Medical Imaging Best Paper Awards

SPIE annually hosts the Best Student Poster presentation contests, with certificates awarded. Some conferences host 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 onsite. View the 2025 winners and their research.

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. 

The Physics of Medical Imaging conference features a paper award specifically to recognize outstanding papers in development and application of medical imaging and diagnosis. Lead author on a paper currently accepted into the Physics of Medical Imaging conference (Conference 13405), are eligible for consideration for this award.

• The Physics of Medical Imaging Student Paper Award winner is Zitong Yu
  13405-41, ISIT-GEN: An in silico imaging trial to assess the inter-scanner generalizability of CTLESS for MPI SPECT on defect-detection task
  
  
• The Physics of Medical Imaging Student Paper Award - Runner-up is Yuanming Hu
  13405-3, Reducing scatter and cone-beam artifacts in DE-CBCT

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• Medical Imaging Live Demonstrations Award - 1st Place winner is Magnus Dustler 
  Interactive designer for dynamic digital breast phantoms using Perlin Noise
  
  
• Medical Imaging Live Demonstrations Award - 2nd Place winner is William Hsu  
  CT-NORM: A toolkit to characterize and harmonize variability in CT for consistent downstream applications

• The 2025 Medical Image Processing Student Paper Award winner is Jongyeon Yoon
  13406-8, Tractography enhancement in clinically-feasible diffusion MRI using T1-weighted MRI and anatomical context
  
  
• The 2025 Medical Image Processing Student Paper Award - Runner Up is Xuan Loc Pham
  13406-48, Divide to conquer: a field decomposition approach for multi-organ whole-body CT image registration

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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. Lead authors on a paper currently accepted into the Computer-Aided Diagnosis conference (Conference 13407) are eligible for consideration for this award.

• The Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award 1st Place winner is Junbo Peng
  13407-106, Unsupervised CBCT quality improvement for quantitative image analysis in radiotherapy using patient-specific score-based prior
  
  
• The Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award 2nd Place winner is Anisa V. Prasad
  13407-51, Leveraging anatomical priors for automated pancreas segmentation on abdominal CT
  
  
• The Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award 3rd Place winner is Walia Farzana
  13407-44, Personalized prediction of tumor recurrence with image-guided physics-informed computational model in high-grade gliomas

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Early-Career Investigator Award is awarded to the first authors of high-quality papers within the Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling conference (Conference 13408).

• The Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Early-Career Investigator Award winner is Gayoung Kim
  13408-38, Uncertainty-aware segmentation of the cervical cancer high-risk clinical target volume from T2-weighted MRI using evidential deep learning

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This Student Paper Award is specifically dedicated to recognizing outstanding papers in the area of surgical robotics and related topics. Undergraduate or graduate students who are also lead authors on a paper focused on robot-assisted interventions or related applications, were eligible for consideration.  The Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling conference (Conference 13408) 

• Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Student Paper Award winner is Siddhartha Kapuria
  13408-35, Addressing biases in gastric cancer diagnosis through generative models and vision-based surface tactile sensing
  

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Congratulations to all of the award winners for 2025. View the full list. Download the PDF.