Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Thomas Benseghir received a Best Paper Award at the 2015 IPCAI conference, Barcelona, Spain, for his paper entitled “A tree-topology preserving pairing for 3D/2D registration”, co-authored by Grégoire Malandain and Régis Vaillant.

• Matthieu Lê received a Young Scientist Award at the 2015 MICCAI conference, Munich, Germany, for his paper entitled “GPSSI: Gaussian Process for Sampling Segmentations of Images” , co-authored by Jan Unkelbach, Nicholas Ayache, and Hervé Delingette.

• Bjorn Menze received the Young Scientist Publication Impact Award at the 2015 MICCAI conference, Munich, Germany, for his article “A generative model for brain tumor segmentation in multi-modal images”, co-authored by Koen Van Leemput, Danial Lashkari, Marc-André Weber, Nicholas Ayache and Polina Golland presented at MICCAI 2010 in Beijing, China [100] .

• Marco Lorenzi received an honorary mention at the 2015 Cor Baayen Award for his PhD prepared jointly within the Asclepios project team at Inria Sophia Antipolis and the IRCCS San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli (Italy), and for his post-doctoral research performed at University College London (UCL).

• Hervé Delingette is the co-recipient of the Dirk Bartz First Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine awarded during the 2015 Eurographics conference. The prize was given to a group of 7 Inria researchers who pioneered the development of medical simulators based on the SOFA software platform.

• Nicholas Ayache received a research medal from the University Côte d'Azur on December 10th 2015.

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