Xiaohong (Sharon) Gao is Professor of Vision and Imaging Science at the Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London. She obtained her BSc in Applied Mathematics in 1984 and MSc in Computer Graphics in 1989 in China. After being award PhD on Modelling Colour Appearance in 1994 by Loughborough University, she worked on medical images for several years. Firstly she joined St Mary’s hospital at Imperial College working on retinal images. Then she worked on brain imaging at Addenbrooke’s Hospital at the University of Cambridge.
Subsequently, she took an academic post at Middlesex University, where as a principle investigator or coordinator, she led a team working on the development of 3D brain image databases in collaboration with the Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the project that was funded by the EPSRC (2001-2004, GR/N38725/01). Built on these successes, she later coordinated an EC funded networking project of TIME (Tel-imaging in Medicine, 2005-2007). More recently, as a coordinator, Xiaohong has completed an EU FP7 Marie Curie project on Warehousing Images in the Digital Hospital: Interpretation, Infrastructure, and Integration (WIDTH, 2011-2014) with 11 partners. She was also a principle investigator for a number projects funded by the UK research councils, including Motion Correction for PET Imaging Scanners (British Council 2008), Content Based Medical Image Retrieval and Medical Image Repository (JISC, MIRAGE and MIRAGE2011, 2009-2011).
She has been a peer review college member for AHRC since 2008.
- English
- Chinese (Mandarin)
Selected publications:
Gao, X., Hui R., Tian Z., Classificaiton of CT images based on deep learning networks,Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 138:49-56, 2017. In press. (IF=2.503)
Gao X., Li W., M. Loomes, Wang Li., A fused deep learning architecture for viewpoint classification of echocardiography, Information Fusion, 36:103-113, 2017. (IF=5.667).
Gao X., Y. Wang, Y. Qian, A. Gao, Modelling of chromatic contrast for retrieval of wallpaper images, Color Research and Application, 40(4):361-373, 2015. (IF=0.847)
W. Li, Y. Qian, M. Loomes, X. Gao, The application of KAZE feature to the classification of Echocardiogram videos, MRMD 2015, LNCS 9059, pp.61-72, 2015 .
Gao X, Feaure-wise representation for both still and motion 3D medical images, 2014 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), San Diego, USA, 2014, pp. 1-4..
Qian, R. Hui, X. Gao, Retrieval of 3D surgical path based on sparse coding for image-guided neurosurgery, Signal Processing, 93(6), pp1673-1683, 2013. (IF=2.063)
Qian, L. Wang, C. Wang, X. Gao, The Synergy of 3D SIFT and Sparse Codes for Classification of Viewpoints from Echocardiogram Videos, in H. Greenspan et al. (Eds.):MCBR-CDS 2012, LNCS 7723, pp. 68–79, Springer, 2013.
Gao X., Y. Qian, M. Loomes, R. Comley, B. Barn, A. Chapman, J. Rix, R. Hui, Z. Tian, Retrieval of 3D Medical Images via Their Texture Features, International , International Journal On Advances in Software, 2011 no 3&4, 2012.
Gao X., Loomes M., Comley R., (Book Chapter), Bridging the Abridged – the Diffusion of Telemedicine in Europe and China, in Rodrigues, Díez, Sainz eds., Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies and Applications: Advancements and Developments, pp 451-495, IGI Global, 2012.
Gao X.W., The anatomy of Tele-neurosurgery in China, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Volume 2011, Article ID 353405, 2011. DOI:10.1155/2011/353405.
Gao X. W., Y. Qian, R. Hui, The state of the art of medical imaging technology: from creation to archive and back, The Open Medical Informatics Journal, 2011, 5 (Suppl 1) 73-85.
Gao X.W., L. Podladchikova, D. Shaposhnikov, Recognition of traffic signs based on their colour and shape features extracted using human vision models, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 17:675-685, 2006. (IF=1.53)
Gao, Xiaohong W. and Taylor, Stephen and Pang, Wei and Hui, Rui and Lu, Xin and Braden, Barbara and GI Investigators, Oxford (2023) Fusion of colour contrasted images for early detection of oesophageal squamous cell dysplasia from endoscopic videos in real time. Information Fusion , 92 . pp. 64-79. ISSN 1566-2535
Auzine, Muhammad and Khan, Maleika Heenaye-Mamode and Baichoo, Sunilduth and Gooda Sahib, Nuzhah and Gao, Xiaohong W. and Bissoonauth-Daiboo, Preeti (2022) Endoscopic image analysis using Deep Convolutional GAN and traditional data. In: International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), 16-18 Nov 2022, Maldives. (Accepted/In press)
Gao, Xiaohong W. and Wen, Xuesong and Li, Dong and Liu, Weiping and Xiong, Jichuan and Xu, Bin and Liu, Juan and Zhang, Heng and Liu, Xuefeng (2022) Identification of human papillomavirus from super resolution microscopic images generated using deep learning architectures. In: Deep Learning Applications, Volume 4. Wani, M. Arif and Palade, Vasile , eds. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), 1434 . Springer, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9789811961526
Gao, Xiaohong W. and Khan, Maleika Heenaye-Mamode and Hui, Rui and Tian, Zhengmeng and Qian, Yu and Gao, Alice and Baichoo, Sunilduth (2022) COVID-VIT: classification of Covid-19 from 3D CT chest images based on vision transformer model. In: 3rd International Conference on Next Generation Computing Applications (NextComp), 06-08 Oct 2022, Mauritius.
Eastwood, Mark and Marc, Silviu Tudor and Gao, Xiaohong W. and Sailem, Heba and Offman, Judith and Karteris, Emmanouil and Montero Fernandez, Angeles and Jonigk, Danny and Cookson, William and Moffatt, Miriam and Popat, Sanjay and Minhas, Fayyaz and Robertus, Jan Lukas (2022) Malignant Mesothelioma subtyping of tissue images via sampling driven multiple instance prediction. In: 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 14-17 June 2022, Halifax, Canada.
