Publications

2026

1. MICCAI

   DenseTRF: Texture-Aware Unsupervised Representation Adaptation for Surgical Scene Dense Prediction

   Guiqiu Liao, Matjaž Jogan, and Daniel A. Hashimoto

   In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2026

   DOI arXiv URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2026densetrf,
     title = {{DenseTRF}: Texture-Aware Unsupervised Representation Adaptation for Surgical Scene Dense Prediction},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Jogan, Matja{\v{z}} and Hashimoto, Daniel A.},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2605.11265},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11265},
   }

2. MedIA

   Slot-BERT: Self-supervised object discovery in surgical video

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   Medical Image Analysis, 2026

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2026slotbert,
     title = {Slot-BERT: Self-supervised object discovery in surgical video},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     journal = {Medical Image Analysis},
     volume = {110},
     year = {2026},
     pages = {103972},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.103972},
   }

3. JTCVS Open

   Feasibility of semantic segmentation of anatomical structures during minimally invasive lobectomy using a transformer-based deep learning architecture

   K. Nakahashi, T. Yoshida, M. Jogan, and 8 more authors

   JTCVS Open, 2026

   URL Bib

   @article{nakahashi2026lobectomy,
     title = {Feasibility of semantic segmentation of anatomical structures during minimally invasive lobectomy using a transformer-based deep learning architecture},
     author = {Nakahashi, K. and Yoshida, T. and Jogan, M. and Kazlovich, K. and Koga, T. and Yokote, F. and Yanagihara, T. and Effat, A. and Liao, Guiqiu and Kosoy, H. and Bernards, N.},
     journal = {JTCVS Open},
     year = {2026},
     pages = {101705},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666273626001282}
   }

4. TMRB

   Automatic OCT scanning of moving soft tissue using continuum endoscopic robots

   Guiqiu Liao, Sujit Kumar Sahu, Philippe Zanne, and 5 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2026

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2026movingtissue,
     title = {Automatic OCT scanning of moving soft tissue using continuum endoscopic robots},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Sahu, Sujit Kumar and Zanne, Philippe and Rosa, Benoit and Nageotte, Florent and de Mathelin, Michel and Dall'Alba, Diego and Gora, Michalina J.},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://hal.science/hal-05535832/document}
   }

2025

1. MBEC

   ACE-Net: A-Line Coordinates Encoding Network for Intravascular Structures Segmentation in Ultrasound Images

   Beatriz Farola Barata, Guiqiu Liao, and others

   Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2025

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2025acenet,
     title = {ACE-Net: A-Line Coordinates Encoding Network for Intravascular Structures Segmentation in Ultrasound Images},
     author = {Farola Barata, Beatriz and Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     journal = {Medical \& Biological Engineering \& Computing},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11517-025-03323-z}
   }

2. NeurIPS

   FORLA: Federated Object-centric Representation Learning with Slot Attention

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2025forla,
     title = {FORLA: Federated Object-centric Representation Learning with Slot Attention},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     booktitle = {Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02964},
   }

3. MICCAI

   Future slot prediction for object-centric learning in surgical video

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2025futureslot,
     title = {Future slot prediction for object-centric learning in surgical video},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12477},
   }

4. WACV

   Disentangling spatio-temporal knowledge for weakly supervised surgical tool segmentation in video

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   In Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2025

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2025wacv,
     title = {Disentangling spatio-temporal knowledge for weakly supervised surgical tool segmentation in video},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     booktitle = {Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15794},
   }

2024

1. ICRA@40

   Weakly supervised video object segmentation for robotic surgery through semi-decoupled distillation

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   In ICRA@40 Conference, 2024

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2024icra40,
     title = {Weakly supervised video object segmentation for robotic surgery through semi-decoupled distillation},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     booktitle = {ICRA@40 Conference},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://icra40.ieee.org/icra-2024/program/#schedule-at-a-glance}
   }

2023

1. JOM

   Automatic intraluminal scanning with a steerable endoscopic OCT catheter for gastroenterology applications

   Oscar Caravaca-Mora, Philippe Zanne, Guiqiu Liao, and 1 more author

   Journal of Optical Microsystems, 2023

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2023automatic,
     title = {Automatic intraluminal scanning with a steerable endoscopic OCT catheter for gastroenterology applications},
     author = {Caravaca-Mora, Oscar and Zanne, Philippe and Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     journal = {Journal of Optical Microsystems},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://hal.science/hal-03953285/document}
   }

