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Yanwu Xu is affiliated with South China University of Technology in China. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Ophthalmology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include Retinal Imaging and Analysis, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Medical Image Segmentation Techniques, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Retinal and Optic Conditions, and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications.

Yanwu Xu has contributed to various publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • International Journal of Ophthalmology
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Yanwu Xu include:

  • Huazhu Fu
  • Jiang Liu
  • Fei Li
  • Xiulan Zhang
  • Huihui Fang

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yanwu Xu are:

  • "Skin lesion segmentation via generative adversarial networks with dual discriminators", 2020, Medical Image Analysis
  • "MedSegDiff-V2: Diffusion-Based Medical Image Segmentation with Transformer", 2024, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Medical SAM adapter: Adapting segment anything model for medical image segmentation", 2025, Medical Image Analysis
  • "Hierarchical Amortized GAN for 3D High Resolution Medical Image Synthesis", 2022, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • "GAMMA challenge: Glaucoma grAding from Multi-Modality imAges", 2023, Medical Image Analysis

Additionally, Yanwu Xu has published books with Springer Science+Business Media. These include editions of "Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis" released in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Best Publications

  • Identifying the Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Tumor Segmentation, Progression Assessment, and Overall Survival Prediction in the BRATS Challenge

    Spyridon Bakas;Mauricio Reyes;Andras Jakab;Stefan Bauer

  • Joint Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation Based on Multi-Label Deep Network and Polar Transformation

    Huazhu Fu;Jun Cheng;Yanwu Xu;Damon Wing Kee Wong

  • REFUGE Challenge: A unified framework for evaluating automated methods for glaucoma assessment from fundus photographs

    José Ignacio Orlando;Huazhu Fu;João Barbossa Breda;Karel van Keer

  • Superpixel Classification Based Optic Disc and Optic Cup Segmentation for Glaucoma Screening

    Jun Cheng;Jiang Liu;Yanwu Xu;Fengshou Yin

  • DeepVessel: Retinal Vessel Segmentation via Deep Learning and Conditional Random Field

    Huazhu Fu;Yanwu Xu;Stephen Lin;Damon Wing Kee Wong

  • Disc-Aware Ensemble Network for Glaucoma Screening From Fundus Image

    Huazhu Fu;Jun Cheng;Yanwu Xu;Changqing Zhang

  • Glaucoma detection based on deep convolutional neural network

    Xiangyu Chen;Yanwu Xu;Damon Wing Kee Wong;Tien Yin Wong

  • Closed-Loop Matters: Dual Regression Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution

    Yong Guo;Jian Chen;Jingdong Wang;Qi Chen

  • Retinal vessel segmentation via deep learning network and fully-connected conditional random fields

    Huazhu Fu;Yanwu Xu;Damon Wing Kee Wong;Jiang Liu

  • Skin lesion segmentation via generative adversarial networks with dual discriminators.

    Baiying Lei;Zaimin Xia;Feng Jiang;Xudong Jiang

  • Attention Guided Network for Retinal Image Segmentation

    Shihao Zhang;Huazhu Fu;Yuguang Yan;Yubing Zhang

  • Retinal Image Synthesis and Semi-Supervised Learning for Glaucoma Assessment

    Andres Diaz-Pinto;Adrian Colomer;Valery Naranjo;Sandra Morales

  • Medical SAM adapter: Adapting segment anything model for medical image segmentation

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  • Evaluation of Retinal Image Quality Assessment Networks in Different Color-spaces

    Huazhu Fu;Boyang Wang;Jianbing Shen;Shanshan Cui

  • Automatic Feature Learning for Glaucoma Detection Based on Deep Learning

    Xiangyu Chen;Yanwu Xu;Shuicheng Yan;Damon Wing Kee Wong

  • A Deep Learning System for Automated Angle-Closure Detection in Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Images

    Huazhu Fu;Huazhu Fu;Mani Baskaran;Mani Baskaran;Yanwu Xu;Yanwu Xu;Stephen Lin

  • Detection of Sudden Pedestrian Crossings for Driving Assistance Systems

    Yanwu Xu;Dong Xu;S. Lin;T. X. Han

  • Hierarchical Amortized GAN for 3D High Resolution Medical Image Synthesis

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  • Segmentation and Quantification for Angle-Closure Glaucoma Assessment in Anterior Segment OCT

    Huazhu Fu;Yanwu Xu;Stephen Lin;Xiaoqin Zhang

  • An Efficient Tree Classifier Ensemble-Based Approach for Pedestrian Detection

    Yanwu Xu;Xianbin Cao;Hong Qiao

  • Optic Cup Segmentation for Glaucoma Detection Using Low-Rank Superpixel Representation

    Yanwu Xu;Lixin Duan;Stephen Lin;Xiangyu Chen

  • Self-calibrated brain network estimation and joint non-convex multi-task learning for identification of early Alzheimer's disease.

    Baiying Lei;Nina Cheng;Alejandro F Frangi;Ee-Leng Tan

  • Sliding window and regression based cup detection in digital fundus images for glaucoma diagnosis

    Yanwu Xu;Dong Xu;Stephen Lin;Jiang Liu

  • Angle-Closure Detection in Anterior Segment OCT Based on Multilevel Deep Network

    Huazhu Fu;Yanwu Xu;Stephen Lin;Damon Wing Kee Wong

  • Evaluation of Retinal Image Quality Assessment Networks in Different Color-spaces

    Huazhu Fu;Boyang Wang;Jianbing Shen;Shanshan Cui

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiang Liu
Jiang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
Damon Wing Kee Wong
Damon Wing Kee Wong Nanyang Technological University
Huazhu Fu
Huazhu Fu Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Jun Cheng
Jun Cheng University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingkui Tan
Mingkui Tan South China University of Technology
Hong Qiao
Hong Qiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen Lin
Stephen Lin Microsoft Research Asia (China)
Lixin Duan
Lixin Duan University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Baiying Lei
Baiying Lei Shenzhen University
Yitian Zhao
Yitian Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences

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