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Alceu Bissoto will present <a href="https://papers.miccai.org/miccai-2026-sat/paper/FAIMI-BRIDGE-EPIMI_014.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">On Evaluating Subgroup Discovery in Medical Image Classification</a> at the joint FAIMI, BRIDGE, and EPIMI workshop (oral presentation!), and Mareen Kalis will present <a href="https://papers.miccai.org/miccai-2026-sat/paper/PIPPI_004.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Quality over quantity: data curation for automated angle of progression estimation in intrapartum ultrasound</a> at the PIPPI workshop. Special congratulations to Mareen for achieving this within the scope of her master thesis! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Dec 19, 2025</th> <td> We’re looking back at an eventful and exciting 2025. One of the highlights of the MLM lab was our first trip to MICCAI as a group. As the year ends, we also say goodbye to our research assistant Samin Beheshti Zavareh. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Aug 27, 2025</th> <td> Two papers accepted for oral presentation at the MICCAI satellite events! Trung-Dung Hoang will present <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01

1740" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A real-time digital twin for type 1 diabetes using simulation-based inference</a> at the Digital Twin for Healthcare (DT4H) workshop, and Tim Flühmann will present <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22776" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Label-free estimation of clinically relevant performance metrics under distribution shifts</a> at the UNSURE workshop. Congratulations to the team! <strong>Update: Both Trung-Dung and Tim won the best paper award for their papers!</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Aug 27, 2025</th> <td> A new <a href="https://subgroup-miccai25.streamlit.app/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">blog post</a> on the project of Subgroup Discovery is live! It comes with an interactive visualization so you can explore the data and results yourself. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">May 20, 2025</th> <td> As part of the CDHI Lecture Series Digital Health Forum, Lisa gave a keynote titled <a href="https://www.c4dhi.org/news/250520-keynote-by-prf-dr-lisa-koch-on-explaining-ai-in-medical-imaging/" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“Explainable AI in medical imaging: promises, a reality check and ways forward”</a>. The recording will be available soon. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">May 12, 2025</th> <td> Our paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10382?" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Subgroup Performance Analysis in Hidden Stratifications</a> got accepted at MICCAI 2025 - congratulations Alceu Bissoto and team! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Mar 13, 2025</th> <td> Looking for a master thesis project? Check out our new <a href="/jobs/">collaborative projects</a> with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany, or Ypsomed Diabetes Care here in Bern! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Jan 29, 2025</th> <td> Lisa gave a talk on how to write good reviews at the <a href="https://www.midl.io/winter-workshop-25" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">MIDL 2025 winter workshop</a>. The recording will be available soon. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Nov 01, 2024</th> <td> Tim Flühmann joined our lab as a PhD student. Welcome to the team! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Oct 10, 2024</th> <td> Alceu Bissoto presented the invited talk “Guiding Models to Mitigate Bias in Skin Lesion Analysis” at the ISIC workshop, a satellite event at MICCAI 2024 in Marrakesh. </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="social"> <div class="contact-icons"> <a href="mailto:%6C%69%73%61.%6B%6F%63%68@%75%6E%69%62%65.%63%68" title="email"><i class="fa-solid fa-envelope"></i></a> <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R0iwuiIAAAAJ" title="Google Scholar" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="ai ai-google-scholar"></i></a> <a href="https://github.com/lmkoch" title="GitHub" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i></a> </div> <div class="contact-note"></div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <footer class="fixed-bottom" role="contentinfo"> <div class="container mt-0"> © Copyright 2026 MLM Lab. Powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">al-folio</a> theme. Hosted by <a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">GitHub Pages</a>. </div> </footer> 

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