publications | Minghui Zhang 张明辉

2026

npj Digital Medicine

Reconstruction from Multi-Planar MRI with Foundation Models for Uterine Fibroid Analysis

Junhao Wang^*, Jinbo Wang^*, Hanxiao Zhang, Minghui Zhang, Yun Gu, Jin Qiu, and Guang-Zhong Yang

npj Digital Medicine (Revision), 2026

@article{wang2025Recon,
  title = {Reconstruction from Multi-Planar MRI with Foundation Models
  for Uterine Fibroid Analysis},
  author = {Wang, Junhao and Wang, Jinbo and Zhang, Hanxiao and Zhang, Minghui and Gu, Yun and Qiu, Jin and Yang, Guang-Zhong},
  journal = {npj Digital Medicine (Revision)},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

2025

Arxiv

AirwayNet: Constructing Fine-Grained Airway Atlases

Minghui Zhang, Chenyu Li, Fangfang Xie, Yaoyu Liu, Hanxiao Zhang, Junyang Wu, Chunxi Zhang, Jie Yang, Jiayuan Sun^✉, Guang-Zhong Yang^✉, and Yun Gu^✉

Under Review, 2025

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@article{zhang2024digitalized,
  title = {AirwayNet: Constructing Fine-Grained Airway Atlases},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Li, Chenyu and Xie, Fangfang and Liu, Yaoyu and Zhang, Hanxiao and Wu, Junyang and Zhang, Chunxi and Yang, Jie and Sun<sup>✉</sup>, Jiayuan and Yang<sup>✉</sup>, Guang-Zhong and Gu<sup>✉</sup>, Yun},
  journal = {Under Review},
  year = {2025},
}

IJCARS

ReshapeIT: Reliable Shape Interaction with Implicit Template for Anatomical Structure Reconstruction

Minghui Zhang and Yun Gu

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2025

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@article{zhang2023reshapeit,
  title = {ReshapeIT: Reliable Shape Interaction with Implicit Template for Anatomical Structure Reconstruction},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery},
  year = {2025},
}

Arxiv

TopoSculpt: Betti-Steered Topological Sculpting of 3D Fine-grained Tubular Shapes

Minghui Zhang, Yaoyu Liu, Junyang Wu, Xin You, Hanxiao Zhang, Junjun He, and Yun Gu

Under Review, 2025

arXiv Bib Code

@article{zhang2025toposculpt,
  title = {TopoSculpt: Betti-Steered Topological Sculpting of 3D Fine-grained Tubular Shapes},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Liu, Yaoyu and Wu, Junyang and You, Xin and Zhang, Hanxiao and He, Junjun and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {Under Review},
  year = {2025},
}

Arxiv

Shape-aware Sampling Matters in the Modeling of Multi-Class Tubular Structures

Minghui Zhang, Yaoyu Liu, Xin You, Hanxiao Zhang, and Yun Gu

Under review, 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{zhang2025shape,
  title = {Shape-aware Sampling Matters in the Modeling of Multi-Class Tubular Structures},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Liu, Yaoyu and You, Xin and Zhang, Hanxiao and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {Under review},
  year = {2025},
}

NEJM AI

Benchmarking the CoW with the TopCoW Challenge: Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA

Kaiyuan Yang, Fabio Musio, Yihui Ma, others, Minghui Zhang, Xin You, Hanxiao Zhang, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yun Gu, others, Sven Hirsch, Susanne Wegener, and Bjoern Menze

Revision, 2025

Awarded arXiv Bib HTML Website

We ranked the 1st place of one track, 2nd place of two tracks, 3rd place of three tracks, hosted in MICCAI 2024.

@article{yang2024benchmarking,
  title = {Benchmarking the CoW with the TopCoW Challenge: Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA},
  author = {Yang, Kaiyuan and Musio, Fabio and Ma, Yihui and others and Zhang, Minghui and You, Xin and Zhang, Hanxiao and Yang, Guang-Zhong and Gu, Yun and others and Hirsch, Sven and Wegener, Susanne and Menze, Bjoern},
  journal = {Revision},
  year = {2025},
}

MedIA

Multi-Class Segmentation of Aortic Branches and Zones in Computed Tomography Angiography: The AortaSeg24 Challenge

Muhammad Imran, Jonathan R Krebs, Vishal Balaji Sivaraman, Teng Zhang, others, Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Xin You, Yun Gu, others, Michol A Cooper, and Wei Shao

