Organizing Team¶

The TopAneu 2026 challenge is organized by an international team of researchers and clinicians with expertise in medical image analysis and neurovascular diseases.

Organizers 🤝¶

• Lorenz Kuhn, Ruisheng Su — Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands

• Kaiyuan Yang, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Houjing Huang, Suprosanna Shit, Bjoern Menze — University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Ekaterina Golubeva, Norman Juchler, L'Allinec Vincent, Sven Hirsch — Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland

• Jonas Richiardi, Patric Hagmann, Guillaume Saliou — Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland

• Jiaxin Zhang, Chantal M.W. Tax, Irene van der Schaaf, — University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht), The Netherlands

• Orhun Utku Aydin, Satoru Tanioka, Dietmar Frey — Charité Lab for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CLAIM), Germany

• Yihui Ma — Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China

• Pengcheng Shi — Medical Image Insights, China

• Philippe Bijlenga — Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Switzerland

• Oktay Algin — Interventional MR Clinical Research and Development Institute (GIMRE), Ankara University, Türkiye

• Stefan Denner, Andres Martinez Mora, Alexandra Ertl, Maximilian R. Rokuss, Yannick Kirchhoff, Klaus Maier-Hein — German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

🧑‍⚕️ Clinical Involvement¶

Clinical experts are actively involved in defining annotation protocols, validating labels, and ensuring clinical relevance of the tasks and evaluation.