TIA Centre: News

MICCAI 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea, brought together thousands of researchers working at the intersection of medicine and AI. With over 3,300 participants, it was the largest MICCAI to date, full of energy and meaningful conversations across disciplines.

Where Research Worlds Meet

MICCAI is more than papers and posters. It is where computer scientists, clinicians, and engineers share ideas and challenge each other’s perspectives. From discussions on surgical video analysis to conversations on multimodal report generation, the conference once again showed that real innovation often emerges when researchers from different disciplines work together.

An Achievement for TIA-Pegasus

A highlight for the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre was the success of team Pegasus (Jiaqi Lv, Ethar Alzaid, Adam Shephard, Shan E Ahmed Raza, Noorul Wahab), which won first place in Task 1 of the CHIMERA Grand Challenge. The challenge focused on predicting biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer, and the win reflected the team’s innovation, technical skill, and hard work.

Across the three CHIMERA tasks, models based on clinical data still performed best, showing how much progress is needed in integrating imaging and other data types. The experience reinforced the importance of developing large, well-curated multimodal datasets to push the field forward.

TIA-Pegasus team receiving the CHIMERA Challenge award for Task 1

Looking Ahead: MICCAI 2026 in Abu Dhabi

As the conference ended, attention turned to MICCAI 2026, which will take place in Abu Dhabi from October 4-8. It will be the first MICCAI held in the UAE, and expectations are high. Topics such as multimodal AI, foundation models, and explainable machine learning are set to take centre stage.

A Week to Remember

MICCAI 2025 was a celebration of collaboration, creativity, and commitment to progress in medical AI. For TIA, it was a chance to share our work, connect with peers, and celebrate a well-earned success.

By Noorul Wahab