Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speeches

 

Prof. Xiao-Jun Wu

Jiangnan University, China

Xiao-Jun Wu received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, PR China in 1991 and M.S. degree in 1996, and Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System in 2002, both from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, PR China, respectively. He was a fellow of United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology (UNU/IIST) from 1999 to 2000. From 1996 to 2006, he taught in the School of Electronics and Information, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology where he was an exceptionally promoted professor. He joined Jiangnan University in 2006 where he is currently a distinguished professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University. He won the most outstanding postgraduate award by Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He has published more than 400 papers in his fields of research. He was a visiting postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK from 2003 to 2004, under the supervision of Professor Josef Kittler. His current research interests are pattern recognition, computer vision, fuzzy systems, and neural networks. He owned several domestic and international awards because of his research achievements. Currently, he is a Fellow of IAPR and AAIA respectively. 

Prof. Yen-Wei Chen

Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985 from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987, and the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994. From Oct. 1994 to Mar. 2004, he was an associate Professor and a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor with the college of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is the founder and the first director of Center of Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His research interests include medical image analysis, computer vision and computational intelligence. He has published more than 300 research papers in a number of leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI. He has received many distinguished awards including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT Best Paper Award. He is/was a leader of numerous national and industrial research projects. 

Speech Title: "Knowledge-Guided Deep Learning for Enhanced Medical Image Analysis"

Abstract: Recently, Deep Learning (DL) has played an important role in various academic and industrial domains, especially in computer vision and image recognition. Although deep learning (DL) has been successfully applied to medical image analysis, achieving state-of-the-art performance, few DL applications have been successfully implemented in real clinical settings. The primary reason for this is that the specific knowledge and prior information of human anatomy possessed by doctors is not utilized or incorporated into DL applications. In this keynote address, I will present our recent advancements in knowledge-guided deep learning for enhanced medical image analysis. This will include two research topics: (1) our proposed deep atlas prior, which incorporates medical knowledge into DL models; (2) language-guided medical image segmentation, which incorporates the specific knowledge of doctors as an additional language modality into DL models.