Zikang Xu (徐梓康)

I am a Ph.D candidate at School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou, China, majoring in Medical Image Analysis, Fairness, Trustworthy AI.

Currently, I am doing research about developing fair algorithms for medical image analysis supervised by Prof. S. Kevin Zhou (周少华) at the MIRACLE Center.

Before I came to USTC, I received my bachelor degree and master degree (Supervisor: Prof. Zhongze Gu (顾忠泽)) from Southeast University in 2018 and 2021, respectively.

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Selected Publications
FairAdaBN: Mitigating unfairness with adaptive batch normalization and its application to dermatological disease classification
Zikang Xu, Shang Zhao, Quan Quan, Qingsong Yao, S. Kevin Zhou
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023.
  code /arXiv /bibtex /poster

A novel FairAdaBN module which process samples in different sensitive attributes differently, to ensure model fairness in two dermatological datasets.

Addressing Fairness Issues in Deep Learning-Based Medical Image Analysis: A Systematic Review
Zikang Xu, Jun Li, Qingsong Yao, Han Li, Mingyue Zhao, and S. Kevin Zhou
Acceptted in principle by npj Dig. Med., 2024.
  code /arXiv /bibtex

A survey of fairness in medical image analysis, including concepts, algorithms, evaluations, and challenges.

FairMedFM: Fairness Benchmarking for Medical Imaging Foundation Models
Ruinan Jin*, Zikang Xu*, Yuan Zhong*, Qingsong Yao, Qi Dou†, S. Kevin Zhou†, Xiaoxiao Li†
arxiv, 2023.
  code /arXiv /bibtex

An evaluation of fairness on medical foundation models, involving 20 foundation models on 17 medical datasets.

APPLE: Adversarial Privacy-aware Perturbations on Latent Embedding for Unfairness Mitigation
Zikang Xu, Fenghe Tang, Quan Quan, Qingsong Yao, S. Kevin Zhou
arxiv, 2023.
arXiv /bibtex

Mitigating unfairness in deployed U-Net-like and SAM-family segmentation models by latent perturbation.

Inspecting Model Fairness in Ultrasound Segmentation Tasks
Zikang Xu, Fenghe Tang, Quan Quan, Jianrui Ding, Chunping Ning, S. Kevin Zhou
arxiv., 2023.
arXiv /bibtex

First attempt in evaluating fairness issues in ultrasound image segmentation.

Slide-SAM: Medical SAM Meets Sliding Window
Quan Quan, Fenghe Tang, Zikang Xu, Heqin Zhu, S. Kevin Zhou
Medical Imaging and Deep Learning (MIDL)., 2023.
  code /arXiv /bibtex

Modify Segment Anything Model (SAM) to 3D medical image segmentation.

OFELIA: Optical Flow-based Electrode LocalIzAtion
Xinyi Wang, Zikang Xu, Qingsong Yao, Yiyong Sun, S. Kevin Zhou
Medical Imaging and Deep Learning (MIDL)., 2023.
OpenReview /bibtex

Optical-flow-based electrode localization in catheter ablation.

A storm in a teacup--A biomimetic lung microphysiological system in conjunction with a deep-learning algorithm to monitor lung pathological and inflammatory reactions
Zaozao Chen, Jie Huang, Jing Zhang, Zikang Xu, Qiwei Li, Jun Ouyang, Yuchuan Yan, Shiqi Sun, Huan Ye, Fei Wang, Jianfeng Zhu, Zhangyan Wang, Jie Chao, Yuepu Pu, Zhongze Gu
Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 219, 1 January 2023, 114772.
ScienceDirect /bibtex

A deep-learning algorithm was developed to characterize the activation of cells in Lung-MPS, which could provide an improved and more biomimetic sensory system for the study of COVID-19 and other high-risk infectious lung diseases.


Research Experience
  • [2023/06 - 2023/10] Research Intern, Fuwai Hospital, CAMS & PUMC

Professional Services
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE TMI
  • Conference Reviewer: MICCAI 2024


Modified from Heqin Zhu