Grants and Awards

MedIA Best Paper Award

The MICCAI MedIA Best Paper Award recognizes the highest quality paper in the Special Issue on the main MICCAI conference published in the Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) journal. Typically one award is issued each year, but the journal may decide to split the award between two winners.

The definition of and guidelines for this award can be found here.

Winners of the Elsevier Medical Image Analysis Best Paper Award

2024

Zheyu Wen, George Biros, the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). “Aligning personalized biomarker trajectories onto a common time axis:a connectome-based ODE model for Tau-Amyloid beta dynamics”

Ziyun Liang, Xiaoqing Guo, Wentian Xu, Yasin Ibrahim, Natalie Voets, Pieter M Pretorius, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, J. Alison Noble, Konstantinos Kamnitsas. “IterMask3D: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Segmentation withTest-Time Iterative Mask Refinement in 3D Brain MRI”

Runner Up:
Lemuel Puglisi, Daniel C. Alexander, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative,the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle flagship study of aging, Daniele Ravi. “Brain Latent Progression: Individual-based spatiotemporal disease progression on 3D Brain MRIs via latent diffusion”

2023

Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Evangelia Christodoulou, Annika Reinke,Minu Tizabi, Luciana Ferrer, Paul Jager, Lena Maier-Hein. "Navigating prevalence shifts in image analysis algorithm deployment”

2022

Shangqi Gao, Hangqi Zhou, Yibo Gao, Xiahai Zhuang. BayeSeg: Bayesian modeling for medical image segmentation with interpretable generalizability

Runners up:
Qianhui Men, Clare Teng, Lior Drukker, Aris T. Papageorghiou, J. Alison Noble. Gaze-Probe Joint Guidance with Multi-task Learning in Obstetric Ultrasound Scanning

Chenchu Xu, Yuhong Song, Dong Zhang, Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt, Sree Harsha Tirumani, Shuo Li. Spatiotemporal knowledge teacher-student reinforcement learning to detect liver tumors without contrast agents

2021

Tianfei Zhou, Liulei Li, Gustav Bredell, Jianwu Li, Ender Konukoglu. Volumetric memory network for interactive medical image segmentation

Runners up:
Ivona Najdenkoska, Xiantong Zhen, Marcel Worring, Ling Shao. Uncertainty-aware report generation for chest X-rays by variational topic inference

Xinrui Song, Hanqing Chao, Xuanang Xu, Hengtao Guo, Sheng Xu, Baris Turkbey, Bradford J. Wood, Thomas Sanford, Ge Wang, Pingkun Yan. Cross-modal attention for multi-modal image registration

2020

Yaël Balbastre, Mikael Brudfors, Michela Azzarito, Christian Lambert, Martina F Callaghan, John Ashburner. Model-based multi-parameter mapping.

Runners up:
Balagopal Unnikrishan, Cuong Nguyen, Shafa Balaram, Chao Li, Chuan Sheng Foo, Pavitra Krishnaswamy. Semi-supervised classification of radiology images with NoTeacher: A teacher that is not mean.

Mandy Lu, Qingyu Zhao, Kathleen L Poston, Edith V Sullivan, Adolf Pfefferbaum, Marian Shahid, Maya Katz, Leila Montaser Kouhsari, Kevin Schulman, Arnold Milstein, Juan Carlos Niebles, Victor W Henderson, Li Fei-Fei, Kilian M Pohl, Ehsan Adeli. Quantifying Parkinson's disease motor severity under uncertainty using MDS-UPDRS videos.

2019

Zongwei Zhou, Vatsal Sodha, Jiaxuan Pang, Michael Gotway, Jianming Liang. Models Genesis 

Runners up:
Yuan Xue, Qianying Zhou,  Jiarong Ye, L.Rodney Long, Sameer Antani, Carl Cornwell, Zhiyun Xue, Sharon Xiaolei Huang. Selective Synthetic Augmentaion with HistoGAN for Improved Histopathology Image Classification 

Richard Rau, Ozan Unal, Dieter Schweizer, Valery Vishnevskiy, Orcun Goksel. Frequency-Dependent Attenuation Reconstruction with an Acoustic Reflector 

