Bo Zhou, PhD Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology 737 N. Michigan Avenue Suite 1600 Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Chicago, IL, 60611, USA Email: bo.zhou at northwestern.edu Google Scholar | GitHub | ResearchGate | LinkedIn | ORCID

Biography

I am leading the Advanced AI in Medicine and Physics Laboratory (AIMP-Lab) at Department of Radiology, Northwestern University. I obtained my PhD from Yale University (Harding Bliss Prize Winner) where I was co-advised by Prof. Chi Liu at PET Center and Prof. James S. Duncan at IPAG. Before joining Yale, I received my Master of Science in Computer Vision (MSCV) at Robotics Institute, CMU, supervised by Prof. Min Xu and Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan. Prior to that, I received my M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (Outstanding Master Awardee), advised by Prof. David L. Wilson.

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News

• [12/2025] Serve as Area Chair at MIDL 2026
• [12/2025] Join Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) as Associate Editor
• [11/2025] Our HiFusion for Spatial Transcriptomics is accepted at AAAI 2026
• [10/2025] Our FairREAD is accepted at MedIA
• [09/2025] Our S²CAC is accepted at MedIA
• [08/2025] Our work on Lesion-consistent Low-count PET Denoising is accepted at IEEE-TMI
• [07/2025] One work on Low-dose Cardiac SPECT Denoising is accepted at IEEE-TMI
• [06/2025] Our work on Zero Calcium CT is accepted at JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
• [05/2025] Our work on Memory-efficient 2.5D Diffusion Model is accepted at IEEE-TMI
• [04/2025] Our work on Investigation on Attenuation Correction is accepted at IEEE-TRPMS
• [01/2025] Our work on Efficient fMRI Analysis is accepted at ISBI 2025
• [11/2024] Received the prestigious IEEE Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award
• [11/2024] Our work on Low-dose PET Attenuation Correction is accepted at IEEE-TMI
• [08/2024] Our work on Cascade Diffusion Medical Image Translation is accepted at MedIA
• [05/2024] AIMP-Lab Launched at Northwestern University
• [05/2024] Received Harding Bliss Prize - Highest PhD Honer in Yale School of Engineering (SEAS)

Selected Publications [Find full list at Google Scholar]

• HiFusion: Hierarchical Intra-Spot Alignment and Regional Context Fusion for Spatial Gene Expression Prediction from Histopathology
  Ziqiao Weng, Yaoyu Fang, Jiahe Qian, Xinkun Wang, Lee AD Cooper, Weidong Cai, Bo Zhou
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
• FairREAD: Re-fusing Demographic Attributes after Disentanglement for Fair Medical Image Classification
  Yicheng Gao, Jinkui Hao, Bo Zhou
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025
• S²CAC: Semi-supervised Coronary Artery Calcium Segmentation via Scoring-driven Consistency and Negative Sample Boosting
  Yicheng Gao, Jinkui Hao, Bo Zhou
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025
• Association of Cardiovascular Health and Time Lived with Zero Coronary Artery Calcium
  Nilay Shah, Xiaoning Huang, Natalie Cameron, Lucia Petito, Bo Zhou, Norrina Allen, Mercedes Carnethon, Philip Greenland, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Sadiya Khan
  JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, 2025
• 2.5D Multi-View Averaging Diffusion Model for 3D Medical Image Translation: Application to Low-Count PET Reconstruction with CT-less Attenuation Correction
  Tianqi Chen, Jun Hou, Yinchi Zhou, Huidong Xie, Xiongchao Chen, Qiong Liu, Xueqi Guo, Menghua Xia, James S. Duncan, Chi Liu, Bo Zhou
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI), 2025
  
