MICCAI Society Awards
Young Scientist Awards 2015
| Winners | |
|---|---|
| Nicola Rieke | Surgical Tool Tracking with Pose Estimation in retinal Microsurgery |
| Mattieu Le | GPSSI: Gaussian Process for Sampling Segmentations of Images |
| Soheil Hor | Scandent Tree: A Random Forest Learning Method for Incomplete Multimodal Datasets |
| Menglin Jiang | Joint Kernel-Based Supervised Hashing for Scalable Histological Image Analysis |
| Runners Up | |
|---|---|
| Charles Hatt | Robust 5DOF Transesophageal Echo Probe Tracking at Fluoroscopic Frame Rates |
| Christian Payer | Automatic Artery-Vein Separation from Thoracic CT Images Using Integer Programming |
| Jelmer Wolterink | Automatic Coronanry Calcium Scoring in Cardia CT Angiography Using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Eli Gibson | Statistical Power in Image Segmentation: Relating Sample Size to Reference Standard Quality |
| Nima Tajbakhsh | Computer-Aided Pulmonary Embolism Detection Using a Novel Vessel-Aligned Multi-Planar Reprsentation and Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Sepideh Mesbah & Sailesh Conjeti | Hashing Forests for Morphological Search and Retrieval in Neuroscientific Image Databases |
| Yuanpu Xie | Beyond Classification: Structured Regression for Robust Cell Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Hai Su | Robust Cell Detection and Segmentation in Histopathological Images Using Spearse Reconstruction and Stacked Denoising Autoencoders |
| Wenchao Jiang | Restoring the Invisible Details in Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy Images |
Medical Image Analysis Best Paper Award 2015
Awarded to: Markus Rempfler, Matthias Schneider, Giovanna D. Ielacqua, Xianghui Xiao, Stuart R. Stock, Jan Klohs, Gábor Székely, Bjoern Andres, Bjoern H. Menze.
For their paper entitled: Reconstructing cerebrovascular networks under local physiological constraints by integer programming
Young Scientist Publication Impact Award 2015
Awarded to Bjoern Menze for the article entitled: “A Generative Model for Brain Tumor Segmentation in Multi-Modal Images”, co-authored by Koen Van Leemput, Danial Lashkari, Marc-André Weber, Nicholas Ayache, and Polina Golland. From MICCAI 2010, Beijing, China.
- The paper has been cited over 75 times, including articles in MICCAI, IEEE BME, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Medical Image Analysis, Medical Physics, and PLOS One
- Generative probabilistic approaches and uncertainty quantification continue to be areas of interest for Dr. Menze while he works as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Medicine at TU München
MICCAI Society "Enduring Impact Award" 2015
Awarded to Max Viergever:
- 1st degree and MSc: Delft, Mathematics
- DSc on mechanics of the inner ear
- 1988-present: Professor and Head, Department Medical Imaging, Utrecht
- 1996-present: Founder and Director, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Centre, Utrecht
- Organizer/Chairman of 21 international conferences including MICCAI 2001 (Utrecht)
- Co-chair/Programme Chair in many conferences including MICCAI
- MICCAI founder Board member
- MICCAI Society Fellow
- IEEE EMBS Distinguished Service Award (2011); Academic Career Achievement Award (2014)
- Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans Med Imaging (Jan 2003-Dec 2008)
- 360 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals
- 18 books (author/editor); 260 chapters in books or full papers in conference proceedings; 9 special journal issues (editor)
- 16000 citations, h-index 59 (Web of Science); >33000 citations, h-index 80 (Google Scholar)
- 130 PhD and 150 MSc theses supervised
- Member of PhD juries in The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA