Ke Xiao
I am a 3rd year Ph.D student in the Information Fusion Lab of Computer Science Department at UMass Amherst, advised by Prof. Madalina Fiterau. My primary research interests resides in the field of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Graphical Models, Weak Supervision, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.
Currently I am doing machine learning research in healthcare with medical imaging datasets mostly from the UK Biobank. The project I am working on is classifying Mitral Regurgitation with mostly unlabeled cardiac MRI datasets from the UK Biobank. The pipeline consists of a multi-view CNN-LSTM classification model, a ensemble model trained with weak probabilistic labels generated with multiple heuristic functions, and a U-Net based segmentation model segmenting the cardiac MRI data for the CNN-LSTM classification model as well as for the heuristic functions.
Before coming to UMass, I was working on medical imaging computer vision research in the Priest Lab at Stanford University, supervised/advised by Dr. James R. Priest, Dr. Jason A. Fries, and Prof. Madalina Fiterau. We worked on a variety of research projects using cardiac MRI datasets, among which the work of Aortic Valve Malformation Classification was published at Nature Communications in 2019.
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Publications, Abstracts, and Presentations
| 2021 | Genetic determinants of interventricular septal anatomy and the risk of ventricular septal defects and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. M. Yu, A. R. Harper, M. Aguirre, M. Pittman, C. Tcheandjieu, D. Amgalan, C. Grace, A. Goel, M. Farrall, K. Xiao, J. Engreitz, K. Pollard, H. Watkins, J. R. Priest. medRxiv, doi:10.1101/2021.04.19.21255650. |
| 2021 | High heritability of ascending aortic diameter and multi-ethnic prediction of thoracic aortic disease. C. Tcheandjieu, K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, J. Lynch, S. Ruotsalainen, T. Bellomo, M. Palnati, R. Judy, R. Kember, D. Klarin, S. Verma, A. Palotie, M. Daly, M. Ritchie, D. Rader, M. A Rivas, T. Assimes, P. Tsao, S. Damrauer, J. Priest. medRxiv, Nature Genetics. doi:10.1101/2020.05.29.20102335. |
| 2020 | Cardiac imaging of aortic valve area from 34,287 UK Biobank participants reveals novel genetic associations and shared genetic comorbidity with multiple disease phenotypes. A. Cordova-Palomera, C. Tcheandjieu, J. Fries, P. Varma, V. Chen, M. Fiterau, K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, B. Keavney, H. Cordell, Y. Tanigawa, G. Venkataraman, M. Rivas, C. Re, E. Ashley, J. R. Priest. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine. |
| 2020 | Computational estimates of mitral annular diameter in systole and diastole cardiac cycle reveal novel genetic determinants of valve function and disease. M. Yu, C. Tcheandjieu, A. Georges, K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, C. Dina, T. Le Tourneau, M. Fiterau, R. Judy, N. Tsao, D. Amgalan, C. Munger, J. Engreitz, S. Damrauer, N. BouatiaNaji, J. Priest. medRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.12.02.20242206. |
| 2019 | Multi-Resolution Weak Supervision for Sequential Data. F. Sala, P. Varma, J. Fries, D. Fu, S. Sagawa, S. Khattar, A. Ramamoorthy, K. Xiao, K. Fatahalian, J. Priest, C. Re. NIPS-2019. |
| 2019 | Polygenic architecture of computationally derived aortic diameter from 20,939 British adults predicts the risk for aortic aneurysm and dissection. C. Tcheandjieu, K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, E. Ingelsson, J. Fries, J. Priest. Abstract-ASHG 2019. |
| 2018 | Weakly supervised classification of aortic valve malformations using unlabeled cardiac MRI sequences J. Fries, P. Varma, V. Chen, K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, P. Saha, J. Dunnmon, H. Chubb, S. Maskatia, M. Fiterau, S. Delp, E. Ashley, C. Re, J. Priest. bioRxiv, Nature Communication 2018. |
| 2018 | Deep Learning of Cardiac Morphology from UK Biobank MRI Data Reveals Genome-wide Associations for Bicuspid Aortic Valve. A. Córdova-Palomera, J. Fries, P. Varma, M. Fiterau, K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, B. Keavney, H.Cordell, E. Ashley, J. Priest. Abstract-ASHG 2018. |
| 2017 | Automated Classification of Aortic Valve Morphology from Phase-Contrast Cardiac MRI Using an Augmented CNN. K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, J. Priest, SP. Lee, J. Fries, M. Fiterau. MED-NIPS 2017. |
| 2017 | Data Augmentation for Aortic Valve Morphology Classification from Phase-Contrast MRI. K. Xiao, H. Tejeda, J. Priest, SP. Lee, J. Fries, M. Fiterau. ML4H-NIPS 2017. |
Other
Before I ventured into computer vision research, I worked on robotics research at Colorado School of Mines where I graduated with a Master's degree in Robotics, Automation, and Design from the Mechanical Engineering department. Even though my current research interests are focused on computer vision and weak supervision, I would still welcome the opportunity to research in an interdisciplinary area involving both computer vision and robotics.
Outside of the research lab, I like to spend my time in nature. I enjoy activities such as surfing, skydiving, scuba diving, hiking, road tripping, and more. And when I can not venture far, I like to swim, play guitar, practice yoga, etc.
