Qi Dou
Associate Professor
Develops AI and robotics for medicine, including medical image analysis, surgical data science and autonomous surgical robots.
Qi Dou's lab at CUHK works on medical imaging & healthcare AI, embodied & active vision and data management & big data. 135 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly Medical Image Analysis and Nature Communications. 15 PhD students. 14 alumni, most often to Huawei and Ant Group. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 35/ year
- at T1 venues
- 7%
- PhD students
- 15
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 14
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 15 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 37 papers2025 · T1 4
- 42 papers2024 · T1 1
- 41 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Medical Image Analysis, Nature Communications, Science Robotics, T-RO, Expert Systems with Applications
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI25 papers
- surgical21 papers
- Data management & big data13 papers
- Embodied & active vision12 papers
- surgical robots0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202615 papers
- Science Robotics (T1)A retrieval-augmented framework enabling VLM spatial awareness for object-centric robot manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL)A Simple yet Effective Adaptive Inter-organ Contrastive Learning Framework for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI)ARport: An Augmented Reality System for Markerless Image-Guided Port Placement in Robotic Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)Concepts from Representations: Post-hoc Concept Bottleneck Models via Sparse Decomposition of Visual Representations (opens in a new tab)
- Less-supervised Segmentation with CNNsDeep model adaptation without target labels on cross-domain medical images (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI)DSTED: Decoupling Temporal Stabilization and Discriminative Enhancement for Surgical Workflow Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS)Enhanced distance perception in automated robotic endoscopy through scale-aware monocular depth estimation (opens in a new tab)
- In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging(ISBI)Entity Knowledge Graph Enhanced Vision Language Model for Multi-Organ Diagnosis (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)Geometry-Guided Modeling of Foundation Features Enables Generalizable Object Shape Deformation Learning
- eLightHighly scalable machine vision enabled with meta-optics-based ultra-wide neural network (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Real-time Monocular 2D and 3D Perception of Endoluminal Scenes for Controlling Flexible Robotic Endoscopic Instruments (opens in a new tab)
- The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Saliency-R1: Enforcing Interpretable and Faithful Vision-language Reasoning via Saliency-map Alignment Reward
202537 papers
- npj Digital Medicine (NPJ Digit. Med.)Artificial intelligence assisted real-time recognition of intra-abdominal metastasis during laparoscopic gastric cancer surgery (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)Boosting the visual interpretability of CLIP via adversarial fine-tuning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)Canonical Shape Reconstruction with SE (3) Equivariance Learning for Weakly-Supervised Object Pose Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)ClipGS: Clippable Gaussian Splatting for Interactive Cinematic Visualization of Volumetric Medical Data (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)ColaDex: Contact-guided Optimization and VLM-assisted Selection for Task-oriented Dexterous Grasp Generation (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI)Concepts from Neurons: Building Interpretable Medical Image Diagnostic Models by Dissecting Opaque Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)Contact Map Transfer with Conditional Diffusion Model for Generalizable Dexterous Grasp Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)CSAP-Assist: Instrument-Agent Dialogue Empowered Vision-Language Models for Collaborative Surgical Action Planning (opens in a new tab)
- iScienceCT-based artificial intelligence system complementing deep learning model and radiologist for liver fibrosis staging (opens in a new tab)
- Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)DDxTutor: Clinical Reasoning Tutoring System with Differential Diagnosis-Based Structured Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH)DIH-Tele: Dexterous In-Hand Teleoperation Framework for Learning Multiobjects Manipulation With Tactile Sensing (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific DataDynamic key vascular anatomy dataset for D2 lymph node dissection during laparoscopic gastric cancer surgery (opens in a new tab)
202442 papers
- T-RO (T1)A dexterous and compliant (dexco) hand based on soft hydraulic actuation for human inspired fine in-hand manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS)A Review on Organ Deformation Modeling Approaches for Reliable Surgical Navigation Using Augmented Reality (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB)A Simultaneous Polyp and Lumen Detection Framework Towards Autonomous Robotic Colonoscopy (opens in a new tab)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)A Super-pixel-based Approach to the Stable Interpretation of Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)Absolute Monocular Depth Estimation on Robotic Visual and Kinematics Data via Self-Supervised Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Ada-Tracker: Soft Tissue Tracking via Inter-Frame and Adaptive-template Matching (opens in a new tab)
- Soft Robotics (SoRo)Adaptive Online Learning and Robust 3-D Shape Servoing of Continuum and Soft Robots in Unstructured Environments (opens in a new tab)
- The New England Journal of Medicine Artificial Intelligence (NEJM AI)Advancing Diabetic Macular Edema Detection from 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Scans: Integrating Privacy-Preserving AI and Generalizability Techniques - A Prospective Validation in Vietnam (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)ANEDL: Adaptive Negative Evidential Deep Learning for Open-Set Semi-supervised Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)Any-point Trajectory Modeling for Policy Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)Breast Cancer Classification from Digital Pathology Images via Connectivity-aware Graph Transformer (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)Causal Effect Estimation on Imaging and Clinical Data for Treatment Decision Support of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (opens in a new tab)
202341 papers
- Expert Systems with ApplicationsAdaptive Feature Aggregation based Multi-task Learning for Uncertainty-guided Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)ArSDM: Colonoscopy Images Synthesis with Adaptive Refinement Semantic Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsAutomatic Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Prostate Lesions Assessment with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Autonomous Intelligent Navigation for Flexible Endoscopy Using Monocular Depth Guidance and 3-D Shape Planning (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)Client-Level Differential Privacy via Adaptive Intermediary in Federated Medical Imaging (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Analysis (MedIA)Comparative Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Surgical Workflow and Skill Analysis with the HeiChole Benchmark (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)Deep Fusion Transformer Network with Weighted Vector-Wise Keypoints Voting for Robust 6D Object Pose Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and SurgeryDeepKOA: a deep-learning model for predicting progression in knee osteoarthritis using multimodal magnetic resonance images from the osteoarthritis initiative (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Demonstration-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Efficient Exploration for Task Automation of Surgical Robot (opens in a new tab)
- Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI)Diffusion Model based Semi-supervised Learning on Brain Hemorrhage Images for Efficient Midline Shift Quantification (opens in a new tab)
- Meta-Learning with Medical Imaging and Health Informatics Applications, edited by Hien Van Nguyen, Ronald Summers, Rama ChellappaDomain Generalization of Deep Networks for Medical Image Segmentation via Meta Learning
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)End-to-End Deep Visual Control for Mastering Needle-Picking Skills With World Models and Behavior Cloning (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went14 listed, 71% to industry
Industry 5Academia 2
Most often to
- Huawei
- Ant Group
- Project manager at Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics
Also to
- HKUST
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