Announcing the recipients of the MICCAI 2025 Best Paper and Young Scientist Awards

Monday 20th October 2025

The MICCAI Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the MICCAI 2025 Best Paper and Young Scientist Awards. These prestigious awards recognize the highest quality papers published at a MICCAI annual conference. Each year, three Best Paper Awards and five Young Scientist Awards are presented to recognize research excellence and innovation in the field of medical image computer and computer-assisted intervention. The award recipients are honored with an official award certificate.

We extend our warmest congratulations to the following first-authors and co-authors for this remarkable achievement.

Best Paper Awards

Kushal Vyas, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Guha Balakrishnan (RICE University), "Fit Pixels, Get Labels: Meta-learned Implicit Networks for Image Segmentation"

Runners-up

Héloïse Bustin, Tom Meyer, Jakob Jordan, Lars Walczak, Heiko Tzschätzsch, Ingolf Sack and Anya Hennemuth (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) "Multifrequency Neural Network-Based Wave Inversion"

Pedro R. A. S. Bassi,  Wenxuan Li, Jieneng Chen, Zheren Zhu, Tianya Lin, Sergio Decherchi, Andrea Cavalli, Kang Wang, Yang Yang, Alan L. Yuille, and Zongwei Zhou (John Hopkins University) "Learning Segmentation from Radiology Reports"

Young Scientist Awards

Yidong Zhao, Peter Kellman, Hui Xue, Tongyun Yang, Yi Zhang, Yuchi Han, Orlando Simonetti, Qian Tao "Reverse Imaging for Wide-spectrum Generalization of Cardiac MRI Segmentation"

Hamidreza Aftabi,  John E. Lloyd, Amanda Ding, Benedikt Sagl, Eitan Prisman, Antony Hodgson, Sidney Fels. "OsteoOpt: A Bayesian Optimization Framework for Enhancing Bone Union Likelihood in Mandibular Reconstruction Surgery"

Qiang Ma, Qingjie Meng, Mengyun Qiao, Paul M. Matthews, Declan P. O'Regan, Wenjia Bai. "CardiacFlow: 3D+t Four-Chamber Cardiac Shape Completion and Generation via Flow Matching"

Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Beilei Cui, Kun Yuan, Guankun Wang, Mobarak I. Hoque, Nicolas Padoy, Nassir Navab, Hongliang Ren."SurgTPGS: Semantic 3D Surgical Scene Understanding with Text Promptable Gaussian Splatting"

Yibo Gao, Hangqi Zhou, Zheyao Gao, Bomin Wang, Shangqi Gao, Sihan Wang, Xiahai Zhuang. "Learning Concept-Driven Logical Rules for Interpretable and Generalizable Medical Image Classification". Yibo Gao was selected for the MICCAI Young Scientist Award for 2025, following an eligibility review of this year’s submissions.

Links to the award winning papers are available on the MICCAI Society website.

Our deep appreciation also goes to the MICCAI Awards Committee for their dedication in maintaining the highest standards of excellence, integrity and fairness that drive the MICCAI Society’s mission.

Sincerely,

MICCAI 2025 Conference Chairs and Award Coordinator