Program

Program

SASHIMI workshop is jointly organized with SynthOCT Challenge (https://synthoct.com) as a half-day satellite event (https://conferences.miccai.org/2026/en/workshops.asp) held in conjunction with MICCAI 2026 conference (https://conferences.miccai.org/2026). See the full MICCAI satellite events schedule here (PDF).

Venue: Strasbourg Convention Center, Strasbourg, France
Date and time: October 1, 2026, 13:30 - 18:00 CEST
Room: Madrid 1
Floor: G


Session 1 Title: SASHIMI
Time Duration Event
13:30 - 13:35 5 min Introduction to SASHIMI 2026 (Welcome + Opening remarks)
13:35 - 14:35 60 min Keynote (talk + Q&A)
From multi-atlas registration to diffusion priors: a decade of individual anomaly detection in PET imaging
Ninon Burgos
14:35 - 15:30 55 min Oral presentations (4 talks, 10 min presentation + 2 min Q&A)
• CytoSyn: a Foundation Diffusion Model for Histopathology Image Synthesis
Thomas Duboudin
• Does FLAIR super-resolution erase or hallucinate small white-matter lesions?
Zahra Khodakarami
• AxonSynth: Domain-Randomized Synthetic Data for Zero-Shot 3D Axon Segmentation in Light-Sheet Microscopy
Edward Gaibor
• Sample Structure, Refine Contrast: Zero-Shot MR Image Harmonization with a Phase-Preserving Diffusion Prior
Muhammad Faizyab Ali Chaudhary
15:30 - 16:00 30 min Coffee break
16:00 - 16:50 50 min Poster session
Poster Theme 1: Advances in generative frameworks
• nnDiffusion: A Standardized 3D Diffusion Framework for Medical Image Synthesis
• Few-Shot Flow Matching with Stochastic Barycentric Sampling for Image Synthesis
• MedPCFM-TED: One-Step Point Cloud Flow Matching for Implant Generation
• Clinically Steerable Retinal Image Generation from Foundation Model Latent Spaces
• CONFLUX: A Latent Diffusion Model for 3D Chest-CT Synthesis with RL Post-Training
• CytoSyn: a Foundation Diffusion Model for Histopathology Image Synthesis
• SonoSPADE: Real-Time, Per-Tissue Ultrasound Texture Synthesis
• Enhancing 3D Brain MRI Synthesis with Wavelet Latent Diffusion Models
• MRIComp4Flow: Compression of 3D Brain MRI for Training Multi-Modal Generative Models
• DRIFT: Dual-Distillation Reference-Free One-Step Image Flow for Brain MRI Through-Plane SR
• Uncertainty-Aware 3D Residual Wavelet Diffusion for Ultra Low-Field MRI Super-Resolution
• RECON: Restoration-Guided Conditioning for Thin-Structure-Coherent CT Super-Resolution
Poster Theme 2: Cross-modality translation, harmonization and domain adaptation
• RAFM: Retrieval-Augmented Flow Matching for Unpaired CBCT-to-CT Translation
• A Latent Single-Step Network is Sufficient for Accurate CBCT-CT Translation
• Compositional Cross-Modality Translation via Whole-Volume Multitask Latent Flow Matching
• Synthesizing CT-based Functional Lung Ventilation Map
• nnDiffusion: A Standardized 3D Diffusion Framework for Medical Image Synthesis
• LoRCA: LoRA Cycle Adaptation for Histology to HiP-CT Translation with DINOv3
• Relative Loss Balancing for High-Fidelity Synthetic CT Generation in the Abdomen
• Any-to-One CT Kernel Conversion without Source-Kernel Data
• Sample Structure, Refine Contrast: Zero-Shot MR Image Harmonization
• SymmAdapt: Symmetrical Flow Matching for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
Poster Theme 3: Synthetic data for downstream tasks
• OTLesMix: Wasserstein Barycenter and Optimal Transport Map for Synthetic Lesion Generation
• Synthetic training for long-tail haemorrhagic lesion segmentation in data-scarce settings
• Realistic Synthetic Data for Annotation-Free Pretraining in Liver Vasculature Segmentation
• AxonSynth: Domain-Randomized Synthetic Data for Zero-Shot 3D Axon Segmentation
• Synthetic Data Augmentation via Stable Diffusion for Polyp Characterisation
• Simulating the Radiological Appearance of Focal Cortical Dysplasia in MRI
• Virtual Patients, Real Gains: Simulated CT from Digital Twins for Lung Nodule Analysis
• From Undersampled to Diagnostic: Flow-Translated Embeddings for Knee Pathology Classification
Poster Theme 4: Longitudinal modelling and validation of synthetic images
• Delta-Diffusion: Modeling Longitudinal Brain Amyloid-PET Trajectories
• Regulate, Modulate, Differentiate: Towards Modelling Subtle Changes in Longitudinal MS MRI
• Reverse Spatio-Temporal Disease Progression Modelling
• Discovering Subtypes of Neurodegenerative Progression with a Connectome-Constrained Dynamic Model
• DisMorph: learning to disentangle technical distortions from true biological change
• Beyond Visual Realism: The Neuro-Fidelity Index for Validating Geometric Integrity
• WAND-CXR: A Morphometric Wasserstein Metric for Evaluating Anatomical Plausibility
• Does FLAIR super-resolution erase or hallucinate small white-matter lesions?
16:50 - 17:00 10 min Awards, sponsors, and closing
Session 2 Title: SynthOCT challenge
Time Duration Event
17:00 - 17:12 12 min Introduction
17:12 - 17:24 12 min Phase-Pair Holographic Inversion for Scanner-Equivalent OCT Digital Phantom Synthesis
Justin Namuk Kim
17:24 - 17:36 12 min Speckle-Phase Refinement on an Exact Differentiable Scanner Twin for Inverse OCT Phantom Generation
Daniil Sukhorukov, Ekaterina Antipushina, Yury Koush, Ilya Makarov
17:36 - 17:48 12 min Coherent Differentiable Inversion for High-Fidelity Digital Phantom Generation in Optical Coherence Tomography
Ura Modi, Mehul S. Raval
17:48 - 18:00 12 min Awards and closing