Previous Awards
The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers,
based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided
by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and
their oral presentation at the conference.
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
BIODEVICES 2023
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
A Modular BLE-Based Body Area Network Embedded into a Smart Garment for Rescuers Real-Time Monitoring in Emergency Scenarios
Giulia Sedda, Giulia Baldazzi, Salvatore Spanu, Antonello Mascia, Andrea Spanu, Piero Cosseddu, Annalisa Bonfiglio and Danilo Pani
BIOIMAGING 2023
Best Paper Award
SalienceNet: An Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Method for Nuclei Saliency Enhancement in Microscopy Images
Emmanuel Bouilhol, Edgar Lefevre, Thierno Barry, Florian Levet, Anne Beghin, Virgile Viasnoff, Xareni Galindo, Rémi Galland, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita and Macha Nikolski
Best Student Paper Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2023
Best Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSIGNALS 2023
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Comparison of the Electrophysiological Myoelectrical Activity Evolution in Induction of Labor with Pharmacological and Mechanical Methods
Alba Diaz-Martinez, Yiyao Ye-Lin, Rogelio Monfort-Ortiz, Javier Garcia-Casado, Iria Rey-Ferreira, Felix Nieto-del-Amor, Vicente Diago-Almela, Jose L. Martinez-de-Juan and Gema Prats-Boluda
Best Poster Award
Arrythmia Classification Using MATLAB® Classification Learner App
Cesar N. Silva, Fernanda F. Lopes, Jefferson A. Matos and Maria F. Castro
HEALTHINF 2023
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSTEC 2023
Best PhD Project Award
Simulation of Medical Shock Waves and Research on the Safety of Shock Wave Application on Contraindicated Tissue
Hannah Janout
A Tailored Internet of Things Lighting Solution to Support Circadian Rhythms and Wellbeing of People Living with Dementia
Kate Turley
BIODEVICES 2022
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOIMAGING 2022
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2022
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSIGNALS 2022
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
HEALTHINF 2022
Best Paper Award
Integrated Label Transfer for Oligodendrocyte Subpopulation Profiling in Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple System Atrophy
Erin Teeple, Pooja Joshi, Rahul Pande, Yinyin Huang, Akshat Karambe, Martine Latta-Mahieu, S. P. Sardi, Angel Cedazo-Minguez, Katherine W. Klinger, Amilcar Flores-Morales, Stephen L. Madden, Deepak K. Rajpal and Dinesh Kumar
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSTEC 2022
Best PhD Project Award
Heuristic Domain Shift Adaptation for the Analysis of Blood Vessel Images
Andreas Haghofer
BIODEVICES 2021
Best Paper Award
Fish Gelatin-based Films for Gas Sensing
Inês P. Moreira, Laura Sato, Cláudia Alves, Susana Palma and Ana C. Roque
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
A Thermochromic Ink Heater-cooler Color Change System for Medical Blood Simulation
Mohammad Noorizadeh, Abdullah Alsalemi, Yahya Alhomsi, Faycal Bensaali and Nader Meskin
BIOIMAGING 2021
Best Paper Award
Advancing Eosinophilic Esophagitis Diagnosis and Phenotype Assessment with Deep Learning Computer Vision
William A. III, Alexis Catalano, Lubaina Ehsan, Hans V. von Eckstaedt, Barrett Barnes, Emily McGowan, Sana Syed and Donald E. Brown
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2021
Best Paper Award
Backward Pattern Matching on Elastic Degenerate Strings
Petr Procházka, Ondřej Cvacho, Luboš Krčál and Jan Holub
Best Student Paper Award
Applying PySCMGroup to Breast Cancer Biomarkers Discovery
Mazid A. Osseni, Prudencio Tossou, Jacques Corbeil and François Laviolette
Best Poster Award
A Deep Learning Method to Impute Missing Values and Compress Genome-wide Polymorphism Data in Rice
Tanzila Islam, Chyon H. Kim, Hiroyoshi Iwata, Hiroyuki Shimono, Akio Kimura, Hein Zaw, Chitra Raghavan, Hei Leung and Rakesh K. Singh
BIOSIGNALS 2021
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
HEALTHINF 2021
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
Best Industrial Paper Award
BIOSTEC 2021
Best PhD Project Award
Experimental Evaluation of a Gas Sensors Array for the Identification of Complex VOCs Mixtures in the Breath of Patients by Pattern Recognition Techniques
Justin Martin
BIODEVICES 2020
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
An Innovative Approach towards Incorporating the End User to the NMES Wearable System Development
Anelise Ventura, João P. Bataglia, Leonardo R. Machado, Jorge V. Lopes da Silva, Renato Varoto and Alberto Cliquet Jr.
