SPIE Medical Imaging annually hosts best poster presentation awards. Some conferences offer best student paper awards with cash prizes supported by the generosity of our sponsors. Entrants are judged by a committee of SPIE volunteers and winners are announced at the event. See the 2026 list of winners below. Review the criteria for the 2027 nominations. We welcome your participation.
The Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award (established 2014) is an acknowledgement of his many important contributions to the Medical Imaging meeting and his many important advances in the field of medical imaging. This award is open to all student presentations at SPIE Medical Imaging. For eligibility requirements and details about how to apply, view the eligibity details and application page.
Application opens: 26 October 2026
Application closes: 27 November 2026 (11:59 PM PST)
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The Live Demonstrations Workshop at SPIE Medical Imaging features interactive demonstrations for systems and algorithms developers to show off their creations, complementary to the topics of SPIE Medical Imaging.
The primary objectives are to inspire research, offer valuable feedback to participants, foster new collaborations, and facilitate learning in the realm of medical imaging. This is a symposium-wide event and the Live Demonstration Workshop welcomes contributions from all conferences and attendees of the SPIE Medical Imaging symposium. Registration for the SPIE Medical Imaging event is required. This workshop will feature live system demonstrations and software presentations, and includes certificate of participation for participants.
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The Physics of Medical Imaging conference features a student paper award specifically to recognize outstanding papers in development and application of medical imaging and diagnosis, open only to student presenters in conference MI101 Physics of Medical Imaging. For complete eligibility requirements and details about how to apply, view the eligibility details and application page.
Application opens: 26 October 2026
Application closes: 27 November 2026 (11:59 PM PST)
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This student paper award is a prize awarded to the first authors of high-quality student papers within the MI102 Image Processing conference. For complete eligibility requirements and details about how to apply, view the eligibity details and application page.
Application opens: 26 October 2026
Application closes: 27 November 2026 (11:59 PM PST)
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The Computer-Aided Diagnosis conference is features a paper award specifically dedicated to recognize outstanding papers in development and application of computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) systems in medical imaging, open only to presenters in conference MI103 Computer-Aided Diagnosis. For complete eligibility requirements and details about how to apply, view the eligibity details and application page.
Application opens: 26 October 2026
Application closes: 27 November 2026 (11:59 PM PST)
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The Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Early-Career Investigator Award is awarded to the first authors of high-quality early-career scientist (students and postdoctoral fellows) papers within the MI104 Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling conference. For complete eligibility requirements and details about how to apply, view the eligibity details and application page.
Application opens: 26 October 2026
Application closes: 27 November 2026 (11:59 PM PST)
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The Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Student Paper Award is specifically dedicated to recognizing outstanding student papers (undergraduate or graduate students) in the area of surgical robotics, robot-assisted interventions, and related topics/applications. Open only to student presenters in conference MI104 Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling. For complete eligibility requirements and details about how to apply, view the eligibity details and application page.
Application opens: 26 October 2026
Application closes: 27 November 2026 (11:59 PM PST)
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The Imaging Informatics conference will feature a Best Paper award, identified from all oral and poster presentations. A short list of candidate papers will be first identified based on technical review by the program committee from all accepted submissions. The candidate papers will then be further evaluated at the meeting by the awards committee. The award may recognize practical applications, novel methodologies, and/or other significant contributions. The winners will be announced during the conference and the authors will be recognized and awarded a certificate and monetary prize. All accepted submissions to the MI107 Imaging Informatics conference qualify.
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All conferences at SPIE Medical Imaging will select a Cum Laude and Honorable Mention poster award from the accepted posters in each conference program. The committee will run the judging process and make the selection before the poster session and a ribbon will be hung on the select posters during the session. The Cum Laude winner and honorable mention poster will receive award certificates and recognition in their SPIE online profile. Some conferences may include a small cash award.
How to Qualify:
Submit a PDF of your poster through your account at https://spie.org/myaccount by the poster deadline: 20 January 2027
Note: uploaded poster PDFs are displayed in the conference program online for on-demand viewing and preview and will be published and archived with the manuscript in the proceedings on the SPIE Digital Library.
