🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “AI-CNet3D: An Anatomically-Informed Cross-Attention Network with Multi-Task Consistency Fine-tuning for 3D Glaucoma Classification.” 🖊️ R Kenia, A Li, R Srivastava, K A Thakoor. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Multi-Domain Brain Vessel Segmentation Through Feature Disentanglement.” 🖊️ F Galati, D Falcetta, R Cortese, F Prados, N Burgos, M A Zuluaga. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Investigating sex bias in ECG classification for Atrial Fibrillation, Sinus Rhythm and Myocardial Infarction.” 🖊️ M Galanty, B van der Ster, A P Vlaar, C I Sánchez. ⬇️

Heartfelt thank you to @ja-schnabel.bsky.social for her contributions as Founding Executive Editor of MELBA! Julia played a central role in kickstarting the journal and shaping its mission and vision. We look forward to working with Julia in her new role as an advisor to the MELBA journal.

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Sketchpose: Learning to Segment Cells with Partial Annotations.” 🖊️ @ccazorla31.bsky.social, N Munier, R Morin, P Weiss. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “SWiFT: Soft-Mask Weight Fine-tuning for Bias Mitigation.” 🖊️ J Yan, F Chen, Y Xue, Y Du, K Vilouras, S A Tsaftaris, S McDonagh. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “A Neural Conditional Random Field Model Using Deep Features and Learnable Functions for End-to-End MRI Prostate Zonal Segmentation.” 🖊️ A L Y Hung, K Zhao, K Pang, H Zheng, X Du, Q Miao, D Terzopoulos, K Sung. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Robust deformable image registration using synthetic data and transfer learning.” 🖊️ I D Kolenbrander, M Maspero, J PW Pluim. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Synthetic Data for Robust Stroke Segmentation.” 🖊️ L Chalcroft, I Pappas, C J Price, J Ashburner ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “BraTS-PEDs: Results of the Multi-Consortium International Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2023.” 🖊️ A F Kazerooni, N Khalili, X Liu, D Haldar,..., A Resnick, @spyridonbakas.bsky.social, A Vossough, M G Linguraru. ⬇️

🎙️ MELBA at MIDL 2025 🎙️ MELBA had the pleasure of hosting the final session of Day 2 at MIDL 2025, featuring two outstanding oral presentations. This session highlighted the strong synergy between MELBA and MIDL. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Understanding differences in applying DETR to natural and medical images.” 🖊️ Y Xu, Y Shen, C Fernandez-Granda, L Heacock, K J Geras. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “BrainMorph: A Foundational Keypoint Model for Robust and Flexible Brain MRI Registration.” 🖊️ A Q Wang, R Saluja, H Kim, X He, @adriandalca.bsky.social , @msabuncu.bsky.social. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “MCP-MedSAM: A Powerful Lightweight Medical Segment Anything Model Trained with a Single GPU in Just One Day.” 🖊️ D Lyu, R Gao, @MariusStaring. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “How to build the best medical image segmentation algorithm using foundation models: a comprehensive empirical study with Segment Anything Model.” 🖊️ H Gu, H Dong, J Yang, @MazurowskiPhD (@MazurowskiLab). ⬇️

📢 MELBA is growing its editorial team! We’re excited to welcome three new Associate Editors who bring outstanding expertise in machine learning and biomedical imaging. Welcome to: 🔹 @bernhardkainz.bsky.social 🔹 @mariavak.bsky.social 🔹 Lisa Koch We’re thrilled to have you on board! 🚀

Exciting News! 🎉 We are thrilled to welcome Ismail Ben Ayed as a new Executive Editor of MELBA’s Editorial Board. With a wealth of experience in #ComputerVision & #BiomedicalImaging, Dr. Ben Ayed will lead us to the next frontier of cutting-edge research. Stay tuned! 🚀

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “GeoLS: an Intensity-based, Geodesic Soft Labeling for Image Segmentation.” 🖊️ S Adiga Vasudeva, J Dolz, H Lombaert. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Prompting Medical Large Vision-Language Models to Diagnose Pathologies by Visual Question Answering.” 🖊️ D Guo, D Terzopoulos. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Analysis of the BraTS 2023 Intracranial Meningioma Segmentation Challenge.” 🖊️ D LaBella, U Baid, O Khanna, S McBurney-Lin, …, J Villanueva-Meyer, A M Rauschecker, A Nada, M Aboian, A E Flanders, B Wiestler, S Bakas, E Calabrese. ⬇️

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “Learning disentangled representations for unpaired synthesis of high-resolution dynamic MRI.” 🖊️ C Scavinner-Dorval, Rodolphe Bailly, B Borotikar, S Brochard, D Ben Salem, F Rousseau. ⬇️

The MELBA journal @melbajournal.bsky.social is launching HTML previews for its articles, based on LaTeXML. The journal leverages arXiv for hosting, and Scholastica for submission. www.melba-journal.org/blog/015-htm...

📢 Deadline Extended – FAIMI Special Issue with MELBA! 📢 There’s still time to submit your work on Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging. Join the discussion on bias, ethics, and equity in ML for medical imaging. The new deadline is April 21, 2025! 🔗 Info: faimi-workshop.github.io/2024-melba/

📢 Call for Papers – FAIMI Special Issue! 📢 MELBA invites submissions on Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging for a special issue. Topics include bias assessment, healthcare inequalities, fairness definitions, and more. 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2025 🔗 Info: faimi-workshop.github.io/2024-melba/

Missed the MICCAI deadline? No worries! 🚀 MELBA is open for submissions year-round! If you have high-quality research at the intersection of machine learning & biomedical imaging, consider submitting to our open-access journal. 🔗 More info here: www.melba-journal.org/for_authors....

🎉 Milestone Alert! 🎉 🚀 MELBA has officially published 100 high-quality articles! 🔬 💡 A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for contributing to open-access research! Browse publications: melba-journal.org/issues/all.h...