Evaluation of techniques for automated classification and artery quantification of the circle of Willis on TOF-MRA images: The CROWN challenge.

Kaiyuan Yang 0003 National University of Singapore, Singapore https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0591-2079 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59691478 Kaiyuan Yang Kaiyuan Yang 0001 Rice University, Houston, TX, USA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7220-9389 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085386877 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130964055 Kaiyuan Yang 0002 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2844-3810 Kaiyuan Yang 0004 Sichuan University, College of Computer Science, Chengdu, China Kaiyuan Yang 0005 University of Zürich, Switzerland Kaiyuan Yang 0006 Beihang University, State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beijing, China Kaiyuan Yang 0007 Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, School of Advanced Technology, Suzhou, China https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5934-1959 Kaiyuan Yang 0008 Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, China Kaiyuan Yang 0009 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Department of Automation, China https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9041-159X Kaiyuan Yang 0010 Kuaishou Technology Kaiyuan Yang 0011 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, China

Iris N. Vos Ynte M. Ruigrok Edwin Bennink Mireille R. E. Velthuis Barbara Paic Maud E. H. Ophelders Myrthe A. D. Buser Bas H. M. van der Velden Chen Geng 0002 Matthieu Coupet Félix Dumais Adrian Galdran Junyi Zhang Wei Liu 0005 Ting Ma Madhu S. Nair Mathieu Naudin Preena K. P. Keerthi A. S. Pillai Pengcheng Shi Thierry Urruty Yakang Dai Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Fabio Musio Bjoern H. Menze Birgitta K. Velthuis Hugo J. Kuijf Evaluation of techniques for automated classification and artery quantification of the circle of Willis on TOF-MRA images: The CROWN challenge. 103650 2025 105 Medical Image Anal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103650 db/journals/mia/mia105.html#VosRBVPOBVGCDGZLMNNPPSU25 streams/journals/mia

Alina F. Dima Suprosanna Shit Huaqi Qiu Robbie Holland Tamara T. Mueller Fabio Musio Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Bjoern H. Menze Rickmer Braren Marcus R. Makowski Daniel Rueckert Parametric Shape Models for Vessels Learned from Segmentations via Differentiable Voxelization. 247-261 2025 ShapeMI@MICCAI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06774-6_19 conf/miccai/2025shapemi db/conf/miccai/shapemi2025.html#DimaSQHMMYMBMR25 streams/conf/miccai Daniele Falcetta Vincenzo Marcianó Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Jon O. Cleary Loïc Legris Massimiliano Domenico Rizzaro Ioannis Pitsiorlas Hava Chaptoukaev Benjamin Lemasson Bjoern H. Menze Maria A. Zuluaga VesselVerse: A Dataset and Collaborative Framework for Vessel Annotation. 655-665 2025 MICCAI (13) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05169-1_63 conf/miccai/2025-13 db/conf/miccai/miccai2025-13.html#FalcettaMYCLRPCLMZ25 streams/conf/miccai Fabio Musio Norman Juchler Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Suprosanna Shit Chinmay Prabhakar Bjoern Menze Sven Hirsch Circle of Willis Centerline Graphs and Morphometric Features. Zenodo 2025 October https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17358162 streams/repo/zenodo

Ying Chen Rami Al-Maskari Izabela Horvath Mayar Ali Luciano Höher Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Zengming Lin Zhiwei Zhai Mengzhe Shen Dejin Xun Yi Wang Tony Xu Maged Goubran Yunheng Wu Kensaku Mori Johannes C. Paetzold Ali Ertürk SELMA3D challenge: Self-supervised learning for 3D light-sheet microscopy image segmentation. 2025 January abs/2501.03880 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.03880 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-03880 streams/journals/corr

Fabio Musio Norman Juchler Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Suprosanna Shit Chinmay Prabhakar Bjoern H. Menze Sven Hirsch Circle of Willis Centerline Graphs: A Dataset and Baseline Algorithm. 2025 October abs/2510.13720 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.13720 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-13720 streams/journals/corr

Chinmay Prabhakar Suprosanna Shit Fabio Musio Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Tamaz Amiranashvili Johannes C. Paetzold Hongwei Bran Li Bjoern H. Menze 3D Vessel Graph Generation Using Denoising Diffusion. 3-13 2024 MICCAI (11) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72120-5_1 conf/miccai/2024-11 db/conf/miccai/miccai2024-11.html#PrabhakarSMYAPLM24 streams/conf/miccai

