WiM at MICCAI’25: Luncheon Recap

At this year’s MICCAI conference, WiM proudly continued its annual Luncheon tradition, welcoming more than 200 attendees. The event featured a dynamic panel discussion with six leading researchers and scientists, including Dr. Lena Maier-Hein, Dr. Anqi Qiu, Dr. Valentina Salvatelli, Dr. Wrining Zhao, Dr. Hyunjoo Lee, and Dr. Jhimli Mitra, who shared their insights on the opportunities and challenges women encounter in scientific careers, leadership, and AI-driven health research.

Together with the audience, the panel explored how to integrate emerging AI tools into core research while staying aligned with long-term goals, the importance of taking initiative, and the value of curiosity, flexibility, and lifelong learning in building a well-rounded professional and personal life.

If you attended the luncheon, we would love to hear your feedback through a short survey (approx. 3 minutes)

Women in MICCAI Luncheon Event ATTENDEE Survey

WiM at MICCAI’25: Award Announcements

At the closing ceremony of MICCAI 2025, WiM presented two awards selected out of roughly 20 submissions for each category. The winners are as follows:

WiM Best Oral Presentation Award

1. Aida Moafi, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK ($750, sponsored by Siemens)
   Paper title: Robust Deep Learning for Myocardial Scar Segmentation in Cardiac MRI with Noisy Labels
2. Somayeh Farahani, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. ($300)
   Paper Title: FoundBioNet: A Foundation Model for IDH Genotyping of Glioma from Multi-Parametric MRI
3. Yingyu Yang, University of Oxford. ($200)
   Paper Title: Latent Motion Profiling for Annotation-free Cardiac Phase Detection in Adult and Fetal Echocardiography Videos

WiM Best AI Democratization Paper Award

1. Johanna P. Müller, Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg, DE. ($500)
   Paper Title: Diffusing the Blind Spot: Uterine MRI Synthesis with Diffusion Models.  
2. Pooneh Roshanitabrizi, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA. ($300)
   Paper Title: Synthesis of Pathological Dual-Channel Color Doppler Echocardiograms for Equitable Diagnosis of Heart Diseases
3. Yidan Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. ($200)
   Paper Title: Asynchronous Multi-Modal Learning for Dynamic Risk Monitoring of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Intensive Care Units

We extend our warmest congratulations to the winners and look forward to seeing everyone at upcoming WiM events throughout the year and at MICCAI 2026.