Our Lab at MICCAI 2026 in Strasbourg

Our lab was at MICCAI 2026 in Strasbourg, France! This year, we contributed across research, workshops, and the broader MICCAI Society. It was great to see these efforts come together, from developing new methods to creating spaces for discussion, collaboration, and exchange.

Papers at MICCAI

Our lab had two papers accepted at the main conference:

• PromptGate — Adea Nesturi, David Dueñas Gaviria, Jiajun Zeng, and Shadi Albarqouni

  Adea Nesturi and David Dueñas Gaviria presented the work as poster W-AM-192. The paper introduces PromptGate, a vision-language gating framework that filters out-of-distribution samples before active learning. This helps reduce unnecessary annotation and improves the quality of selected medical images while preserving patient privacy across institutions.

• K-MaT — Jiajun Zeng and Shadi Albarqouni

  Jiajun Zeng presented K-MaT as poster W-AM-193. The work studies high-to-low generalization in medical imaging, transferring knowledge from high-end to low-end modalities without access to low-end labels. These posters attracted considerable interest and led to many engaging discussions with researchers at the conference.

Co-organized workshops

We also co-organized two workshops:

• SAFER (September 27), with Yasmeen George, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Imran Razzak, among others.
• DeCaF (October 1), with Holger R. Roth, Spyridon Bakas, Xiaoxiao Li, Yasmeen George, Meirui Jiang, and others.

Workshop Satellite Event

In addition, Prof. Shadi Albarqouni served as one of the Workshop Chairs of MICCAI 2026, overseeing the workshop satellite events that brought together researchers and organizers from across the community.

Overall, it was a great week for the group: reconnecting with familiar faces, meeting new people, and having many interesting conversations throughout the conference. We look forward to the next one!