| Award Name | Award Recipient | Paper / Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical and Biomedical Imaging Cum Laude Poster Award | Roozmand, Zahra | 13929-85, Visualization of airway mucus plugs using UTE MRI with CT-guided registration |
| Clinical and Biomedical Imaging Honorable Mention Poster Award | Wildman, Vanessa | 13929-84, Quantification of cardiac substructure doses for accurate substructure‑sparing lung radiotherapy |
| Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award - 1st Place | Saha, Puja | 13926-53, Adaptive differential privacy for federated medical segmentation across modalities and complexity levels |
| Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award - Runner-Up | Carmo, Diedre S. | 13926-10, MEDPSeg: an offline pulmonary segmentation and quantification tool for ground‑glass opacities, consolidation, and other pulmonary structures on computed tomography |
| Computer-Aided Diagnosis Cum Laude Poster Award | Fetita, Catalin I. | 13926-68, Lesion segmentation and CT biomarkers definition for tuberculosis assessment and follow‑up |
| Computer-Aided Diagnosis Honorable Mention Poster Award | Geissler, Kai | 13926-84, Segmentation of breast implants in MRI |
| Digital and Computational Pathology Cum Laude Poster Award | Vyshnya, Sofiya | 13932-40, Integrating hand‑crafted and foundation model representations for tumor regression grading on digitized post‑treatment rectal cancer pathology images |
| Digital and Computational Pathology Honorable Mention Poster Award | Gao, Connie | 13932-39, A pathomic‑ensemble strategy for exploring histological signatures of eGFR decline in IgAN |
| Image Perception and Technology Assessment Cum Laude Poster Award | Jiang, Zhengqiang | 13928-43, Quantitative evaluation of saliency‑based explainability for breast cancer detection using digital breast tomosynthesis |
| Image Perception and Technology Assessment Cum Laude Poster Award | Zeng, Minyan | 13928-43, Quantitative evaluation of saliency‑based explainability for breast cancer detection using digital breast tomosynthesis |
| Image Perception and Technology Assessment Honorable Mention Poster Award | Özbey, Muzaffer | 13928-50, Under‑sampling pattern optimization for task‑informed image reconstruction in MRI |
| Image Processing Student Paper Award - Runner-Up | Wölkhart, Thomas | 13925-74, Intraoperative quantification of hypervascularity during genicular artery embolization |
| Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Cum Laude Poster Award | Zhu, Xuguang | 13927-46, RS-SAM: a surgical instrument segmentation method based on a gated feature refinement module |
| Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Early-Career Investigator Award | Ma, Limei | 13927-19, Automatic viewing angles prediction for endovascular treatment in intracranial aneurysm |
| Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Honorable Mention Poster Award | Shevchuk, Marusia | 13927-52, Deep learning-based automatic urethral segmentation in 3D ultrasound images for prostate brachytherapy |
| Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Honorable Mention Poster Award | Wang, Ziyi | 13927-77, Real-time prediction of optimal surgical tool pose for cochlear implant insertion |
| Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Honorable Mention Poster Award | Brignol, Arnaud | 13927-80, Interpretation of model prediction using SHAP coefficients for spine surgery simulations based on finite element modeling and machine learning |
| Image-Guided Procedures and Robotic Interventions Student Paper Award | Guo, Zhuoxin | 13927-36, Pathology-guided contrastive pretraining enriches preoperative CT representations for prognosis |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - 1st Place | Safari, Mojtaba | 13930-41, Efficient Mamba network for prostate MRI super-resolution |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - 1st Place | Dai, Xianjin | 13930-1, Semantic segmentation of medical images in radiotherapy through large‑language‑model‑augmented learning |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - 1st Place | Li, Qiang | 13930-41, Efficient Mamba network for prostate MRI super-resolution |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - Runner Up | Li, Jiren | 13930-20, Uncertainty‑weighted learning to reduce diagnostic uncertainty, evaluate AI models, and augment precise clinical decisions |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - Runner Up | Lin, Yannan | 13930-22, Modeling workflow, operational, and financial implications of AI-enabled same-day diagnostic follow-up for screening mammograms |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - Runner Up | Hsu, William | 13930-22, Modeling workflow, operational, and financial implications of AI-enabled same-day diagnostic follow-up for screening mammograms |
| Imaging Informatics Best Paper Award - Runner Up | Li, Zihan | 13930-26, Large‑scale data harmonization of radiology studies via multigranular vision‑language alignment |
| Imaging Informatics Cum Laude Poster Award | Li, Qiang | 13930-41, Efficient Mamba network for prostate MRI super-resolution |
| Imaging Informatics Cum Laude Poster Award | Safari, Mojtaba | 13930-41, Efficient Mamba network for prostate MRI super-resolution |
| Imaging Informatics Honorable Mention Poster Award | Tachibana, Rie | 13930-50, Unsupervised transformer‑based electronic cleansing trained on unpaired data for laxative‑free CT colonography |