2018

Davood Karimi, Qi Zeng, Prateek Mathur, Apeksha Avinash, Sara Mahdavi, Ingrid Spadinger, Purang Abolmaesumi, Septimiu E. Salcudean. Accurate and robust deep learning-based segmentation of the prostate clinical target volume in ultrasound images

Runners up:
Christian Payer, Darko Stern, Marlies Feiner, Horst Bischof, Martin Urschler. Segmenting and tracking cell instances with cosine embeddings and recurrent hourglass networks

Ye Wu, Yoonmi Hong, Yuanjing Feng, Dinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap.  Mitigating Gyral bias in cortical tractography via asymmetric fiber orientation distributions

2017

Jianyu Lin, Neil T Clancy, Ji Qi, Yang Hu, Taran Tatla, Danail Stoyanov, Lena Maier-Hein, Daniel S Elson. Dual-modality endoscopic probe for tissue surface shape reconstruction and hyperspectral imaging enabled by deep neural networks

2016

Qi Dou, Lequan Yu, Hao Chen, Yueming Jin, Xin Yang, Jing Qin, Pheng-Ann Heng. 3D deeply supervised network for automated segmentation of volumetric medical images

2015

Sailesh Conjeti, Amin Katouzian, Anees Kazi, Sepideh Mesbah, David Beymer, Tanveer F Syeda-Mahmood, Nassir Navab. Metric hashing forests

2014

Markus Rempfler, Matthias Schneider, Giovanna D Ielacqua, Xianghui Xiao, Stuart R Stock, Jan Klohs, Gábor Székely, Bjoern Andres, Bjoern H Menze. Reconstructing cerebrovascular networks under local physiological constraints by integer programming

2013

Tobias Heimann, Peter Mountney, Matthias John, Rasvan Ionasec. Real-time ultrasound transducer localization in fluoroscopy images by transfer learning from synthetic training data.

2012

Ender Konukoglu, Ben Glocker, Darko Zikic, Antonio Criminisi. Neighbourhood approximation using randomized forests

2011

Benoit Scherrer, Ali Gholipour, Simon K Warfield. Super-resolution reconstruction to increase the spatial resolution of diffusion weighted images from orthogonal anisotropic acquisitions

2010

Ola Friman, Rogerio Richa, Antonio PL Bo, Philippe Poignet. Probabilistic 4D blood flow tracking and uncertainty estimation

2009

Jihun Hamm, Dong Hye Ye, Ragini Verma, Christos Davatzikos. GRAM: A framework for geodesic registration on anatomical manifolds

Samuel Gerber, Tolga Tasdizen, P Thomas Fletcher, Sarang Joshi, Ross Whitaker. Manifold modeling for brain population analysis

2008

Vicky Y Wang, Hoi Leng Lam, Daniel B Ennis, Alistair A Young, Martyn P Nash. Modelling passive diastolic mechanics with quantitative MRI of cardiac structure and function

2007

Cyril Poupon, Alexis Roche, Jessica Dubois, Jean-François Mangin, Fabrice Poupon. Real-time MR diffusion tensor and Q-ball imaging using Kalman filtering

Gabor Fichtinger, Jonathan P Fiene, Christopher W Kennedy, Gernot Kronreif, Iulian Iordachita, Danny Y Song, Everette C Burdette, Peter Kazanzides. Robotic assistance for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy

2006

Kilian M Pohl, John Fisher, Sylvain Bouix, Martha Shenton, Robert W McCarley, W Eric L Grimson, Ron Kikinis, William M Wells. Using the logarithm of odds to define a vector space on probabilistic atlases

Masahiko Nakamoto, Hiroa ki Hirayama, Yoshinobu Sato, Kozo Konishi, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Makoto Hashizume, Shinichi Tamura. Recovery of respiratory motion and deformation of the liver using laparoscopic freehand 3D ultrasound system

2005

Tom Vercauteren, Aymeric Perchant, Xavier Pennec, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache. Robust mosaicing with correction of motion distortions and tissue deformations for in vivo fibered microscopy

2004

Darius Burschka, Ming Li, Masaru Ishii, Russell H Taylor, Gregory D Hager. Scale invariant registration of monucular endoscopic images to CT-Scans for sinus surgery

Marcel Jackowski, Chiu Y Kao, Maolin Qiu, R Todd Constable, Lawrence H Staib. White matter tractography by anisotropic wavefront evolution and diffusion tensor imaging

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