Medical Image Analysis (Under Review), 2025

arXiv Bib HTML Website

@article{imran2025multi,
  title = {Multi-Class Segmentation of Aortic Branches and Zones in Computed Tomography Angiography: The AortaSeg24 Challenge},
  author = {Imran, Muhammad and Krebs, Jonathan R and Sivaraman, Vishal Balaji and Zhang, Teng and others and Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and You, Xin and Gu, Yun and others and Cooper, Michol A and Shao, Wei},
  journal = {Medical Image Analysis (Under Review)},
  year = {2025},
}

MedIA

Pnpnet: Pull-and-push networks for volumetric segmentation with boundary confusion

Xin You, Ming Ding, Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Yi Yu, Jie Yang, and Yun Gu

Medical Image Analysis, 2025

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{you2023pnpnet,
  title = {Pnpnet: Pull-and-push networks for volumetric segmentation with boundary confusion},
  author = {You, Xin and Ding, Ming and Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and Yu, Yi and Yang, Jie and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {Medical Image Analysis},
  year = {2025},
}

IEEE TMI

TopoVST: Toward Topology-fidelitous Vessel Skeleton Tracking

Yaoyu Liu, Minghui Zhang, Junjun He, and Yun Gu

IEEE transactions on medical imaging (Under Review), 2025

Bib

@article{liu2025TopoVST,
  title = {TopoVST: Toward Topology-fidelitous Vessel Skeleton Tracking},
  author = {Liu, Yaoyu and Zhang, Minghui and He, Junjun and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {IEEE transactions on medical imaging (Under Review)},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

IEEE TR-O

EndoSERV: A Vision-based Endoluminal Robot Navigation System

Junyang Wu, Fangfang Xie, Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Jiayuan Sun, Yun Gu, and Guang-Zhong Yang

IEEE Transactions on Robotics (Under Review), 2025

Bib

@article{wu2025EndoSERV,
  title = {EndoSERV: A Vision-based Endoluminal Robot Navigation System},
  author = {Wu, Junyang and Xie, Fangfang and Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and Sun, Jiayuan and Gu, Yun and Yang, Guang-Zhong},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (Under Review)},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

MedIA

ARTNet: An Artifact-Robust Transfer Learning Model for Endoluminal Navigation

Junyang Wu, Fangfang Xie, Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Jiayuan Sun, Yun Gu, and Guang-Zhong Yang

Medical Image Analysis (Under Review), 2025

Bib

@article{wu2025ARTNet,
  title = {ARTNet: An Artifact-Robust Transfer Learning Model for Endoluminal Navigation},
  author = {Wu, Junyang and Xie, Fangfang and Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and Sun, Jiayuan and Gu, Yun and Yang, Guang-Zhong},
  journal = {Medical Image Analysis (Under Review)},
  year = {2025},
}

IEEE JBHI

SLoRD: Structural Low-Rank Descriptors for Shape Consistency in Vertebrae Segmentation

Xin You, Yixin Lou, Minghui Zhang, Jie Yang, and Yun Gu

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025

Bib HTML

@article{you2025slord,
  title = {SLoRD: Structural Low-Rank Descriptors for Shape Consistency in Vertebrae Segmentation},
  author = {You, Xin and Lou, Yixin and Zhang, Minghui and Yang, Jie and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

MICCAI

Temporal Differential Fields for 4D Motion Modeling via Image-to-Video Synthesis

Xin You, Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Jie Yang, and Nassir Navab

In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{you2025temporal,
  title = {Temporal Differential Fields for 4D Motion Modeling via Image-to-Video Synthesis},
  author = {You, Xin and Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and Yang, Jie and Navab, Nassir},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {Springer},
}

IJCARS

Reflecting topology consistency and abnormality via learnable attentions for airway labeling

Chenyu Li, Minghui Zhang, Chuyan Zhang, and Yun Gu

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2025

Bib HTML

@article{li2025reflecting,
  title = {Reflecting topology consistency and abnormality via learnable attentions for airway labeling},
  author = {Li, Chenyu and Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Chuyan and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery},
  pages = {1--9},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

2024

IEEE JBHI

Towards connectivity-aware pulmonary airway segmentation

Minghui Zhang and Yun Gu

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2024

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@article{zhang2023towards,
  title = {Towards connectivity-aware pulmonary airway segmentation},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics},
  volume = {28},
  number = {1},
  pages = {321--332},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

