Ji Rao

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Medical and health informatics · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability
1.012026
Learning Latent Imaging Biomarkers for Interpretable Microvascular Invasion Prediction in Hepatocellular Carcinoma · AAAI 2026
Medical and health informatics
clinical prediction
1.012026
Learning Latent Imaging Biomarkers for Interpretable Microvascular Invasion Prediction in Hepatocellular Carcinoma · AAAI 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

similarity constraint · 2.0mask-based visual explanation · 2.0latent attribute learning · 2.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Learning Latent Imaging Biomarkers for Interpretable Microvascular Invasion Prediction in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
abstract
Microvascular invasion (MVI) is a critical prognostic factor that significantly impacts postoperative outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). As the current gold standard for the diagnosis of MVI is based on the postoperative histopathological examination of whole slide images, accurate preoperative prediction of MVI status using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) presents both a substantial clinical imperative and a significant challenge. In order to discover reliable MRI-based imaging biomarkers to support clinical decision making and enhance the interpretability of deep learning-based diagnostic models, we propose a novel interpretable MVI prediction framework in which the shared latent visual attributes are first learned and then used for potential imaging biomarker extraction and MVI diagnosis, respectively. To ensure that the visual attributes of these biomarkers are generalizable across diverse patients, the similarity constraints at the intra-patient level and the inter-patient level are enforced within the learned feature space, enabling intuitive biomarker discovery directly from the original image space. To guarantee semantic alignment between biomarkers and the characteristics of individual patients, we introduce a novel classification mechanism that directly links the alignment between each biomarker and patient-specific characteristics with the prediction, thereby ensuring a precise prediction of MVI. Furthermore, the interpretability of the model is enhanced by integrating a mask-based visual explanation method that highlights regions in patient images that correspond to the identified biomarkers. Extensive experiments on two MVI prediction datasets: HCC-WCH and HCC-ZSH unequivocally demonstrate our method's superior performance in both classification accuracy and interpretability.
Ji Rao, Yong Yi
AAAI1