• An Investigation on Cross-Tracer Generalizability of Deep Learning-Based PET Attenuation Correction
  Jun Hou, Tianqi Chen, Yinchi Zhou, Xiongchao Chen, Huidong Xie, Qiong Liu, Menghua Xia, Vladimir Y Panin, Takuya Toyonaga, Chi Liu, Bo Zhou
  IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (IEEE-TRPMS), 2025
• Cascaded Multi-Path Shortcut Diffusion Model for Medical Image Translation
  Yinchi Zhou, Tianqi Chen, Jun Hou, Huidong Xie, Nicha C Dvornek, S Kevin Zhou, David L Wilson, James S Duncan, Chi Liu, Bo Zhou
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2024
• POUR-Net: A Population-Prior-Aided Over-Under-Representation Network for Low-Count PET Attenuation Map Generation
  Bo Zhou, Jun Hou, Tianqi Chen, Yinchi Zhou, Xiongchao Chen, Huidong Xie, Qiong Liu, Xueqi Guo, Menghua Xia, Yu-Jung Tsai, Vladimir Y. Panin, Takuya Toyonaga, James S. Duncan, Chi Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI), 2024
• FedFTN: Personalized Federated Learning with Deep Feature Transformation Network for Multi-Institutional Low-Count PET Denoising
  Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Qiong Liu, Xiongchao Chen, Xueqi Guo, Zhicheng Feng, Jun Hou, S Kevin Zhou, Biao Li, Axel Rominger, Kuangyu Shi, James S. Duncan, Chi Liu
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2023
• Meta-Information-Aware Dual-Path Transformer for Differential Diagnosis of Multi-Type Pancreatic Lesions in Multi-Phase CT
  Bo Zhou, Yingda Xia, Jiawen Yao, Le Lu, Jingren Zhou, Chi Liu, James S Duncan, Ling Zhang
  International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2023
• Fast-MC-PET: A Novel Deep Learning-Aided Motion Correction and Reconstruction Framework for Accelerated PET
  Bo Zhou, Yu-Jung Tsai, Jiazhen Zhang, Xueqi Guo, Huidong Xie, Xiongchao Chen, Tianshun Miao, Yihuan Lu, James S Duncan, Chi Liu
  International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2023
• Dual-Domain Self-Supervised Learning for Accelerated Non-Cartesian MRI Reconstruction
  Bo Zhou, Jo Schlemper, Neel Dey, Seyed Sadegh Mohseni Salehi, Kevin Sheth, Chi Liu, James S. Duncan, Michal Sofka
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2022
  
• DuDoDR-Net: Dual-Domain Data Consistent Recurrent Network for Simultaneous Sparse View and Metal Artifact Reduction in Computed Tomography
  Bo Zhou, Xiongchao Chen, S Kevin Zhou, James S Duncan, Chi Liu
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2022
• Anatomy-Guided Multimodal Registration by Learning Segmentation Without Ground Truth: Application to Intraprocedural CBCT/MR Liver Segmentation and Registration
  Bo Zhou, Zachary Augenfeld, Julius Chapiro, S Kevin Zhou, Chi Liu, James S Duncan
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2021
  
• DuDoRNet: Learning a Dual-Domain Recurrent Network for Fast MRI Reconstruction with Deep T1 Prior
  Bo Zhou, S Kevin Zhou
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
  

Group

Current Members

• Jinkui Hao (Post-Doc Fellow)
• Ziqiao Weng (Visiting PhD Student)
• Atreya Sridharan (Northwestern BME MS Student)
• Michael Gomez (Northwestern BME MS Student - Co-advise with Muhanad Fadhel)
• Mitch Weng (Northwestern CE BS/MS Student)
• Zixuan Lin (Northwestern ECE MS Student)
• Bifei Hao (Northwestern ECE MS Student)
• Jiahe Qian (AIMP Research Intern Program)
• Zifei Dong (AIMP Research Intern Program)
• Xinran Gong (AIMP Research Intern Program)
• Xiaoyi He (AIMP Research Intern Program)
• Yuhan Liu (AIMP Research Intern Program)

Past Trainees

• Yicheng Gao (AIMP Research Intern Program), Current: USC CS PhD Program
• Yuxuan Zhang (AIMP Research Intern Program), Current: USC CS MS Program
• Jun Hou, Current: Yale BME PhD Program
• Tianqi Chen, Current: Yale BME MS Program

Professional Activities

• Journal Reviewer: MedIA, IEEE-TMI, IEEE-TPAMI, EJNMMI, Medical Physics, Nature Communication, IJCV, etc.
• Conference Reviewer: MICCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, etc.