MICCAI

Implicit Representation Embraces Challenging Attributes of Pulmonary Airway Tree Structures

Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Xin You, Guang-Zhong Yang, and Yun Gu

In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2024

Bib HTML Code

@inproceedings{zhang2024implicit,
  title = {Implicit Representation Embraces Challenging Attributes of Pulmonary Airway Tree Structures},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and You, Xin and Yang, Guang-Zhong and Gu, Yun},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention},
  pages = {546--556},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Springer},
}

MedIA

Hunting imaging biomarkers in pulmonary fibrosis: Benchmarks of the AIIB23 challenge

Yang Nan, Xiaodan Xing, Shiyi Wang, Zeyu Tang, Federico N Felder, Sheng Zhang, others, Minghui Zhang, Yun Gu, Hanxiao Zhang, others, Athol Wells, Simon LF Walsh, and Guang Yang

Medical Image Analysis, 2024

Awarded Bib HTML Website

We ranked the 2nd place in this challenge, hosted in MICCAI 2023.

@article{nan2024hunting,
  title = {Hunting imaging biomarkers in pulmonary fibrosis: Benchmarks of the AIIB23 challenge},
  author = {Nan, Yang and Xing, Xiaodan and Wang, Shiyi and Tang, Zeyu and Felder, Federico N and Zhang, Sheng and others and Zhang, Minghui and Gu, Yun and Zhang, Hanxiao and others and Wells, Athol and Walsh, Simon LF and Yang, Guang},
  journal = {Medical Image Analysis},
  volume = {97},
  pages = {103253},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

IEEE TMI

Accurate airway tree segmentation in ct scans via anatomy-aware multi-class segmentation and topology-guided iterative learning

Puyang Wang, Dazhou Guo, Dandan Zheng, Minghui Zhang, Haogang Yu, Xin Sun, Jia Ge, Yun Gu, Le Lu, Xianghua Ye, and Dakai Jin

IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2024

Bib HTML

@article{wang2024accurate,
  title = {Accurate airway tree segmentation in ct scans via anatomy-aware multi-class segmentation and topology-guided iterative learning},
  author = {Wang, Puyang and Guo, Dazhou and Zheng, Dandan and Zhang, Minghui and Yu, Haogang and Sun, Xin and Ge, Jia and Gu, Yun and Lu, Le and Ye, Xianghua and Jin, Dakai},
  journal = {IEEE transactions on medical imaging},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

MEBLA

LNQ 2023 challenge: Benchmark of weakly-supervised techniques for mediastinal lymph node quantification

Reuben Dorent, Roya Khajavi, Tagwa Idris, Erik Ziegler, Bhanusupriya Somarouthu, Heather Jacene, Ann LaCasce, others, Hanxiao Zhang, Minghui Zhang, Yun Gu, Guang-Zhong Yang, Gordon Harris, Ron Kikinis, and Tina Kapur

Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging, 2024

Awarded Bib HTML Website

We ranked the 2nd place in this challenge, hosted in MICCAI 2023.

@article{dorent2024lnq,
  title = {LNQ 2023 challenge: Benchmark of weakly-supervised techniques for mediastinal lymph node quantification},
  author = {Dorent, Reuben and Khajavi, Roya and Idris, Tagwa and Ziegler, Erik and Somarouthu, Bhanusupriya and Jacene, Heather and LaCasce, Ann and others and Zhang, Hanxiao and Zhang, Minghui and Gu, Yun and Yang, Guang-Zhong and Harris, Gordon and Kikinis, Ron and Kapur, Tina},
  journal = {Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging},
  year = {2024},
}

2023

MedIA

Multi-site, multi-domain airway tree modeling

Minghui Zhang, Yangqian Wu, Hanxiao Zhang, Yulei Qin, Hao Zheng, others, Jiayuan Sun, Guang-Zhong Yang, and Yun Gu

Medical image analysis, 2023

arXiv Bib HTML Code Website

@article{zhang2023multi,
  title = {Multi-site, multi-domain airway tree modeling},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Wu, Yangqian and Zhang, Hanxiao and Qin, Yulei and Zheng, Hao and others and Sun, Jiayuan and Yang, Guang-Zhong and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {Medical image analysis},
  volume = {90},
  pages = {102957},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

MedIA

Trustworthy learning with (un) sure annotation for lung nodule diagnosis with CT

Hanxiao Zhang, Liang Chen, Xiao Gu, Minghui Zhang, Yulei Qin, Feng Yao, Zhexin Wang, Yun Gu, and Guang-Zhong Yang

