Women in MICCAI (WiM) have organized two new webinars in the webinar series "Health Equity in the AI Era" Webinar Series.

The first webinar, held on Monday, December 9, was an invited talk by Dr. Maria A. Zuluaga on “Building Trustworthiness through Robustness”. This webinar gave an excellent overview on topics of robustness and trustworthiness, and dove deep into the specific technical works on robustness conducted by Dr. Maria A. Zuluaga’s group. This webinar received a lot of attention in the community, with high attendance rate and an active Q&A session.

The next webinar is a panel discussion scheduled on January 23 on “Conducting Health Equity Research” with WiM Best Health Equity Paper Awardees. Stay tuned for registration information of the webinar, which will be announced via the MICCAI newsletter in early January.

WiM Luncheon Networking and Panel Event

Women in MICCAI (WiM) successfully hosted the WiM Luncheon Networking and Panel event on October 7, 2024, in conjunction with MICCAI 2024 in Marrakech, Morocco, drawing over 150 attendees. The panel featured seven accomplished women leaders in academia and industry, sparking a heated Q & A session with many insightful questions and stellar responses.

Announcing WiM Award Recipients

WiM is proud to present the winners of the WiM Award for the Best Oral Presentation

Best Oral Presentation:

●      Xinrui Yuan; Longitudinally Consistent Individualized Prediction of Infant Cortical Morphological Development; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Honorable Mentions:

●      Nourhan Bayasi; BiasPruner: Debiased Continual Learning for Medical Image Classification; University of British Columbia

●      Silvia Seidlitz; Deep intra-operative illumination calibration of hyperspectral cameras; German Cancer Research Center

WiM Award for the Best Health Equity Paper award winners

●      Nourhan Bayasi; BiasPruner: Debiased Continual Learning for Medical Image Classification; University of British Columbia

Honourable Mention:

●      Vien Ngoc Dang; Mitigating Overdiagnosis Bias in CNN-Based Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis for the Elderly; University of Barcelona

●      Kaushalya Sivayogaraj; LiverUSRecon: Automatic 3D Reconstruction and Volumetry of the Liver with a Few Partial Ultrasound Scans; University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

WiM Board Election

We also welcome the new WiM Board, led by Dr. Ruogu Fang as President, and the other 11 board members, are committed and full of inspiration to strengthen and widen the representation of female scientists in the MICCAI community. Five new board members are elected, they are:

WiM Industrial Liaison (fundraising):  Dr. Can Zhao, NVIDIA
WiM Industrial Liaison (mentorship):  Dr. Ines Prata Machado, University of Cambridge
WiM CoC Officer:       Dr. Fatemeh Zabihollahy, University of Toronto
WiM Award Officer:    Dr. Danli Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
WiM Local Officer:      Dr. Sejung Yang, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine