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Gonzalo Mosquera Rojas published his first PhD-paper

We have been selected to host the MICCAI congress in 2030

The Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine has published its yearly scientific report for 2025

The BIGR group will be well presented at MICCAI 2026 starting next week in Strasbourg. Our colleagues will be presenting at the main conference and workshops.

Karen van der Werff published her first paper as first-author

Myrthe van Haaften published her latest research

BIGR PhD students organize AI symposium

On Tuesday June 16, Bo Li defended her dissertation on ‘Advanced Brain MRI Analysis

Stefan Klein publicly accepted his appointment as Professor of Applied Medical Image Analysis at Erasmus MC

We’re excited to announce that the BIGR Open Lab Day will take place on June 2nd, 2026, from 15:00 to 18:00. Please mark your calendars for this important event!!!

Adriana Neves and Danilo Andrade De Jesus presented their work and received travel grants

Anne is part of the scientific communication theater show explaining science to kids

Mirthe Kamphuis was awarded for best clinical research at the Sophia Research Day

Rotterdam Square create a movie on public private collaborations of the Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine with private partners

Several group members attended the European Conference on Radiology (ECR) in Vienna

Wenjie Kang et al.’s paper, “An interpretable machine learning framework with data-informed imaging biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease,” has now been officially published in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics!

The MICCAI 2026 Open Data Initiative, led by Martijn P.A. Starmans and Kaouther Mouheb from BIGR, has received a MICCAI Society Award for the Advancement of Health Equity.

Erasmus University has, upon nomination by Erasmus MC, appointed Theo van Walsum as full professor.

On Tuesday, the 9th of December, Abdullah Thabit defended his dissertation on ‘Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation

AFRICAI-RI is a four-year EU-funded project establishing the first federated, multi-institution biomedical imaging and AI research infrastructure across African clinical research sites, focusing on respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.

Open Science NL has selected 45 projects to strengthen open science infrastructure in the Netherlands — including two led by BIGR researchers focused on FAIR medical imaging platforms.

Ruizhi Deng et al.’s paper, “BRAIN-MAGNET: A functional genomics atlas for interpretation of non-coding variants,” has just been published online in Cell.

Dr. Esther Bron has been appointed Associate Professor at Erasmus MC, where she will continue her innovative research in neuroimage analysis and AI for better understanding and diagnosing brain diseases.

EOSC4Cancer has been featured by the Research Executive Agency as a success story in the health domain.

Héctor Cadavid et al.’s paper, “MyDigiTwin: A privacy-preserving framework for personalized cardiovascular risk prediction and scenario exploration,” has now been officially published open access in Computers in Biology and Medicine!

Jiaqi Tang et al.’s paper, “Manual Registration in AR-Assisted Surgical Navigation: A Comparative Evaluation,” has now been officially published in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery!

Hizirwan S. Salim et al.’s paper, “Super-resolution for localizing electrode grids as small, deformable objects during epilepsy surgery using augmented reality headsets,” has now been officially published in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery!

The BIGR group will be well presented at MICCAI 2025, which starts next week in Daejeon! Our colleagues will be presenting at the main conference and workshops, be sure to catch.

Pedro Mateus, Swier Garst, Jing Yu, Inigo Bermejo, Hailiang Mei, and Esther E. Bron’s paper presenting Federated learning in action on real-world data for BrainAge prediction has now been officially published in the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research!!

The Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine has published its yearly scientific report for 2024

Erasmus University has, upon nomination by Erasmus MC, appointed Stefan Klein as full professor in the field of Applied Medical Image Analysis.

On Wednesday, the 14th of May, Xianjing Liu (Lau) defended his dissertation on ‘3D Facial Shape Analysis’.

AI is rapidly transforming medical research — but how can you develop models that have meaningful impact in the clinic? This symposium focuses on practical AI applications in healthcare sciences, featuring technical insights, real-world case studies, and good practices in AI development. This event moves beyond surface-level discussions to explore concrete applications of AI in your research. Whether you’re refining existing AI methods or looking to integrate AI into your research, this is an opportunity to connect with early-career researchers and gain valuable insights. Join us at EMC for a day filled with exciting (neural) networking!

We’re excited to announce that the BIGR Open Lab Day will take place on June 3rd, 2025, from 14:00 to 17:00. Please mark your calendars for this important event!!!

BIGR is organizing an Augmented Reality demo day at the OR complex for the OR personnel!

Sijie and Ruisheng’s (Sijie Liu was a visiting PhD student for two years) paper on ‘segmentation-assisted vessel centerline extraction from cerebral CTA’ has now been officially published in Medical Physics!!

Agora (Erasmus MC intranet) posted an article covering Gennady with the title of ‘Meet Gennady Roshchupkin: Pioneering AI at Erasmus MC’!!