2. Thesis

   Analysis and correction of OCT images for robotic flexible endoscopes

   Guiqiu Liao

   2023

   URL Bib

   @misc{liao2023thesis,
     title = {Analysis and correction of OCT images for robotic flexible endoscopes},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu},
     year = {2023},
     url = {https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2023/LIAO_Guiqiu_2023_ED269.pdf}
   }

2022

1. MedIA

   Distortion and instability compensation with deep learning for rotational scanning endoscopic optical coherence tomography

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   Medical Image Analysis, 2022

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2022distortion,
     title = {Distortion and instability compensation with deep learning for rotational scanning endoscopic optical coherence tomography},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     journal = {Medical Image Analysis},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {102355},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841522000081?via%3Dihub},
   }

2. HSMR

   Privacy preserving federated learning for multi-modality multi-institution image segmentation

   Guiqiu Liao, Beatriz Farola Barata, Diego Dall’Alba, and 10 more authors

   In Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics Workshop on Sensing and Biophotonics for Surgical Robotics and In Vivo Diagnostics, 2022

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2022privacy,
     title = {Privacy preserving federated learning for multi-modality multi-institution image segmentation},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Barata, Beatriz Farola and Dall'Alba, Diego and Borghesan, Gianni and McCutcheon, Keir and Bennett, Johan and Rosa, Benoit and de Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent and Fiorini, Paolo and Gora, Michalina J. and Vander Sloten, Jos and Vander Poorten, Emmanuel},
     booktitle = {Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics Workshop on Sensing and Biophotonics for Surgical Robotics and In Vivo Diagnostics},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Liao_federatedLearning_HSMR2022.pdf}
   }

3. SPIE

   Autonomous OCT volumetric scanning with robotic endoscope

   Guiqiu Liao, Fernando Gonzalez Herrera, Zhongkai Zhang, and 11 more authors

   In Clinical Biophotonics II, 2022

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2022autonomous,
     title = {Autonomous OCT volumetric scanning with robotic endoscope},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Gonzalez Herrera, Fernando and Zhang, Zhongkai and Pore, Ameya and Sestini, Luca and Sahu, Sujit Kumar and Caravaca-Mora, Oscar and Zanne, Philippe and Rosa, Benoit and Dall'Alba, Diego and Fiorini, Paolo and de Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent and Gora, Michalina J.},
     booktitle = {Clinical Biophotonics II},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633884}
   }

4. SPIE

   Coordinates encoding networks: an image segmentation architecture for side-viewing catheters

   Guiqiu Liao, Beatriz Farola Barata, Oscar Caravaca Mora, and 7 more authors

   In Endoscopic Microscopy XVI, 2022

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2022coordinates,
     title = {Coordinates encoding networks: an image segmentation architecture for side-viewing catheters},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Barata, Beatriz Farola and Caravaca Mora, Oscar and Zanne, Philippe and Rosa, Benoit and Dall'Alba, Diego and Fiorini, Paolo and de Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent and Gora, Michalina J.},
     booktitle = {Endoscopic Microscopy XVI},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-Catheter-Images-Segmentation-final-1.pdf}
   }

5. CRAS

   One-Shot Boundary Detection Network for Multi-Modal Side-Viewing Imaging

   Beatriz Farola Barata, Guiqiu Liao, Diego Dall’Alba, and 8 more authors

   In Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery, 2022

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{barata2022oneshot,
     title = {One-Shot Boundary Detection Network for Multi-Modal Side-Viewing Imaging},
     author = {Farola Barata, Beatriz and Liao, Guiqiu and Dall'Alba, Diego and Borghesan, Gianni and Rosa, Benoit and de Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent and Fiorini, Paolo and Gora, Michalina J. and Vander Sloten, Jos and Vander Poorten, Emmanuel},
     booktitle = {Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Side-viewing-boundary-detection-CRAS22_proceedings.pdf}
   }

6. SPIE

   Colon lumen exploration with robotized optical coherence tomography catheter

   Guiqiu Liao, Zhongkai Zhang, Oscar Caravaca Mora, and 7 more authors

   In Endoscopic Microscopy XVI, 2022

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2022colon,
     title = {Colon lumen exploration with robotized optical coherence tomography catheter},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Zhang, Zhongkai and Caravaca Mora, Oscar and Zanne, Philippe and Rosa, Benoit and Dall'Alba, Diego and Fiorini, Paolo and Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent P. and Gora, Michalina J.},
     booktitle = {Endoscopic Microscopy XVI},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-robotic-scanning-SPIE-final-1.pdf}
   }

