Senior Algorithm Expert

Alibaba DAMO Academy

Biography

Email: yjiaweneecs at gmail dot com

I am now a senior algorithm expert of Medical AI R&D at Alibaba DAMO Academy after two wonderful years at PAII Inc. Before that, I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Arlington under supervision from Dr. Junzhou Huang in Aug 2019. I worked as research intern at NVIDIA and PAII in 2018 Summer and Fall, respectively.

My current research interests focus on developing computer vision and machine learning to improve the screening, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations in oncology for precision medicine using medical images and clinical data. Our recent work are presented in top medical journals including Nature Medicine, Annals of Surgery (Ann Surg), Radiology and Clinical Cancer Research (CCR). My work DeepPrognosis (pancreatic cancer outcome prediction) has been selected for MICCAI-MedIA Special Issue of Best Papers in 2020 and DeepAttnMISL is one of MedIA Most Cited Articles.

I hold both Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. I was the winner of Microsoft Student Challenge 2012 and awarded two MICCAI travel awards (MICCAI 2015/2016) and gave two MICCAI orals (MICCAI 2016/2017).

Interests

  • Deep Learning in Medical Applications
  • Medical Image Analysis

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2019

    University of Texas at Arlington

  • MEng in Signal and Information Processing, 2014

    Xi'an Jiaotong University

  • BEng in Information Engineering, 2011

    Xi'an Jiaotong University

  • Special Class for the Gifted-Young

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2005-2007

Recent Posts

One work accepted by Nature Medicine

The first AI-driven screening for pancreatic cancer.
Nov 21, 2023

Our work get accepted by Annals of Surgery/Radiology

The work about automated survival prediction and lymph node metastasis in pancreatic cancer get accepted by Annals of Surgery / Radiology.
May 19, 2022

Work for oncology accepted by CCR

Deep learning for fully-automated prediction of overall survival in patients with oropharyngeal cancer using FDG PET imaging: an international retrospective study. Inference Model and Codes are available !
Apr 30, 2021

Projects

AI in Oncology

Pancreas Project

Research Project

Survival Prediction

Featured Publications

Cao, Kai*, Xia, Yingda*, Yao, Jiawen*, Han, Xu, Lambert, Lukas, Zhang, Tingting, Tang, Wei, Jin, Gang, Jiang, Hui, Fang, Xu, others
November 2023 Nature Medicine

Large-scale pancreatic cancer detection via non-contrast CT and deep learning

AI and imaging-based cancer screening: getting ready for prime time.

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Jiawen Yao, Xianghua Ye, Yingda Xia, Jian Zhou, Yu Shi, Ke Yan, Fang, Lili Lin, Haogang Yu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Le Lu, Dakai Jin, Ling Zhang
August 2022 MICCAI 2022

Effective Opportunistic Esophageal Cancer Screening using Noncontrast CT Imaging

Esophageal cancer screening using Non-contrast CT

Jiawen Yao*, Kai Cao*, Yang Hou*, Jian Zhou*, Yingda Xia, Isabella Nogues, Qike Song, Hui, Xianghua Ye, Jianping Lu, Gang, Hong Lu, Chuanmiao Xie, Rong Zhang, Jin, Zaiyi Liu, Feng Gao, Yafei Qi, Xu, Yang Zheng, Le Lu, Yu Shi#, Ling Zhang
July 2022 Annals of Surgery

Deep Learning for Fully Automated Prediction of Overall Survival in Patients Undergoing Resection for Pancreatic Cancer: A Retrospective Multicenter Study

Another pancreatic cancer work milestone for our group.

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Jiawen Yao*, Yu Shi*, Kai Cao*, Le Lu, Jianping Lu, Qike Song, Gang, Jin, Yang Hou, Ling Zhang
June 2021 Medical Image Analysis (MICCAI 2020 Selected Best Papers SI)

DeepPrognosis: Preoperative Prediction of Pancreatic Cancer Survival and Surgical Margin via Comprehensive Understanding of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT Imaging and Tumor-Vascular Contact Parsing

MICCAI-MedIA (Medical Image Analysis) Special Issue of Best Papers in 2020

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Nai-Ming Cheng*, Jiawen Yao*, Jin, Xianghua Ye, Shilin Zhao, Kui Zhao, Wenlan Zhou, Isabella Nogues, Yuankai Huo, Chun-Ta Liao, Hung-Ming Wang, Chien-Yu Lin, Li-Yu Lee, Jin, Le Lu, Ling Zhang* and Tzu-Chen Yen*
April 2021 Clinical Cancer Research

Deep learning for fully-automated prediction of overall survival in patients with oropharyngeal cancer using FDG PET imaging

My co-first authorship clinical paper on oncology.

