Hello!
I am an associate professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen, China). Previous that, I spent wonderful 7 years at City University of Hong Kong (for PhD, advised by Prof. Hong YAN) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (for PostDoc, advised by Prof. Qi DOU).
I am looking to recruit students this cycle (starting Sept 2025). If you are applying for a PhD or Master in biomedical image analysis, pls feel free to contact me via email or chat face-to-face!
Now I am working on developing intelligent and efficient agents for biomedical image analysis and downstream bioinformatics. My principal interests include:
- Designing efficient and accurate framework for quantifying biomedical images;
- Exploring brain-inspired intelligence for efficient computing agents.
Talks and News
Jan 2025: Started my journey at HIT (Shenzhen). Feel free to contact for potential cooperation!
Selected publications
CShaperApp: extracting and analyzing cellular morphologies of developing Caenorhabditis elegans embryo - Jianfeng Cao, Lihan Hu, Guoye Guan, Zelin Li, Zhongying Zhao, and Hong Yan, Quantitative Biology, 2024
Intelligent surgical workflow recognition for endoscopic submucosal dissection with real-time animal study - Jianfeng Cao, Hon-Chi Yip, Yueyao Chen, Markus Scheppach, Xiaobei Luo, Hongzheng Yang, Ming Kit Cheng, Yonghao Long, Yueming Jin, Philip Wai-Yan Chiu, Yeung Yam, Helen Mei-Ling Meng, and Qi Dou, Nature Communications, 2023
Establishment of a morphological atlas of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo using deep-learning-based 4D segmentation. - Jianfeng Cao, Guoye Guan, Vincy Wing Sze Ho, Ming-Kin Wong, Lu-Yan Chan, Chao Tang, Zhongying Zhao and Hong Yan, Nature Communications, 2020
3DMMS: robust 3D membrane morphological segmentation of C. elegans embryo - Jianfeng Cao, Ming-Kin Wong, Zhongying Zhao and Hong Yan, BMC Bioinformatics, 2019
Instance segmentation with the number of clusters incorporated in embedding learning - Jianfeng Cao, and Hong Yan, IEEE ICASSP, 2021
Accurate cell segmentation based on biological morphology features - Jianfeng Cao, Zhongying Zhao, and Hong Yan, IEEE SMC, 2018