COMputational PAthologY and multimodaL data workshop
September 27, 2026

MICCAI 2026

accepted papers

SPEAKERS

April Khademi

Research Chair in AI for Medical Imaging

Toronto Met, Canada

Pierre Moulin

Chief Scientific Officer

Deciphex, Switzerland

PROGRAM

September 27, 2026

13:30 - 13:35

Welcome to part III: the workshop

13:35 - 14:20

Oral presentations I: Computational Pathology with Multimodal Data

Act or defer? Multimodal intraoperative diagnosis of CNS tumours: A proof-of-concept study

by Jakob Straehle, Shifei Cai, Xavier Coubez, Roman Sankowski

PaiXBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models under Real-World Conditions

by Jens Baumann, Witali Aswolinskiy, Marina Pavlova, Roman Laskorunskyi, Yulia Kindruk, Peter Fritz, Danny Quick, Manasi Aichmüller-Ratnaparkhe, Patrick Adam

Disentangled Shared Representations Improve Morpho-Transcriptomic Integration

Julian Ostermaier, Swann Ruyter, Reuben Dorent, Daniel Racoceanu

14:20 - 14:45

Keynote talk by April Khademi

"Transforming pathology workflows with AI"

14:45 - 15:30

Oral presentations II: Computational Pathology in Diagnostic Tasks and Clinical Realities

Local Validation and Workflow Integration of Pathology Foundation Models for Colorectal WSI Classification

by Shahryar Noei, Marcia Raquel Pegoraro De Macedo, Margherita Zordan, Matteo Pozzi, Francesco G. Carbone,

Flavio Ragni, Stefano Bovo, Gisella Sidoti, Mattia Barbareschi, Giuseppe Jurman

Thumbnail-Based Tile Selection for Efficient Whole-Slide Image Classification in Resource-Limited Pathology

by Dagoberto Pulido Arias, Mason Cleveland, Diana Mindroc-Filimon, Albert Kim, Christopher P. Bridge

IMILIA: interpretable multiple instance learning for inflammation prediction in IBD from H&E whole slide images

by Thalyssa Baiocco Rodrigues, Antoine Olivier, Reda Belbahri, Thomas Duboudin, Pierre-Antoine Bannier,

Benjamin Adjadj, Katharina Von Loga, Nathan Noiry, Maxime Touzot, Hector Roux De Bezieux

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break + poster session [check posters list here]

16:00 - 16:25

Keynote talk by Pierre Moulin

"Clinical relevance and utilitarianism in computational pathology"

16:25 - 17:10

Oral presentations III: Computational Pathology Tools and Applications

Learning to Organ-ize: Low-resolution Tissue Segmentation for Preclinical Toxicological Pathology

by Bjørn L. Møller, Henning Hviid, Charlotte M. Dalsgaard, Jens Rittscher

Beyond Classification: Pathology Foundation Models as Detection Encoders for Mitotic Figures

by Sweta Banerjee, Alireza Teimoury, Nils Porsche, Alexandra K. Stoll, Viktoria Weiss, Niklas Hargarter, Jonas Ammeling, Thomas Conrad, Christoph Stroblberger, Christopher Kaltnecker, Robert Klopfleisch, Christof A. Bertram,

Katharina Breininger, Marc Aubreville

NegZoom: Negative-Constraint Coarse-to-Fine Retrieval in Whole Slide Images

by Huan-Yu Hsu, Yi-Chen Yeh, Kuan-Ting Wu, Hsu-ching Huang, Wei-Kai Lee, Wei-An Chen, Chien-Ying Huang,

Heng-Sheng Chao, Yung-Hung Luo, Jing-Yao Weng, Yuh-Min Chen, Yu-Te Wu

17:10 - 17:25

Closing session + paper awards

accepted papers

posters

videos

SPONSORS

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CALL FOR PAPERS

For COMPAYL 2026, we again invite researchers to submit their work in computational pathology in general and in combination with other modalities, such as (but not limited to) language, omics, radiology, spatial transcriptomics, and spatial proteomics. We also encourage papers that focus on clinical translation of computational pathology methods and validation of developed applications. This year, we particularly encourage the submission of works focusing on agentic AI in pathology and AI in toxicologic pathology.

Submissions unrelated to computational pathology or histopathology will be desk-rejected.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Artificial intelligence and foundation models for multimodal data analysis, including pathology
Integration and validation of digital pathology with genomics, radiology, and textual data
Advances in spatial transcriptomics and whole-slide image analysis
Techniques for stain normalization, tissue structure segmentation, and image registration
Developments in immunohistochemistry scoring, including multiplexing
Innovations in local and cloud-based analysis tools
Research on predictive and prognostic tissue biomarkers
Strategies for integrating and validating computational pathology in clinical workflows

SUBMISSIONS

The formatting guidelines are the same as for MICCAI 2026 except for supplementary materials. Authors should prepare a manuscript of no more than 8 pages, including images and tables (plus up to 2 extra pages containing only cited references). Supplementary material of any format can be added to the paper after references, but reviewers are not expected to read them. Non-compliance with the manuscript format, including manipulation of margins or vertical spacing, will lead to automatic desk rejection.

Manuscripts can be submitted online through the OpenReview system. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. All accepted papers will be published in the collective MICCAI Satellite Events Springer LNCS Proceedings.

An open-access version of all accepted papers from COMPAYL 2026 will be made available on the MICCAI Society website no earlier than one week before the first day of the conference. Authors intending to file patents are responsible for ensuring that all necessary filings are completed prior to this public release.

OpenReview