Monthly DIAG News – July 2026
DIAG at conferences
Last month was the 22nd edition of the European Congress on Digital Pathology ECDP in the wonderful Graz, Austria. Salma Dammak, Nadieh Khalili and Francesco Ciompi were invited to speak at the conference, and many members of our pathology group gave oral and poster presentations. Interested in knowing more about this conference and the presentations? Have a look here.
New DIAG members
We welcomed the following new members in June:
Highlighted publications
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B. Abrahamsen, J.S. Bosma, H. Huisman and M. Elschot, "A Federated Benchmark for Clinical Natural Language Processing (FedDRAGON)", Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2026.
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C. van den Berg, J. Dittrich, S. Scharm, C. Schaefer-Prokop, S. Dettmer, A. Hunkemoeller, J. Eckstein, J. Glandorf, F. Wacker, G. Pöhler and H. Shin, "CT-based lung ventilation metrics: reference ranges and pulmonary function test correlations in healthy individuals", European Radiology, 2026.
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L. Heil, R. van der Waerden, R. Volleberg, J. Thannhauser, J. van der Zande, T. Luttikholt, P. Cancian, X. Gu, B. van Ginneken, C. Gutierrez, I. Isgum, N. van Royen and S. Saitta, "Uncertainty Analysis in Intravascular Oct Segmentation", 2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2026:1-5.
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Q. van Lohuizen, S. Fransen, H. Huisman, J. Wolterink, T. Kwee, D. Yakar and F. Simonis, "Aleatoric uncertainty in accelerated prostate MRI reconstruction: echo-train dropout versus Gaussian noise Monte Carlo sampling", Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 2026.
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D. Peeters, B. Obreja, N. Antonissen, Z. Saghir, U. Pastorino, M. Silva, G. de Bock, H. Gietema, F. Gleeson, M. Heuvelmans, S. Lam, G. Litjens, F. Mohamed Hoesein, C. Schaefer-Prokop, E. Scholten, A. Snoeckx, E. van der Heijden, R. Vliegenthart, M. Prokop, C. Jacobs and O. behalf of the Consortium, "Benchmarking of AI and Radiologists for Indeterminate Lung Nodule Malignancy Risk Estimation on Screening CT: The LUNA25 Challenge", Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 2026.
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M. Sappia, B. van Ginneken, C. de Korte, J. van Dillen and K. Murphy, "Assessment of modifications to a blind-sweep ultrasound protocol for improved lower-uterus imaging by novice operators", Scientific Reports, 2026.
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J. Spronck, L. van Eekelen, D. van Midden, J. Bogaerts, L. Tessier, V. Dechering, M. Demirel-Andishmand, G. de Souza, R. Nemeth, E. Munari, G. Bogina, I. Girolami, A. Eccher, B. Acs, C. Boyaci, N. Klubickova, M. Looijen-Salamon, S. Vos and F. Ciompi, "A tissue and cell-level annotated H&E and PD-L1 histopathology image dataset in non-small cell lung cancer", IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2026;():1-11.
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J. van der Zande, L. Alvarez-Florez, R. Volleberg, C. Brás, D. Karkalousos, R. Nijveldt, N. van Royen, T. Leiner, N. Khalili, G. Litjens, J. Thannhauser and I. Isgum, "Deep Learning for Cardiac Image Analysis", JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, 2026.