TIA Centre: News

Seven TIA Papers Accepted at ISBI 2026 

We are delighted to share that we have had seven papers from the TIA Centre accepted at ISBI 2026, the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, one of the leading international conferences in biomedical image analysis. This year’s conference will take place in London in April 2026, making this a particularly exciting and accessible venue for the Centre.

With seven accepted papers, this represents a record number of TIA Centre contributions at ISBI, highlighting the breadth, depth, and growing impact of our research across biomedical imaging, computational pathology, and multimodal AI.

Importantly, these papers span all career stages within the TIA Centre, including PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, undergraduate students on summer internships, and visiting PhD students. This diversity reflects the Centre’s strong commitment to research-led training and inclusive participation in top-tier international venues.

Accepted papers from the TIA Centre at ISBI 2026 

Seth Chang (3rd year Undergraduate, Data Science) and Muhammad Amjad (4th year Undergraduate, Mathematics and Physics) - Synergy vs. Noise: Performance-Guided Multimodal Fusion For Biochemical Recurrence-Free Survival in Prostate Cancer

Yijie Zhu (PhD Student) - Joint Multiscale Image Learning for Segmentation in Macroscopic and Microscopic Pathology Images

Bashayer Abdallah (PhD Student) - Monocular Depth Estimation with Guided Edge-Aware Attention for Endoscopic Images

Hafsa Akelbi (Visiting PhD Student, University of Udine) - Multimodal Oncology Agent for IDH1 Mutation Prediction in Low-Grade Glioma

Kesi Xu (PhD Student) - Tissue Aware Nuclei Detection and Classification Model for Histopathology Images

Behnaz Elhaminia (Research Fellow) - A Deep Learning Framework for Glomeruli Instance Segmentation with Boundary Attention

Mark Eastwood (Research Fellow) - Beer-Lambert Autoencoder for Unsupervised Stain Representation Learning and Deconvolution in Multi-immunohistochemical Brightfield Histology Images

Undergraduate research success 

We are especially proud to highlight the work of Seth Chang and Muhammad Amjad, whose ISBI paper demonstrates the strength of undergraduate research at the TIA Centre. Their work was carried out as part of undergraduate research projects and represents an excellent example of undergraduates contributing novel, publishable research at a premier international conference.

For further details on Seth’s summer research experience, see our related summer intern news item.

Visiting researcher spotlight 

Particular congratulations go to Hafsa Akelbi, a visiting PhD student from the University of Udine (supervised by Prof Vincenzo Della Mea), who joined the TIA Centre for a two‑month research visit. During this short period, Hafsa worked under the co‑supervision of Prof Nasir Rajpoot and Dr Adam Shephard, developing new agentic frameworks that combine histology, genomic, and clinical data for improved prediction of IDH1 mutation status in low‑grade glioma.

She subsequently submitted this work to ISBI, and the paper has now been accepted for presentation at ISBI 2026. This is a fantastic achievement in such a limited timeframe and highlights the impact of international research exchanges at the TIA Centre.

Congratulations to everyone involved on this outstanding achievement. We wish all authors the very best as they present their work at ISBI 2026 in April.

By Adam Shephard