Xian Lin

Research Fellow

Precision AI for Healthcare (PAI),
Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health (InVision),
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
National University of Singapore.

Email: xianlin@hust.edu.cn

Biography

I am currently a research fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Ching-Yu Cheng and Prof. Meng Wang . Prior to that, I completed my Ph.D. at the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), supervised by Prof. Li Yu and Prof. Zengqiang Yan , and my B.E. at the College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University.

My research interests lie in medical image analysis, medical foundation models, and vision-language models.

News

2026. 06. My Ph.D. dissertation was recognized as an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).
2026. 05. I joined the National University of Singapore.
2026. 02. I passed my Ph.D. oral defense on 27 February 2026.
2025. 12. One paper was accepted by Pattern Recognition (IF: 7.6).
2025. 06. One paper was accepted by MICCAI 2025. Congratulations to Qijie.
2024. 11. SAMCT has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
2024. 10. I won the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students (2nd place in EIC, HUST).
2024. 06. One paper was accepted by MICCAI 2024 (top 31%) after rebuttal.
2024. 05. One paper was early accepted by MICCAI 2024 (top 11%).
2024. 04. One paper was accepted by Pattern Recognition (IF: 8.0). Congratulations to Xiayu.
2024. 03. Our new preprint “SAMCT: Segment Any CT Allowing Labor-Free Task-Indicator Prompts” is online on Arxiv.[paper] [code]
2023. 12. One paper was accepted by AAAI 2024. Congratulations to Zhehao.
2023. 09. Our new preprint “SAMUS: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Clinically-Friendly and Generalizable Ultrasound Image Segmentation” is online on Arxiv.[paper] [code]
2023. 06. One paper has been accepted by MICCAI 2023.
2023. 04. One paper has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IF: 7.021).
2023. 02. One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IF: 11.037).

Selected Publications

	Selective Intra-and Inter-Slice Interaction for Efficient Anisotropic Medical Image Segmentation Xian Lin, Xiayu Guo, Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu. Pattern Recognition (PR), 2025. [paper] [code]
	SAMCT: Segment Any CT Allowing Labor-Free Task-Indicator Prompts Xian Lin, Yangyang Xiang, Zhehao Wang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024. [paper] [code]
	The Lighter The Better: Rethinking Transformers in Medical Image Segmentation Through Adaptive Pruning Xian Lin, Li Yu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Zengqiang Yan. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2023. [paper] [code]
	BATFormer: Towards Boundary-Aware Lightweight Transformer for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation Xian Lin, Li Yu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Zengqiang Yan. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 2023. [paper] [code]
	Beyond Adapting SAM: Towards End-to-End Ultrasound Image Segmentation via Auto Prompting Xian Lin, Yangyang Xiang, Li Yu, Zengqiang Yan. The 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. [paper] [code]
	Revisiting Self-Attention in Medical Transformers via Dependency Sparsification Xian Lin, Zhehao Wang, Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu. The 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
	ConvFormer: Plug-and-Play CNN-Style Transformers for Improving Medical Image Segmentation Xian Lin, Zengqiang Yan, Xianbo Deng, Chuansheng Zheng, Li Yu. The 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023. [paper] [code]

Professional Services

Conference Reviewer:
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024&2025.
Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), 2023&2024.

Journal Reviewer:
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
Pattern Recognition (PR)
Computers in Biology and Medicine (CIBM)
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)

Selected Awards

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of HUST, 2026.
OPPO Benfen Scholarship, 2025.
National Scholarship (Highest Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of China), 2024.
MICCAI Outstanding Reviewer Award (Honorable Mentions), 2024.
MICCAI Registration Grant, 2024&2025.
First Place in Student Exhibition Competition, Medical Imaging Computing Seminar (MICS), 2023.
National Scholarship (Highest Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of China), 2019.
Pacemaker to Merit Student (30 awardees in Central China Normal University), 2019.