I am currently working as Postdoctoral Researcher at Peking University with Prof. Yizhou Wang. Before that, I received Ph.D in Data Science from Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, supervised by Prof. Yizhou Wang.

My research interests lie in the area of artificial intelligence for medical image diagnosis. My research goal is to design cognitive-inspired medical image diagnostics algorithms, including clinical prior modeling and causal inference and develop efficient, effective, truthful, and robust AI-assistant medical image diagnostics systems. A key aspect of my research methodology is my dedication to understanding and addressing clinicians’ practical needs. I allocate at least 20% of my time to engaging with clinical practitioners, ensuring my work is grounded in real-clinical challenges and informed by frontline insights. This collaboration helps bridge the gap between advanced AI techniques and clinical practice, ensuring the AI systems I develop are sensitive to medical diagnostics’ nuances and seamlessly integrate into clinical workflows to enhance healthcare professionals’ capabilities and ultimately benefit patient care.

I have developed two Breast Imaging Diagnostic Systems, including Intelligent Breast MRI Diagnosis System and Intelligent Mammography X-ray Diagnosis System, which improve the diagnostic accuracy, robustness and efficiency. These systems have been widely deployed in hundreds of hospitals in China and served over a million clinical diagnostic cases.

🔥 News

  • 2024.07  🎉🎉 One paper about Embodied Cognition was accepted by ECCV’24.
  • 2024.06  🎉🎉 One paper about Medical Self-Supervised Representation Learning was accepted by MICCAI’24.
  • 2024.04  🎉🎉 Talk at [NVIDIA “AI Medical Innovation and Application Seminar”] in Shanghai.
  • 2023.05  🎉🎉 One paper about Domain-Agnostic Representation Learning was accepted by ICLR’23.

📝 Selected Publications

* : co-first author, ✉ : corresponding author

MICCAI 2020
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BR-GAN: Bilateral Residual Generating Adversarial Network for Mammogram Classification

Churan Wang, Fandong Zhang, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2020

Paper

  • Propose a residual-preserved mechanism with CycleGAN framework based on the bilateral symmetry prior to generate healthy mammogram features for malignancy classification.
IEEE TIP 2021
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Bilateral Asymmetry Guided Counterfactual Generating Network for Mammogram Classification

Churan Wang*, Jing Li*, Fandong Zhang, Xinwei Sun, Hao Dong, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021

Paper

  • Introduce a counterfactual generative network leveraging the bilateral symmetry prior to enhance mammogram diagnosis performance.
MICCAI 2021
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Dae-gcn: Identifying Disease-related Features for Disease Prediction

Churan Wang, Xinwei Sun, Fandong Zhang, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021

Paper

  • Learning disease-related representations in medical images by integrating a disentangling mechanism with graph convolutional network, which significantly enhances the performance and interpretability of cancer diagnosis.
ICML 2022
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Disentangling Disease-related Representation from Obscure for Disease Prediction

Churan Wang, Fei Gao, Fandong Zhang, Fangwei Zhong, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022

Paper

  • A disentanglement learning strategy under the guidance of alpha blending generation in an encoder-decoder framework (DAB-Net).
JCM 2022
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Prediction of Carotid In-Stent Restenosis by Computed Tomography Angiography Carotid Plaque-Based Radiomics

Xiaoqing Cheng, Zheng Dong, Jia Liu, Hongxia Li, Changsheng Zhou, Fandong Zhang, Churan Wang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Guangming Lu

Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), 2022

Paper

  • Retrospectively analyze clinical imaging data to identify independent predictors of in-stent restenosis following carotid artery stenting, demonstrating that a combination of traditional plaque characteristics and radiomic features provides the highest predictive accuracy for post-procedure outcomes.
ICLR 2023
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Learning Domain-agnostic Representation for Disease Diagnosis

Churan Wang, Jing Li, Xinwei Sun, Fandong Zhang, Yizhou Yu, Yizhou Wang

The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023

Paper

  • Disentangle disease-related features from center-effects, enhancing robustness in multi-center image-based diagnosis.
ISBI 2024
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Semi-and Weakly-Supervised Learning for Mammogram Mass Segmentation with Limited Annotations

Xinyu Xiong, Churan Wang✉, Wenxue Li, Guanbin Li✉

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2024

Paper

  • Present a semi- and weakly-supervised learning framework for breast mass segmentation that effectively addresses the challenge of identifying small, camouflaged masses in breast cancer diagnosis and the high cost of pixel-wise annotations.
MICCAI 2024
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Cross-Dimensional Medical Self-Supervised Representation Learning Based on a Pseudo-3D Transformation

Fei Gao, Siwen Wang, Fandong Zhang, Hong-Yu Zhou, Yizhou Wang, Churan Wang✉, Gang Yu✉, Yizhou Yu✉

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024

Paper

  • Integrate 2D and 3D medical imaging data through a pseudo-3D transformation, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of SSL for 3D medical image analysis and demonstrating superior performance across various downstream tasks.
ECCV 2024
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Empowering Embodied Visual Tracking with Visual Foundation Models and Offline RL

Fangwei Zhong, Kui Wu, Hai Ci, Churan Wang, Hao Chen

The 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024

Project, Paper

  • Significantly enhanced the understanding and adaptive capabilities of systems in dynamic environments with visual foundation models and offline RL.

🎖 Selected Honors and Awards

  • 2021 Peking University President’s Scholarship.
  • 2020 Baosteel Outstanding Student Scholarship.
  • 2020 Merit Student in Peking University.
  • 2018 Peking University Social Work Award.
  • 2017 Outstanding Graduate in Beijing.
  • 2016 Merit Student in Beijing.
  • 2016 Li Siguang Outstanding Student Award (At most 5 undergrads nationwide per year).
  • 2015 China National Scholarship.
  • 2014 China National Scholarship.

📖 Educations

  • 2017.09 - 2022.07, Peking University, Ph.D in Data Science.
  • 2013.09 - 2017.07, China University of Petroleum, B.S. in Surveying and Prospecting Technology and Engineering.

💻 Professional Service

  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Conference Reviewer: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2022, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022/23/24, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2021/22/23, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021/22/23/24
  • PC Member: AAAI 2023/24