BIOIMAGING 2020
Best Paper Award
Glioma Grade Classification via Omics Imaging
Lucia Maddalena, Ilaria Granata, Ichcha Manipur, Mario Manzo and Mario R. Guarracino
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
Left Ventricle Computational Model based on Patients Three-dimensional MRI
Maria Narciso, Ana I. Sousa, Fernando Crivellaro, Rui Valente de Almeida, António Ferreira and Pedro Vieira
BIOINFORMATICS 2020
Best Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSIGNALS 2020
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Recurrent Neural Network for Gait Pathology Detection
Jorge Sanchez-Casanova, Judith Liu-Jimenez, Pablo Fernandez-Lopez and Raul Sanchez-Reillo
Best Poster Award
HEALTHINF 2020
Best Paper Award
Deep Learning from Heterogeneous Sequences of Sparse Medical Data for Early Prediction of Sepsis
Mahbub U. Alam, Aron Henriksson, John K. Valik, Logan Ward, Pontus Naucler and Hercules Dalianis
Best Student Paper Award
Combining Rhythmic and Morphological ECG Features for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation
Gennaro Laudato, Franco Boldi, Angela R. Colavita, Giovanni Rosa, Simone Scalabrino, Paolo Torchitti, Aldo Lazich and Rocco Oliveto
Best Poster Award
Best Industrial Paper Award
Receptivity of an AI Cognitive Assistant by the Radiology Community: A Report on Data Collected at RSNA
Karina Kanjaria, Anup Pillai, Chaitanya Shivade, Marina Bendersky, Vandana Mukherjee and Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood
BIOSTEC 2020
Best PhD Project Award
Deep-learning based Analysis of Mammograms to Improve the Estimation of Breast Cancer Risk
Francesca Lizzi
BIODEVICES 2019
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOIMAGING 2019
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
Polyp Shape Recovery using Vascular Border from Single Colonoscopy Image
Hiroyasu Usami, Yuji Iwahori, M. K. Bhuyan, Aili Wang, Naotaka Ogasawara and Kunio Kasugai
BIOINFORMATICS 2019
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Method Choice in Gene Set Analysis Has Important Consequences for Analysis Outcome
Farhad Maleki, Katie L. Ovens, Elham Rezaei, Alan M. Rosenberg and Anthony J. Kusalik
Best Poster Award
BIOSIGNALS 2019
Best Paper Award
Comparing Parkinson's Disease Dysarthria and Aging Speech using Articulation Kinematics
A. Gómez-Rodellar, D. Palacios-Alonso, J. Mekyska, A. Álvarez-Marquina and P. Gómez-Vilda
Best Poster Award
Can Sit-to-walk Assessment Maximize Instrumented Timed Up & Go Test Output?
