PROGRAMME
Below you can find the preliminary 2026 programme.
Application for CME recognition will be submitted to:
- the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). EACCME credits are recognised by the American Medical Association towards the Physician's Recognition Award (PRA)
- the European Board for Accreditation in Medical Physics
colour code:
Main track
Clinical track
MONDAY 29 JUNE 2026
Topic of the day: Radiomics & Deep Learning
09:00-09:15 Welcome and course introduction – Henry Woodruff
09:15-10:00 Keynote – Radiomics, ConvNets and Transformers: The Three Pillars of Medical Image Analysis – Bram van Ginneken
10:00-10:45 Multi-centric radiomics – Fanny Orlhac
10:00-10:45 What's coming next? – Philippe Lambin
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Out-of-Distribution Detection/Biases, and Uncertainties – Camila González
11:15-12:00 Overcoming institutional barriers – André Dekker
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-17:00 Hands-on deep learning workshop for scientists
13:00-17:00 Hands-on radiomics workshop for beginners
TUESDAY 30 JUNE 2026
Topic of the day: Foundation Models & Multi-Omics
09:00-09:15 Monday recap and discussion – Henry Woodruff
09:15-10:00 Keynote – Nadieh Khalili
10:00-10:45 Current trends – Zohaib Sallahudin
10:00-10:45 AI in neuroimaging – Jaap F.A. Jansen
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Omics integration – Philippe Lambin
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-17:00 Hands-on deep VLM workshop for scientists
13:00-17:00 Hands-on foundation model workshop for beginners
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 2026
Topic of the day: Generative AI
09:00-09:15 Tuesday recap and discussion – Bram van Ginneken
09:15-10:00 Keynote: Generative AI for medical imaging – Benoît Macq
10:00-10:45 Multimodal Gen AI models for image classification and segmentation (VLM) and agentic workflows
– Jan Peeken
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Synthetic Data – What happened? – Bram van Ginneken
11:15-12:00 Sample size calculation – Shahab Jolani
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-17:00 Hackathon with The D-Lab, Maastricht University
13:00-17:00 Design a clinical trial – part 1 – Philippe Lambin & Shahab Jolani
THURSDAY 2 JULY 2026
Topic of the day: Translation
09:00-09:15 Wednesday recap and discussion – Zohaib Salahuddin
09:15-10:00 From AI Research to Clinical Tool – The Example of ECG-Imaging – Pietro Bonizzi
10:00-10:45 An overview of the use of AI in clinics in The Netherlands – Kicky van Leeuwen
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 Closing statements – Henry Woodruff
11:45-12:15 AI4Imaging competition
12:15-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-16:30 Hackathon at The D-Lab, Maastricht University
13:00-15:00 Design a clinical trial – part 2 and pitches – Philippe Lambin & Cary Oberije
COURSE PRESENTATIONS
Delegates from the 2024 edition can access the presentations here.
The folder is password protected. Please check your mailbox.
OVERVIEW OF STUDIES AVAILABLE FOR MODEL VALIDATION
| Tumor site | Modality | Outcome | Patient number (N) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bone | Scintigraphy | Radiologist score | 1000 |
| Brain | MRI | OS | 175 |
| Brain | MRI | OS, radiologist score | 65 |
| Breast | Mammo | Pathology | 6671 |
| Breast | CESM | Radiologist score | 1883 |
| Breast | CT | Pathology | 220 |
| HN | CT+ HX4-PET | Hypoxia | 34 |
| HN | CECT | OS, PFS | 311 |
| HN | FMISO-CT, FDG-PET | Hypoxia | 86 |
| HN | HX4-CT, FDG-PET | Hypoxia | 19 |
| HN | HX4-CT, FDG-PET | OS, PFS, Hypoxia | 19 |
| HN | HX4-CT, FDG-PET | OS, PFS, Hypoxia | 12 |
| HN | CT, FDG-PET | IHC(Pimo staining) | 71 |
| HN | CT | OS, PFS | 517 |
| HN | CT | OS, PFS | 850 |
| HN | CT | OS | 130 |
| Kidney | CT | Pathology | 136 |
| Liver | CT | OS, PFS | 420 |
| Liver | CT, MRI | OS, PFS | 97 |
| Lung | CT | OS | 422 |
| Lung | CBCT | Pathology, OS, PFS | 71 |
| Lung | CT | Radiologist score | 1010 |
| Lung | CBCT | OS | 577 |
| Lung | FAZA-CT | Hypoxia | 36 |
| Lung | HX4-CT, FDG-PET | OS, Hypoxia | 30 |
| Lung | HX4-CT, FDG-PET | OS, Hypoxa | 25 |
| Lung | CT | OS | 129 |
| Lung | CT | IHC | 53 |
| Lung | CT, FDG-PET | Radiologist score | 34 |
| Lung | CT | Histology | 89 |
| Lung | CT | Histology | 43 |
| Lung | CT | OS | 101 |
| Lung | CT | Biopsy | 139 |
| Lung | CT | Biopsy | 649 |
| Lung | CT | Pathology | 805 |
| Lung, Liver, Kidney, Bone | CT | Lesion bounding boxes | 4427 |
| Prostate | MRI T2w, ADC | Gleason | 140 |
LATEST ARTICLES
Some interesting articles worth reading before attending the course: