Awards

Many congratulations to the following participants of IPCAI 2023!

The Siemens Best Paper Award 

Winner:

Peng Liu, Jonas Golde, Joseph Morgenstern, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Chenpan Li, Yujia Hu, Zhaoyu Chen, Edmund Koch, Marcus Neudert, and Stefanie Speidel

For the paper "Non-rigid Point Cloud Registration for Middle Ear Diagnostics with Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography"

Runner-up:

Hyunwoo Song, Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu, Hamid Moradi, Russ Taylor, Jin Kang, Septimiu Salcudean, and Emad Boctor

For the paper "Arc-to-line Frame Registration Method for Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Image-guided Intraoperative Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy"

Honorary Mention:

Hongchao Shu, Ruixing Liang, Zhaoshuo Li, Anna Goodridge, Hao Ding, Xiangyu Zhang, Nimesh Nagururu, Manish Sahu, Francis Creighton, Russ Taylor, Adnan Munawar, and Mathias Unberath

For the paper "Twin-S: A Digital Twin for Skull-base Surgery"

The NDI Best Presentation Award

Winner:

Mahdi Gilany, Paul F R Wilson, Andrea Perera-Ortega, Amoon Jamzad, Minh Nguyen Nhat To, Fahimeh Fooladgar, Brian  Wodlinger, Purang Abolmaesumi, and Parvin Mousavi

For the paper "TRUSformer: Improving Prostate Cancer Detection from Micro-Ultrasound Using Attention and Self-Supervision"

Runner-up:

Till Schnabel, Baran Gözcü, Paulo Gotardo, Lasse Lingens,  Daniel Dorda,  Frawa Vetterli, Ashraf Emhemmed, Prasad Nalabothu, Yoriko Lill, Benito Benitez, Andreas Mueller, Markus Gross, and Barbara Solenthaler

For the paper "Automated and Data-Driven Plate Computation for Presurgical Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment"

The Intuitive Bench-to-Bedside Award

Winner:

Till Schnabel, Baran Gözcü, Paulo Gotardo, Lasse Lingens, Daniel Dorda, Frawa Vetterli, Ashraf Emhemmed, Prasad Nalabothu, Yoriko Lill, Benito Benitez, Andreas Mueller, Markus Gross, and Barbara Solenthaler

For the paper "Automated and Data-Driven Plate Computation for Presurgical Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment"

Runner-up;

Morenike Magbagbeola, Zainab Rai, Katie Doyle, Lukas Lindenroth, George Dwyeer, Amir Gander, Agostino Stilli, Brian Davidson, and Danail Stoyanov

For the paper "An Adaptable Research Platform for Ex Vivo Normothermic Machine Perfusion of the Liver"

Honorary Mention:

Benjamin Killeen, Cong Gao, Sean S Darcy, Kanyifeechukwu Oguine, Greg Osgood, Russ Taylor, and Mathias Unberath

For the paper "An Autonomous X-ray Image Acquisition and Interpretation System for Assisting Percutaneous Fracture Fixation"

The ImFusion Machine Learning in CAI Award

Winner:

Michel Hayoz, Christopher Hahne, Mathias Gallardo, Daniel Candinas, Thomas Kurmann, Maximilian Allan, and Raphael Sznitman

For the paper "Learning How To Robustly Estimate Camera Pose in Endoscopic Videos"

Runner-up:

Jiahe Chen, Kazuaki Hara, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ichiro Sakuma, and Naoki Tomii

For the paper "Occlusion-robust Scene Flow-based Tissue Deformation Recovery Incorporating a Mesh Optimization Model"

Honorary Mention:

Hanxiao Zhang, Minghui Zhang, Yun Gu, and Guang-Zhong Yang

For the paper "Deep Anatomy Learning for Lung Airway and Artery-vein Modeling with Contrast-enhanced CT Synthesis"

The NDI Best Long Abstract Presentation Award

Georgii Kostiuchik, Lalith Sharan, Benedikt Mayer, Bernhard Preim, Sandy Engelhardt

For the paper "Surgical Phase and Instrument Recognition: How to identify appropriate Dataset Splits

Young Investigator Travel Awards

Sponsored by Intuitive: 

Yuxin Chen,  Anna Goodridge, Manish Sahu, Deepa Galaiya, Russ Taylor, Francis Creighton, Aditi Kishore, Seena Vafaee, Harsha Mohan

For the paper  "A Force-sensing Surgical Drill for Real-time  Force Feedback in Robotic Mastoidectomy"

Stefano Fogarollo, Reto Bale, Matthias Harders

For the paper "Contrastive Distillation for Liver Segmentation in the Wild"

Sponsored by Siemens:

Alain Jungo, Lars Doorenbos, Tommaso Da Col, Maarten Beelen, Martin Zinkernagel, Pablo Márquez Neila, Raphael Sznitman

For the paper "Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection for  Safer Robotically-guided Retinal Microsurgery"

Outstanding Reviewer Awards

Zachary Baum, University College London

Tobias Czempiel, Technical University of Munich

David Grajales, Polytechnique Montreal

Lorenz Lamm, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich

Nader Mahmoud, Menofia University

Güinther Saibro, IRCAD and ICube