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MCML Researchers in Highly-Ranked Journals

31 Papers in 2026 Highlight Scientific Impact

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented in 2026 with 31 papers in highly-ranked journals. Congrats to our researchers!

B. Lange
Calibrated Epistemic Deference to Conversational AI in Mental Healthcare.
American Journal of Bioethics. May. 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Q. XuD. RügamerA. Bender • M. E. Maros
Deep generative models in digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and X-ray angiography: a systematic review.
Artificial Intelligence Review 59.2. Jan. 2026. DOI
T. Richter • W. Wang • A. Palma • F. J. Theis
Generative models of cell dynamics: from Neural ODEs to flow matching.
Communications Biology. Jan. 2026. DOI
D. S. Bové • H. Seibold • A.-L. Boulesteix • J. Manitz • A. Gasparini • B. K. Günhan • O. Boix • A. Schüler • S. Fillinger • S. Nahnsen • A. E. Jacob • T. Jaki
The statistical software revolution in pharmaceutical development: challenges and opportunities in open source.
Drug Discovery Today. Feb. 2026. DOI
Y. MuZ. Xiong • Y. Wang • M. Shahzad • F. Essl • H. Kreft • M. van Kleunen • X. Zhu
GlobalGeoTree: A Multi-Granular Vision-Language Dataset for Global Tree Species Classification.
Earth System Science Data 18.2. Feb. 2026. DOI GitHub
J. K. Throm • M. MillingA. TriantafyllopoulosA. Kathan • A. F. Dörsam • J. Löchner • B. W. Schuller • K. E. Giel
Affective Dimensions in Maternal Voice During Child Feeding in Mothers With and Without Eating Disorder History—Findings From a Machine Learning Analysis of Speech Data.
European Eating Disorders Review 34.2. Mar. 2026. DOI
E. O. Riedel • S. Schramm • F. Bongratz • M. J. Gruber • D. Sepp • K. J. Paprottka • C. Zimmer • B. Wiestler • D. M. Hedderich
Deep learning-based synthetic brain MRI for the assessment of regional atrophy patterns in neurodegenerative diseases.
European Radiology. Feb. 2026. DOI
C. Liu • G. Perantoni • L. Bruzzone • X. Zhu
Adaptive Gradient Calibration for Single-Positive Multi-Label Learning in Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Early Access. Feb. 2026. DOI GitHub
Z. Chen • Y. Wang • Y. Shi • X. Zhu
Reconstructing Building Height from Spaceborne TomoSAR Point Clouds Using a Dual-Topology Network.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Early Access. Jan. 2026. DOI GitHub
M. Fuest • P. Ma • M. Gui • J. SchusterbauerV. T. HuB. Ommer
Diffusion Models and Representation Learning: A Survey.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Early Access. Jan. 2026. DOI GitHub
Y. Ni • R. Liang • X. Hao • J. Cheng • Q. Wang • C. Huang • C. Zou • W. Zhou • W. Ding • B. W. Schuller
Affine Modulation-based Audiogram Fusion Network for Joint Noise Reduction and Hearing Loss Compensation.
Information Fusion 127. Part A.103726. Mar. 2026. DOI GitHub
M. Li • E. Nie • H. Huang • X. Lv • G. Zhou
Dual-layer prompt ensembles: Leveraging system- and user-level instructions for robust LLM-based query expansion and rank fusion.
Information Fusion 131.104160. Jul. 2026. DOI
J. HeX. Zhu
Reverse degradation for remote sensing pan-sharpening.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 146.105085. Feb. 2026. DOI
Y. Xia • R. Ding • Z. Qin • G. Zhan • K. Zhou • L. Yang • H. Dong • D. Cremers
TARGO and TARGO-Net: Benchmarking Target-Driven Object Grasping Under Occlusions.
International Journal of Computer Vision 134.170. Mar. 2026. DOI GitHub
