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News
January 2026
One journal paper was published: Kazi Md Farhad Mahmud, Rachel Yoder, Joshua Staley, Allison Aripoli, Shane Stecklein, Priyanka Sharma, Ahmad Qasem, Zhiguo Zhou*, “ER2Net: An evidential reasoning rule enabled neural network for reliable triple negative breast cancer tumor segmentation in Magnetic resonance imaging”, Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol 13, Issue 1, 014005, 2026.
December 2025
Dr. Zhiguo Zhou was promoted as IEEE senior member. Congrats!
November 2025
One journal paper was published: Jie Wu, Xiao-ran Wang, Jun-cheng Zhou, Rong-rong Li, Yu-wang Chen, and Zhi-guo Zhou, An analysis on parameter optimization for a belief rules-based classification system, Journal of Control and Decision, 2025.
October 2025
Kazi Md Farhad Mahmud successfully defensed his Ph.D. dissertation. He will join Department of Child Research, University of Kansas (Lawrence) as Research Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Dr. Mahmud.
September 2025
Dr. Zhou was invited to make presentations in AI day event and Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics Seminar in KUMC. The presentation title is “Reliable Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Treatment”.
August 2025
One journal paper was published: M Wang, Z Leng, P Hu, J Huang, B Wang, K Zhou, G Hu, B Yan, L Wu, Y Xu, Q Wan, Z Zhou, “FRCAE: Feature regularization meta-learning with channel-wise attention expansion”, Pattern Recognition, 112334, 2025
July 2025
One journal paper was published: R. Wang, JS Chen, X Zhang, H Liu, Z Zhou, C Jiao, J Wang, “Language-guided multimodal domain generalization for outcome prediction of head and neck cancer”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 197, 110992, 2025
June 2025
One journal paper was published: Xi Chen; Jiahuan Lv; Zeyu Wang; Genggeng Qin, “Adaptive-AutoMO: A domain adaptative automated multiobjective neural network for reliable lesion malignancy prediction via digital breast tomosynthesis”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, accepted, 2025
Welcome high school student Yuhan Chang to the RIMI Lab!
May 2025
One journal paper was published: Zhiguo Zhou, Hui Liu, “Evidential reasoning rule learning”, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, accepted, 2025
March 2025
Dr. Philip Yeung received “Student/Postdoc Poster Competition in Biostatistics” in Biostatistics Symposium of Southern California, 2025
February 2025
One journal paper was published: Hui Liu, Zhiguo Zhou, “Deep evidential reasoning rule learning”, Signal Processing, Vol 233, 109984, 2025
January 2025
Welcome Dr. Philip Yeung to joining the RIMI Lab as team member!
January 2025
One published paper from Dr. Zhou titled “Generating synthesized computed tomography (CT) from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) using CycleGAN for adaptive radiation therapy” in Physics in Medicine and Biology in 2019 won the Rotblat Medal (named in honour of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat, a Nobel Prize winner who also was the second Editor-in-chief of PMB, from 1961–1972) because of the highest citations in the past five years (2019-2024).
November 2024
Welcome Dr. Junqiang Dai to joining the RIMI Lab as Co-PI. Welcome!
October 2024
One journal paper was published: Xi Chen, Jiahuan Lv, Zeyu Wang, Genggeng Qin, Zhiguo Zhou*, Deep-AutoMO: Deep automated multiobjective neural network for trustworthy lesion malignancy diagnosis in the early stage via digital breast tomosynthesis, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 183, 109299, 2024
September 2024
One journal paper was published: Ahmad Qasem, Zhiguo Zhou, “Automated tumor localization and segmentation through hybrid neural network in head & neck cancer”, Medical Dosimetry, accepted, 2024
August 2024
One journal paper was published: Rongfang Wang, Zhaoshan Mu, Jing Wang, Kai Wang, Hui Liu, Zhiguo Zhou, Licheng Jiao, “ASF-LKUNet: Adjacent-scale fusion U-Net with large kernel for multi-organ segmentation”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Issue 181, 109050, 2024
July 2024
The proposal “Artificial Intelligence enabled Quantitative Characterization of Amyloid-beta Plaques in Alzheimer’s Disease” led by Dr. Zhou was awarded by The University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Developmental Projects Program 2024.
