Xin DUAN

Former lab role: Postdoc

Alumni

Sun Yat-sen University

Biography

Dr. Xin DUAN was a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University. His research spans medical image analysis, cancer molecular subtyping, microfluidics, ultrafast optical imaging, and artificial intelligence for targeted-drug screening. He later continued his academic work at the university's Shenzhen campus.

Research Interests

Medical Images
Artificial Intelligence

Education

PhD in College of AutomationHarbin Engineering University2016 - 2020
Visiting Student in Department of Biomedical SciencesCity University of Hong Kong2015 - 2018
MEng in College of AutomationHarbin Engineering University2012 - 2015
BEng in College of AutomationHarbin Engineering University2008 - 2012

Lab highlights

Highlighted publications

2021Nature Communications

Predicting treatment response from longitudinal images using multi-task deep learning

All related publications

Journal ArticleJan 14, 2026Diagnostics

Translating Molecular Subtypes into Cost-Effective Radiogenomic Biomarkers for Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer

Baowen Gai^†, Xin Duan, Chenghang Li, Chuling Hu, Minyi Lv, Jiaxin Lei, Runxian Wang, Feng Gao^*, Du Cai^*

Journal ArticleApr 1, 2023Cancer Medicine

An immune, stroma, and epithelial--mesenchymal transition-related signature for predicting recurrence and chemotherapy benefit in stage II--III colorectal cancer

Du Cai^†, Wei Wang, Min-Er Zhong, Dejun Fan, Xuanhui Liu, Cheng-Hang Li, Ze-Ping Huang, Qiqi Zhu, Min-Yi Lv, Chuling Hu, Xin Duan, Xiao-Jian Wu^*, Feng Gao^*

Journal ArticleDec 8, 2022Journal of Translational Medicine

CT-based radiogenomic analysis dissects intratumor heterogeneity and predicts prognosis of colorectal cancer: a multi-institutional retrospective study

Min-Er Zhong^†, Xin Duan^†, Ma-yi-di-li Ni-jia-ti, Haoning Qi, Dongwei Xu, Du Cai, Cheng-Hang Li, Zeping Huang, Qiqi Zhu, Feng Gao^*, Xiaojian Wu^*

Journal ArticleMar 11, 2022Frontiers in Genetics

DNA Repair–Related Gene Signature in Predicting Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer Patients

Min-yi Lv^†, Wei Wang^†, Min-Er Zhong^†, Du Cai, De-jun Fan, Cheng-hang Li, Wei-Bin Kou, Ze-ping Huang, Xin Duan, Chuling Hu, Qiqi Zhu, Xiao-sheng He, Feng Gao^*

Journal ArticleJan 11, 2022Frontiers in Genetics

Dissecting Cellular Heterogeneity Based on Network Denoising of scRNA-seq Using Local Scaling Self-Diffusion

Xin Duan^†, Wei Wang, Minghui Tang, Feng Gao^*, Xu-dong Lin^*

Conference PaperMay 20, 2021Journal of Clinical Oncology

Deep learning to identify a gene signature associated with molecular subtypes that predicts prognosis in colorectal cancer.

Du Cai, Wei Wang, Min-Er Zhong, De-jun Fan, Xuanhui Liu, Cheng-Hang Li, Ze-Ping Huang, Qiqi Zhu, Min-Yi Lv, Chuling Hu, Xin Duan, Xiaojian Wu, Feng Gao

Conference PaperMay 20, 2021Journal of Clinical Oncology

Identifying an immune-related gene-pair for prognosis prediction of metastatic colorectal cancer.

Qiqi Zhu, Du Cai, Wei Wang, Min-Er Zhong, De-jun Fan, Xuanhui Liu, Cheng-Hang Li, Ze-Ping Huang, Min-Yi Lv, Chuling Hu, Xin Duan, Xiaojian Wu, Feng Gao

Journal ArticleMar 25, 2021Nature Communications

Predicting treatment response from longitudinal images using multi-task deep learning

Cheng Jin^†, Heng Yu^†, Jia Ke^†, Peirong Ding^†, Yongju Yi, Xiaofeng Jiang, Xin Duan, Jinghua Tang, Daniel T. Chang, Xiaojian Wu^*, Feng Gao^*, Ruijiang Li^*

Journal ArticleJan 7, 2021Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

A metabolism-related radiomics signature for predicting the prognosis of colorectal cancer

Du Cai^†, Xin Duan^†, Wei Wang, Ze-Ping Huang, Qiqi Zhu, Min-Er Zhong, Min-Yi Lv, Cheng-Hang Li, Wei-Bin Kou, Xiao-Jian Wu^*, Feng Gao^*

Journal ArticleAug 1, 2020Journal of Computational Biology

Multiomics-based colorectal cancer molecular subtyping using local scaling network fusion

Xin Duan^†, Kejun Wang, Jia Ke, Ping Lan, Feng Gao^*, Xiaojian Wu^*

Conference PaperJul 13, 2020Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Integrating diffusion components of multi-omics datasets with application to cancer molecular subtyping

Xin Duan, Du Cai, Yufeng Chen, Qiqi Zhu, Ze-ping Huang, Cheng-hang Li, Xiaojian Wu, Feng Gao

Journal ArticleJul 1, 2020Cellular Signalling

Roscovitine enhances All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced leukemia cell differentiation: Novel effects on signaling molecules for a putative Cdk2 inhibitor

Asif Rashid^†, Xin Duan^†, Feng Gao^†, Mengsu Yang^*, Andrew Yen^*

Journal ArticleMar 24, 2020Oncotarget

Roscovitine enhances all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced nuclear enrichment of an ensemble of activated signaling molecules and augments ATRA-induced myeloid cell differentiation

Asif Rashid^†, Xin Duan^†, Feng Gao^†, Mengsu Yang, Andrew Yen^*

Journal ArticleDec 4, 2019Journal of Computational Biology

Multiomics-Based Colorectal Cancer Molecular Subtyping Using Local Scaling Network Fusion

Xin Duan^†, Kejun Wang, Jia Ke, Ping Lan, Feng Gao^*, Xiaojian Wu^*

Journal ArticleSep 14, 2018PLoS ONE

Dissecting cancer heterogeneity based on dimension reduction of transcriptomic profiles using extreme learning machines

Kejun Wang^†, Xin Duan^†, Feng Gao^†, Wei Wang, Liangliang Liu, Xin Wang^*

Conference PaperMay 17, 2017Journal of Clinical Oncology

Poor-prognosis nasopharyngeal carcinoma as defined by a molecularly distinct subgroup and prediction by a miRNA expression signature

Lan Zhao, Feng Gao, Wei Wang, Xin Duan, Yuchen Zhang, Lina Zhu, Xin Wang