General

       Prof.  Xiao-Hu Zhou

Short Biography

Xiao-Hu Zhou serves as a professor (Doctoral Supervisor) at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a recipient of the prestigious Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS.

His main research areas include medical robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He has published over 60 academic papers, including 16 in IEEE Transactions, 18 in top-tier conferences like MICCAI, ICRA, IJCAI, and AAAI. He holds 3 authorized US patents and 21 Chinese invention patents.

He has acted as a Principal Investigator for over 9 research grant projects funded by the IEEE CIS, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the People's Republic of China, NSFC, CAS, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Tencent Robotics X Lab, and others. The total funding has exceeded $1.5 million.

He has been honored with theSpecial Prize of President Scholarship for Postgraduate Studentsfrom CAS. His works are awarded theBest Paper Awardby IEEE RCAR 2022/2023 (for two consecutive years) and ICBIR 2023,Best Paper Finalistsby IEEE ICRA 2020, and the“Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award”by both Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).

Personal Information

  • Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • Email: xiaohu.zhou@ia.ac.cn
  • Address:  95 Zhongguancun East Road, Beijing 100190, China  

Research Interests

  • Medical robotics
  • Artificaial intelligence
  • Machine learning

Awards

  • “Special Prize of President Scholarship for Postgraduate Students”, Awarded by Chinese Academy of Science, July 2019.
  • “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award”, Awarded by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, November 2020.
  • “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award”, Awarded by Chinese Association of Automation, November 2020. 
  • “Best Paper Award”, Awarded by The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR 2023), July 2023.
  • “Best Paper in Medical Robotics”, Awarded by The 2023 International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ICBIR 2023), July 2023.
  • “Best Paper Award”, Awarded by The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR 2022), July 2022. 
  • “Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics-Finalists”, Awarded by The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA 2020), June 2020. 
  • “Graduate Student Research Grants”, Awarded by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, May 2019.

Representative Publications

  • Learning skill characteristics from manipulations, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022. (IF: 14.255)
  • Surgical skill assessment based on dynamic warping manipulations, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2022. (IF: 3.700)
  • A multilayer and multimodal-fusion architecture for simultaneous recognition of endovascular manipulations and assessment of technical skills, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020. (IF: 19.118)
  • An interventionalist-behavior-based data fusion framework for guidewire tracking in percutaneous coronary intervention, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2020. (IF: 11.471)
  • Qualitative and quantitative assessment of technical skills in percutaneous coronary intervention: in vivo porcine studies, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2020. (IF: 4.756)
  • Analysis of interventionalists’ natural behaviors for recognizing motion patterns of endovascular tools during percutaneous coronary interventions, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2019. (IF: 5.234)
  • Design and experiments of a novel Halbach-cylinder-based magnetic skin: a preliminary study, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2022. (IF: 5.332)
  • CASOG: Conservative Actor-critic with SmOoth Gradient for skill learning in robot-assisted intervention, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2023. (IF: 8.162)
  • Soft magnetic skin's deformation analysis for tactile perception, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2022. (IF: 8.162)
  • A unified framework for multi-guidewire endpoint localization in fluoroscopy images, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022. (IF: 4.756)
  • Quantitative movement analysis using scaled information implied in monocular videos, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2023. (IF: 3.700)
  • SurgiNet: pyramid attention aggregation and class-wise self-distillation for surgical instrument segmentation, Medical Image Analysis, 2022. (IF: 13.828)
  • Real-time multi-guidewire endpoint localization in fluoroscopy images, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2021. (IF: 11.037)
  • A real-time multi-functional framework for guidewire morphological and positional analysis in interventional X-ray fluoroscopy, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2021. (IF: 4.546)
  • Pyramid attention recurrent networks for real-time guidewire segmentation and tracking in intraoperative X-ray fluoroscopy, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2021. (IF: 7.422)
  • Single camera based gait analysis methods with scaled and image coordinate key-points, The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), 2022. (Best Paper Award)
  • A multilayer-multimodal fusion architecture for pattern recognition of natural manipulations in percutaneous coronary interventions, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020. (Best Paper Finalists)
  • A two-stage framework for real-time guidewire endpoint localization, The 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2019. 
  • Vessel width estimation via convolutional regression, The 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021. 
  • BARNet: bilinear attention network with adaptive receptive fields for surgical instrument segmentation, The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021. 
  • Pyramid attention aggregation network for semantic segmentation of surgical instruments, The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020. 

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Research Grants

  • “Vascular robotic system”, (Grant No. 62222316), Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), ¥2,000,000, January 2023 – December 2025, Principal Investigator.
  • “A neural-network-based multilayer learning framework for cardiovascular robots”, Graduate Student Research Grants (only 5 per year), funded by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), $4,000, May 2019 – December 2019, Principal Investigator. 
  • “Research on robot skill learning based on brain-muscle modulation”, (Grant No. 62373351), General Program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), ¥500,000, January 2024 – December 2027, Principal Investigator.
  • “Study on skill learning of endovascular robot for intelligent assistance”, (Grant No. 62003343), Young Scientists Fund Program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), ¥240,000, January 2021 – December 2023, Principal Investigator.
  • “Early diagnosis and accurate localization of myocardial infarction based on the multi-dimensional characteristics of multi-lead ECG signals”, (Grant No. U20A20224), Joint Fund Program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), ¥790,000, January 2021 – December 2024, Investigator.
  • “Surgical robots for vascular intervention”, (Grant No. E3S90213), Special backbone post program, funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ¥1,500,000, January 2023 – December 2027, Principal Investigator.
  • “Visual perception and navigation of surgical robots for vascular intervention”, (Grant No. 2020140), Youth Innovation Promotion Association Fund Program, funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ¥800,000, January 2020 – December 2024, Principal Investigator.
  • “Tactile perception and feedback of surgical robots for vascular intervention”, (Grant No. Y9S9FZ07), Special Research Assistant Fund Program, funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ¥800,000, January 2019 – December 2023, Principal Investigator.
  • “Biomimetic tactile: from perception to cognition”, (Grant No. E3D10217), Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program, funded by Tencent Robotics X Lab, ¥450,000, January 2023 – December 2024, Principal Investigator.
  • “Research on key technologies and applications of surgical robots with multi-instrument collaborative delivery for complex lesions”, (Grant No. 2019YFB1311700), National Key Research and Development Program of China, ¥624,000, December 2019 – November 2022, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Investigator.
  • “Research on intelligent interaction and safe manipulation for cardio-cerebrovascular robot”, (Grant No. M22008), Special General Program, funded by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, ¥300,000, January 2022 – December 2023, Principal Investigator.