Congratulations!
June 2024
Dr. Zhou was invited to make the keynote presentation at the EBAA (Eye bank of American Association) 2024 Annual meeting.
The title of the presentation is "Artificial Intelligence: Leading the New Technological Revolution."
April 2024
Multiple team members attended 2024 IDAD annual meetings and presented the posters on their recent research progress.
March 2024
One journal paper was published: Ahmad Qasem, Genggeng Qin, Zhiguo Zhou*, “AMS-U-Net: automatic mass segmentation in digital breast tomosynthesis vis U-Net”, Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol 11 (2), 2024.
February 2024
Md Saiful Islam Saif, Ph.D. student, joined RIMI Lab. Welcome!
December 2023
- Xi Chen attended AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Translating Cancer Evolution and Data Science: The Next Frontier. He presented a poster on his recent work in pathological complete response in triple-negative breast cancer.
November 2023
- One journal paper was published: Chen T., Yang L., Chen H., Zhou Z., Wu Z., Luo H., Li Q., Zhu Y., “A pairwise radiomics algorithm – lesion pair relation estimation (PRE) model for distinguishing multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) from intrapulmonary metastasis (IPM)”, Precision Clinical Medicine, Vol 6 (4), 2023
October 2023
- Trent Madden, a M.D./Ph.D. student, joined the RIMI Lab. Welcome!
Trent Madden
September 2023
- Two journal papers were published. The titles are: “An Ensemble Belief Rule Base Model for Pathologic Complete Response Prediction in Gastric Cancer” published in Expert Systems with Applications, and “An integrated network based on 2D/3D feature correlations for benign-malignant tumor classification and uncertainty estimation in digital breast tomosynthesis” published in Physics in Medicine and Biology.
August 2023
- Kwame Yeboah joined RIMI Lab. Welcome!
- Kazi Md Farhad Mahmud attended 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Ontario, Canada. He made an oral presentation on his recent tumor segmentation study.
July 2023
- Oluwatobiloba Ige (Tobi) attended 2023 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Meeting. He presented a poster on his recent treatment outcome prediction study.
May 2023
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The proposal “Reliable Deep Automated Multi-Objective Neural Network for pathologic complete response prediction in triple negative breast cancer on multiparametric MRI” led by Dr. Zhou was awarded by the University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC) pilot grant. Congratulations!
April 2023
- Dr. Zhou was invited to give a talk in 16th IDAD (Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination) annual meeting with the title “Delta radiomics: Towards a potential immunotherapy response prediction strategy in cancer treatment”.
- Oluwatobiloba Ige (Tobi)’s poster was recognized as best poster in 16th IDAD annual meeting. Congratulations!
- Dr. Zhou was invited to give a talk in 2023 Nexus Informatics Conference with the title “Automated Multi-Objective Delta Radiomics for Immunotherapy Response Prediction in Metastatic Melanoma Treatment”.
March 2023
Dr. Zhou’s paper “ARMO: automated and reliable multi-objective model for lymph node metastasis prediction in head and neck cancer” was accepted by Physics in Medicine and Biology. Congratulations!
February 2023
Dr. Jing Wang from Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center visited RIMI Lab and the department. He gave a talk on “Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Design Support in Radiation Therapy”. Welcome!
January 2023
Kazi Md Farhad Mahmud joined RIMI Lab. Welcome!
December 2022
Xi Chen joined RIMI Lab. Welcome!
September 2022
Oluwatobiloba Ige (Tobi) joined RIMI Lab. Welcome!
August 2022
New RIMI lab website launched. Congratulations!