Medical image analysis, ophthalmic image processing, AI, computer vision, pattern recognition,

2017/06-2020/11: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Associate Professor；
2021/01-present: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Professor

Second Prize of Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Award (2023)
Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award of Ningbo Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award (2023)
Third Prize of Ningbo Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award (2022)
Third Prize of Science and Technology Award of Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine (2022)
Third Prize of Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research Achievement in Radiological Imaging (Medicine-Engineering Integration), Zhejiang Province (2022)
Distinguished Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2021)
Best Poster Award, International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis, “Guided Adversarial Adaptation Network for Retinal and Choroidal Layer Segmentation” (2021)
One of the 500+ Most Influential Chinese Papers, Springer Nature, “CS-Net: Channel and Spatial Attention Network for Curvilinear Structure Segmentation” (2020)
Best Poster Award, The 6th Medical Image Computing Youth Seminar (MICS), “CE-Net: Context Encoder Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation” (2019)
Most Viewed Paper, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, “Automated Vessel Segmentation Using Infinite Perimeter Active Contour Model with Hybrid Region Information with Application to Retinal Images” (2015)
Best Paper Award, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (IEEE-ISPA 2011), “A Retinex Theory Based Points Sampling Method for Mesh Simplification” (2011)

1.Yuhui Ma, Huaying Hao, Jianyang Xie, Huazhu Fu, Jiong Zhang, Jianlong Yang, Zhen Wang, Jiang Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yitian Zhao*, ROSE: A Retinal OCT-Angiography Vessel Segmentation Dataset and New Model, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(3): 928-939, 2021. (ROSE: First OCTA vessel segmentation dataset in the field，Cited by >90)
2.Huaying Hao, Yitian Zhao*, Qifeng Yan, Risa Higashita, Jiong Zhang, Yifan Zhao, Yanwu Xu, Fei Li, Xiulan Zhang, Jiang Liu, Angle-closure Assessment in Anterior Segment OCT Images via Deep Learning, Medical Image Analysis, 101956, 2021 (First to classify open, synechial, and closed angles using AS-OCT images)
3.Lei Mou, Yitian Zhao*, Huazhu Fu, Yonghuai Liu, Jun Cheng, Yalin Zheng, Pan Su, Jianlong Yang, Li Chen, Alejandro Frangi, Masahiro Akiba, Jiang Liu, CS2-Net: Deep Learning Segmentation of Curvilinear Structures in Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, 101874, 2020. (CORN: The largest corneal nerve dataset in the field，Cited by >130)
4.Yitian Zhao, Lavdie Rada, Ke Chen, Simon Harding, Yalin Zheng: Automated Vessel Segmentation Using Infinite Perimeter Active Contour Model with Hybrid Region Information with Application to Retina Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(9): 1797-1807, 2015. (Cited by >360，ESI Highly Cited Papers)
5.Zaiwang Gu, Jun Cheng, Huazhu Fu, Yitian Zhao, Tianyang Zhang, Huaying Hao, Kang Zhou, Jiang Liu, CE-Net: Context Encoder Network for 2D Medical Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 38(10): 2281-2292, 2019 (Cited by >890，ESI Hot Papers‌ 0.1%)