Two research papers originating from an SBME graduation project have been accepted for oral presentation at the MICCAI Student Board EMERGE 2026 Workshop, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2026 in Strasbourg, France.

Under the supervision of Dr. Tamer Basha, students Mina Heinein, Kirellos Nashed, and Mina Youssef developed a system for understanding chest X-rays within their clinical context, integrating medical images with information from electronic health records while providing evidence to support its answers. The project also received funding from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA).

The two accepted papers are:

“MedHyperGraph: EHR-Integrated Multimodal Hyperedges for Clinical VQA”
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“LocSAM3: Box-Supervised Adaptation of SAM3 for Text-Only Chest X-Ray Segmentation”
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The work was also supported through technical guidance from Abdulrahman M. Selim, an SBME 2019 graduate, alongside Omair Shahzad Bhatti and Hasan Alam at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

MSB EMERGE is a MICCAI Student Board workshop dedicated to showcasing and supporting promising student and early-career research in medical image computing and AI. The department congratulates the team and their supervisor on having both contributions selected for oral presentation at MICCAI 2026.

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