Best Spotlight Award for Sander Moonemans and Sebastiaan Ram

Sander Moonemans and Sebastiaan Ram were awarded the Best Spotlight Award at the Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2026 conference for their spotlight presentation on Democratising Pathology Co-Pilots. The 3-minute video about their research was showcased to the full conference audience in the main hall.

Their research is described in the MIDL 2026 paper `Democratising Pathology Co-Pilots: An Open Pipeline and Dataset for Whole-Slide Vision-Language Modelling', which is available in the conference proceedings here. A recording of the award-winning presentation can be viewed on YouTube, starting at 1:32:20, here.