FAU Erlangen Lands 11 Papers and Two Challenge Wins at MICCAI 2026
MICCAI 2026 was held in Strasbourg from September 27 to October 1, with 4,402 submissions and 1,167 accepted papers. Andreas Maier recapped the results for FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): 11 main-conference papers accepted, 6 from his Pattern Recognition Lab and 5 from Bernhard Kainz's IDEA Lab, plus victories in two challenges.
Confirmed
- Conference scale: 4,402 submissions, 1,167 accepted; held in Strasbourg, September 27–October 1.
- Paper breakdown: FAU had 11 main-conference papers, 6 from the Pattern Recognition Lab and 5 from Bernhard Kainz's IDEA Lab.
- Challenge results: first place in the PENGWIN challenge (automatic segmentation of peripelvic fractures) and fourth in the interactive segmentation task; VLM3D's Team Beyond Normals won three tasks and took second place in a fourth, with both teams collaborating with Siemens Healthineers.
- One highlight paper: super-resolution OCT reveals cell-level retinal structure over a wider field of view without adaptive optics. The authors stress that the point isn't prettier images but that adaptive optics equipment is rare and expensive — this work changes who can capture such images.
Why it matters
- If super-resolution OCT can achieve cell-level retinal imaging without costly adaptive optics, it could bring this kind of imaging to far broader clinical and research settings.
- The challenge wins reflect FAU's competitiveness in medical AI deployment directions such as 3D vision-language models (VLM3D) and automatic fracture segmentation, while the Siemens Healthineers collaboration highlights an industry-academia pathway.
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Primary sources
- FAU Erlangen's MICCAI 2026 Haul: 11 Papers and Two Challenge Wins, Detailed by Andreas Maier — maier_ak ·
- Super-Resolution OCT Shows Cellular Retinal Detail Without Costly Adaptive Optics — maier_ak ·
- PENGWIN Wins Automatic Peripelvic Fracture Segmentation; VLM3D Team Takes Three Challenge Titles — maier_ak ·
- MICCAI 2026 Accepts 1,167 of 4,402 Papers; FAU Erlangen Lands 11 Plus Two Challenge Wins — maier_ak · 2026-10-05
- [source] Super-Resolution OCT Shows Cellular Retinal Detail Without Costly Adaptive Optics — maier_ak · 2026-10-05
- FAU Brings Eleven Papers and Two Challenge Wins to Strasbourg Medical Imaging Conference — maier_ak · 2026-10-05
- [source] FAU Erlangen's MICCAI 2026 Haul: 11 Papers and Two Challenge Wins, Detailed by Andreas Maier — maier_ak · 2026-10-05
- [source] PENGWIN Wins Automatic Peripelvic Fracture Segmentation; VLM3D Team Takes Three Challenge Titles — maier_ak · 2026-10-05