Slavka Viteckova, Radim Krupicka, Petr Dusek, Patrik Kutilek, Zoltan Szabo and Evžen Růžička
HEALTHINF 2019
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSTEC 2019
Best PhD Project Award
Design and Characterization of Synthetic Biodegradable Films for Soft Tissue Engineering
Sofia Ribeiro, Emanuel M. Fernandes, Manuela E. Gomes, Rui L. Reis, Yves Bayon and Dimitrios I. Zeugolis
BIODEVICES 2018
Best Paper Award
A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal
Lam A. Cheah, James M. Gilbert, Jose A. Gonzalez, Phil D. Green, Stephen R. Ell, Roger K. Moore and Ed Holdsworth
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOIMAGING 2018
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Graph-Cut Segmentation of Retinal Layers from OCT Images
Bashir Isa Dodo, Yongmin Li, Khalid Eltayef and Xiaohui Liu
Best Poster Award
Dense 3D Reconstruction of Endoscopic Polyp
Ankur Deka, Yuji Iwahori, M. K. Bhuyan, Pradipta Sasmal and Kunio Kasugai
BIOINFORMATICS 2018
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSIGNALS 2018
Best Paper Award
Real-time Low SNR Signal Processing for Nanoparticle Analysis with Deep Neural Networks
Jan Eric Lenssen, Anas Toma, Albert Seebold, Victoria Shpacovitch, Pascal Libuschewski, Frank Weichert, Jian-Jia Chen and Roland Hergenröder
Best Student Paper Award
Feasibility of Labor Induction Success Prediction based on Uterine Myoelectric Activity Spectral Analysis
C. Benalcazar Parra, A. I. Tendero, Y. Ye-Lin, J. Alberola-Rubio, A. Perales Marin, J. Garcia-Casado and G. Prats-Boluda
Best Poster Award
HEALTHINF 2018
Best Paper Award
A Remote Home Monitoring System to Support Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia
Stefan Lentelink, Monique Tabak, Boris van Schooten, Dennis Hofs, Harm op den Akker and Hermie Hermens
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSTEC 2018
Best PhD Project Award
Dimension Reduction and Automated Evaluation in Retinal OCT Volumes
Anna Breger, Bianca S. Gerendas, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth and Martin Ehler
BIODEVICES 2017
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Determination of the Selectivity of Printed Wearable Sweat Sensors
Alicia Zörner, Susanne Oertel, Björn Schmitz, Nadine Lang, Michael P. M. Jank and Lothar Frey
Best Poster Award
BIOIMAGING 2017
Best Paper Award
Localization of Demyelinating Plaques in MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks
Bartłomiej Stasiak, Pawel Tarasiuk, Izabela Michalska, Arkadiusz Tomczyk and Piotr S. Szczepaniak
Best Student Paper Award
Segmentation of Retinal Ganglion Cells From Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging
Silvia Baglietto, Ibolya E. Kepiro, Gerrit Hilgen, Evelyne Sernagor, Vittorio Murino and Diego Sona
Best Poster Award
Saliency Guided Computer-aided Diagnosis for Neurodegenerative Dementia
Olfa Ben Ahmed, Mohamed-Chacker Larabi, Marc Paccalin and Christine Fernandez-Maloigne
BIOINFORMATICS 2017
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
A Web- and Cloud- based Service for the Clinical Use of a CAD (Computer Aided Detection) System - Automated Detection of Lung Nodules in Thoracic CTs (Computed Tomographies)
M. E. Fantacci, A. Traverso, S. Bagnasco, C. Bracco, D. Campanella, G. Chiara, E. Lopez Torres, A. Manca, D. Regge, M. Saletta, M. Stasi, S. Vallero, L. Vassallo and P. Cerello
BIOSIGNALS 2017
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
HEALTHINF 2017
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSTEC 2017
Best PhD Project Award
Towards Novel Methods for Effective Transfer Learning and Unsupervised Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
Mijung Kim, Jasper Zuallaert and Wesley De Neve
BIODEVICES 2016
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOIMAGING 2016
Best Paper Award
Design of Customised Orthodontic Devices by Digital Imaging and CAD/FEM Modelling
