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Yang Liu

Medical AI  ·  Surgical Video Understanding  ·  Vision-Language Models

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Portrait of Yang Liu
PhD · 2026
King's College London
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About

I received my PhD from King's College London (School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences) in January 2026, supervised by Prof. Sébastien Ourselin (primary supervisor), Prof. Prokar Dasgupta and Dr. Alejandro Granados. I received my Master's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2021, advised by Prof. Xiang Bai.

My research builds AI systems that understand surgical video in real time — online phase recognition over multi-hour procedures, streaming vision-language models for the operating room, and label-efficient segmentation of instruments and anatomy. I also work on broader medical imaging problems (echocardiography, stroke lesion segmentation, structural MRI) and on vision-language learning with weak supervision.

From January to July 2025 I worked part-time as a Data Scientist at Proximie, bringing surgical-video models closer to clinical deployment.

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Peer-reviewed papers & preprints
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Top-tier venues
MICCAI · CVPR · ICCV · MedIA · WACV
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MICCAI 2022 ATLAS Stroke Lesion Segmentation Challenge
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MICCAI 2026 early-accept tier (StableSPR)
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Research

Surgical Video Understanding

Online, causal recognition of surgical workflow — from single frames to multi-hour procedures. Long-video transformers, key-information compression and stable temporal inference.

StableSPRLoViTSKiT

Vision-Language Models

Streaming VLMs for the operating room, weakly supervised referring comprehension & segmentation, and noise-injected cross-modal alignment for language-driven visual tasks.

WeakMCNArcSin

Label-efficient Segmentation

Unsupervised surgical instrument segmentation from low-quality optical flow, fast boundary-to-pixel direction segmentation, and diffusion-based crack segmentation.

Motion-BoundarySuper-BPDCrossDiff

Medical Imaging

Training-free cardiac phase detection in echocardiography, ischemic stroke lesion segmentation, and gray-matter-guided attention for Alzheimer's diagnosis from structural MRI.

DDSBATLAS 1stGM-Attention
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Publications

* equal contribution  ·  † corresponding author

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    Experience & Education

    2021 — 2026

    King's College London

    PhD · School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (awarded January 2026)

    Surgical video understanding, streaming vision-language models, label-efficient medical segmentation. Primary supervisor: Prof. Sébastien Ourselin; co-supervised by Prof. Prokar Dasgupta and Dr. Alejandro Granados.

    Jan — Jul 2025

    Proximie

    Data Scientist (part-time)

    Surgical-video machine learning for a clinical telepresence and analytics platform.

    2021

    ByteDance

    Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer (intern) · Education department

    Applied computer vision for education products.

    2019 — 2021

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    MSc · advised by Prof. Xiang Bai

    Image segmentation and image restoration; publications at CVPR 2020 and WACV 2021.

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    Let's collaborate

    Open to collaboration on surgical AI, medical video understanding and vision-language models.

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