Wietske’s paper on an automatic human embryo volume measurement in first trimester ultrasound from the Rotterdam Periconception Cohort has now been officially published in J Med Internet Res (JMIR)!!

Stefan was interviewed about using more sustainable transport, such as the train, when we go to conferences.

Ilva will be the new vice-chair of the Panel of Nodes of the Euro-Bio Imaging Community.

This month, the SHAIPED project has officially been launched at PariSanté Campus, Paris. Stefan and Ilva represented our team at the kick-off meeting!

Douwe’s (with Xinyi as shared first co-author) paper on a systematic review evaluating against CLAIM and FUTURE-AI guidelines has now been officially published in eBioMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science!!

Xianjing’s paper on AI-based association analysis for medical imaging using latent-space geometric confounder correction has now been published in Medical Image Analysis!

A new paper by the Eye Image Analysis Group (EyeR) is now available in Ophthalmology Science!

Martijn received starter scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)!

The FUTURE-AI guideline for trustworthy and deployable AI by FUTURE-AI consortium in which Martijn is involved has finally been published by none other than BMJ!

Gennady Roshchupkin received De Frans van der Helm Award for Best Young Researcher BME 2025 at the 10th Dutch Conference on Bio-Medical Engineering.

The new research program for better stroke care, by the Dutch CONTRAST Consortium with Theo as one of the program chairs, was granted with 4 million euros.

Wietske Bastiaansen and Jing Yu won 1st and 3rd poster prizes at the AI Accelerator kickoff event

Team Xinyi Wan was named one of the winners of the ErasSupport AI Call, for her project on trustworthy and explainable AI models for differentiating benign and malignant bone tumors on radiological imaging

A new European consortium, PREDICTFTD, started this week, led by neurlogist Harrro Seelaar and Esther Bron

Erik’s paper on how to get to valuable radiology AI: the role of early health technology assessment has now been officially published in European Radiology!

Douwe’s paper on the interactive segmentation of soft-tissue tumors has now been officially published in European Radiology!

On October 22, Tareq Abdel Alim defended his dissertation on ‘From Mesh to Meaning: Computational analysis of craniofacial dysmorphologies and surgical interventions’ and obtained his PhD degree ‘Cum Laude’.

On October 18, Robin Camarasa defended his dissertation on ‘The carotid artery in bits & pieces’.

Have you ever wondered how image generation models such as DALL-E work? Kaouther and her team developed an easy-to-follow guide. Find out more in this article.

In the last week of September, Riwaj Byanju defended his dissertation on ‘Accelerated Quantitative MRI by Joint Reconstruction and Quantification’.

The BIGR group will be well presented at MICCAI 2024, which starts next week in Marrakesh! Our colleagues will be presenting at the main conference and workshops, be sure to catch.

Lipomas and atypical lipomatous tumors sound the same to you? Differentiating them is just as hard. Learn how AI can be used to assist - validated in a multi center study.

Health Holland prepared a video on successful public-private partnership projects. It also features the Q-Maestro project, a project where Erasmus MC and Philips have collaborated.

The Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine has published its yearly scientific report for 2023

As this month, July, is Sarcoma awareness month, sarcoma research by Erasmus MC is featured on the Dutch sarcoma platform

Jifke Veenland is featured on Agora Nxt page explaining 6 million euros of grant for education on digital technology and data

Our BIGR alumnus Karin van Garderen who worked on glioma MRI analysis is featured on the Medical Delta page!

In the first week of July, Wietske Bastiaansen defended her dissertation on ‘Modeling Human Embryonic Brain Development

In the last week of June, Mohamed Benmahdjoub defended his dissertation on ‘I See Through… You’.

Call for Papers: Contribute to the Open Data initiative and drive innovation in medical imaging. We’re seeking papers that focus on underrepresented populations and diseases. Join us in advancing healthcare by sharing your research and insights. Submit your papers today!

‘Doctor, can you tell me what I have?’ Clinicians go above and beyond to answer that question. Discover how modern technology is enhancing the process.

Symposium on what every researcher developing software and wants to translate results to the clinic should know about the MDR, June 4th at Na.26.02

Ilva attended the Euro-Bio Imaging to present the latest developments regarding the Imaging Office.

A group portrait of BIGR was published in the latest issue of the NWO I/O Magazine, featuring Abdullah Thabit, Stefan Klein, Luisa Sanchez Brea and Theo van Walsum.

In the first week of April, Ruisheng Su defended his dissertation on ‘Image Analysis of Cerebral Angiography in Ischemic Stroke’ and obtained his PhD degree ‘Cum Laude’.

Esther Bron was interviewed about the EUCAIM project at ECR 2024 Vienna.

Publication by Xianjing Liu in Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine