Ziniu Qian

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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
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2025 CTIS-QA: Clinical Template-Informed Slide-Level Question Answering for Pathology
abstract
Multimodal 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
BIBM2
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