J. Dexl • S. Gatidis • M. Früh • K. JeblickA. MittermeierA. T. StüberB. SchachtnerJ. Topalis • M. P. Fabritius • S. Gu • G. K. Murugesan • J. VanOss • J. Ye • J. He • A. Alloula • B. W. Papież • Z. Mesbah • R. Modzelewski • M. Hadlich • Z. Marinov • R. Stiefelhagen • F. Isensee • K. H. Maier-Hein • A. Galdran • K. Nikolaou • C. la Fougère • M. Kim • N. Kallenberg • J. Kleesiek • K. Herrmann • R. Werner • M. Ingrisch • C. C. Cyran • T. Küstner
AutoPET Challenge on Fully Automated Lesion Segmentation in Oncologic PET/CT Imaging, Part 2: Domain Generalization.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine 67.3. Mar. 2026. DOI
M. FornasierJ. KlemencA. Scagliotti
Trade-off Invariance Principle for Minimizers of Regularized Functionals.
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 208.78. Jan. 2026. DOI
M. Fischer • A. Muckenhuber • R. Peretzke • L. Farah • C. Ulrich • S. Ziegler • P. Schader • L. Feineis • H. Gao • S. Xiao • M. Götz • M. Nolden • K. Steiger • J. T. Sieveke • L. Endrös • R. Braren • J. Kleesiek • P. J. Schüffler • P. Neher • K. Maier-Hein
Contrastive virtual staining enhances deep learning-based PDAC subtyping from H&E-stained tissue cores.
Journal of Pathology 268.1. Jan. 2026. DOI
M. K. Belaid • M. Rabus • E. Hüllermeier
Uncertainty Quantification in Pairwise Difference Learning for Classification.
Machine Learning 115.12. Jan. 2026. DOI
S. M. A. R. Thies • J. C. Alfaro • V. Bengs
MORE–PLR: Multi-Output Regression Employed for Partial Label Ranking.
Machine Learning 115.18. Jan. 2026. DOI
A. Varma • D. Scholz • A. C. Erdur • J. C. Peeken • D. RückertB. Wiestler
Improving out-of-domain generalization in Multiple Sclerosis detection and segmentation using Random Convolutions.
Pattern Recognition Letters 199. Jan. 2026. DOI
J. He • L. Lin • Z. Zheng • Q. Yuan • J. Li • L. Zhang • X. Zhu
Spatial-X fusion for multi-source satellite imageries.
Remote Sensing of Environment 334.115214. Mar. 2026. DOI
Á. I. Toldy • P. Pisal • O. Krejčí • P. Rinke • A. Santasalo-Aarnio
TheMeCat: Dataset of Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Methanol.
Scientific Data 13.165. Jan. 2026. DOI
X. Zhu • Q. Li • Y. Shi • Y. Wang • A. J. Stewart • J. Prexl • F. Zhang
GlobalBuildingMap — Unveiling the mystery of global buildings.
Scientific Data 13.71. Jan. 2026. DOI
A. Höhl • S. Ofori-Ampofo • M.-Á. Fernández-Torres • R. S. Kuzu • X. 
A large-scale, multitask, multisensory dataset for climate-aware crop monitoring in the US from 2018–2022.
Scientific Data 13.72. Jan. 2026. DOI
T. T. Trần • M. Oesten • S. G. Griesshammer • A. Malessa • K. Shi • M. Heckel • B. M. Eskofier • A. Koelpin • C. Ostgathe • T. Steigleder
Radar-based inspiratory-to-expiratory time ratio estimation: a validation study.
Scientific Reports 16.8256. Mar. 2026. DOI
Y. Li • H. Li • L. Specia • B. W. Schuller
M6: multi-generator, multi-domain, multi-lingual and cultural, multi-genres, multi-instrument machine-generated music detection databases.
Scientific Reports In press. Feb. 2026. DOI
R. Schwank • M. Drton
On the distance between mean and geometric median in high dimensions.
Statistics and Probability Letters Early Access.110679. Feb. 2026. DOI
X. Zhu • Y. Zeng • J. Guo
Enhancing the Understanding of Urban Green Space Cooling Effects in China's Major Cities with a Sub-Meter Dataset.
Sustainable Cities and Society 136.107051. Jan. 2026. DOI
L. Lind • H. Sandström • P. Rinke
An interpretable molecular descriptor for machine learning predictions in atmospheric science.
The Journal of Chemical Physics 1624.084115. Feb. 2026. DOI
M. Ingrisch
The architectural gap in clinical artificial intelligence.
The Lancet Digital Healths Early Access. Apr. 2026. DOI
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