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MCML Researchers in Highly-Ranked Journals
88 Papers in 2026 Highlight Scientific Impact
We are happy to announce that MCML researchers are represented in 2026 with 88 papers in highly-ranked journals. Congrats to our researchers!
Calibrated Epistemic Deference to Conversational AI in Mental Healthcare.
American Journal of Bioethics. May. 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Deep generative models in digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and X-ray angiography: a systematic review.
Artificial Intelligence Review 59.2. Jan. 2026. DOI
Topological model selection: a case-study in tumour-induced angiogenesis.
Bioinformatics 42.3. Mar. 2026. DOI GitHub
A Large-Scale Neutral Comparison Study of Survival Models on Low-Dimensional Data.
Bioinformatics.btag186. Apr. 2026. DOI GitHub
Deriving Duration Time From Occupancy Data—A Case Study in the Length of Stay in Intensive Care Units for COVID-19 Patients.
Biometrical Journal 68.1. Feb. 2026. DOI
Causal Effect Estimation With TMLE: Handling Missing Data and Near Violations of Positivity.
Biometrical Journal 68.3. Apr. 2026. DOI
ShadowVIMP: permutation-based multiple testing-controlled variable selection.
BMC Bioinformatics 27.96. May. 2026. DOI
Acute myocardial mechanical responses to colloid and crystalloid volume loading: A randomized double-blind crossover study.
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. May. 2026. DOI
Ensemble optimal control for managing drug resistance in cancer therapies.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 88.92. May. 2026. DOI
Generative models of cell dynamics: from Neural ODEs to flow matching.
Communications Biology. Jan. 2026. DOI
The statistical software revolution in pharmaceutical development: challenges and opportunities in open source.
Drug Discovery Today. Feb. 2026. DOI
GlobalGeoTree: A Multi-Granular Vision-Language Dataset for Global Tree Species Classification.
Earth System Science Data 18.2. Feb. 2026. DOI GitHub
Distance-based population density estimates from camera traps: Strong impact of technical choices in automated pipelines.
Ecological Informatics 95.103682. May. 2026. DOI
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
Temporal Coupling Between Papillary Muscle Strain and Left Ventricular Untwisting During Diastole.
European Heart Journal.qyag117. Jun. 2026. DOI
Treatment effect heterogeneity of radiotherapy in localized Ewing sarcoma: A secondary analysis of the EURO-E.W.I.N.G. 99 and Ewing 2008 trial.
European Journal of Cancer 243.116825. Jul. 2026. DOI
Artificial intelligence for TNM staging in NSCLC: a critical appraisal of segmentation utility in [1⁸F]FDG PET/CT.
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 53. Apr. 2026. DOI
Enhancing pancreatic imaging in CT – prospective comparison of fixed versus individualized post-trigger delay in bolus tracking.
European Journal of Radiology 203.113048. Jul. 2026. DOI
Deep learning-based synthetic brain MRI for the assessment of regional atrophy patterns in neurodegenerative diseases.
European Radiology. Feb. 2026. DOI
HAEMFIX: Impact of Switching From SHL‐FIX to EHL‐FIX in Patients With Haemophilia B.
Haemophilia 32.1. Jan. 2026. DOI
Leveraging Sample Difficulty in Computer Audition Analysis.
IEEE Access 11.2023. May. 2026. DOI
The Impact of Multisensory Feedback on Supporting Physicians in Robotic Ultrasound Interaction.
IEEE Access Early Access. Jul. 2026. DOI
Enhancing Monocular Building Height Estimation via Weak Supervision from Imperfect Labels.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 19. Apr. 2026. DOI
Assessing Cocoa Landuse Change and Exposure to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Using Satellite Imagery.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 19. Mar. 2026. DOI
Lightweight Learning from Actuation-Space Demonstrations via Flow Matching for Whole-Body Soft Robotic Grasping.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 11.6. Jun. 2026. DOI
SA4Depth: Consistent Pose-Depth Scale Alignment for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 11.7. May. 2026. DOI GitHub
Learning 3D Scene Reconstruction From Nighttime Driving Videos.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 11.8. Jun. 2026. DOI GitHub
Mathematical Foundations of Spiking Neural Networks: Strengths, challenges, and computational paradigm potential [Special Issue on the Mathematics of deep Learning].
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 43.2. Mar. 2026. DOI
Charting 15 years of progress in deep learning for speech emotion recognition: A replication study.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Early Access. Apr. 2026. DOI
Adaptive Gradient Calibration for Single-Positive Multi-Label Learning in Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 64.4404615. Feb. 2026. DOI GitHub
Reconstructing Building Height from Spaceborne TomoSAR Point Clouds Using a Dual-Topology Network.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 64.4702015. Jan. 2026. DOI GitHub
Temporal Conditioning for Longitudinal Brain MRI Registration and Aging Analysis.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 45.6. Mar. 2026. DOI
Diffusion Models and Representation Learning: A Survey.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 48.7. Jan. 2026. DOI GitHub
Motion2VecSets: Non-Rigid Shape Reconstruction and Tracking with 4D Latent Set Diffusion.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Apr. 2026. DOI URL
Affine Modulation-based Audiogram Fusion Network for Joint Noise Reduction and Hearing Loss Compensation.
Information Fusion 127. Part A.103726. Mar. 2026. DOI GitHub
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
Cost-Effectiveness of AI-Assisted Detection of Apical Periodontitis on Panoramic Radiographs.
International Endodontic Journal. Mar. 2026. DOI
Reverse degradation for remote sensing pan-sharpening.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 146.105085. Feb. 2026. DOI
TARGO and TARGO-Net: Benchmarking Target-Driven Object Grasping Under Occlusions.
International Journal of Computer Vision 134.170. Mar. 2026. DOI GitHub
Structural Pruning of Large Vision Language Models: A Comprehensive Study on Pruning Dynamics, Recovery, and Data Efficiency.
International Journal of Computer Vision 134.313. Jun. 2026. DOI GitHub
Combining Projected Uncertainty for Self-Supervised Visual Odometry: From Two-Frame to Multi-Frame.
International Journal of Computer Vision 134.330. Jul. 2026. DOI GitHub
Looking Alike Does Not Mean Judging Alike: Dissociation Between Aesthetic Consistency and Gaze Consistency.
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. Apr. 2026. DOI
Beyond Means: A Dynamic Framework for Predicting Customer Satisfaction.
International Journal of Research in Marketing In press. Mar. 2026. DOI
Guidelines for Emotion Recognition in Robot-Supported Interventions in Autism.
International Journal of Social Robotics 18.68. Jun. 2026. DOI
A Label-Free Hyperspectral Imaging Device for Ex Vivo Characterization and Grading of Meningioma Tissues.
Journal of Biophotonics 19.3. Mar. 2026. DOI
Constrained consensus-based optimization and numerical heuristics for the few particle regime.
Journal of Global Optimization. Apr. 2026. DOI GitHub
Interpretations of Menstrual Blood Appearance and Diagnostic Potential Among Social Media Users: Cross-Sectional Mixed Methods Social Media Listening Study.
Journal of Medical Internet Research 28. May. 2026. DOI
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
Trade-off Invariance Principle for Minimizers of Regularized Functionals.
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 208.78. Jan. 2026. DOI
Contrastive virtual staining enhances deep learning-based PDAC subtyping from H&E-stained tissue cores.
Journal of Pathology 268.1. Jan. 2026. DOI
AI-based hematological malignancy prediction from peripheral blood smears in a large diagnostic laboratory cohort.
Leukemia. Mar. 2026. DOI
Uncertainty Quantification in Pairwise Difference Learning for Classification.
Machine Learning 115.12. Jan. 2026. DOI
Approximating Shapley Interactions with Marginal Contributions.
Machine Learning 115.129. May. 2026. DOI
MORE–PLR: Multi-Output Regression Employed for Partial Label Ranking.
Machine Learning 115.18. Jan. 2026. DOI
Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty Measures for Ordinal Classification through Binary Reduction.
Machine Learning 115.63. Mar. 2026. DOI
Smoothing the Edges: Smooth Optimization for Sparse Regularization Using Hadamard Overparametrization.
Machine Learning 115.87. Apr. 2026. DOI
Invariance Pair Guidance: Robustness to Spurious Correlations via Corrective Gradients.
