Announcing the Recipients of the 2025 Enduring Impact Award and 2025 MICCAI Fellowships

Thursday 25th September 2025

The MICCAI Society is proud to announce Dinggang Shen as the recipient of the 2025 Enduring Impact Award. We are also delighted to name Carl-Fredrik Westin, Marius George Linguraru and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer Fellows of the MICCAI Society for 2025.

The 2025 Enduring Impact Award and the 2025 MICCAI Fellowships serve as powerful reminders of the collective passion, dedication, and collaborations that drive our field forward and spark innovation across the globe. Read below to learn more about this year’s esteemed honorees. 

2025 Enduring Impact Award

Established in 2009, the Enduring Impact Award is presented to an individual who has made a significant and lasting impact on the field through originality, successful clinical applications, publications and dissemination and involvement in conferences, societies and education. 

We are pleased to present Dinggang Shen with the 2025 Enduring Impact Award.

Dinggang Shen is the founding Dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering at ShanghaiTech University. He has pioneered new areas in non-rigid registration, made significant advances in image segmentation and established biomarkers for quantifying disease progression.

Professor Shen has been published in over 1600 peer-reviewed publications with more than 107,000 citations.  He has published close to 300 MICCAI papers, starting in MICCAI’s earliest years (1999). He is an active editorial and advisory board member of many journals including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (Senior Editor), Medical Image Analysis (Senior Editor), and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging as well five other journals. 

He has trained over 350 PhD students and Postdocs, and his former students include those working in Academia and Industry, many of whom are heavily involved in MICCAI. His formal course teaching includes courses in medical image processing and analysis, and Deep Learning-based Image Reconstruction. He is an active speaker having been invited to present more than 500 lectures at seminars and conferences.

Professor Shen was the Program Chair of MICCAI 2019, ISBI 2012 and WBIR 2012 and was on the MICCAI Society Board of Directors from 2012-1015. He continues to be a regular reviewer of papers submitted to MICCAI Society annual conferences.

Professor Shen is a MICCAI Fellow, an IEEE Fellow as well as a Fellow of ISMRM, IAMBE and IAPR. His awards include the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Radiological and Biomedical Imaging Research and a Technical Achievement Award from IEEE EMBS (2024). He has received numerous published paper awards including 2017 Best Paper Award, The Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition and the 2016 MICCAI Young Investigator Award.

Congratulations to Dinggang Shen!

2025 MICCAI Fellowships

Recognition as a MICCAI Fellow is given to individuals who have not only demonstrated exceptional scientific achievements but have also significantly contributed to the advancement of our field. This year, we celebrate three remarkable individuals whose work embodies the spirit of innovation and dedication.

Carl-Fredrik Westin, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
For outstanding contributions to medical image analysis that have advanced the understanding of brain structure and connectivity.

Carl-Fredrik Westin is a pioneer in diffusion MRI who has shaped the field of medical image computing for more than 25 years.  He has strengthened the Society through dedicated service in multiple roles, including organizing the first Diffusion MRI Tutorials, which bridged the MICCAI and ISMRM communities and fostered the long-running MICCAI Diffusion MRI Workshops. His landmark contributions include introducing tensor-valued diffusion encoding - coining the widely adopted term “B-tensor” - a conceptual breakthrough that redefined microstructural modeling. Through his scientific leadership, mentorship, and enduring innovation, Carl-Fredrik Westin exemplifies the values of the MICCAI community.

Marius George Linguraru, Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC, USA
For distinguished contributions to medical image computing, particularly in the development of quantitative imaging biomarkers for pediatric and rare diseases.

Marius George Linguraru has made outstanding contributions to pediatric medical image analysis and health equity and delivered exceptional services to the MICCAI community. He is an eminent MICCAI scientific leader and currently serves as President of the MICCAI Society. He is an advocate for equitable imaging and AI, a mentor and researcher devoted to children’s health, including those with rare diseases and limited resources. His entrepreneurial success and global health projects effectively translate these methods to patient care. 

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, University of Colorado, Aurora CO, USA
For outstanding contributions to medical image analysis and artificial intelligence in oncology and ophthalmology that have advanced precision medicine.

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer has made a transformative impact on medical image computing, with sustained leadership in the MICCAI community and foundational contributions to open-source AI infrastructure. Her longstanding roles in MICCAI include conference organization, Challenge leadership, and community mentoring. Serving as a founding member of MONAI’s advisory board and chairing its Federated Learning and Ophthalmology working groups, she has accelerated collaborative research and translation of AI into clinical practice.

Congratulations Carl-Fredrik Westin, Marius George Linguraru and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer on becoming Fellows of the MICCAI Society!