| Medical Image Processing Cum Laude Poster Award | Warren, Faye | 13925-57, PDSC: a dynamic stopping criterion for active learning in medical image segmentation: a multi-dataset evaluation |
| Medical Image Processing Honorable Mention Poster Award | Isik, Dilara | 13925-89, A benchmark study of methods for surgical instrument segmentation in central airway endoscopy |
| Medical Image Processing Student Paper Award - 1st Place | DiSanto, Nick | 13925-28, VAMOS-OCTA: vessel-aware multi-axis orthogonal supervision for inpainting motion-corrupted OCT angiography volumes |
| Medical Imaging Live Demonstrations Award - 1st Place | Bjerkén, Anna | Practical Demonstration of Mechanical Imaging |
| Medical Imaging Live Demonstrations Award - Runner-Up | Lee, Juhun | An Efficient Graphical User Interface for Generating Dense Tissue Masks for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis |
| Physics of Medical Imaging Cum Laude Poster Award | Persson, Mats U. | 13924-107, Fast simulation of correlated photon-counting measurements with the Anscombe transformation |
| Physics of Medical Imaging Honorable Mention Poster Award | Taguchi, Katsuyuki | 13924-120, Enabling region-based reconstruction from x-ray angiography images from one view angle: eliminating cerebral arteries and veins |
| Physics of Medical Imaging Student Paper Award - 1st Place | Wu, Xiangyi | 13924-48, First contrast-enhanced mammography unit integrated with a dual-layer flat-panel-detector |
| Physics of Medical Imaging Student Paper Award - Runner-Up | Jadick, Giavanna L. | 13924-24, Spectral x-ray phase-contrast imaging of microcalcifications via automatic-differentiation material decomposition |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - 1st Place | Inaba, Fumiya | 13932-4, Instance scoring via distillation of multiple instance classifiers for interpretable digital pathology |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Jadick, Giavanna L. | 13924-24, Spectral x-ray phase-contrast imaging of microcalcifications via automatic-differentiation material decomposition |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Wu, Xiangyi | 13924-48, First contrast-enhanced mammography unit integrated with a dual-layer flat-panel-detector |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Jiang, Xiao | 13925-34, Forward and back projectors for gradient-based rigid motion estimation in x-ray imaging |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Yu, Hongkun | 13925-40, Multi-PhaseMorph: multi-scale unsupervised registration enabling joint alignment of multi-phase CT imaging of the abdomen |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Ali, Yaqeen | 13926-24, Explainable and fair federated learning with XGBoost for predicting pathological complete response in breast cancer using multicenter DCE‑MRI data |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Saha, Puja | 13926-53, Adaptive differential privacy for federated medical segmentation across modalities and complexity levels |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Maroufi, Daniyal | 13927-1, Towards characterization of semi-autonomous robotic partial sacrectomy using an ultrasonic osteotome |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Hu, Mingzhe | 13927-47, Multimodal foundation model for 3D genito-pelvic structure segmentation in image-guided radiotherapy |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Liu, Yan | 13928-23, Extending regression without truth to integrate ground-truth measurements for evaluating quantitative imaging methods with patient data |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Zhang, Thomas | 13929-1, Four‑state polarized multispectral imaging system to evaluate the morphological diversity and biophysical basis of the skin |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Ortlieb, Olivia | 13929-6, Optimizing deep learning for malignant renal tumor vs. cyst classification in CT: rethinking class imbalance and voting strategies |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Li, Jiren | 13930-20, Uncertainty‑weighted learning to reduce diagnostic uncertainty, evaluate AI models, and augment precise clinical decisions |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Hu, Mingzhe | 13930-49, Geometry‑integrated diffusion models for limited‑angle CBCT reconstruction |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Ahmed-Fazal, Inaara | 13931-28, Development and validation of a 3D ultrasound system for renal tumor cryoablation |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Bagi, Yasaman | 13931-66, Distilling knowledge for phase aberration correction using deep neural networks |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Finalist | Flannery, Brennan T. | 13932-6, Intelligent fusion of pathology foundation embeddings applied to histological grading of renal cell carcinomas |
| Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Award - Runner-Up | Gao, Lily | 13928-10, Composite CT scoring system for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): a validated and reproducible framework for diagnosis and severity assessment |
| Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography Cum Laude Poster Award | Ruiter, Nicole V. | 13931-53, Comparison of synthetic aperture focusing and delay‑and‑sum compounding for 3D ultrasound tomography of the breast |
| Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography Honorable Mention Poster Award | Fry, Joshua | 13931-78, Comparison of matrix and tensor completion methods for cardiac ultrasound imaging |