Faculty Profiles - WANG Xi | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Xi WANG
王茜

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

vancywangxi@ust.hk
Room 2602
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Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Artificial intelligence
Medical image analysis
Computer vision
Machine learning

Publications

All Years 22 2026 0 2025 6 2024 7 2023 5 2022 1 2021 0 2020 3

2025 6

Efficient Edge Immunization Strategies for Diffusion Containment in Social Networks

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, article number 11229949
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Su, Zhen; Xiao, Yujing; Wang, Zhen
Article

Generalist medical foundation model improves prostate cancer segmentation from multimodal MRI images

npj Digital Medicine, v. 8, (1), article number 372
Zhang, Yuhan; Ma, Xiao; Li, Mingchao; Huang, Kun; Zhu, Jie; Wang, Miao; Wang, Xi; Wu, Menglin; Heng, Pheng Ann
Article

Large-scale generative tumor synthesis in computed tomography images for improving tumor recognition

Nature Communications, v. 16, (1), article number 11053
Wu, Linshan; Zhuang, Jiaxin; Zhou, Yanning; He, Sunan; Ma, Jiabo; Luo, Luyang; Wang, Xi; Ni, Xuefeng; Zhong, Xiaoling; Wu, Mingxiang; Zhao, Yinghua; Duan, Xiaohui; Vardhanabhuti, Varut; Rajpurkar, Pranav; Chen, Hao
Article

PAL: Boosting Skin Lesion Segmentation via Probabilistic Attribute Learning

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, v. 44, (12), article number 11078393
Yuan, Yuchen; Wang, Xi; Li, Jinpeng; Chen, Guangyong; Heng, Pheng Ann
Article

PathBench: A comprehensive comparison benchmark for pathology foundation models towards precision oncology

arXiv, article number 2505.20202
CHEN, Hao; MA, Jiabo; XU, Yingxue; ZHOU, Fengtao; WANG, Yihui; JIN, Cheng; GUO, Zhengrui; ZHOU, Huajun; WANG, Xi; LUO, Luyang
Article

Infant Hippocampal Segmentation in Ultra-Low-Field MRI Using External Datasets with Diverse Field Strengths

Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance: First MICCAI Challenge, LISA 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 10, 2024, Proceedings / Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2025, p. 28-37
Zhou, Weichen; Li, Jingyu; Wang, Xi; Wang, Yuwan; Lyu, Mengye
Conference paper

2024 7

Efficient approaches for attaining epidemic-free networks with minimum edge removal set

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, v. 130, March 2024, article number 107753
Liu, Yang; Liang, Guangbo; Wang, Xi; Wang, Zhuoyu; Zhu, Peican; Wang, Zhen
Article

Individual-centralized seeding strategy for influence maximization in information-limited networks

Journal of the Royal Society Interface, v. 21, (214), May 2024, article number 20230625
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xiaoqi; Wang, Xi; Yan, Li; Zhao, Sinuo; Wang, Zhen
Article

Single-Cell Heterogeneity-Aware Transformer-Guided Multiple Instance Learning for Cancer Aneuploidy Prediction From Whole Slide Histopathology Images

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, v. 28, (1), January 2024, article number 3262454, p. 134-144
Yu, Feiyang; Wang, Xi; Sali, Rasoul; Li, Ruijiang
Article

Adaptive Loss-aware Modulation for Multimedia Retrieval

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 649-658
Zhu, Jian; Cui, Yu; Liu, Lei; Sun, Zeyi; Dai, Yuyang; Wang, Xi; Luo, Cheng; Dai, Li-Rong
Conference paper

Coarse-to-Fine Latent Diffusion Model for Glaucoma Forecast on Sequential Fundus Images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 15005, October 2024, p. 166-176
Zhang, Yuhan; Huang, Kun; Yang, Xikai; Ma, Xiao; Wu, Jian; Wang, Ningli; Wang, Xi; Heng, Pheng-Ann
Conference paper

Decoupling Feature Representations of Ego and Other Modalities for Incomplete Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation

Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2024 / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 3897-3902
Yang, Kaixiang; Shan, Wenqi; Li, Xudong; Wang, Xuan; Yang, Xikai; Wang, Xi; Heng, Pheng-Ann; Li, Qiang; Wang, Zhiwei
Conference paper

Noise Level Adaptive Diffusion Model for Robust Reconstruction of Accelerated MRI

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 15007 LNCS, October 2024, p. 498-508
Huang, Shoujin; Luo, Guanxiong; Wang, Xi; Chen, Ziran; Wang, Yuwan; Yang, Huaishui; Heng, Pheng-Ann; Zhang, Lingyan; Lyu, Mengye
Conference paper

2023 5

An Artificial Intelligence System for Screening and Recommending the Treatment Modalities for Retinopathy of Prematurity

Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, v. 12, (5), September 2023, p. 468-476
Liu, Yaling; Du, Yueshanyi; Wang, Xi; Zhao, Xinyu; Zhang, Sifan; Yu, Zhen; Wu, Zhenquan; Ntentakis, Dimitrios P.; Tian, Ruyin; Chen, Yi; Wang, Cui; Yao, Xue; Li, Ruijiang; Heng, Pheng-Ann; Zhang, Guoming
Article

