We are pleased to announce that the following paper, co-authored by Associate Professor Teeradaj Racharak, has been accepted in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. The article appears in the Molecular and Cellular Pathology section, Volume 14, 2026.

Accepted Paper
Han Shu, Guanqun Sun, Qi Yuan, Yizhi Pan, Weikun Kong, Yangyi Feng, Peng Cheng, Kai Li, Nguyen Le Minh, Teeradaj Racharak, Junyi Xin, Morphology-Aware Distillation for Lightweight Retinal Vessel Segmentation Across Fundus Photography and OCT Angiography, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Volume 14, 2026. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2026.1825518.

This work proposes a morphology-aware knowledge distillation framework for lightweight retinal vessel segmentation. Retinal vessel segmentation is important for diagnosing ophthalmic and systemic diseases, but deploying high-performance models in resource-constrained clinical settings remains challenging. The proposed method, Morphology-Aware Reconstruction Distillation (MRD), transfers the teacher model’s ability to reconstruct coherent vascular structures rather than only mimicking pixel-level statistics. Experiments across fundus photography and OCT angiography datasets show that the approach preserves delicate vascular morphology while reducing model complexity, contributing to more efficient and reliable point-of-care clinical deployment.

Congratulations to the authors on this achievement!