Mingxin Liu

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Ph.D. student, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

I am a first year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Jun Xu at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. My research focuses on Computational Pathology, utilizing weakly-supervised learning, geometric deep learning, and multimodal learning techniques. Prior to starting my Ph.D. study, I obtained my M.S degree in Computer Science at Heilongjiang University, advised by Prof. Jiquan Ma, and worked with Prof. Dinggang Shen, Prof. Jing Ke, Prof. Chunquan Li, and Dr. Hui Cui.

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Education
  • Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

    Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

    Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence Sep. 2024 - Present

  • Heilongjiang University

    Heilongjiang University

    M.S. in Computer Science Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2024

  • Heilongjiang International University

    Heilongjiang International University

    B.S. in Computer Science and Technology Sep. 2017 - Jul. 2021

Service
  • Reviewer of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2025)
  • Reviewer of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025)
  • Reviewer of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP, since 2025)
  • Reviewer of the Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (CMIG, since 2024)
  • Reviewer of the Conference Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022 Cell Segmentation Challenge
Honors & Awards
  • Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis in Heilongjiang University 2024
  • Second-Class Graduate Scholarship in Heilongjiang University 2023
  • First-Class Graduate Scholarship in Heilongjiang University 2022
  • First-Class Graduate Scholarship in Heilongjiang University 2021
Selected Publications (view all )
Exploiting Geometric Features via Hierarchical Graph Pyramid Transformer for Cancer Diagnosis Using Histopathological Images
Exploiting Geometric Features via Hierarchical Graph Pyramid Transformer for Cancer Diagnosis Using Histopathological Images

Mingxin Liu, Yunzan Liu, Pengbo Xu, Hui Cui, Jing Ke, Jiquan Ma†(† corresponding author)

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2024 Journal

This study proposed HGPT, a novel framework that jointly considers geometric and global representation for cancer diagnosis in histopathological images. HGPT leverages a multi-head graph aggregator to aggregate the geometric representation from pathological morphological features, and a locality feature enhancement block to highly enhance the 2D local feature perception in vision transformers, leading to improved performance on histopathological image classification. Extensive experiments on Kather-5K, MHIST, NCT-CRC-HE, and GasHisSDB four public datasets demonstrate the advantages of the proposed HGPT over bleeding-edge approaches in improving cancer diagnosis performance.

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Exploiting Geometric Features via Hierarchical Graph Pyramid Transformer for Cancer Diagnosis Using Histopathological Images
Exploiting Geometric Features via Hierarchical Graph Pyramid Transformer for Cancer Diagnosis Using Histopathological Images

Mingxin Liu, Yunzan Liu, Pengbo Xu, Hui Cui, Jing Ke, Jiquan Ma†(† corresponding author)

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2024 Journal

This study proposed HGPT, a novel framework that jointly considers geometric and global representation for cancer diagnosis in histopathological images. HGPT leverages a multi-head graph aggregator to aggregate the geometric representation from pathological morphological features, and a locality feature enhancement block to highly enhance the 2D local feature perception in vision transformers, leading to improved performance on histopathological image classification. Extensive experiments on Kather-5K, MHIST, NCT-CRC-HE, and GasHisSDB four public datasets demonstrate the advantages of the proposed HGPT over bleeding-edge approaches in improving cancer diagnosis performance.

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Unleashing the Infinity Power of Geometry：A Novel Geometry-Aware Transformer (GOAT) for Whole Slide Histopathology Image Analysis
Unleashing the Infinity Power of Geometry：A Novel Geometry-Aware Transformer (GOAT) for Whole Slide Histopathology Image Analysis

Mingxin Liu, Yunzan Liu, Pengbo Xu, Jiquan Ma†(† corresponding author)

2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024 ConferenceOral

We proposed a novel weakly-supervised framework, Geometry-Aware Transformer (GOAT), in which we urge the model to pay attention to the geometric characteristics within the tumor microenvironment which often serve as potent indicators. In addition, a context-aware attention mechanism is designed to extract and enhance the morphological features within WSIs. Extensive experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method is capable of consistently reaching superior classification outcomes for gigapixel whole slide images.

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Unleashing the Infinity Power of Geometry：A Novel Geometry-Aware Transformer (GOAT) for Whole Slide Histopathology Image Analysis
Unleashing the Infinity Power of Geometry：A Novel Geometry-Aware Transformer (GOAT) for Whole Slide Histopathology Image Analysis

Mingxin Liu, Yunzan Liu, Pengbo Xu, Jiquan Ma†(† corresponding author)

2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2024 ConferenceOral

We proposed a novel weakly-supervised framework, Geometry-Aware Transformer (GOAT), in which we urge the model to pay attention to the geometric characteristics within the tumor microenvironment which often serve as potent indicators. In addition, a context-aware attention mechanism is designed to extract and enhance the morphological features within WSIs. Extensive experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method is capable of consistently reaching superior classification outcomes for gigapixel whole slide images.

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MGCT：Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer for Survival Outcome Prediction using Integrative Histopathology-Genomic Features
MGCT：Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer for Survival Outcome Prediction using Integrative Histopathology-Genomic Features

Mingxin Liu, Yunzan Liu, Hui Cui, Chunquan Li†, Jiquan Ma†(† corresponding author)

2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2023 ConferenceOral

We propose the Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer (MGCT), a weakly-supervised, attention-based multimodal learning framework that can combine histology features and genomic features to model the genotype-phenotype interactions within the tumor microenvironment. Extensive experimental results on five benchmark datasets consistently emphasize that MGCT outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.

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MGCT：Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer for Survival Outcome Prediction using Integrative Histopathology-Genomic Features
MGCT：Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer for Survival Outcome Prediction using Integrative Histopathology-Genomic Features

Mingxin Liu, Yunzan Liu, Hui Cui, Chunquan Li†, Jiquan Ma†(† corresponding author)

2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2023 ConferenceOral

We propose the Mutual-Guided Cross-Modality Transformer (MGCT), a weakly-supervised, attention-based multimodal learning framework that can combine histology features and genomic features to model the genotype-phenotype interactions within the tumor microenvironment. Extensive experimental results on five benchmark datasets consistently emphasize that MGCT outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.

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