Diffusion Containment in Complex Networks Through Collective Influence of Connections

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, v. 19, November 2023, article number 10336828, p. 1510-1524
Liu, Yang; Liang, Guangbo; Wang, Xi; Zhu, Peican; Wang, Zhen
Article

Diffusion Source Inference for Large-Scale Complex Networks Based on Network Percolation

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, v. 36, (1), October 2023, article number 10284915, p. 1453-1466
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xiaoqi; Wang, Xi; Wang, Zhen; Kurths, Jurgen
Article

Liquid biopsy biomarkers to guide immunotherapy in breast cancer

Frontiers in Immunology, v. 14, November 2023, article number 1303491
Yang, Jinghan; Qiu, Liang; Wang, Xi; Chen, Xi; Cao, Pingdong; Yang, Zhe; Wen, Qiang
Article

Semi-supervised Class Imbalanced Deep Learning for Cardiac MRI Segmentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 14223 LNCS, October 2023, p. 459-469
Yuan, Yuchen; Wang, Xi; Yang, Xikai; Li, Ruijiang; Heng, Pheng-Ann
Conference paper

2022 1

Using Deep Learning for Assessing Image-Quality of 3D Macular Scans from Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, v. v. 64, article number PB0017
TANG, Ziqi; WANG, Xi; RAN, Anran; YANG, Dawei Gabriel; HENG, Pheng-Ann; CHEUNG, Carol Y.
Article

2019 1

Framework of evolutionary algorithm for investigation of influential nodes in complex networks

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, v. 23, (6), December 2019, article number 8649679, p. 1049-1063
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Kurths, Jurgen
Article

2018 2

Optimization of targeted node set in complex networks under percolation and selection

Physical Review E, v. 98, (1), July 2018, article number 012313
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Kurths, Jürgen
Article

Weakly Supervised Learning for Whole Slide Lung Cancer Image Classification

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Wang, Xi; Chen, Hao; Gan, Caixia; Lin, Huangjing; Dou, Qi; Huang, Qitao; Cai, Muyan; Heng, Pheng-Ann
Article

Article 5

Efficient Edge Immunization Strategies for Diffusion Containment in Social Networks

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, article number 11229949
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Su, Zhen; Xiao, Yujing; Wang, Zhen

Generalist medical foundation model improves prostate cancer segmentation from multimodal MRI images

npj Digital Medicine, v. 8, (1), article number 372
Zhang, Yuhan; Ma, Xiao; Li, Mingchao; Huang, Kun; Zhu, Jie; Wang, Miao; Wang, Xi; Wu, Menglin; Heng, Pheng Ann

Large-scale generative tumor synthesis in computed tomography images for improving tumor recognition

Nature Communications, v. 16, (1), article number 11053
Wu, Linshan; Zhuang, Jiaxin; Zhou, Yanning; He, Sunan; Ma, Jiabo; Luo, Luyang; Wang, Xi; Ni, Xuefeng; Zhong, Xiaoling; Wu, Mingxiang; Zhao, Yinghua; Duan, Xiaohui; Vardhanabhuti, Varut; Rajpurkar, Pranav; Chen, Hao

PAL: Boosting Skin Lesion Segmentation via Probabilistic Attribute Learning

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, v. 44, (12), article number 11078393
Yuan, Yuchen; Wang, Xi; Li, Jinpeng; Chen, Guangyong; Heng, Pheng Ann

PathBench: A comprehensive comparison benchmark for pathology foundation models towards precision oncology

arXiv, article number 2505.20202
CHEN, Hao; MA, Jiabo; XU, Yingxue; ZHOU, Fengtao; WANG, Yihui; JIN, Cheng; GUO, Zhengrui; ZHOU, Huajun; WANG, Xi; LUO, Luyang

Conference paper 1

Infant Hippocampal Segmentation in Ultra-Low-Field MRI Using External Datasets with Diverse Field Strengths

Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance: First MICCAI Challenge, LISA 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 10, 2024, Proceedings / Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2025, p. 28-37
Zhou, Weichen; Li, Jingyu; Wang, Xi; Wang, Yuwan; Lyu, Mengye

Article 3

Efficient approaches for attaining epidemic-free networks with minimum edge removal set

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, v. 130, March 2024, article number 107753
Liu, Yang; Liang, Guangbo; Wang, Xi; Wang, Zhuoyu; Zhu, Peican; Wang, Zhen

Individual-centralized seeding strategy for influence maximization in information-limited networks

Journal of the Royal Society Interface, v. 21, (214), May 2024, article number 20230625
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xiaoqi; Wang, Xi; Yan, Li; Zhao, Sinuo; Wang, Zhen

Single-Cell Heterogeneity-Aware Transformer-Guided Multiple Instance Learning for Cancer Aneuploidy Prediction From Whole Slide Histopathology Images

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, v. 28, (1), January 2024, article number 3262454, p. 134-144
Yu, Feiyang; Wang, Xi; Sali, Rasoul; Li, Ruijiang

