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庄洛婷 Luoting Zhuang

PhD Candidate

About Me

I’m Luoting Zhuang, a PhD candidate in Medical Informatics at UCLA, where I develop artificial intelligence and computational modeling approaches to address challenges in medical imaging and precision medicine. My work focuses on extracting clinically meaningful biomarkers from imaging data, integrating multimodal information, and building robust models that translate into real-world healthcare applications.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Imaging
  • Longitudinal Modeling
  • Lung Cancer
Education
  • PhD Medical Informatics

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • MS Biomedical Inforamtics

    Harvard Medical School

  • BS Applied Mathematics

    University of California, Los Angeles

📚 My Research

My research lies at the intersection of medical imaging, machine learning, and clinical decision support, with a focus on developing explainable, robust, and generalizable AI tools for early disease detection.

Core areas include:

  • Imaging biomarkers for pulmonary nodules — Leveraging longitudinal modeling to detect and track changes that may indicate malignancy.
  • Vision–language and multimodal learning — Integrating radiologists’ semantic assessments and imaging features to improve prediction accuracy and explainability.
  • Robust image analysis — Enhancing image preprocessing pipelines, including segmentation and feature extraction methods
  • Multimodal oncology modeling — Fusing imaging, histopathology, genomics to advance precision oncology and personalized care.
Featured Publications
(2025). Enhancing Lung Segmentation Algorithms to Ensure Inclusion of Juxtapleural Nodules. 2025 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI).
(2025). Vision-Language Model-Based Semantic-Guided Imaging Biomarker for Early Lung Cancer Detection. arXiv.
(2025). Advancing Precision Oncology Through Modeling of Longitudinal and Multimodal Data. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering.
(2024). Patient-level thyroid cancer classification using attention multiple instance learning on fused multi-scale ultrasound image features. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.
Other Publications
(2025). SmokeBERT: A BERT-based Model for Quantitative Smoking History Extraction from Clinical Narratives to Improve Lung Cancer Screening. medRxiv.
(2025). Comparing the characteristics and robustness of imaging features via prompt selection in generalist segmentation models. Medical Imaging 2025: Imaging Informatics.
(2024). Exploring the Impact of Acquisition and Reconstruction Parameters on an Imaging-Based Lung Cancer Risk Model. 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).
(2024). DART: Deformable Anatomy-Aware Registration Toolkit for Lung CT Registration with Keypoints Supervision. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI).
(2022). Artificial intelligence for multimodal data integration in oncology. Cancer Cell.