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MICCAI 2025 Program 🇰🇷

📍DCC1- Room 1F-103

Welcome and introduction by the organizers.

Keynotes

13.30-13.50: MR-Linacs in Radiotherapy: Clinical Use, Limitations and Opportunities for AI
Speaker: Prof. Guillaume Landry, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital, LMU Munich.

13.50-14.10: More than just speed: the need for AI-auto contouring in MR-guided radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer
Speaker: Guus Grimbergen, PhD, Department of Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht

14.10-14.30: Challenge Overview

  • Presentation of the PANTHER challenge design, datasets, baseline models, and evaluation process.
    Speaker: Amparo Betancourt on behalf of the Challenge organizers

14.30-15.00: Winning Teams Presentations - Task 2 (Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in MR-Linac Images)

  • 14.30: Team BreizhSeg (Cedric Hemon, Universite de Rennes)-"Towards Robust Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation: Transfer Learning, SAM Fine-Tuning, and Ensemble Methods"
  • 14.45: Libo Zhang-"Iterative Semi-supervised ResEnc-M nnU-Net with Multi-fold Ensemble and Cross-task Fine-tuning for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation"

15.00-15.30 Honorable mention Teams presentations Task 1 (Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in Diagnostic MRI)

  • 15.00: Team ntua (Kyriaki Kolpetinou, National Technical University of Athens)-"Scaling Down to Compete: Extending SegFormer3D for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation"
  • 15.15: Team PolySmart (Ziyi JIN, Heidelberg University, Medical Informatics)-“Anatomy-aware Data Augmentation with nnUNetResEnc for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation”

☕ 15.30-16.00: Coffee Break @DCC II

16.00-16.25: Bridging the Gap: Building Trustworthy AI for Clinicians Beyond Detection
Speaker: Meritxell Riera i Marín, Sycai Medical S.L.

16.25–17.10: Winning Teams Presentations - Task 1 (Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in Diagnostic MRI)

  • 16.25: Team sjtu_lab426 (Changkai Ji, Shanghai Jiao Tong University): "Umamba-Based Ensemble for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in T1W-CE MRI: Balancing Boundary Precision and Lesion Robustness via Multi-Channel Data Augmentation and CutMix"
  • 16.40: Team SpaceCY (Qingdao University) – Title TBD
  • 16.55 : Team MIC-DKFZ (Maximilian Rokuss, German Cancer Research Center): Distilling Experts: Multi-Stage Fine-Tuned Ensembles for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation in MRI

17.10–17.25: Award Ceremony 🏆

17.25–17.30: Closing statement by organizers