Junlin Hou

Post-doc Fellow at HKUST

My research interest is in explainable artificial intelligence for medical imaging, at an intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and medical imaging.

Junlin Hou

Biography

Dr. Junlin Hou is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She obtained her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, Fudan University in 2023. She received her B.S. degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Shanghai University in 2018. She has published 30+ papers in top-tiered conferences and journals, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, PR, etc. She served as a reviewer for IEEE TMI, MICCAI, ICCV, etc. She has also served as the guest editor for CMIG special issue on Trustworthy AI for Medical Imaging and the program chair for IJCAI 2024 workshop on TAI4H. She also led the team winning 10+ medical grand challenges. Her current research interest is in explainable artificial intelligence for healthcare.

News

2025

August 19
One paper about Pathology Segmentation Foundation Model on arXiv: "Segment Anything in Pathology Images with Natural Language" [arXiv]
July 07
Rank 1st at PHAROS-AFE-AIMI Competition Track 1 and Track 2 @ ICCV 2025
June 18
One paper was accepted at MICCAI 2025
April 15
One paper was accepted at IEEE TMI: "QMix: Quality-aware Learning with Mixed Noise for Robust Retinal Disease Diagnosis" [arXiv]
February 11
One paper was accepted at ICLR 2025

2024

October 04
July 22
Serve as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging for Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics(CMIG)
June 18
One paper was accepted at MICCAI 2024: "Concept-Attention Whitening for Interpretable Skin Lesion Diagnosis" [arXiv]
April 01
Serve as the program committee of the IJCAI 2024 workshop on TAI4H
March 22
Rank 1st at 4th-COV19D Competition Track 2 and 4th at Track1 @ CVPR 2024
February 29
Serve as a reviewer for MICCAI 2024
February 27
One paper was accepted at CVPR 2024
January 22
Serve as a reviewer for Neurocomputing

2023

October 16
Rank 1st at Myopic Maculopathy Analysis Challenge Track 1 and Track 2 @ MICCAI 2023
August 01
I start as a Post-doc Fellow at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
May 17
I successfully defended my dissertation at Fudan University and became a PhD!

Research

MMAC Research
Junlin Hou, Jilan Xu, Fan Xiao, Bo Zhang, Yiqian Xu, Yuejie Zhang, Haidong Zou, Rui Feng
MICCAI 2023 Workshop. Winner of MICCAI-MMAC 2023 Challenge

A label-efficient deep learning framework for myopic maculopathy classification.

LANet Research
Junlin Hou, Fan Xiao, Jilan Xu, Rui Feng, Yuejie Zhang, Haidong Zou, Lina Lu, Wenwen Xue
ICASSP 2023

A novel weakly-supervised lesion-aware network for DR grading, which enhances the discriminative features with lesion priors by only image-level supervision.

OVSegmentor Research
Jilan Xu, Junlin Hou, Yuejie Zhang, Rui Feng, Yi Wang, Yu Qiao, Weidi Xie
CVPR 2023

Training open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models with image-text pairs only, which enables zero-transfer to various segmentation datasets.

CREAM Research
Jilan Xu, Junlin Hou, Yuejie Zhang, Rui Feng, Rui-Wei Zhao, Tao Zhang, Xuequan Lu, Shang Gao
CVPR 2022

A weakly-supervised object localization model that generates better CAMs via soft-clustering algorithms.

CrossFiT Research
Junlin Hou, Jilan Xu, Fan Xiao, Rui-Wei Zhao, Yuejie Zhang, Haidong Zou, Lina Lu, Wenwen Xue, Rui Feng
BIBM 2022

A new benchmark dataset (DRTiD) for two-field DR grading. A novel DR grading approach, namely Cross-Field Transformer (CrossFiT), to capture the correspondence between two fields as well as the long-range spatial correlations within each field.

CMC_v2 Research
Junlin Hou, Jilan Xu, Nan Zhang, Yi Wang, Yuejie Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Rui Feng
ECCV 2022 AIMIA Workshop. Winner of ECCV-2nd COV19D challenge

A Transformer-based model with contrastive representation enhancement. Winner of the 2nd COVID-19 Detection in ECCV 2022.

CMC-COV19D Research
Junlin Hou*, Jilan Xu*, Rui Feng, Yuejie Zhang, Fei Shan, Weiya Shi
ICCV 2021, AIMIA Workshop. Winner of ICCV-1st COV19D challenge

A ResNest-50 model combined with contrastive mixup technique for 3D COVID-19 CT image classification. Winner of the 1st COVID-19 detection challenge.

PR Research
Junlin Hou, Jilan Xu, Longquan Jiang, Shanshan Du, Rui Feng, Yuejie Zhang, Fei Shan, Xiangyang Xue
Pattern Recognition 2021

A novel diagnosis approach with spatial pattern prior and representation enhancement mechanism is proposed to distinguish COVID-19 in the complex scenario of multi-type pneumonia classification.

Awards & Honors

Service

Workshop/Challenge Organizer:

Reviewer:

Teaching Assistant: Theory of Computation