Background
Only 2% representation from researchers in underrepresented countries.
2020 - Start RISE-MICCAI community
Mission statement
https://rise-miccai.org
Reinforcing Inclusiveness & diverSity and Empowering MICCAI in Low-to-Middle Income Countries
Esther Puyol
HeartFlow
Tareen Dawod
DTU Copenhagen
Andrea Lara
Universidad Galileo
Charles Delahunt
Global Health Labs
Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez
University of Basel
Rachid Zeghlache
IMT Atlantique
David Dueñas
University Hospital Bonn
Rabia Haq
3DR Labs
Pulkit Khandelwal
University of Pennsylvania
Board Members
Jaeyoung Cho
University Hospital Bonn
Dewinda J. Rumala
Stanford University
Omar Choudhry
University of Leeds
Baoru Huang
Imperial College London
President
President Assistant
Nina Weng
DTU Copenhagen
Industry Liaisons
Tutorials Coordinator
Mentorship Coordinator
Website Coordinators
Public Outreach
Storytelling Coordinators
Santosh Parampottupadam
German Cancer Research Center
School Coordinators
Journal Club Coordinator
Pooja Jain
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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RISE Community in Numbers
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Geolocating MICCAIers
Researchers of under-represented origins (Africa, Latin America, South/South-East Asian and Middle-East) who work in the field of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Aided Interventions (MICCAI) are barely represented in the community
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1400+ RISE members
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RISE Events & Activities since MICCAI 2022
https://github.com/RISE-MICCAI/FIFAI-Summer-School-2024
110+ global participants over 3 days
Day 1
Day 2
FIFAI Summer School
RISE Journal Club Coordinators
Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez
University of Basel
Pulkit Khandelwal
University of Pennsylvania
RISE Tutorials
RISE Events at MICCAI
2023 Event program
RISE Lunch event:
October 11, 12:00 – 13:00
Prof. Purang Abolmaesumi is internationally recognized and has received numerous awards for his pioneering developments in medical image analysis and image-guided interventions. Dr. Abolmaesumi carries out research in medical imaging, machine learning, and image-guided diagnosis and interventions. Dr. Abolmaesumi is a Canada Research Chair, Tier II, in Biomedical Engineering and Professor, with Associate Memberships to Department of Urologic Sciences and School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC.
Rising from the Pandemic: Towards Sustainable Development of Machine Learning Technologies for Point of Care Ultrasound Imaging
Dr. Ghada Zamzmi currently serves as a staff scientist at the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL) within the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). As a dedicated global scholar, Ghada actively collaborates with peers across continents and has played a key role in organizing workshops and challenges at top venues such as CVPR, NeurIPS, MICCAI, and ICML. Committed to empowering women in STEM, she has actively participated in organizations such as Women in AI, Women in Computer Vision, and Women in MICCAI.
The RISE of Democratized Echocardiography Through AI Technologies
2024 Event program
RISE Lunch event: October 9, 12:00 pm
More about RISE MICCAI:
Prof. Nassir Navab is a full professor and director of the Laboratories for Computer Aided Medical Procedures at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is also the director of Medical Augmented Reality summer school series. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and received the prestigious MICCAI Enduring Impact Award in 2021 and IEEE ISMAR 10 Years Lasting Impact Award in 2015. In 2001, while acting as distinguished member of technical staff at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in Princeton, he received the prestigious Siemens Inventor of the Year Award for the body of his work in interventional imaging. He also received the SMIT Technology Innovation Award in 2010. He is recently honored as Medical AR Pioneer in AWE XR hall of fame
He is also recognized for his pioneering work on digital surgical workflow modeling and representation starting in 2005 and on robotic imaging starting in 2012. His students have received many paper awards including 15 awards at the prestigious MICCAI events, 8 at IPCAI, 2 at IPMI and 4 at IEEE ISMAR. He is Fellow of the MICCAI Society and acted on its board of directors from 2007 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2017. He is also an IEEE Fellow, Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) and one of the founders of IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) and has been serving on its Steering Committee since 2001. He is the author of hundreds of peer reviewed scientific papers and over 100 granted US and international patents. As of August 2024, his papers have received over 81400 citations and enjoy an h-index of 122.
Towards the democratization of healthcare:
the scientific path of an ‘illegal’ immigrant
RISE Summer School 2025
Day 1
https://summer.rise-miccai.org/
Local Hub Locations
https://summer.rise-miccai.org/
Mentorship Program
The Summer School will offer the possibility to participate in a mentorship program. A selected group of students will be paired with a mentor for one year with the intention of writing a paper for MICCAI 2026.
What you’ll gain:
🎯 Personalized guidance on project design, writing, and publishing
🤝 Regular one-on-one sessions with your mentor
📄 Hands-on support to develop & submit your MICCAI 2026 paper
Selection Criteria
The mentorship programme will be offered only to students who have never attended MICCAI before and are looking to attend MICCAI 2026. To be eligible, you must work on a challenge task for approximately one month and submit the results to the challenge organizers.
�Key dates:
📅 Application deadline: 18 July, 2025
⏳ Mentorship period: 1 September 2025 – 1 October 2026
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Thank you!
Join us now! Become a RISE Ambassador!
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We extend our sincere gratitude to the following individuals and groups for their invaluable contributions: