Welcome to the Circle of Willis (CoW) Benchmark joint-event for MICCAI 2023!

We are two CoW benchmarking challenges with MICCAI 2023:

  • 👑 CROWN: CiRcle Of Willis INtracranial Artery Classification and Quantification
  • 🐮 TopCoW: Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA

Together both challenges will organize a joint event called the “Circle of Willis Benchmarking Workshop” at the MICCAI Conference. In this half-day joint-event, we are excited to present three clinical keynotes 🏥 🧠 on the topic of CoW, followed by two 1.5 hours sessions to summarize and announce the results for each challenge. We will host a combined round-table discussion with all participants.

Schedule

Hybrid participiation welcome! (Simply join our zoom session here:)

👉 Zoom Link: https://uzh.zoom.us/j/63855958673?pwd=ZUEwWGYvWWVDSGJEN1BDSURLQUthZz09
MeetingID: 638 5595 8673
Password: 996394

🕜 13:30 - 18:00 (Vancouver Pacific Daylight Time, GMT-7). October 12 2023

Time (PDT) Event
13:30 Opening remarks (Iris N. Vos)
13:35 🏥 Clinical Keynote 1 (Dr Yihui Ma):
Anatomical variations of CoW and their significance
13:40 🏥 Clinical Keynote 2 (Dr Susanne Wegener):
Stroke, what it is, how we treat it, and why the CoW could be important
13:50 🏥 Clinical Keynote 3 (Dr Ynte Ruigrok):
Features of the Circle of Willis as imaging markers for intracranial aneurysms
14:00 👑 CROWN Session (Iris N. Vos):
Introduction
Presenations by participants
Public announcement of challenge results 🏆
15:30 Coffee Break (30mins)
16:00 🐮 TopCoW Session (Fabio Musio & Kaiyuan Yang):
Introduction
Presenations by participants
Awards ceremonny 🏆🇨🇭🐄
17:30 Roundtable Discussion (all):
Feedback, Suggestions, and Next Steps

Keynote Speakers

Yihui Ma
Yihui Ma

Neurosurgeon at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, visiting neuro-radiologist at University Hospital Zurich (USZ)
Susanne Wegener
Susanne Wegener

Neurologist at the Department of Neurology, USZ, and SNSF professor at the University of Zurich
Ynte Ruigrok
Ynte Ruigrok

Stroke neurologist and associate professor at the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht

Lead Organizers

👑 Iris N. Vos
👑 Iris N. Vos

UMC Utrecht
🐮 Fabio Musio
🐮 Fabio Musio

ZHAW/UZH
🐮 Kaiyuan Yang
🐮 Kaiyuan Yang

UZH

Venue

Our MICCAI challenge workshop will take place at the Vancouver Convention Center:

Level 1, Meeting Room M13
Vancouver Convention Centre
1055 Canada Pl
Vancouver, BC
V6C 0C3

Hybrid participiation welcome! (See the zoom link above at “Schedule“)

Publications

If you use TopCoW or CROWN challenge data in your work, please consider citing our challenge pre-prints:

@misc{topcowchallenge,
      title={Benchmarking the CoW with the TopCoW Challenge: Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA}, 
      author={Kaiyuan Yang and Fabio Musio and Yihui Ma and Norman Juchler and Johannes C. Paetzold and Rami Al-Maskari and Luciano Höher and Hongwei Bran Li and Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci and Anjany Sekuboyina and Suprosanna Shit and Houjing Huang and Chinmay Prabhakar and Ezequiel de la Rosa and Diana Waldmannstetter and Florian Kofler and Fernando Navarro and Martin Menten and Ivan Ezhov and Daniel Rueckert and Iris Vos and Ynte Ruigrok and Birgitta Velthuis and Hugo Kuijf and Julien Hämmerli and Catherine Wurster and Philippe Bijlenga and Laura Westphal and Jeroen Bisschop and Elisa Colombo and Hakim Baazaoui and Andrew Makmur and James Hallinan and Bene Wiestler and Jan S. Kirschke and Roland Wiest and Emmanuel Montagnon and Laurent Letourneau-Guillon and Adrian Galdran and Francesco Galati and Daniele Falcetta and Maria A. Zuluaga and Chaolong Lin and Haoran Zhao and Zehan Zhang and Sinyoung Ra and Jongyun Hwang and Hyunjin Park and Junqiang Chen and Marek Wodzinski and Henning Müller and Pengcheng Shi and Wei Liu and Ting Ma and Cansu Yalçin and Rachika E. Hamadache and Joaquim Salvi and Xavier Llado and Uma Maria Lal-Trehan Estrada and Valeriia Abramova and Luca Giancardo and Arnau Oliver and Jialu Liu and Haibin Huang and Yue Cui and Zehang Lin and Yusheng Liu and Shunzhi Zhu and Tatsat R. Patel and Vincent M. Tutino and Maysam Orouskhani and Huayu Wang and Mahmud Mossa-Basha and Chengcheng Zhu and Maximilian R. Rokuss and Yannick Kirchhoff and Nico Disch and Julius Holzschuh and Fabian Isensee and Klaus Maier-Hein and Yuki Sato and Sven Hirsch and Susanne Wegener and Bjoern Menze},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2312.17670},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}