Taojun Zhang

Graduate Student

Department of General Surgery
Nanfang Hospital
Southern Medical University
Guangzhou
Guangdong
China

Email: drzhangtaojun@163.com

Biography

I am a graduate student at Southern Medical University. My research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. We are dedicated to designing advanced machine learning algorithms for biomedical data analysis, primarily focusing on medical images, to improve medical decision-making. Specifically, we focus on: 1) developing multimodal learning algorithms (e.g., multimodal foundation model) to integrate multi-scale biomedical data for disease prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment design; 2) building real-world learning systems to learn generalizable, trustworthy, and fair representations from imperfect medical data; and 3) developing causality-driven learning algorithms to improve their interpretability and safety for healthcare problems.

[New in Dec 2023] We have Postdoc/RA openings in multimodal learning and computational pathology. Please contact me if you are interested in this opportunity.

We are looking for self-motivated Postdoc/PhD/RA/Interns, who are interested in medical AI, multimodal learning, computational pathology, and biomedical informatics. Welcome to drop me an email with your CV and transcripts.

News

[12/2023] Two papers were accepted by AAAI 2024.

Experience

Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Sep. 2022 – Jun. 2025

Graduate Student
Advisor: Prof. Yuming Jiang

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

2024

Comprehensive assessment of immune context and immunotherapy response via noninvasive imaging in gastric cancer
Zepang Sun, Taojun Zhang, M Usman Ahmad, Zixia Zhou, Liang Qiu, Kangneng Zhou, Wenjun Xiong, Jingjing Xie, Zhicheng Zhang, Chuanli Chen, Qingyu Yuan, Yan Chen, Wanying Feng, Yikai Xu, Lequan Yu, Wei Wang, Jiang Yu, Guoxin Li, Yuming Jiang.
Journal of Clinical Investigation,2024.

2023

Noninvasive imaging evaluation of peritoneal recurrence and chemotherapy benefit in gastric cancer after gastrectomy: a multicenter study
Zepang Sun, Wei Wang, Weicai Huang, Taojun Zhang, Chuanli Chen, Qingyu Yuan, Yan Chen, Kangneng Zhou, Zhen Han, Hao Feng, Hao Chen, Xiaokun Liang, Yanfeng Hu, Jiang Yu, Hao Liu, Lequan Yu, Yikai Xu, Guoxin Li, Yuming Jiang.
International Journal of Surgery, 2023.
Non-invasive tumor microenvironment evaluation and treatment response prediction in gastric cancer using deep learning radiomics
Yuming Jiang, Kangneng Zhou, Zepang Sun, Hongyu Wang, Jingjing Xie, Taojun Zhang, Shengtian Sang, Md Tauhidul Islam, Jen-Yeu Wang, Chuanli Chen, Qingyu Yuan, Sujuan Xi, Tuanjie Li, Yikai Xu, Wenjun Xiong, Wei Wang, Guoxin Li, Ruijiang Li.
Cell Reports Medicine, 2023.
Non-invasive CT imaging biomarker to predict immunotherapy response in gastric cancer: a multicenter study
Weicai Huang, Wenjun Xiong, Lei Tang, Chuanli Chen, Qingyu Yuan, Cheng Zhang, Kangneng Zhou, Zepang Sun, Taojun Zhang, Zhen Han, Hao Feng, Xiaokun Liang, Yonghong Zhong, Haijun Deng, Lequan Yu, Yikai Xu, Wei Wang, Lin Shen, Guoxin Li, Yuming Jiang.
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2023.

Recent Talks & Presentations

American Association for Cancer Research
at San Diego, California "Computational Pathology Approach for Assessment of Prognosis and Immunotherapy Response in Pan-gastrointestinal Cancer: A Multi-Centric Retrospective Study", March 22 2024.

Honors & Awards

2024 National Scholarship, 2023

2023 The first-class scholarship of Southern Medical University, 2023