Chinmay Prabhakar Suprosanna Shit Fabio Musio Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Tamaz Amiranashvili Johannes C. Paetzold Hongwei Bran Li Bjoern H. Menze 3D Vessel Graph Generation Using Denoising Diffusion. 2024 abs/2407.05842 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.05842 db/journals/corr/corr2407.html#abs-2407-05842 streams/journals/corr

Ezequiel de la Rosa Ruisheng Su Mauricio Reyes 0001 Roland Wiest Evamaria Olga Riedel Florian Kofler Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Hakim Baazaoui David Robben Susanne Wegener Jan S. Kirschke Benedikt Wiestler Bjoern H. Menze ISLES'24: Improving final infarct prediction in ischemic stroke using multimodal imaging and clinical data. 2024 abs/2408.10966 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.10966 db/journals/corr/corr2408.html#abs-2408-10966 streams/journals/corr

Evamaria Olga Riedel Ezequiel de la Rosa The Anh Baran Moritz Roman Hernandez Petzsche Hakim Baazaoui Kaiyuan Yang 0003 David Robben Joaquin Oscar Seia Roland Wiest Mauricio Reyes 0001 Ruisheng Su Claus Zimmer Tobias Boeckh-Behrens Maria Berndt Bjoern H. Menze Benedikt Wiestler Susanne Wegener Jan S. Kirschke ISLES 2024: The first longitudinal multimodal multi-center real-world dataset in (sub-)acute stroke. 2024 abs/2408.11142 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.11142 db/journals/corr/corr2408.html#abs-2408-11142 streams/journals/corr

Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Fabio Musio Yihui Ma Norman Juchler Johannes C. Paetzold Rami Al-Maskari Luciano Höher Hongwei Bran Li Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci Anjany Sekuboyina Suprosanna Shit Houjing Huang Diana Waldmannstetter Florian Kofler Fernando Navarro Martin J. Menten Ivan Ezhov Daniel Rueckert Iris N. Vos Ynte M. Ruigrok Birgitta K. Velthuis Hugo J. Kuijf Julien Hämmerli Catherine Wurster Philippe Bijlenga Laura Westphal Jeroen Bisschop Elisa Colombo Hakim Baazaoui Andrew Makmur James Hallinan Benedikt Wiestler Jan S. Kirschke Roland Wiest Emmanuel Montagnon Laurent Létourneau-Guillon Adrian Galdran Francesco Galati Daniele Falcetta Maria A. Zuluaga Chaolong Lin Haoran Zhao Zehan Zhang Sinyoung Ra Jongyun Hwang Hyunjin Park Junqiang Chen Marek Wodzinski Henning Müller et al. Benchmarking the CoW with the TopCoW Challenge: Topology-Aware Anatomical Segmentation of the Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA. 2023 abs/2312.17670 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.17670 db/journals/corr/corr2312.html#abs-2312-17670

Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Houjing Huang Olafs Vandans Adithya Murali Fujia Tian Roland H. C. Yap Liang Dai Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning to the HP Model for Protein Structure Prediction. 2022 abs/2211.14939 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.14939 db/journals/corr/corr2211.html#abs-2211-14939

Lei Zhu 0015 Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Meihui Zhang 0001 Ling Ling Chan Teck Khim Ng Beng Chin Ooi Semi-Supervised Unpaired Multi-Modal Learning for Label-Efficient Medical Image Segmentation. 394-404 2021 MICCAI (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87196-3_37 conf/miccai/2021-2 db/conf/miccai/miccai2021-2.html#ZhuYZCNO21 Naili Xing Sai Ho Yeung Chenghao Cai Teck Khim Ng Wei Wang 0059 Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Nan Yang Meihui Zhang 0001 Gang Chen 0001 Beng Chin Ooi SINGA-Easy: An Easy-to-Use Framework for MultiModal Analysis. 1293-1302 2021 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3475176 conf/mm/2021 db/conf/mm/mm2021.html#XingYCN0YYZCO21