Sandro Barone, Alessandro Paoli, Armando Viviano Razionale and Roberto Savignano
Best Student Paper Award
Tackling the Problem of Data Imbalancing for Melanoma Classification
Mojdeh Rastgoo, Guillaume Lemaitre, Joan Massich, Olivier Morel, Franck Marzani, Rafael Garcia and Fabrice Meriaudeau
Best Poster Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2016
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
BIOSIGNALS 2016
Best Paper Award
Extraction of Temporal Gait Parameters using a Reduced Number of Wearable Accelerometers
Mohamed Boutaayamou, Vincent Denoël, Olivier Brüls, Marie Demonceau, Didier Maquet, Bénédicte Forthomme, Jean-Louis Croisier, Cédric Schwartz, Jacques G. Verly and Gaëtan Garraux
Best Student Paper Award
Best Poster Award
HEALTHINF 2016
Best Paper Award
ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity
Lamia Elloumi, Margot Meijerink, Bert-Jan van Beijnum and Hermie Hermens
Best Student Paper Award
Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines
Veruska Zamborlini, Rinke Hoekstra, Marcos da Silveira, Cedric Pruski, Annette ten Teije and Frank van Harmelen
Best Poster Award
On the Reactivity of Sleep Monitoring with Diaries
M. S. Goelema, M. M. Willems, R. Haakma and P. Markopoulos
BIOSTEC 2016
Best PhD Project Award
Study of a Low-cost Sensitive Point-of-Care Testing System using Screen Printed Biosensors for Early Biomarkers Detection Related to Alzheimer Disease
Sarah Tonello, Mauro Serpelloni, Nicola Francesco Lopomo, Giulia Abate, Daniela Uberti and Emilio Sardini
BIODEVICES 2015
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
BIOIMAGING 2015
Best Paper Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2015
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
BIOSIGNALS 2015
Best Paper Award
A User-centric Design of Permanent Magnetic Articulography based Assistive Speech Technology
Lam A. Cheah, Jie Bai, Jose A. Gonzalez, Stephen R. Ell, James M. Gilbert, Roger K. Moore and Phil D. Green
Best Student Paper Award
HEALTHINF 2015
Best Paper Award
Eyetrace2014 - Eyetracking Data Analysis Tool
Katrin Sippel, Thomas Kübler, Wolfgang Fuhl, Guilherme Schievelbein, Raphael Rosenberg and Wolfgang Rosenstiel
Best Student Paper Award
BIODEVICES 2014
Best Paper Award
Development of Concurrent Object-oriented Logic Programming System to Intelligent Monitoring of Anomalous Human Activities
Alexei A. Morozov, Abhishek Vaish, Alexander F. Polupanov, Vyacheslav E. Antciperov, Igor I. Lychkov, Aleksandr N. Alfimtsev and Vladimir V. Deviatkov
Best Student Paper Award
BIOIMAGING 2014
Best Paper Award
Infrared Spectral Microimaging - A New Tool to Characterise the Tissue Features in Skin Cancers of Melanoma Type
David Sebiskveradze, Cyril Gobinet, Nathalie Cardot-Leccia, Michel Manfait, Pierre Jeannesson, Vincent Vuiblet and Olivier Piot
Best Student Paper Award
Model-based Approach to Tissue Characterization using Optical Coherence Tomography
Cecília Lantos, Rafik Borji, Stéphane Douady, Karolos Grigoriadis, Kirill Larin and Matthew A. Franchek
BIOINFORMATICS 2014
Best Paper Award
A Computational Study to Identify TP53 and SREBF2 as Regulation Mediators of miR-214 in Melanoma Progression
Gianfranco Politano, Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Francesca Orso, Alessandro Savino and Daniela Taverna
Best Student Paper Award
BIOSIGNALS 2014
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
HEALTHINF 2014
Best Paper Award
Feasibility Estimation for Clinical Trials
Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen, Annette Ten Teije and Andre Dekker
Best Student Paper Award
Partopens at the Point of Care - Evaluating Digital Pen-based Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya
Heather Underwood, John Ong’ech, Sara Rosenblum, Addie Crawley, S. Revi Sterling, John K. Bennett and Maya Appley
BIOSTEC 2014
Best PhD Project Award
