Publications

Selected publications. # indicates equal contribution, † represents the corresponding author.

DUCX: Decomposing Unfairness in Tool-Using Chest X-ray Agents

Zikang Xu, Ruinan Jin, Xiaoxiao Li

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2026

Early Accepted

Code

Medatlas: Evaluating LLMs for Multi-Round, Multi-Task Medical Reasoning Across Diverse Imaging Modalities and Clinical Text

Ronghao Xu, Zhen Huang, Yangbo Wei, Xiaoqian Zhou, Zikang Xu, Ting Liu, Zihang Jiang, S. Kevin Zhou

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026

Fair ultrasound diagnosis via adversarial protected attribute aware perturbations on latent embeddings

Zikang Xu, Fenghe Tang, Quan Quan, Qingsong Yao, Qingpeng Kong, Jianrui Ding, Chunping Ning, S. Kevin Zhou

npj Digital Medicine 2025

DOICode

FAIR-ESI: Feature Adaptive Importance Refinement for Electrophysiological Source Imaging

Linyong Zou, Liang Zhang, Xiongfei Wang, Jia-Hong Gao, Yi Sun, Shurong Sheng, Kuntao Xiao, Wanli Yang, Pengfei Teng, Guoming Luan, Zhao Lv, Zikang Xu†

IEEE BIBM 2025

Oral

DOI

LACOSTE: Exploiting stereo and temporal contexts for surgical instrument segmentation

Qiyuan Wang, Shang Zhao, Zikang Xu, S. Kevin Zhou

Medical Image Analysis 2025

DOI

Style-Aligned Image Composition for Robust Detection of Abnormal Cells in Cytopathology

Qiuyi Qi, Xin Li, Ming Kong, Zikang Xu, Bingdi Chen, Qiang Zhu, S. Kevin Zhou

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2025

Oral

Code

Addressing Fairness Issues in Deep Learning-Based Medical Image Analysis: A Systematic Review

Zikang Xu, Jun Li, Qingsong Yao, Han Li, Mingyue Zhao, S. Kevin Zhou

npj Digital Medicine 2024

DOICode

FairMedFM: Fairness Benchmarking for Medical Imaging Foundation Models

Ruinan Jin, Zikang Xu, Yuan Zhong, Qingsong Yao, Qi Dou†, S. Kevin Zhou†, Xiaoxiao Li†

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024

Code

SIX-Net: Spatial-Context Information miX-up for Electrode Landmark Detection

Xinyi Wang, Zikang Xu, Heqin Zhu, Qingsong Yao, Yiyong Sun, S. Kevin Zhou

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024

Early Accepted

DOI

OFELIA: Optical Flow-based Electrode LocalIzAtion

Xinyi Wang, Zikang Xu, Qingsong Yao, Yiyong Sun, S. Kevin Zhou

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2024

Slide-SAM: Medical SAM Meets Sliding Window

Quan Quan, Fenghe Tang, Zikang Xu, Heqin Zhu, S. Kevin Zhou

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2024

Oral

Code

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

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023

DOICode