Selected publications (* means equal contribution, ^† means corresponding author/ senior author)

Journals

• Integration of clinical data with scanned ECGs using deep learning methods for stroke risk prediction in Indian patients with atrial fibrillation: evidence from the KERALA-AF study
  Qinkai Yu, Jinbert L. Azariah, Z. Sajan Ahmad, Rajappan Anilkumar, Peter Calvert, Yang Chen, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng^†, Bahuleyan Charantharayil Gopalan^†, Gregory Y.H. Lip^†.
  The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia (2026 IF: 6.2, SCI 2 区) paper, code.

• StealthMark: Harmless and Stealthy Ownership Verification for Medical Segmentation via Uncertainty-Guided Backdoors
  Qinkai Yu, Chong Zhang, Gaojie Jin, Tianjin Huang, Wei Zhou, Wenhui Li, Xiaobo Jin, Bo Huang, Yitian Zhao, Guang Yang, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Yalin Zheng, Aline Villavicencio, Yanda Meng^†
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2026 IF: ~13.7, SCI 1区) paper, code.

• Multi-Granularity Learning of Explicit Geometric Constraint and Contrast for Label-Efficient Medical Image Segmentation and Differentiable Clinical Function Assessment
  Yanda Meng, Yuchen Zhang, Jianyang Xie, Jinming Duan, Martha Joddrell, Savita Madhusudhan, Tunde Peto, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng.
  Medical Image Analysis (2024, IF:~ 10.9, SCI 1 区) paper, code

• Bilateral Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network on CT based COVID-19 Diagnosis with Uncertainty-Aware Consensus-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning
  Yanda Meng, Joshua Bridge, Cliff Addison, Manhui Wang, Cristin Merritt, Stu Franks, Maria Mackey, Steve Messenger, Renrong Sun, Thomas Fitzmaurice, Caroline McCann, Qiang Li, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng.
  Medical Image Analysis (2023 IF:~ 13.828, SCI 1区) paper, code.

• Dual Consistency Enabled Weakly and Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Dual Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks
  Yanda Meng, Hongrun Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Dongxu Gao, Barbra Hamill, Godhuli Patri, Tunde Peto, Savita Madhusudhan, and Yalin Zheng.
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2022 IF: ~11.037, SCI 1区) paper, code.

• Graph-based Region and Boundary Aggregation for Biomedical Image Segmentation
  Yanda Meng, Hongrun Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Yihong Qiao, Ian J. C. MacCormick, Xiaowei Huang, and Yalin Zheng.
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2021 IF: ~10.048, SCI 1区) paper, code.

• Artificial intelligence utilising corneal confocal microscopy for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in diabetes mellitus and prediabetes
  *Frank G Preston, *Yanda Meng, Jamie Burgess, Maryam Ferdousi, Shazli Azmi, Ioannis N Petropoulos, Stephen Kaye, Rayaz A Malik, Yalin Zheng, Uazman Alam.
  Diabetologia (2021 IF: ~10.122, SCI 1区) paper. (封面文章，Front Cover of Mar 2022 Issue).
  

• Transportation Object Counting with Graph-Based Adaptive Auxiliary Learning
  Yanda Meng, Joshua Bridge, Yitian Zhao, Joddrell Martha, Yihong Qiao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, Yalin Zheng.
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System (2022 IF: ~9.551, SCI 1区) paper, code.

• Artificial intelligence – based classification of cardiac autonomic neuropathy from retinal fundus images in patients with diabetes - The Silesia Diabetes Heart Study
  *Katarzyna Nabrdalik, *Krzysztof Irlik, *Yanda Meng, Hanna Kwiendacz, Julia Piaśnik, Mirela Hendel, Paweł Ignacy, Justyna Kulpa, Kamil Kegler, Mikołaj Herba, Sylwia Boczek, Effendy Bin Hashim, Zhuangzhi Gao, Janusz Gumprecht, Yalin Zheng, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Uazman Alam.
  Cardiovascular Diabetology (2024 IF: ~8.5, SCI 1 区) paper.

• Self-Guided Adversarial Network for Domain Adaptive Retinal Layer Segmentation
  Jiong Zhang, Chenggang Lu, Ran Song, Yalin Zheng, Huaying Hao, Yanda Meng^†, Yitian Zhao^†.
  IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement. (2024 IF: ~5.6, SCI 2 区 ) paper

• Artificial Intelligence Based Analysis of Corneal Confocal Microscopy Images for Diagnosing Peripheral Neuropathy: A Binary Classification Model
  *Yanda Meng, *Frank G Preston, Maryam Ferdousi, Shazli Azmi, Ioannis Nikolaos Petropoulos, Stephen Kaye, Rayaz Ahmed Malik, Uazman Alam, Yalin Zheng.
  Journal of Clinical Medicine (2023 IF: ~4.964, SCI 2区) paper.

