Virtual Physiological Human Conference 2014

This biannual conference series grew out of the FP7 Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence. It has become one of the major instruments for maintaining the coherence and momentum of the highly multidisciplinary VPH community. The members of the VPH community subscribe to the view that a substantially improved healthcare…

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Enduring Impact Award at MICCAI 2013

Nicholas Ayache received MICCAI 2013 “Enduring Impact Award” for  his scientific contributions since the inception of the conference in 1998. This award was established  four years ago and was previously assigned to Ron Kikinis (Harvard Medical School), Russ Taylor (Johns Hopkins), Chris Taylor (Manchester Univ.) And Jerry Prince (Johns Hopkins).…

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Young Scientist Publication Impact Award at MICCAI 2013

Tom Vercauteren received MICCAI 2013 “Young Scientist Publication Impact Award” for his article MICCAI 2008 entitled “Symmetric log-domain diffeomorphic Registration: a demons-based approach”, co-authored with Xavier Pennec, Aymeric Perchant and Nicholas Ayache. This award recognizes an article in MICCAI under 5 years which had a very strong impact on the…

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Nicholas Ayache elected to the Collège de France

Nicholas Ayache was elected at the Collège de France on the Chair “Informatics and Computational Sciences” for the academic year 2013-2014. He will teach a course entitled “the Personalized Digital Patient: Images, Medicine and Informatics”. The course will be completed by seminars (2 of them being delivered by H. Delingette…

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