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Yongbing Zhang

24 accepted papers

2026

FBTA: Enabling Single-GPU End-to-End Gigapixel WSI Classification with Feature Bridging and Translation Alignment

CVPR 2026

Whole-slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology contain billions of pixels, making end-to-end training of feature extractors and multi-instance learning (MIL) networks infeasible on a single commodity GPU.Existing methods often freeze the feature extractor and train MIL networks on the resultin

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2026

PathFLIP: Fine-grained Language-Image Pretraining for Versatile Computational Pathology

AAAI 2026technical

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) continue to pose challenges for multimodal understanding. Existing alignment methods struggle to capture fine-grained corr

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2026

Spectral Property-Driven Data Augmentation for Hyperspectral Single-Source Domain Generalization

AAAI 2026technical

While hyperspectral images (HSI) benefit from numerous spectral channels that provide rich information for classification, the increased dimensionality and sensor variability make them more sensitive to distributional discrepancies across domains, which in turn can affect classification performance.

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2025

A Mixed-Language Multi-Document News Summarization Dataset and a Graphs-Based Extract-Generate Model

NAACL 2025long

Existing research on news summarization primarily focuses on single-language single-document (SLSD), single-language multi-document (SLMD) or cross-language single-document (CLSD). However, in real-world scenarios, news about an international event often involves multiple documents in different lang…

2025

Category Prompt Mamba Network for Nuclei Segmentation and Classification

AAAI 2025technical

Nuclei segmentation and classification provide an essential basis for tumor immune microenvironment analysis. The previous nuclei segmentation and classification models require splitting large images into smaller patches for training, leading to two significant issues. First, nuclei at the borders o…

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2025

Correlated Multiple IHC Virtual Staining for Breast Histopathological Images

ICASSP 2025accepted

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) examination is essential for determining breast cancer subtypes and provides critical prognostic factors to guide treatment decisions. However, the complex and expensive preparation of IHC staining limits its widespread use in clinical practice. Recent advancements in gene…

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2025

Efficient Self-Supervised Video Hashing with Selective State Spaces

AAAI 2025technical

Self-supervised video hashing (SSVH) is a practical task in video indexing and retrieval. Although Transformers are predominant in SSVH for their impressive temporal modeling capabilities, they often suffer from computational and memory inefficiencies. Drawing inspiration from Mamba, an advanced sta…

2025

Fast and Accurate Gigapixel Pathological Image Classification with Hierarchical Distillation Multi-Instance Learning

CVPR 2025poster

Although multi-instance learning (MIL) has succeeded in pathological image classification, it faces the challenge of high inference costs due to processing numerous patches from gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs).To address this, we propose HDMIL, a hierarchical distillation multi-instance learning…

2025

Multi-scale Context Intertwining for Panoramic Renal Pathology Segmentation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Panoramic segmentation of renal pathological tissues plays a crucial role in diagnosing renal carcinoma and other kidney-related diseases. The multi-scale nature of kidney tissues, which requires different magnification levels for accurate analysis, presents a significant challenge for segmentation…

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2025

OT-StainNet: Optimal Transport Driven Semantic Matching for Weakly Paired H&E-to-IHC Stain Transfer

AAAI 2025technical

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) examination is essential for characterizing tumor subtypes, providing prognostic information, and developing personalized treatment plans. However, IHC staining preparation is more complex and expensive compared to Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining, limiting its widespr…

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2025

The Four Color Theorem for Cell Instance Segmentation

ICML 2025poster

Cell instance segmentation is critical to analyzing biomedical images, yet accurately distinguishing tightly touching cells remains a persistent challenge. Existing instance segmentation frameworks, including detection-based, contour-based, and distance mapping-based approaches, have made significan…

2024

GS-Hider: Hiding Messages into 3D Gaussian Splatting

NeurIPS 2024poster

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has already become the emerging research focus in the fields of 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Given that training a 3DGS requires a significant amount of time and computational cost, it is crucial to protect the copyright, integrity, and privacy of su…

2024

Virtual Immunohistochemistry Staining for Histological Images Assisted by Weakly-supervised Learning

CVPR 2024poster

Recently virtual staining technology has greatly promoted the advancement of histopathology. Despite the practical successes achieved the outstanding performance of most virtual staining methods relies on hard-to-obtain paired images in training. In this paper we propose a method for virtual immunoh…

2023

Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer

ICLR 2023top-25%

Recently, Transformer-based image restoration networks have achieved promising improvements over convolutional neural networks due to parameter-independent global interactions. To lower computational cost, existing works generally limit self-attention computation within non-overlapping windows. Howe…

2023

HVTSurv: Hierarchical Vision Transformer for Patient-Level Survival Prediction from Whole Slide Image

AAAI 2023technical

Survival prediction based on whole slide images (WSIs) is a challenging task for patient-level multiple instance learning (MIL). Due to the vast amount of data for a patient (one or multiple gigapixels WSIs) and the irregularly shaped property of WSI, it is difficult to fully explore spatial, contex…

2023

LNPL-MIL: Learning from Noisy Pseudo Labels for Promoting Multiple Instance Learning in Whole Slide Image

ICCV 2023poster

Gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) aided patient diagnosis and prognosis analysis are promising directions in computational pathology. However, limited by expensive and time-consuming annotation costs, WSIs usually only have weak annotations, including 1) WSI-level Annotations (WA) and 2) Limited P…

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2023

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation for Histopathology Images Based on Dataset Synthesis and Feature Consistency Constraint

AAAI 2023technical

Tissue segmentation is a critical task in computational pathology due to its desirable ability to indicate the prognosis of cancer patients. Currently, numerous studies attempt to use image-level labels to achieve pixel-level segmentation to reduce the need for fine annotations. However, most of the…

2022

Cross Aggregation Transformer for Image Restoration

NeurIPS 2022accept

Recently, Transformer architecture has been introduced into image restoration to replace convolution neural network (CNN) with surprising results. Considering the high computational complexity of Transformer with global attention, some methods use the local square window to limit the scope of self-a…

2022

HerosNet: Hyperspectral Explicable Reconstruction and Optimal Sampling Deep Network for Snapshot Compressive Imaging

CVPR 2022poster

Hyperspectral imaging is an essential imaging modality for a wide range of applications, especially in remote sensing, agriculture, and medicine. Inspired by existing hyperspectral cameras that are either slow, expensive, or bulky, reconstructing hyperspectral images (HSIs) from a low-budget snapsho…

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2022

Unpaired Multi-Domain Stain Transfer for Kidney Histopathological Images

AAAI 2022technical

As an essential step in the pathological diagnosis, histochemical staining can show specific tissue structure information and, consequently, assist pathologists in making accurate diagnoses. Clinical kidney histopathological analyses usually employ more than one type of staining: H&E, MAS, PAS, PASM…

2021

TransMIL: Transformer based Correlated Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification

NeurIPS 2021poster

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a powerful tool to solve the weakly supervised classification in whole slide image (WSI) based pathology diagnosis. However, the current MIL methods are usually based on independent and identical distribution hypothesis, thus neglect the correlation among differen…

2019

Second-Order Attention Network for Single Image Super-Resolution

CVPR 2019oral

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely explored in single image super-resolution (SISR) and obtained remarkable performance. However, most of the existing CNN-based SISR methods mainly focus on wider or deeper architecture design, neglecting to explore the feature corre…

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2015

Multi-task rank learning for image quality assessment

ICASSP 2015accepted

In practice, multiple types of distortions are associated with an image quality degradation process. The existing machine learning (ML) based image quality assessment (IQA) approaches generally established a unified model for all distortion types, or each model is trained independently for each dist…

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