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:

@article{topcow2023benchmarking,
  title={TopCoW: Benchmarking Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis (CoW) for CTA and MRA},
  author={Yang, Kaiyuan and Musio, Fabio and Ma, Yihui and Juchler, Norman and Paetzold, Johannes C and Al-Maskari, Rami and H{\"o}her, Luciano and Li, Hongwei Bran and Hamamci, Ibrahim Ethem and Sekuboyina, Anjany and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17670},
  year={2023}
}