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Jiawen Yao, Xinliang Zhu, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Nicholas Hawkins, Junzhou Huang
July 2020 Medical Image Analysis, MICCAI 2019

Whole Slide Images based Cancer Survival Prediction using Attention Guided Deep Multiple Instance Learning Networks

This is an improved version of our MICCAI 19 work.

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Jiawen Yao, Jin, Dong Yang, Daguang Xu, Junzhou Huang
January 2019 MICCAI 2019

Integrating 3D Geometry of Organ for Improving Medical Image Segmentation

Jiawen Yao, Zheng Xu, Xiaolei Huang, Junzhou Huang
January 2018 Medical image analysis, MICCAI 2015

An efficient algorithm for dynamic MRI using low-rank and total variation regularizations

The extension version of MICCAI 2015. MATLAB Code is available.

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Jiawen Yao, Xinliang Zhu, Feiyun Zhu, Junzhou Huang
January 2017 MICCAI 2017 Oral Presentation

Deep correlational learning for survival prediction from multi-modality data

Xinliang Zhu, Jiawen Yao, Feiyun Zhu, Junzhou Huang
January 2017 CVPR 2017

Wsisa: Making survival prediction from whole slide histopathological images

Use Deep learning model to predict survival from WSI.

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Jiawen Yao, Sheng Wang, Xinliang Zhu, Junzhou Huang
January 2016 MICCAI 2016 Oral Presentation

Imaging biomarker discovery for lung cancer survival prediction

Xin Liu, Guoying Zhao, Jiawen Yao, Chun Qi
January 2015 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Background subtraction based on low-rank and structured sparse decomposition

Extension of ICME 2014, MATLAB code is available.

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Jiawen Yao, Xin Liu, Chun Qi
January 2014 ICME 2014

Foreground detection using low rank and structured sparsity

Recent Publications

Cao, Kai*, Xia, Yingda*, Yao, Jiawen*, Han, Xu, Lambert, Lukas, Zhang, Tingting, Tang, Wei, Jin, Gang, Jiang, Hui, Fang, Xu, others (2023). Large-scale pancreatic cancer detection via non-contrast CT and deep learning. Nature Medicine.

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Jiawen Yao, Xianghua Ye, Yingda Xia, Jian Zhou, Yu Shi, Ke Yan, Fang, Lili Lin, Haogang Yu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Le Lu, Dakai Jin, Ling Zhang (2022). Effective Opportunistic Esophageal Cancer Screening using Noncontrast CT Imaging. MICCAI 2022.

Jiawen Yao*, Kai Cao*, Yang Hou*, Jian Zhou*, Yingda Xia, Isabella Nogues, Qike Song, Hui, Xianghua Ye, Jianping Lu, Gang, Hong Lu, Chuanmiao Xie, Rong Zhang, Jin, Zaiyi Liu, Feng Gao, Yafei Qi, Xu, Yang Zheng, Le Lu, Yu Shi#, Ling Zhang (2022). Deep Learning for Fully Automated Prediction of Overall Survival in Patients Undergoing Resection for Pancreatic Cancer: A Retrospective Multicenter Study. Annals of Surgery.

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Jiawen Yao*, Yu Shi*, Kai Cao*, Le Lu, Jianping Lu, Qike Song, Gang, Jin, Yang Hou, Ling Zhang (2021). DeepPrognosis: Preoperative Prediction of Pancreatic Cancer Survival and Surgical Margin via Comprehensive Understanding of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT Imaging and Tumor-Vascular Contact Parsing. Medical Image Analysis (MICCAI 2020 Selected Best Papers SI).

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Tianyi Zhao*, Kai Cao*, Jiawen Yao, Isabella Nogues, Le Lu, Lingyun Huang, Jin, Zhaozheng Yin, Ling Zhang (2021). 3D Graph Anatomy Geometry-Integrated Network for Pancreatic Mass Segmentation, Diagnosis, and Quantitative Patient Management. CVPR 2021.

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Academic Services

Journal Reviewer

  • Nature Communications
  • IEEE TPAMI, TMI, TCSVT
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Neurocomputing

Conference Program Committee/Reviewer

  • AAAI 2022 SPC
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
  • ICCV 2021, CVPR 2021-2022, ECCV 2022
  • International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2020
  • Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2017-2022

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