2026

3D Registration-Guided Deformable Residual Inpainting for ssEM Restoration
3D Registration-Guided Deformable Residual Inpainting for ssEM Restoration

Zhenbang Zhang*, Hongjia Li, Jingtong Feng*, Haythem El-Messiry, Zhiqiang Xu, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Bioinformatics 2026 First author

RegInpaint is a 3D registration-guided deformable residual inpainting framework for serial section electron microscopy restoration.

3D Registration-Guided Deformable Residual Inpainting for ssEM Restoration

Zhenbang Zhang*, Hongjia Li, Jingtong Feng*, Haythem El-Messiry, Zhiqiang Xu, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Bioinformatics 2026 First author

RegInpaint is a 3D registration-guided deformable residual inpainting framework for serial section electron microscopy restoration.

Motion-Residual Conflict-Aware Time Reversal for Generative Inbetweening
Motion-Residual Conflict-Aware Time Reversal for Generative Inbetweening

Zhenbang Zhang*, Zihui Cui*, Haythem El-Messiry, Renmin Han, Zhiqiang Xu (* equal contribution)

Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 First author

A motion-residual conflict-aware time-reversal method for generative inbetweening, accepted by ICML 2026.

Motion-Residual Conflict-Aware Time Reversal for Generative Inbetweening

Zhenbang Zhang*, Zihui Cui*, Haythem El-Messiry, Renmin Han, Zhiqiang Xu (* equal contribution)

Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 First author

A motion-residual conflict-aware time-reversal method for generative inbetweening, accepted by ICML 2026.

vEMRec: High-Resolution Volume Electron Microscopy Reconstruction Based on Structure-Preserving and High-Fidelity 3D Alignment
vEMRec: High-Resolution Volume Electron Microscopy Reconstruction Based on Structure-Preserving and High-Fidelity 3D Alignment

Zhenbang Zhang*, Hongjia Li*, Zhongjun Yang, Zhiqiang Xu, Duanchen Sun, Xin Gao, Fa Zhang, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Advanced Science 2026 First author

An end-to-end 3D alignment pipeline for volume electron microscopy, validated on six real-world datasets exceeding 1 TB.

vEMRec: High-Resolution Volume Electron Microscopy Reconstruction Based on Structure-Preserving and High-Fidelity 3D Alignment

Zhenbang Zhang*, Hongjia Li*, Zhongjun Yang, Zhiqiang Xu, Duanchen Sun, Xin Gao, Fa Zhang, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Advanced Science 2026 First author

An end-to-end 3D alignment pipeline for volume electron microscopy, validated on six real-world datasets exceeding 1 TB.

2025

Unsupervised Trajectory Optimization for 3D Registration in Serial Section Electron Microscopy using Neural ODEs
Unsupervised Trajectory Optimization for 3D Registration in Serial Section Electron Microscopy using Neural ODEs

Zhenbang Zhang*, Jingtong Feng*, Hongjia Li, Haythem El-Messiry, Zhiqiang Xu, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 First author

An unsupervised trajectory-optimization framework based on Neural ODEs for 3D registration in serial section electron microscopy.

Unsupervised Trajectory Optimization for 3D Registration in Serial Section Electron Microscopy using Neural ODEs

Zhenbang Zhang*, Jingtong Feng*, Hongjia Li, Haythem El-Messiry, Zhiqiang Xu, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 First author

An unsupervised trajectory-optimization framework based on Neural ODEs for 3D registration in serial section electron microscopy.

2024

A Gaussian Filter-Based 3D Registration Method for Series Section Electron Microscopy
A Gaussian Filter-Based 3D Registration Method for Series Section Electron Microscopy

Zhenbang Zhang*, Hongjia Li*, Zhiqiang Xu, Wenjia Meng, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025 First author

A Gaussian filter-based 3D registration method for serial section electron microscopy, improving section alignment for downstream neuronal reconstruction.

A Gaussian Filter-Based 3D Registration Method for Series Section Electron Microscopy

Zhenbang Zhang*, Hongjia Li*, Zhiqiang Xu, Wenjia Meng, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025 First author

A Gaussian filter-based 3D registration method for serial section electron microscopy, improving section alignment for downstream neuronal reconstruction.

vEMstitch: An Algorithm for Fully Automatic Image Stitching of Volume Electron Microscopy
vEMstitch: An Algorithm for Fully Automatic Image Stitching of Volume Electron Microscopy

Bintao He*, Yan Zhang*, Zhenbang Zhang*, Yiran Cheng, Fa Zhang, Fei Sun, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

GigaScience 2024 Co-first author

An algorithm for fully automatic image stitching of volume electron microscopy, improving continuity across sections for downstream connectomics workflows.

vEMstitch: An Algorithm for Fully Automatic Image Stitching of Volume Electron Microscopy

Bintao He*, Yan Zhang*, Zhenbang Zhang*, Yiran Cheng, Fa Zhang, Fei Sun, Renmin Han (* equal contribution)

GigaScience 2024 Co-first author

An algorithm for fully automatic image stitching of volume electron microscopy, improving continuity across sections for downstream connectomics workflows.