MICCAI Society New Fellows 2013 Three Fellows elected annually ◦ Senior members of the MICCAI community ◦ Recognise substantial scientific Contributions/service to MICCAI community. Process began in 2009 - 12 Fellows were announced Three more Fellows elected annually since MICCAI Society Fellow Elections 2013 The Process Election committee comprises the existing MICCAI Fellows, overseen by Terry Peters as Election Officer. The election process: •Nomination (CV, proposer and seconder) •Discussion via email •Voting by secret ballot •Result approved by the MICCAI Board Nicholas Ayache Nassir Navab Cristian Barillot Alison Noble Alan Colchester Terry Peters Takayoshi Dohi Steve Pizer Jim Duncan Jerry Prince Gabor Fichtinger Rich Robb Guido Gerig Jocelyn Troccaz David Hawkes Chris Taylor Karl-Heinz Hőnne Russ Taylor Ron Kikinis Max Viergever Nassir Navab And the new Fellows are… Guang-Zhong Yang Septimu (Tim) Salcudean Gábor Székely, Imperial College, London UK UBC, Vancouver, Canada . ETH, Zurich, Switzerland For outstanding For contributions to For achievements in contribution to medical ultrasound‐guided simulations for surgical robotics and image procedures and their training and medial guided intervention. simulation. modeling approaches via computational geometry methods. Enduring Impact Award Sponsored by Philips Candidates should have: • Made an enduring mark on the field • Opened up a new area of research • Provided a solution to an unsolved problem and/or significant research question • Produced a working system or practical implementation with high clinical impact • Published at MICCAI at least 5 years ago • Published prestigious papers that have attracted a significant number of citations by others since publication • Shown evidence of continuing citations and/or use in practice MICCAI Enduring Impact Award Sponsored by Philips 2013 PRIZE GOES TO - Nicholas Ayache • BSc in Engineering at Ecole des Mines • MSc in Artificial Intelligence at UCLA • PhD & Habilitation in Computer Vision, Univ Paris XI Orsay • Subsequent career at INRIA, the French Research Institute for Computer Science, initially in Paris and since 1992 at Sophia Antipolis near Nice • Research Director, Asclepios Project-team at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, since 2006 Major MICCAI Contributions • Founding Board Member of MICCAI, 1998 • Serving MICCAI Board member up to 2012 • Chair of MICCAI 2012, Nice Major Impact Pioneering contributions in design and development of patient- specific models for diagnosis and therapy planning in several domains including cardiology, neurology, oncology, digestive and orthopaedic surgery Publications • More than 250 journal articles • 21,000 citations; h-index 79 Co-Editor in Chief, and founding editor (with Jim Duncan), of Medical image Analysis Journal which is an official journal of the MICCAI society Honours • 2008 Microsoft Prize for Science in Europe awarded by the Royal Society and French Academy of Sciences • 2011 Laureate of the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant MedYMA) • 2013-2014 Professor at the College de France Medical Image Analysis: Special Issue - MICCAI 2012 . 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Guest Editors: Hervé Delingette, Polina Golland and Kensaku Mori 15 Medical Image Analysis: Special Issue - MICCAI 2012 IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTION .Kwitt: Localizing target structures in ultrasound video – A phantom study .Vogel: Trajectory optimization for intra-operative nuclear tomographic imaging .Zappella: Surgical gesture classification from video and kinematic data IMAGE ANALYSIS .Su: Cell segmentation in phase contrast microscopy images via semi-supervised classification over optics-related features .Iglesias: Improved inference in Bayesian segmentation using Monte Carlo sampling: Application to hippocampal subfield volumetry .Shi: Temporal sparse free-form deformations .Konukoglu: Neighbourhood approximation using randomized forests .Gibson: The impact of registration accuracy on imaging validation study design: A novel statistical power calculation .Marchesseau: Personalization of a cardiac electromechanical model using reduced order unscented Kalman filtering from regional volumes MR Imaging .Merlet: A computational diffusion MRI and parametric dictionary learning framework for modeling the diffusion signal and its features .Côté: Towards validation of tractography pipelines .Freiman:Reliable estimation of Incoherent Motion parametric maps from DW-MRI using fusion bootstrap moves (appeared in previous issue 17-3) 16 Medical Image Analysis: Special Issue - MICCAI 2012 IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTION .Kwitt: Localizing target structures in ultrasound video – A phantom study .Vogel: Trajectory optimization for intra-operative nuclear tomographic imaging .Zappella: Surgical gesture classification from video and kinematic data IMAGE ANALYSIS .Su: Cell segmentation in phase contrast microscopy images via semi-supervised classification over optics-related features .Iglesias: Improved inference in Bayesian segmentation using Monte Carlo sampling: Application to hippocampal subfield volumetry .Shi: Temporal sparse free-form deformations .Konukoglu: Neighbourhood approximation using randomized forests .Gibson: The impact of registration accuracy on imaging validation study design: A novel statistical power calculation .Marchesseau: Personalization of a cardiac electromechanical model using reduced order unscented Kalman filtering from regional volumes MR Imaging .Merlet: A computational diffusion MRI and parametric dictionary learning framework for modeling the diffusion signal and its features .Côté: Towards validation of tractography pipelines .Freiman:Reliable estimation of Incoherent Motion parametric maps from DW-MRI using fusion bootstrap moves (appeared in previous issue 17-3) 17 Medical Image Analysis: MICCAI 2012 Best Paper Award Congratulations to… Ender Konukoglu, Ben Glocker, Darko Zikic, Antonio Criminisi For their paper entitled: Neighbourhood approximation using randomized forests 18 2013 Young Scientist Publication Impact Award • Established in 2011 • Considers MICCAI papers from the past 5 years by a Young Scientist • Recognizes subsequent significant impact on the field – Citations, secondary citations, subsequent publications, h-index – Personal statements describing paper’s impact on them and on the field • $1000 award • Committee: Sandy Wells (chair), Bram van Ginneken, Wolfgang Birkfellner, Sebastien Ourselin, Stephen Aylward • Sponsored by Kitware, Inc. And the winner is… Dr. Tom Vercauteren • MICCAI 2008, New York, NY Tom Vercauteren, Xavier Pennec, Aymeric Perchant, and Nicholas Ayache "Symmetric Log-Domain Diffeomorphic Registration: A Demons-based Approach.” - Over 100 citations • Education and Experience 2008 PhD Summa Cum Laude from Ecole des Mines de Paris (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Asclepios team) 2009 – Present New Technology Manager, Mauna Kea Technologies, Paris, France • Over 20 Peer-reviewed international journal articles • 10 MICCAI publications (3 as first author) • H-index = 21 MICCAI Young Scientist Awards 2013 Selection Process 29 papers with first author a graduate student or early career scientist, including every eligible oral presentation and every other papers with the highest weighted average reviewing score. Award Committee voted on selecting the top papers by majority voting. Top 16 papers had at least 3 votes. Award Committee voted on ranking the Top 16 papers during the conference including the presentation (oral or poster). Committee selected 5 Honourable Mentions and 5 MICCAI Young Scientists Awards. Committee Gabor Fichtinger (non voting Chair) Purang Abolmaesumi Marleen de Bruijne Alex Frangi Kilian Pohl Xavier Pennec Honourable Mentions Honourable Mentions •Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Registration of Diffusion-Weighted Images with Explicit Orientation Optimization, Pei Zhang •Connectivity Subnetwork Learning for Pathology and Developmental Variations, Yasser Ghanbari •First use of mini gamma cameras for intra-operative robotic SPECT reconstruction, Philipp Matthies •Biomechanically Driven Registration of Pre- to Intra- Operative 3D Images for Laparoscopic Surgery, Ozan Oktay •Apoptosis Detection for Non-adherent Cells in Time-lapse Phase Contrast Microscopy, Seungil Huh Award goes to: Award goes to: A histology-based model of quantitative T1 contrast for in-vivo cortical parcellation of high-resolution 7 Tesla brain MR images Juliane Dinse Miriam Waehnert, Christine Tardif, Andreas Schäfer, Stefan Geyer, Robert Turner, Pierre-Louis Bazin “Impressive effort to connect micro and meso imaging scales and develop models of signal generation based on microstructural data with a large potential impact in neuroscience” Award goes to: Award goes to: Atlas Encoding by Randomized Forests for Efficient Label Propagation Darko Zikik Ben Glocker, Antonio Criminisi “An elegant, scalable, and computationally efficient solution for multi-atlas-based segmentation with important implications for large-scale data analysis” Award goes to: Award goes to: Complex lung motion estimation via adaptive bilateral filtering of the deformation field Bartlomiej W. Papiez Mattias Paul Heinrich, Laurent Risser, Julia A. Schnabel “A surprisingly simple and efficient implicit model of discontinuities to allow sliding motion in diffeomorphic registration” Award goes to: Award goes to: Fast Data-Driven Calibration of a Cardiac Electrophysiology