Best Paper Award at ASMUS workshop at MICCAI 2026

The paper "Ultra-Wide-NeRF: Multivariate Gaussian NeRF for Wide Field-of-View Ultrasound Reconstruction" received the Best Paper Award at ASMUS 2026, the MICCAI Workshop on Medical Ultrasound. The workshop took place in Strasbourg, France, on October 1, 2026, and the award was sponsored by NVIDIA.

The paper is the outcome of Patris Valera's Master's thesis, carried out in collaboration with LUMA Vision. It was written by Patris Valera, Magdalena Wysocki, MCML Junior Members Felix Dülmer and Mohammad Farid Azampour, Sebastian Herz, Stefan Wörz, and MCML PI Nassir Navab.

Ultra-Wide-NeRF reconstructs wide field-of-view 3D ultrasound volumes from overlapping scans acquired with convex probes. It explicitly models how the acoustic beam spreads with depth, which reduces the stitching and aliasing artifacts of conventional methods. It can also generate new views from virtual probe positions. The team validated the method on intracardiac echocardiography data from phantom and porcine experiments, with a view toward improving spatial context during image-guided interventions.

MCML supported the work. Congratulations to the authors on this recognition!