei Zhu, ...  Medical Image Analysis (MIA), Vol.70, 101920, 2021.

8. Enhancing Underexposed Photos using Perceptually Bidirection Similarity

Qing Zhang, Yongwei Nie, Lei Zhu, Chunxia Xiao, and Wei-Shi Zheng

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Vol. 23, pp. 189–202, 2020.

7. $\Psi$-Net: Stacking Densely Convolutional LSTMs for Sub-cortical Brain Structure Segmentation

Lihao Liu, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu#, Chi-Wing Fu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 2806–2817, 2020. [GitHub]

6. Cross-disease Attention Network for Joint Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema Grading

Xiaomeng Li, Xiaowei Hu, Lequan Yu, Lei Zhu, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 1483–1493, 2020.

5. Saliency-aware Texture Smoothing

Lei Zhu, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 26, No. 7, pp. 2471–2484, 2020. [CCF A]

4. Aggregating Attentional Dilated Features for Salient Object Detection

Lei Zhu, Jiaxing Chen, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xuemiao Xu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT),

Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 3358–3371, 2020. [GitHub]

3. Direction-aware Spatial Context Features for Shadow Detection and Removal

Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Lei Zhu#, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI),

Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 2795–2808, 2020. [GitHub] [CCF A]

2. Segmentation of Overlapping Cytoplasm in Cervical Smear Images via Adaptive Shape Priors Extracted from Contour Fragments

Youyi Song, Lei Zhu, Jing Qin, Baiying Lei, Bin Sheng, and Kup-Sze Choi

IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 2849–2862, 2019

1. Deep Attentive Features for Prostate Segmentation in 3D Transrectal Ultrasound

Yi Wang, Haoran Dou, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xin Yang, Jing Qin, Pheng-Ann Heng, Tianfu Wang, and Dong Ni

IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 2768–2778, 2019