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Ziniu Qian
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5ranked-venue papers
1as first author
5since 2021 · last 2025
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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 5 · 1 first-author · 5 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CTIS-QA: Clinical Template-Informed Slide-Level Question Answering for PathologyabstractMultimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in patch-level pathological image analysis; however, they often lack the holistic perceptual capability necessary for comprehensive Whole Slide Image (WSI) interpretation. Recent approaches have explored constructing slide-level MLLMs using VQA datasets that are entirely generated from pathology reports by large language models (LLMs). However, these datasets suffer from critical limitations: hallucinated content, information leakage in question stems, clinically irrelevant or visual independent questions, and the omission of essential diagnostic features-issues that undermine both data quality and clinical validity. In this paper, we introduce a clinical diagnosis template-based pipeline to collect pathological information. In collaboration with pathologists and guided by the the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Protocols, we design a Clinical Pathology Report Template (CPRT) that ensures comprehensive and standardized extraction of diagnostic elements from pathology reports. We validate the effectiveness of our pipeline on TCGA-BRCA. First, we extract pathological features from reports using CPRT. These features are then used to build CTIS-Align, a dataset of 80k slide-description pairs from 804 WSIs for vision-language alignment training, and CTISBench, a rigorously curated VQA benchmark comprising 977 WSIs and 14,879 question-answer pairs. CTIS-Bench emphasizes clinically grounded, closed-ended questions (e.g., tumor grade, receptor status) that reflect real diagnostic workflows, minimize non-visual reasoning, and require genuine slide understanding. We further propose CTIS-QA, a Slide-level Question Answering model, featuring a dual-stream architecture that mimics pathologists' diagnostic approach. One stream captures global slidelevel context via clustering-based feature aggregation, while the other focuses on salient local regions through attention-guided patch perception module. Extensive experiments on WSI-VQA, CTIS-Bench, and slide-level diagnostic tasks show that CTIS-QA consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art models across multiple metrics. We will fully release both CTIS-Bench and CTIS-QA as open-source resources. Ziniu Qian, Yang Zhou 0036, Bingzheng Wei, Yan Xu 0001 |
BIBM | 2 |
| 2024 | All-In-One Medical Image Restoration via Task-Adaptive Routing
Zhiwen Yang 0001, Ziniu Qian, Hui Zhang 0099, Bingzheng Wei, Yan Xu 0001 |
MICCAI (7) | 3 |
| 2024 | Region Attention Transformer for Medical Image Restoration
Zhiwen Yang 0001, Ziniu Qian, Yang Zhou 0036, Hui Zhang 0099, Bingzheng Wei, Yan Xu 0001 |
MICCAI (7) | 3 |
| 2023 | Weakly supervised histopathology image segmentation with self-attention
Kailu Li, Ziniu Qian, Yingnan Han, Eric I-Chao Chang, Bingzheng Wei, Maode Lai, Jing Liao 0001, Yubo Fan, Yan Xu 0001 |
Medical Image Anal. | 2 |
| 2022 | Transformer Based Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Histopathology Image Segmentation
Ziniu Qian, Kailu Li, Maode Lai, Eric I-Chao Chang, Bingzheng Wei, Yubo Fan, Yan Xu 0001 |
MICCAI (2) | 1 |