Naili Xing Sai Ho Yeung Chenghao Cai Teck Khim Ng Wei Wang 0059 Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Nan Yang Meihui Zhang 0001 Gang Chen 0001 Beng Chin Ooi SINGA-Easy: An Easy-to-Use Framework for MultiModal Analysis. 2021 abs/2108.02572 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02572 db/journals/corr/corr2108.html#abs-2108-02572

Qian Lin 0002 Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Tien Tuan Anh Dinh Qingchao Cai Gang Chen 0001 Beng Chin Ooi Pingcheng Ruan Sheng Wang 0011 Zhongle Xie Meihui Zhang 0001 Olafs Vandans ForkBase: Immutable, Tamper-evident Storage Substrate for Branchable Applications. 1718-1721 2020 ICDE https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00153 conf/icde/2020 db/conf/icde/icde2020.html#LinYDCCORWXZV20

Qian Lin 0002 Kaiyuan Yang 0003 Tien Tuan Anh Dinh Qingchao Cai Gang Chen 0001 Beng Chin Ooi Pingcheng Ruan Sheng Wang 0011 Zhongle Xie Meihui Zhang 0001 Olafs Vandans ForkBase: Immutable, Tamper-evident Storage Substrate for Branchable Applications. 2020 abs/2004.07585 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07585 db/journals/corr/corr2004.html#abs-2004-07585

Rami Al-Maskari et al. Mayar Ali Tamaz Amiranashvili Hakim Baazaoui The Anh Baran Edwin Bennink Maria Berndt Philippe Bijlenga Jeroen Bisschop Tobias Boeckh-Behrens Rickmer Braren Myrthe A. D. Buser Chenghao Cai Qingchao Cai Ling Ling Chan Hava Chaptoukaev Gang Chen 0001 Junqiang Chen Ying Chen Jon O. Cleary Elisa Colombo Matthieu Coupet Liang Dai Yakang Dai Alina DimaAlina F. Dima Tien Tuan Anh Dinh Félix Dumais Ali Ertürk Ivan Ezhov Daniele Falcetta Francesco Galati Adrian Galdran Chen Geng 0002 Maged Goubran James Hallinan Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci Julien Hämmerli Sven Hirsch Luciano Höher Robbie Holland Izabela Horvath Houjing Huang Jongyun Hwang Norman Juchler Jan KirschkeJan S. Kirschke Florian Kofler Hugo J. Kuijf Loïc Legris Benjamin Lemasson Laurent Létourneau-Guillon Hongwei Li 0004Hongwei Bran Li Chaolong Lin Qian Lin 0002 Zengming Lin Wei Liu 0005 Ting Ma Yihui Ma Andrew Makmur Marcus R. Makowski Vincenzo Marcianó Martin J. Menten Bjoern MenzeBjoern H. Menze Emmanuel Montagnon Kensaku Mori Tamara T. Mueller Henning Müller Adithya Murali Fabio Musio Madhu S. Nair Mathieu Naudin Fernando Navarro Teck Khim Ng Beng Chin Ooi Maud E. H. Ophelders Preena K. P. Johannes C. Paetzold Barbara Paic Hyunjin Park Moritz Roman Hernandez Petzsche Keerthi A. S. Pillai Ioannis Pitsiorlas Chinmay Prabhakar Huaqi Qiu Sinyoung Ra Mauricio Reyes 0001 Evamaria Olga Riedel Massimiliano Domenico Rizzaro David Robben Ezequiel de la Rosa Pingcheng Ruan Daniel Rueckert Ynte M. Ruigrok Joaquin Oscar Seia Anjany Sekuboyina Mengzhe Shen Pengcheng Shi Suprosanna Shit Ruisheng Su Fujia Tian Thierry Urruty Olafs Vandans Bas H. M. van der Velden Birgitta K. Velthuis Mireille R. E. Velthuis Iris N. Vos Diana Waldmannstetter Sheng Wang 0011 Wei Wang 0059 Yi Wang Susanne Wegener Laura Westphal Roland Wiest Benedikt Wiestler Marek Wodzinski Yunheng Wu Catherine Wurster Zhongle Xie Naili Xing Tony Xu Dejin Xun Nan Yang Roland H. C. Yap Sai Ho Yeung Zhiwei Zhai Junyi Zhang Meihui Zhang 0001 Zehan Zhang Haoran Zhao Lei Zhu 0015 Claus Zimmer Maria A. Zuluaga