Machine Learning. Jul. 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Translating MRI to PET through conditional diffusion models with enhanced pathology awareness.
Medical Image Analysis 111.104035. Jun. 2026. DOI GitHub
PASS-Tr: PAtch-wise swin slice attention to leverage generalization of 2D large vision model to universal lesion detection.
Medical Image Analysis 111.104036. Jun. 2026. DOI
Progressive Growing of Patch Size: Curriculum Learning for Accelerated and Improved Medical Image Segmentation.
Medical Image Analysis 113.104195. Sep. 2026. DOI
MoMBS: Mixed-Order Sampling Improves Training on Heterogeneous-Quality Data for Universal Lesion Detection.
Medical Image Analysis In press. Jun. 2026. DOI URL
Hetairos is a histology-based artificial intelligence model for predicting central nervous system tumor methylation subtypes.
Nature Cancer 7. Jun. 2026. DOI
Assessing corporate sustainability with large language models: evidence from Europe.
Nature Communications 17.5940. Jul. 2026. DOI
A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science.
Nature Human Behaviour. Jun. 2026. PDF URL
Charged grain boundaries limit short-circuit endurance in garnet solid-state battery electrolytes.
Nature Nanotechnology. Jul. 2026. DOI
Disparate privacy risks from medical AI.
Nature. Jun. 2026. DOI GitHub
Longitudinal assessment of cortical thickness in healthy older individuals: a comparison between CAT12 and freesurfer.
Neuroradiology 68.2. Feb. 2026. DOI
Artificial intelligence-based segmentation of perisinusoidal tissue along the superior sagittal sinus in human brain magnetic resonance imaging.
Neuroradiology. Apr. 2026. DOI
Predicting temperature-dependent optoelectronic properties of semiconductor defects with equivariant neural networks.
npj Computational Materials 12.176. May. 2026. DOI
The effect of medical explanations from large language models on diagnostic accuracy in radiology.
npj Digital Medicine 9.333. Apr. 2026. DOI
Specialized foundation models for intelligent operating rooms.
npj Digital Medicine. Apr. 2026. DOI
Intron location and sequence modulate gene expression in Yarrowia lipolytica.
Nucleic Acids Research 54.12. Jul. 2026. DOI
Falsification-driven reinforcement learning for maritime motion planning.
Ocean Engineering 361.125579. Jul. 2026. DOI
Improving out-of-domain generalization in Multiple Sclerosis detection and segmentation using Random Convolutions.
Pattern Recognition Letters 199. Jan. 2026. DOI
Spatial-X fusion for multi-source satellite imageries.
Remote Sensing of Environment 334.115214. Mar. 2026. DOI
Overcoming Barriers to Computational Reproducibility.
Royal Society Open Science 13.252489. Jun. 2026. DOI
TheMeCat: Dataset of Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Methanol.
Scientific Data 13.165. Jan. 2026. DOI
GlobalBuildingMap — Unveiling the mystery of global buildings.
Scientific Data 13.71. Jan. 2026. DOI
A large-scale, multitask, multisensory dataset for climate-aware crop monitoring in the US from 2018–2022.
Scientific Data 13.72. Jan. 2026. DOI
A frequency analysis of filterbank initialisation and noise augmentation for LEAF.
Scientific Reports 16.13410. Apr. 2026. DOI GitHub
Explainable detection of machine generated music and early systematic evaluation.
Scientific Reports 16.13757. Apr. 2026. DOI GitHub
Radar-based inspiratory-to-expiratory time ratio estimation: a validation study.
Scientific Reports 16.8256. Mar. 2026. DOI
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
On the distance between mean and geometric median in high dimensions.
Statistics and Probability Letters 233.110679. Feb. 2026. DOI
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
Using routinely collected data for research purposes: challenges and mitigation strategies.
The BMJ 393.e087812. Jun. 2026. DOI
An interpretable molecular descriptor for machine learning predictions in atmospheric science.
The Journal of Chemical Physics 164.084115. Feb. 2026. DOI
The architectural gap in clinical artificial intelligence.
The Lancet Digital Healths 8.2. Apr. 2026. DOI
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