Enhanced Bone Healing Through Mechanical Stimulation by Implanted Piezoelectric Actuators
Natacha Rosa, Fernão D. Magalhães, Ricardo Simões and António Torres Marques
BIODEVICES 2013
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
Bioimpedance Parameter as a Risk Factor to Assess Pine Decay - An Innovative Approach to the Diagnosis of Plant Diseases
E. Borges, M. Sequeira, André F. V. Cortez, H. Catarina Pereira, T. Pereira, V. Almeida, T. M. Vasconcelos, I. M. Duarte, N. Nazaré, J. Cardoso and C. Correia
BIOINFORMATICS 2013
Best Paper Award
Qualitative Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks using Network Motifs
Sohei Ito, Takuma Ichinose, Masaya Shimakawa, Naoko Izumi, Shigeki Hagihara and Naoki Yonezaki
Best Student Paper Award
BIOSIGNALS 2013
Best Paper Award
Dynamic Data-based Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity: mGluR-dependent Long-term Depression
Tim Tambuyzer, Tariq Ahmed, C. James Taylor, Daniel Berckmans, Detlef Balschun and Jean-Marie Aerts
Best Student Paper Award
Array-based Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface
Michael Wand, Christopher Schulte, Matthias Janke and Tanja Schultz
HEALTHINF 2013
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
BIODEVICES 2012
Best Paper Award
AUTONOMOUS SENTINELS FOR THE DETECTION OF INVASIVE PATHOGENS
Howard Clyde Wikle III, Suiqiong Li, Aleksandr Simonian and Bryan A. Chin
Best Student Paper Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2012
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETERS PROTOTYPES VALIDATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
Edite Figueiras, Rita Campos, Ricardo Oliveira, Luís F. Requicha Ferreira, Frits de Mul and Anne Humeau-Heurtier
BIOSIGNALS 2012
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
HEALTHINF 2012
Best Paper Award
A HEART RATE PREDICTION MODEL FOR THE TELEREHABILITATION TRAINING OF CARDIOPULMONARY PATIENTS
Axel Helmer, Riana Deparade, Friedrich Kretschmer, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Hein, Michael Marschollek and Uwe Tegtbur
Best Student Paper Award
TWITTER IMPROVES SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREDICTION
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu and Benyuan Liu
BIODEVICES 2011
Best Paper Award
AN INTEGRATED MULTI-CHANNEL SYSTEM FOR BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION
Jakob M. Tomasik, Wjatscheslaw Galjan, Kristian M. Hafkemeyer, Dietmar Schroeder and Wolfgang H. Krautschneider
Best Student Paper Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2011
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
KINETIC MODELS AND QUALITATIVE ABSTRACTION FOR RELATIONAL LEARNING IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Gabriel Synnaeve, Katsumi Inoue, Andrei Doncescu, Hidetomo Nabeshima, Yoshitaka Kameya, Masakazu Ishihata and Taisuke Sato
BIOSIGNALS 2011
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
OPTICAL METHODS FOR LOCAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY ASSESSMENT
T. Pereira, M. Cabeleira, P. Matos, E. Borges, V. Almeida, J. Cardoso, C. Correia and H. C. Pereira
HEALTHINF 2011
Best Paper Award
EEG AND ECG CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN SLEEP COMPOSITION TYPES
Amro Khasawneh, Sergio A. Alvarez, Carolina Ruiz, Shivin Misra and Majaz Moonis
Best Student Paper Award
PATIENT-BASED LITERATURE RETRIEVAL AND INTEGRATION - A Use Case for Diabetes and Arterial Hypertension
Ana Jimenez-Castellanos, Izaskun Fernández, David Perez-Rey, Elisa Viejo, Francisco Javier Díez, Xabier García de Kortazar, Miguel García-Remesal, Víctor Maojo, Antonio Cobo and Francisco del Pozo
BIODEVICES 2010
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
BIOINFORMATICS 2010
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
BIOSIGNALS 2010
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award
HEALTHINF 2010
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award