7. CRAS

   Autonomous image guided control of endoscopic orientation for OCT scanning

   Fernando Gonzalez Herrera, Ameya Pore, Luca Sestini, and 8 more authors

   In Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery, 2022

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{herrera2022orientation,
     title = {Autonomous image guided control of endoscopic orientation for OCT scanning},
     author = {Gonzalez Herrera, Fernando and Pore, Ameya and Sestini, Luca and Sahu, Sujit Kumar and Liao, Guiqiu and Zanne, Philippe and Dall'Alba, Diego and Hernansanz, Albert and Rosa, Benoit and Nageotte, Florent and Gora, Michalina},
     booktitle = {Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery},
     year = {2022},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CRAS22_C1group.pdf}
   }

2021

1. TMRB

   Data stream stabilization for optical coherence tomography volumetric scanning

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2021

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2021stream,
     title = {Data stream stabilization for optical coherence tomography volumetric scanning},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics},
     volume = {3},
     number = {4},
     pages = {855--865},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Data_Stream_Stabilization_for_Optical_Coherence_Tomography_Volumetric_Scanning.pdf},
   }

2. BOE

   Colon phantoms with cancer lesions for endoscopic characterization with optical coherence tomography

   Natalia Zulina, Oscar Caravaca, Guiqiu Liao, and 1 more author

   Biomedical Optics Express, 2021

   URL Bib

   @article{liao2021phantoms,
     title = {Colon phantoms with cancer lesions for endoscopic characterization with optical coherence tomography},
     author = {Zulina, Natalia and Caravaca, Oscar and Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     journal = {Biomedical Optics Express},
     volume = {12},
     number = {2},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://hal.science/hal-03045487/}
   }

3. SPIE

   Rotational distortion compensation with deep learning for proximal-scanning endoscopic optical coherence tomography

   Guiqiu Liao, Oscar Caravaca Mora, Philippe Zanne, and 6 more authors

   In Endoscopic Microscopy XVI, 2021

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2021rotation,
     title = {Rotational distortion compensation with deep learning for proximal-scanning endoscopic optical coherence tomography},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Caravaca Mora, Oscar and Zanne, Philippe and Rosa, Benoit and Dall'Alba, Diego and Fiorini, Paolo and de Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent and Gora, Michalina},
     booktitle = {Endoscopic Microscopy XVI},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576882}
   }

4. SPIE

   OCT image-guidance of needle injection for robotized flexible interventional endoscopy

   Oscar Caravaca Mora, Maxime Abah, Lucile Heroin, and 5 more authors

   In Endoscopic Microscopy XVI, 2021

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{mora2021needle,
     title = {OCT image-guidance of needle injection for robotized flexible interventional endoscopy},
     author = {Caravaca Mora, Oscar and Abah, Maxime and Heroin, Lucile and Liao, Guiqiu and Zhang, Zhongkai and Zanne, Philippe and Rosa, Benoit and others},
     booktitle = {Endoscopic Microscopy XVI},
     year = {2021},
     url = {https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.2576186?SSO=1}
   }

2020

1. CRAS

   Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography Volumetric Scanning Method with Deep Frame Stream Stabilization

   Guiqiu Liao, Oscar Caravaca Mora, Benoit Rosa, and 6 more authors

   In Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery, 2020

   URL Bib

   @inproceedings{liao2020cras,
     title = {Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography Volumetric Scanning Method with Deep Frame Stream Stabilization},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and Caravaca Mora, Oscar and Rosa, Benoit and Dall'Alba, Diego and Asch, Alexandre and Fiorini, Paolo and Mathelin, Michel and Nageotte, Florent and Gora, Michalina J.},
     booktitle = {Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery},
     year = {2020},
     url = {https://atlas-itn.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CRAS2020_Guiqiu-Liao.pdf}
   }

2. arXiv

   Dynamic Attitude Estimation Improvement for Low-cost MEMS IMU by Integrating Low-cost GPS

   Guiqiu Liao and others

   2020

   URL Bib

   @misc{liao2020imu,
     title = {Dynamic Attitude Estimation Improvement for Low-cost MEMS IMU by Integrating Low-cost GPS},
     author = {Liao, Guiqiu and others},
     year = {2020},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.10469.pdf}
   }