Conference paper 4

Adaptive Loss-aware Modulation for Multimedia Retrieval

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 649-658
Zhu, Jian; Cui, Yu; Liu, Lei; Sun, Zeyi; Dai, Yuyang; Wang, Xi; Luo, Cheng; Dai, Li-Rong

Coarse-to-Fine Latent Diffusion Model for Glaucoma Forecast on Sequential Fundus Images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 15005, October 2024, p. 166-176
Zhang, Yuhan; Huang, Kun; Yang, Xikai; Ma, Xiao; Wu, Jian; Wang, Ningli; Wang, Xi; Heng, Pheng-Ann

Decoupling Feature Representations of Ego and Other Modalities for Incomplete Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation

Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2024 / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 3897-3902
Yang, Kaixiang; Shan, Wenqi; Li, Xudong; Wang, Xuan; Yang, Xikai; Wang, Xi; Heng, Pheng-Ann; Li, Qiang; Wang, Zhiwei

Noise Level Adaptive Diffusion Model for Robust Reconstruction of Accelerated MRI

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 15007 LNCS, October 2024, p. 498-508
Huang, Shoujin; Luo, Guanxiong; Wang, Xi; Chen, Ziran; Wang, Yuwan; Yang, Huaishui; Heng, Pheng-Ann; Zhang, Lingyan; Lyu, Mengye

Article 4

An Artificial Intelligence System for Screening and Recommending the Treatment Modalities for Retinopathy of Prematurity

Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, v. 12, (5), September 2023, p. 468-476
Liu, Yaling; Du, Yueshanyi; Wang, Xi; Zhao, Xinyu; Zhang, Sifan; Yu, Zhen; Wu, Zhenquan; Ntentakis, Dimitrios P.; Tian, Ruyin; Chen, Yi; Wang, Cui; Yao, Xue; Li, Ruijiang; Heng, Pheng-Ann; Zhang, Guoming

Diffusion Containment in Complex Networks Through Collective Influence of Connections

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, v. 19, November 2023, article number 10336828, p. 1510-1524
Liu, Yang; Liang, Guangbo; Wang, Xi; Zhu, Peican; Wang, Zhen

Diffusion Source Inference for Large-Scale Complex Networks Based on Network Percolation

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, v. 36, (1), October 2023, article number 10284915, p. 1453-1466
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xiaoqi; Wang, Xi; Wang, Zhen; Kurths, Jurgen

Liquid biopsy biomarkers to guide immunotherapy in breast cancer

Frontiers in Immunology, v. 14, November 2023, article number 1303491
Yang, Jinghan; Qiu, Liang; Wang, Xi; Chen, Xi; Cao, Pingdong; Yang, Zhe; Wen, Qiang

Conference paper 1

Semi-supervised Class Imbalanced Deep Learning for Cardiac MRI Segmentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 14223 LNCS, October 2023, p. 459-469
Yuan, Yuchen; Wang, Xi; Yang, Xikai; Li, Ruijiang; Heng, Pheng-Ann

Article 1

Using Deep Learning for Assessing Image-Quality of 3D Macular Scans from Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, v. v. 64, article number PB0017
TANG, Ziqi; WANG, Xi; RAN, Anran; YANG, Dawei Gabriel; HENG, Pheng-Ann; CHEUNG, Carol Y.

Article 1

Framework of evolutionary algorithm for investigation of influential nodes in complex networks

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, v. 23, (6), December 2019, article number 8649679, p. 1049-1063
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Kurths, Jurgen

Article 2

Optimization of targeted node set in complex networks under percolation and selection

Physical Review E, v. 98, (1), July 2018, article number 012313
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Kurths, Jürgen

Weakly Supervised Learning for Whole Slide Lung Cancer Image Classification

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Wang, Xi; Chen, Hao; Gan, Caixia; Lin, Huangjing; Dou, Qi; Huang, Qitao; Cai, Muyan; Heng, Pheng-Ann

2019 1

Framework of evolutionary algorithm for investigation of influential nodes in complex networks

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, v. 23, (6), December 2019, article number 8649679, p. 1049-1063
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Kurths, Jurgen
Article

2018 2

Optimization of targeted node set in complex networks under percolation and selection

Physical Review E, v. 98, (1), July 2018, article number 012313
Liu, Yang; Wang, Xi; Kurths, Jürgen
Article

Weakly Supervised Learning for Whole Slide Lung Cancer Image Classification

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Wang, Xi; Chen, Hao; Gan, Caixia; Lin, Huangjing; Dou, Qi; Huang, Qitao; Cai, Muyan; Heng, Pheng-Ann
Article

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2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 1 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 0

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From January 2024 to December 2026

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Research on Diagnostic and Predictive Methods for Alzheimer's Disease based on Cross-domain Longitudinal Multimodal Learning

基于跨域多模態融合和縱向學習的阿爾茨海默病診斷與預測方法研究 Leading

National Natural Science Foundation of China
Project Team (HKUST)
WANG Xi (Lead)
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