Xinheng Lyu (Lucas)
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I am a Ph.D. candidate at University of Nottingham, specializing in Computer Science and Statistics. My research interests lie in computer vision, computational pathology, and multi-modal large language models, with a focus on developing intelligent systems for medical image analysis and cross-modal understanding.

Before starting my Ph.D., I worked as a Research Assistant at Westlake University in Yang Lin's Laboratory. I received my M.Sc. degree in Data Science from the University of Glasgow and my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Qufu Normal University.


Education
  • University of Nottingham
    University of Nottingham
    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Statistics
    2024 - present
  • University of Glasgow
    University of Glasgow
    M.Sc. in Data Science
    2021 - 2022
  • Qufu Normal University
    Qufu Normal University
    B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
    2016 - 2020
Experience
  • Westlake University
    Westlake University
    Research Assistant
    2022 - 2024
  • Dipath Technology Co., Ltd.
    Dipath Technology Co., Ltd.
    Algorithm Engineer
    2022 - 2024
  • The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
    The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
    Research Collaborator, Department of Pathology
    2022 - 2023
News
2025
🎉 WSI-Agents Selected for Oral Presentation at MICCAI 2025! Oral
Jul 28
🎉 WSI-LLaVA Accepted at ICCV 2025! Accepted
Jun 24
🎉 WSI-Agents Receives Early Accept at MICCAI 2025! Accepted
May 11
Selected Publications (view all )
WSI-Agents: A Collaborative Multi-Agent System for Multi-Modal Whole Slide Image Analysis
WSI-Agents: A Collaborative Multi-Agent System for Multi-Modal Whole Slide Image Analysis

Xinheng Lyu, Yuci Liang, Wenting Chen, Meidan Ding, Jiaqi Yang, Guolin Huang, Daokun Zhang, Xiangjian He, Linlin Shen

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025 Oral

We propose WSI-Agents, a novel collaborative multi-agent system for multi-modal WSI analysis that integrates specialized functional agents with robust task allocation and verification mechanisms. The system enhances both task-specific accuracy and multi-task versatility through three key components: task allocation, verification mechanisms, and summary modules.

WSI-Agents: A Collaborative Multi-Agent System for Multi-Modal Whole Slide Image Analysis

Xinheng Lyu, Yuci Liang, Wenting Chen, Meidan Ding, Jiaqi Yang, Guolin Huang, Daokun Zhang, Xiangjian He, Linlin Shen

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025 Oral

We propose WSI-Agents, a novel collaborative multi-agent system for multi-modal WSI analysis that integrates specialized functional agents with robust task allocation and verification mechanisms. The system enhances both task-specific accuracy and multi-task versatility through three key components: task allocation, verification mechanisms, and summary modules.

WSI-LLaVA: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Whole Slide Image
WSI-LLaVA: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Whole Slide Image

Yuci Liang*, Xinheng Lyu*, Wenting Chen, Meidan Ding, Jipeng Zhang, Xiangjian He, Song Wu, Xiaohan Xing, Sen Yang, Xiyue Wang, Linlin Shen (* equal contribution)

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025

We introduce WSI-LLaVA, an MLLM framework for gigapixel WSI understanding with a three-stage training strategy that provides detailed morphological findings to explain diagnostic reasoning. We also present WSI-Bench, the first large-scale morphology-aware benchmark containing 180k VQA pairs from 9,850 WSIs across 30 cancer types.

WSI-LLaVA: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Whole Slide Image

Yuci Liang*, Xinheng Lyu*, Wenting Chen, Meidan Ding, Jipeng Zhang, Xiangjian He, Song Wu, Xiaohan Xing, Sen Yang, Xiyue Wang, Linlin Shen (* equal contribution)

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025

We introduce WSI-LLaVA, an MLLM framework for gigapixel WSI understanding with a three-stage training strategy that provides detailed morphological findings to explain diagnostic reasoning. We also present WSI-Bench, the first large-scale morphology-aware benchmark containing 180k VQA pairs from 9,850 WSIs across 30 cancer types.

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