📝 Publications

Stage-Aligned Knowledge Distillation for Fast and Memory-Efficient 4D Flow MRI Reconstruction
MICCAI CMRx4DFlow Workshop, 2026
CMRx4DFlow Poster, 2026
Yuliang Xiao^#, Kian Anvari Hamedani, Zach Vavasour, Simon J. Graham, Mark Chiew

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Halves the stage count of an unrolled 4D flow reconstruction network through stage-aligned distillation, cutting runtime and memory at a small cost in fidelity.

Phase-Coupled State-Space Reconstruction for Ultra-Accelerated 4D Flow MRI
MICCAI CMRx4DFlow Workshop, 2026
CMRx4DFlow Poster, 2026
Kian Anvari Hamedani, Fatemeh Ebrahiminia, Yuliang Xiao, Zach Vavasour, Mark Chiew

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Reconstructs aggressively undersampled 4D flow MRI with a state-space model that couples the phase differences velocity is derived from, rather than treating each encoding independently.

SelExNet: A Self-Supervised Physics-Informed Framework for Multi-Channel Joint RF and Gradient Waveform Optimization in 2D Spatially Selective Excitation
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM), 2026
ISMRM PowerPitch Oral, 2026
Yuliang Xiao^#, Jason Rock, Zhe Wu, Jamie Near, Mark Chiew, Simon J. Graham
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Jointly optimizes multi-channel RF and gradient waveforms in one self-supervised, physics-informed framework, reaching high excitation fidelity without any training database.

Self-Supervised Cyclic Diffeomorphic Mapping for Soft Tissue Deformation Recovery in Robotic Surgery Scenes
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024
Shizhan Gong, Yonghao Long, Kai Chen, Jiaqi Liu, Yuliang Xiao, Alexis Cheng, Zerui Wang, Qi Dou
[PDF] [Code] [Project] | Citations: 9

Recovers soft tissue deformation in surgical scenes through cyclic diffeomorphic mapping, learned without ground-truth correspondences.

A Label-Efficient Framework for Automated Sinonasal CT Segmentation in Image-Guided Surgery
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS), 2024
COSM Oral, 2023
Manish Sahu^*, Yuliang Xiao^*, Jose L. Porras, Ameen Amanian, Aseem Jain, Andrew Thamboo, Russell H. Taylor, Francis X. Creighton, Masaru Ishii
[PDF] [Code] [Project] | Citations: 7

Segments sinonasal structures for image-guided surgery at a fraction of the usual annotation budget.

A Deep Learning Framework for Analysis of the Eustachian Tube and the Internal Carotid Artery
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS), 2024
Ameen Amanian, Aseem Jain, Yuliang Xiao, Chanha Kim, Andy S. Ding, Manish Sahu, Russell H. Taylor, Mathias Unberath, Bryan K. Ward, Deepa Galaiya, Masaru Ishii, Francis X. Creighton
[PDF] [Code] [Project] | Citations: 2

Automated segmentation and morphometric analysis of the Eustachian tube and internal carotid artery from CT.