My research focuses on medical image analysis and deep learning, with a particular emphasis on image registration, motion estimation, object detection, and inverse problems.
Paper accepted at CVPR 2026: “Solving a Nonlinear Blind Inverse Problem for Tagged MRI with Physics and Deep Generative Priors.”
Sep 01, 2025
Co-authored paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025: “Optical Coherence Tomography Harmonization with Anatomy-Guided Latent Metric Schrödinger Bridges.”
Feb 01, 2025
Paper accepted at IPMI 2025: “Brightness-Invariant Tracking Estimation in Tagged MRI.”
Feb 15, 2024
Received Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024 for “Is Registering Raw Tagged-MR Enough for Strain Estimation in the Era of Deep Learning?”
Apr 15, 2023
Paper accepted as oral presentation at MIDL 2023: “DRIMET: Deep Registration-based 3D Incompressible Motion Estimation in Tagged-MRI with Application to the Tongue.”
@inproceedings{bian2026cvpr,title={Solving a Nonlinear Blind Inverse Problem for Tagged MRI with Physics and Deep Generative Priors},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Wei, Shuwen and Remedios, Samuel W and Chen, Junyu and Carass, Aaron and Dewey, Blake E and Prince, Jerry L},booktitle={IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},year={2026},}
@article{chen2025survey,title={A survey on deep learning in medical image registration: New technologies, uncertainty, evaluation metrics, and beyond},author={Chen, Junyu and Liu, Yihao and Wei, Shuwen and Bian, Zhangxing and Subramanian, Shalini and Carass, Aaron and Prince, Jerry L and Du, Yong},journal={Medical Image Analysis},volume={100},pages={103385},year={2025},publisher={Elsevier}}
@inproceedings{bian2025brightness,title={Brightness-invariant tracking estimation in tagged MRI},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Wei, Shuwen and Liang, Xiao and Lu, Yuan-Chiao and Remedios, Samuel W and Xing, Fangxu and Woo, Jonghye and Pham, Dzung L and Carass, Aaron and Bayly, Philip V and others},booktitle={International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging},pages={375--389},year={2025},organization={Springer},}
@inproceedings{wei2025unsupervised,title={Unsupervised OCT image interpolation using deformable registration and generative models},author={Wei, Shuwen and Remedios, Samuel W and Bian, Zhangxing and Wang, Shimeng and Chen, Junyu and Liu, Yihao and Jedynak, Bruno and Liu, Tin YA and Saidha, Shiv and Calabresi, Peter A and others},booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},pages={661--671},year={2025},organization={Springer},}
SPIE-MI
Is registering raw tagged-MR enough for strain estimation in the era of deep learning?
Zhangxing Bian, Ahmed Alshareef, Shuwen Wei, and 7 more authors
@inproceedings{bian2024registering,title={Is registering raw tagged-MR enough for strain estimation in the era of deep learning?},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Alshareef, Ahmed and Wei, Shuwen and Chen, Junyu and Wang, Yuli and Woo, Jonghye and Pham, Dzung L and Zhuo, Jiachen and Carass, Aaron and Prince, Jerry L},booktitle={Medical Imaging 2024: Image Processing},volume={12926},pages={79--85},year={2024},organization={SPIE},}
@inproceedings{feng2024ratnus,title={RATNUS: Rapid, Automatic Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation Using Multimodal MRI Inputs},author={Feng, Anqi and Bian, Zhangxing and Dewey, Blake E and Colinco, Alexa Gail and Zhuo, Jiachen and Prince, Jerry L},booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},pages={157--169},year={2024},organization={Springer},}
@inproceedings{bian2024drimet,title={DRIMET: Deep registration-based 3d incompressible motion estimation in tagged-MRI with application to the tongue},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Xing, Fangxu and Yu, Jinglun and Shao, Muhan and Liu, Yihao and Carass, Aaron and Woo, Jonghye and Prince, Jerry L},booktitle={Medical imaging with deep learning (MIDL)},pages={134--150},year={2024},organization={PMLR},}
MICCAI-W
Momentamorph: Unsupervised spatial-temporal registration with momenta, shooting, and correction
Zhangxing Bian, Shuwen Wei, Yihao Liu, and 6 more authors
In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023
@inproceedings{bian2023momentamorph,title={Momentamorph: Unsupervised spatial-temporal registration with momenta, shooting, and correction},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Wei, Shuwen and Liu, Yihao and Chen, Junyu and Zhuo, Jiachen and Xing, Fangxu and Woo, Jonghye and Carass, Aaron and Prince, Jerry L},booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},pages={24--34},year={2023},organization={Springer},}
SPIE-MI
FastCod: fast brain connectivity in diffusion imaging
Zhangxing Bian, Muhan Shao, Jiachen Zhuo, and 3 more authors
@inproceedings{bian2023fastcod,title={FastCod: fast brain connectivity in diffusion imaging},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Shao, Muhan and Zhuo, Jiachen and Gullapalli, Rao and Carass, Aaron and Prince, Jerry},booktitle={Medical Imaging 2023: Image Processing},volume={12464},pages={129--133},year={2023},organization={SPIE},}
@inproceedings{bian2022learning,title={Learning pixel trajectories with multiscale contrastive random walks},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Jabri, Allan and Efros, Alexei A and Owens, Andrew},booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},pages={6508--6519},year={2022},}
@article{burris2022vascular,title={Vascular deformation mapping for CT surveillance of thoracic aortic aneurysm growth},author={Burris, Nicholas S and Bian, Zhangxing and Dominic, Jeffrey and Zhong, Jianyang and Houben, Ignas B and van Bakel, Theodorus MJ and Patel, Himanshu J and Ross, Brian D and Christensen, Gary E and Hatt, Charles R},journal={Radiology},volume={302},number={1},pages={218--225},year={2022},publisher={Radiological Society of North America},}
@article{bian2022validation,title={Validation of a robust method for quantification of three-dimensional growth of the thoracic aorta using deformable image registration},author={Bian, Zhangxing and Zhong, Jiayang and Dominic, Jeffrey and Christensen, Gary E and Hatt, Charles R and Burris, Nicholas S},journal={Medical Physics},volume={49},number={4},pages={2514--2530},year={2022},publisher={Wiley Online Library},}