Medical Image Analysis, 2023

Bib HTML

@article{zhang2023trustworthy,
  title = {Trustworthy learning with (un) sure annotation for lung nodule diagnosis with CT},
  author = {Zhang, Hanxiao and Chen, Liang and Gu, Xiao and Zhang, Minghui and Qin, Yulei and Yao, Feng and Wang, Zhexin and Gu, Yun and Yang, Guang-Zhong},
  journal = {Medical Image Analysis},
  volume = {83},
  pages = {102627},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

MICCAI

Semantic difference guidance for the uncertain boundary segmentation of CT left atrial appendage

Xin You, Ming Ding, Minghui Zhang, Yangqian Wu, Yi Yu, Yun Gu, and Jie Yang

In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2023

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{you2023semantic,
  title = {Semantic difference guidance for the uncertain boundary segmentation of CT left atrial appendage},
  author = {You, Xin and Ding, Ming and Zhang, Minghui and Wu, Yangqian and Yu, Yi and Gu, Yun and Yang, Jie},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention},
  pages = {121--131},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {Springer},
}

IJCARS

Deep anatomy learning for lung airway and artery-vein modeling with contrast-enhanced CT synthesis

Hanxiao Zhang, Minghui Zhang, Yun Gu, and Guang-Zhong Yang

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2023

Awarded Bib HTML

Maching Learning for CAI Award @ Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) 2023

@article{zhang2023deep,
  title = {Deep anatomy learning for lung airway and artery-vein modeling with contrast-enhanced CT synthesis},
  author = {Zhang, Hanxiao and Zhang, Minghui and Gu, Yun and Yang, Guang-Zhong},
  journal = {International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery},
  volume = {18},
  number = {7},
  pages = {1287--1294},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

2022

Medical Physics

Progressive attention module for segmentation of volumetric medical images

Minghui Zhang, Hong Pan, Yaping Zhu, and Yun Gu

Medical Physics, 2022

Bib HTML Code

@article{zhang2022progressive,
  title = {Progressive attention module for segmentation of volumetric medical images},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Pan, Hong and Zhu, Yaping and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {Medical Physics},
  volume = {49},
  number = {1},
  pages = {295--308},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
}

MICCAI

CFDA: collaborative feature disentanglement and augmentation for pulmonary airway tree modeling of COVID-19 CTs

Minghui Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Guang-Zhong Yang, and Yun Gu

In International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention, 2022

Awarded Bib HTML PDF Code

Early Accepted, Student Travel Award, [Top 4%]

@inproceedings{zhang2022cfda,
  title = {CFDA: collaborative feature disentanglement and augmentation for pulmonary airway tree modeling of COVID-19 CTs},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Zhang, Hanxiao and Yang, Guang-Zhong and Gu, Yun},
  booktitle = {International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention},
  pages = {506--516},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {Springer},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-16431-6_48},
}

IJCARS

LTSP: long-term slice propagation for accurate airway segmentation

Yangqian Wu, Minghui Zhang, Weihao Yu, Hao Zheng, Jiasheng Xu, and Yun Gu

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2022

Awarded Bib HTML

Bench-to-Bedside Award: 1st Place @ Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) 2022

@article{wu2022ltsp,
  title = {LTSP: long-term slice propagation for accurate airway segmentation},
  author = {Wu, Yangqian and Zhang, Minghui and Yu, Weihao and Zheng, Hao and Xu, Jiasheng and Gu, Yun},
  journal = {International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery},
  volume = {17},
  number = {5},
  pages = {857--865},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

2021

MICCAI Workshop

Fda: Feature decomposition and aggregation for robust airway segmentation

Minghui Zhang, Xin Yu, Hanxiao Zhang, Hao Zheng, Weihao Yu, Hong Pan, Xiangran Cai, and Yun Gu

In Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer @ MICCAI, MICCAI Workshop, 2021

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{zhang2021fda,
  title = {Fda: Feature decomposition and aggregation for robust airway segmentation},
  author = {Zhang, Minghui and Yu, Xin and Zhang, Hanxiao and Zheng, Hao and Yu, Weihao and Pan, Hong and Cai, Xiangran and Gu, Yun},
  booktitle = {Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer @ MICCAI, MICCAI Workshop},
  pages = {25--34},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {Springer},
}