• Deep-learning using preoperative AS-OCT predicts graft detachment in DMEK
  *Alastair Patefield, *Yanda Meng, Matteo Airaldi, Giulia Coco, Sabrina Vaccaro, Mohit Parekh, Francesco Semeraro, Kunal A Gadhvi, Stephen B Kaye, Yalin Zheng, Vito Romano
  Translational Vision Science and Technology (2023 IF: ~3.048, SCI 3区) paper

Conferences

• Fairness-Aware vCDR-Controlled Generation for Glaucoma Diagnosis
  Ziheng Wang, Shuran Yang, Wen Chen, Zhen Zhang, Mengyu Wang, Feixiang Zhou, Yu Tian, Meng Wang, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng^†
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
  MICCAI 2025 (CCF-B) paper, code

• Parameterized Diffusion Optimization enabled Autoregressive Ordinal Regression for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading
  Qinkai Yu, Wei Zhou, Hantao Liu, Yanyu Xu, Meng Wang, Yitian Zhao, Huazhu Fu, Xujiong Ye, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng^†
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
  MICCAI 2025 (CCF-B) paper, code (Oral).
  

• Robust Incomplete-Modality Alignment for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis via Labeled Optimal Transport
  Qinkai Yu, Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Cheng Chen, Lijun Zhang, Liming Chen, Jun Cheng, Lu Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng^†
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
  MICCAI 2025 (CCF-B) paper, code

• Self-adaptive Vision-Language Model for 3D Segmentation of Pulmonary Artery and Vein
  Deqian Yang, Xiaotong Guo, Ying Zhu, Dan Wang, Haochen Zhao, Yuan Li, Zhilin Sui, Tao Zhou, Hui Meng, Lijun Zhang, Yanda Meng^†
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
  MICCAI 2025 (CCF-B) paper, code

• Incomplete Modality Disentangled Representation for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis
  Chengzhi Liu, Zile Huang, Zhe Chen, Feilong Tang, Yu Tian, Zhongxing Xu, Zihong Luo, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng^†
  39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  AAAI 2025 (CCF-A) paper, code, project link (Oral).
  

• CLIP-DR: Textual Knowledge-Guided Diabetic Retinopathy Grading with Ranking-aware Prompting
  Qinkai Yu, Jianyang Xie, Anh Nguyen, He Zhao, Jiong Zhang, Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng^†
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.
  MICCAI 2024 (CCF-B) paper, code

• Dynamic Semantic-based Graph Convolution Network for Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition
  Jianyang Xie, Yanda Meng^†, Yitian Zhao, Anh Nguyen, Xiaoyun Yang, Yalin Zheng^†
  Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  AAAI 2024 (CCF-A) paper, code.

• Weakly/Semi-supervised Left Ventricle Segmentation in 2D Echocardiography with Uncertain Region-aware Contrastive Learning
  *Yanda Meng, *Yuchen Zhang, Jianyang Xie, Jinming Duan, Yitian Zhao, Yalin Zheng
  Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.
  PRCV 2023 (CCF-C) paper, code.

• Shape-Aware Weakly/Semi-Supervised Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation with Regional/Marginal Consistency
  Yanda Meng, Xu Chen, Hongrun Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Dongxu Gao, Barbra Hamill, Godhuli Patri, Tunde Peto, Savita Madhusudhan, Yalin Zheng
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.
  MICCAI 2022 (CCF-B) paper, code. (Early Accept).
  

• Diagnosis of Diabetic Neuropathy by Artificial Intelligence using Corneal Confocal Microscopy
  Yanda Meng, Maryam Ferdousi, Ioannis N Petropoulos, Rayaz A Malik, Yitian Zhao, Uazman Alam, Yalin Zheng
  32nd Meeting of the European Association for Diabetic Eye Complications
  EAsDEC2022 paper

• BI-GCN: Boundary-Aware Input-Dependent Graph Convolution Network for Biomedical Image Segmentation
  Yanda Meng, Hongrun Zhang, Dongxu Gao, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xuesheng Qian, Xiaowei Huang, and Yalin Zheng.
  The British Machine Vision Conference.
  BMVC 2021 (CCF-C) paper, code. (Oral, selected as one of the best papers of BMVC2021 and invited to extend a journal version in Special Issue of IJCV).
  

• Spatial Uncertainty-Aware Semi-Supervised Crowd Counting
  Yanda Meng, Hongrun Zhang, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xuesheng Qian, Xiaowei Huang, and Yalin Zheng.
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.
  ICCV 2021 (CCF-A) paper, code.

• Regression of Instance Boundary by Aggregated CNN and GCN
  Yanda Meng, Meng wei, Dongxu Gao, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, and Yalin Zheng.
  European Conference on Computer Vision.
  ECCV 2020 (CCF-B) paper.

• CNN-GCN Aggregation Enabled Boundary Regression for Biomedical Image Segmentation
  Yanda Meng, Meng Wei, Dongxu Gao, Yitian Zhao, Xiaoyun Yang, Xiaowei Huang, and Yalin Zheng.
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.
  MICCAI 2020 (CCF-B) paper (Early Accept).