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Xian Lin

Research Fellow

Biography

Xian Lin is currently a Research Fellow at PAI Lab and the Centre for Innovation & Precision Eye Health (InVision), Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore. She completed her Ph.D. at the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Li Yu and Prof. Zengqiang Yan. Her research interests lie in AI for healthcare, with a particular focus on medical image segmentation, medical foundation models, and multimodal AI.

Research / Education Experience

  • 05/2026–present | Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 09/2020–06/2026 | M.S.–Ph.D., School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  • 09/2016–06/2020 | Bachelor’s degree, College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

Selected Publications

  1. Xian Lin, Xiayu Guo, Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu. Selective Intra- and Inter-Slice Interaction for Efficient Anisotropic Medical Image Segmentation. Pattern Recognition (PR), 2025.
  2. Xian Lin, Yangyang Xiang, Zhehao Wang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu. SAMCT: Segment Any CT Allowing Labor-Free Task-Indicator Prompts. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024.
  3. Xian Lin, Li Yu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Zengqiang Yan. The Lighter The Better: Rethinking Transformers in Medical Image Segmentation Through Adaptive Pruning. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2023.
  4. Xian Lin, Li Yu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Zengqiang Yan. BATFormer: Towards Boundary-Aware Lightweight Transformer for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 2023.
  5. Xian Lin, Yangyang Xiang, Li Yu, Zengqiang Yan. Beyond Adapting SAM: Towards End-to-End Ultrasound Image Segmentation via Auto Prompting. Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
  6. Xian Lin, Zhehao Wang, Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu. Revisiting Self-Attention in Medical Transformers via Dependency Sparsification. Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
  7. Xian Lin, Zengqiang Yan, Xianbo Deng, Chuansheng Zheng, Li Yu. ConvFormer: Plug-and-Play CNN-Style Transformers for Improving Medical Image Segmentation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023.

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer

  • MICCAI (2024, 2025, 2026)
  • PRCV (2023, 2024)

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine (CIBM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)

Contact

Email: xianlin@nus.edu.sg

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