Weicheng Dai

I am currently a researsh associate at Yale University, where I am very fortunately advised by Professor Julius Chapiro, Professor James S. Duncan and Professor Mingde Lin. I am also working closely with Mr. Chenyu You. I obtained a Master degree in Computer Science at New York University. My research interests include computer & medical vision, and theoretical machine learning.

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Research
Bootstrapping Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Anatomical-aware Contrastive Distillation
Chenyu You, Weicheng Dai, Yifei Min, Lawrence Staib, James S. Duncan,
Accepted by Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2023)

In this work, we present ACTION, an Anatomical-aware ConTrastive dIstillatiON framework, for semi-supervised medical image segmentation.

Mine yOur owN Anatomy: Revisiting Medical Image Segmentation with Extremely Limited Labels
Chenyu You*, Weicheng Dai*, Yifei Min, Fenglin Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, David A. Clifton, Lawrence Staib, James S. Duncan,
Under review by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2023)

(* denotes equal contribution) Three simple principles: (1) tailness: giving more importance to tail class hard pixels; (2) consistency: enforcing the feature invariances to specified data transformations; (3) diversity: ensuring anatomical diversity in the set of different sampled images in those imbalanced, unlabeled, and diverse scenarios.

Rethinking Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation: A Variance-Reduction Perspective
Chenyu You, Weicheng Dai, Yifei Min Fenglin Liu, Xiaoran Zhang, David A. Clifton, S Kevin Zhou, Lawrence Staib, James S. Duncan,
Accepted by Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)

Two practical solutions via stratified group sampling theory that correct for the variance introduced by the common sampling practice, and achieve significant performance benefits.

ACTION++: Improving Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Adaptive Anatomical Contrast
Chenyu You, Weicheng Dai, Yifei Min Lawrence Staib, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, James S. Duncan,
Early accepted by International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023)

In this work, we present ACTION++, an improved contrastive learning framework with adaptive anatomical contrast for semi-supervised medical segmentation. We propose an adaptive supervised contrastive loss, where we compute the optimal locations of class centers uniformly distributed on the embedding space. We also use dynamic Tau to yield better separation between majority and minority classe.

Implicit Anatomical Rendering for Medical Image Segmentation with Stochastic Experts
Chenyu You, Weicheng Dai, Yifei Min Lawrence Staib, James S. Duncan,
Early accepted by International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023)

In this work, we propose MORSE, a generic implicit neural rendering framework designed at an anatomical level to assist learning in medical image segmentation. The core of our approach is to formulate medical image segmentation as a rendering problem in an end-to-end manner.