Marco Lorenzi received an Honorable mention (runner-up) for the Erbsmann Award at the IPMI conference, Irsee, Germany, 2011 for thr paper Schilds Ladder for the parallel transport of deformations in time series of images co-authored by N. Ayache and X. Pennec. This prestigious prize awards the best oral presentations (and answer to unlimited questions) of first-time IPMI presenters.
The following awards have been received in the context of MICCAI 2011 conference in Toronto, Canada:
Christof Seiler received a Young Scientist Award at the MICCAI conference, Toronto, Canada, 2011 for the paper Geometry-Aware Multiscale Image Registration via OBB Tree-Based Polyaffine Log-Demons, that was a collaboration between University of Bern (Mauricio Reyes) and INRIA (Christof Seiler, Xavier Pennec).
Kristin McLeod, and Adityo Prakosa won the Motion Tracking Challenge organized in the context of the MICCAI satellite workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges.
Herve Lombaert received a Best Paper Award at the FIMH conference, New York, NY, 2011 for the paper Statistical Analysis of the Human Cardiac Fiber Architecture from DT-MRI co-authored by J.-M. Peyrat, P. Croisille, S. Rapacchi, L. Fanton, P. Clarysse, H. Delingette, N. Ayache.
Stanley Durrleman received the 2nd (runner-up) Gilles Kahn prize 2010 for the best PhD in Computer Science awarded by the French Academy of Science and the SPECIF association. His PhD was co-advised by N. Ayache and X. Pennec at Asclepios in collaboration with A. Trouvé at CMLA, ENS Cachan.
Marco Lorenzi received a best oral presentation award at the STIA Workshop, Beijing, 2010 for the paper 4D registration of serial brain MR's images: a robust measure of changes applied to Alzheimer's disease co-authored by N. Ayache, G. Frisoni and X. Pennec.
Jonathan Boisvert will receive the 2009 prize for his Ph.D thesis. This $1500 prize is awarded to the best PhD thesis co-supervised between France and Quebec. His Phd was conducted through a collaboration between the Asclepios project-team, the University of Montreal, and the Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal. The topic was the construction from medical images of statistical and geometrical models of scoliosis in children. The PhD was supervised by N. Ayache and X. Pennec (Asclepios), and F. Cheriet (Univ. Montreal).
Pierre Fillard was awarded a special mention for best PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the SFGBM-IEEE France Section, Lille, March 2009. The PhD was supervised by N. Ayache and X. Pennec.
The book chapter Grid Analysis of Radiological Data, co-authored by C. Germain-Renaud, V. Breton, P. Clarysse, B. Delhay, Y. Gaudeau, T. Glatard, E. Jeannot, Y. Legre, J. Montagnat, J.-M. Moureaux, X. Pennec and R. Texier, recieved the IGI-Global Medical Information Science Discoveries-Research Book Chapter of 2009 Award.
The European project Health-e-Child, in which Asclepios is actively involved, won the Grand Prize at the ICT 2008 Exhibit, Lyon (France). See full communication here.
Nicholas Ayache is the winner of the 2008 Microsoft Award of the Royal Society and the French Academy of Sciences.
The following awards have been received in the context of MICCAI 2008 conference in New-York, USA:
Stanley Durrleman received the "Young Investigator Award 2008" in the category "Shape and Statistical Analysis" for his paper "Sparse Approximations of Currents for Statistics on Curves and Surfaces", that was a collaboration between the CMLA at Cachan (A. Trouve) and INRIA (S. Durrleman, X. Pennec et N., Ayache).
Jean-Christophe Souplet won the "Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation Challenge" organised in the context of the MICCAI sattelite workshop "3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge II".
B. T. Thomas Yeo was nominated for a Young Researcher award for his article "Spherical Demons: Fast Surface Registration", that was a collaborative research between MIT (B.T. Thomas Yeo, Mert Sabuncu, Bruce Fischl and Polina Golland) and INRIA (Tom Vercauteren and Nicholas Ayache).
Damien Lepiller was nominated for a Young Researcher award for his article "Cardiac Electrophysiology Model Adjustment Using the Fusion of MR and Optical Imaging" that was a collaborative research between the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (Mihaela Pop and Graham Wright) and INRIA (Damien Lepiller, Maxime Sermesant, Herve Delingette and Nicholas Ayache).
Nicholas Ayache received the "Significant Researcher Award", for his contribution to the MICCAI conference and Society.
Tommaso Mansi received the Best Poster Award at the 8th IEEE EMBS Summer School, Berder (France).
Tommaso Mansi received a Special Award from the Societes Francaises Medico-Chirurgicales Pediatriques, Nantes congress, June 6.
Olivier Clatz was awarded a special mention for best PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the SFGBM-IEEE France Section, Paris, May 28.
Jean-Christophe Souplet received the Best Poster Award at the Journées de Neurologie de Langue Française, April, Bordeaux (France).
Nicholas Ayache received the trophée du chercheur de l'année PACA 2007 awared by the Nouvel Economiste. He was elected a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Olivier Clatz received the 2007 Prix Le Monde for best PhD in Science.
Vincent Arsigny received the 2nd (runner-up) Gilles Kahn prize 2007 for the best PhD in Computer Science awarded by the French Academy of Science and the SPECIF association. His PhD was co-advised by Nicholas Ayache and Xavier Pennec.
Heike Hufnagel received the Best scientific work prize at Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2007 for Point-Based Statistical Shape Models with Probabilistic Correspondences and Affine EM-ICP coauthored by X. Pennec, J. Ehrhardt, H Handels and N. Ayache.
The action CardioSense3D was among the winners of the ARTS (Apple Research & Technology Support) awards, and received 30,000 Euros worth of Apple hardware, software and assistance.
Nicholas Ayache received the EADS-Académie des Sciences grand prize in Information Sciences and Applications in December 2006. He joined in 2004 the Advisory Committee of the newly created Shun Hing Institute of Avanced Engineering in Hong-Kong (4 year term) and he also joined in 2004 the High Council for the promotion of science and technology between France and Israel.
Tom Vercauteren has been awarded the Annual Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) best paper award 2006 for his article on Robust Mosaicing with Correction of Motion Distortions and Tissue Deformation for in vivo Fibered Microscopy published in Medical Image Analysis. The paper is co-written with Xavier Pennec, Grégoire Malandain, and Nicholas Ayache.
Jonathan Boisvert received the Best Paper award during the AMDO 2006 conference (July 11-14, 2006, Spain) for his paper "Principal Spine Shape Deformation Modes Using Riemannian Geometry and Articulated Models". The article is co-written with Xavier Pennec, Hubert Labelle, Farida Cheriet and Nicholas Ayache.
Nicholas Ayache joined in 2004 the Advisory Committee of the newly created Shun Hing Institute of Avanced Engineering in Hong-Kong (4 year term) and participated to a review panel in Hong-Kong in Oct. 2005; he also joined in 2004 the High Council for the promotion of science and technology between France and Israel, and participated to the selection of proposals in 2005.
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