MICCAI 2026

Benjamin Jin, a Precision Medicine PhD Student, presented his poster, "Automated Distinction of Intimal and Medial Intracranial Arterial Calcification from CT Head" at SWITCH+2026: Stroke and neurovascular diseases Workshop on Imaging and Treatment CHallenges. 

SWITCH+ is a MICCAI workshop focused on imaging, analysis, and computational methods for neurovascular diseases. Building on the original SWITCH workshop on stroke diagnosis and treatment, SWITCH+ expands its scope to include a wider spectrum of neurovascular conditions and vascular pathologies assessed through neuroimaging and related imaging modalities. The main goals of the workshop are:

1) to introduce the clinical background of challenges and opportunities in neurovascular diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and management that are relevant for researchers in the MICCAI  field, and

 2) to stimulate discussion and exchange around recent advances in imaging and computational methods. To this end, there will be keynotes by clinical experts in neurovascular imaging and intervention, as well as presentations by researchers of ongoing work.

Benjamin's work is part of a collaboration with Richard Borstov and Daniel Bos from ERASMUS MC.

In this work, they presented three methods to distinguish subtypes of vascular calcification based on their shape on routinely acquired head CT scans. These subtypes are thought to reflect distinct underlying disease processes with divergent clinical consequences.