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Sunday, June 28th, 2026
12:00 – 15:00 Workshop – Virtual Imaging Trials
16:00–17:30 | Opening Ceremony
16:00–16:15 Opening Welcome
Alexandra Athanasiou, Aimilia Gastounioti, Despina Kontos, Ioannis Sechopoulos
Moderator: Rodoniki Iosifidou
16:15–16:45 Rethinking Diagnostic and Prognostic AI for Breast Cancer Management Through MRI Signal Analysis and Tumor Microenvironment Information
Kostas Marias
16:45–17:30 Major evolutions in Breast Surgery over the years and the contribution of Breast Imaging technology
Christos Markopoulos
17:30–19:00 | Welcome Reception
Monday, June 29th, 2026
09:00–09:45 | Lecture
Moderator: Ioannis Sechopoulos
Full-View 3D Photoacoustic–Ultrasound Breast Imaging: From Physics to Patients
Srirang Manohar
09:45–10:45 | Oral Presentations – Other imaging approaches
Moderators: Srirang Manohar, Sophia Zackrisson
O01 – Experimental Characterisation of a Tomographic Ultra-Fast Molecular Breast Imaging Prototype
Cherlin, Alexander; Atkins, Nathan; Exley, Matthew; Erlandsson, Kjell; Baistow, Ian; Hutton, Brian; O’Connor, Michael; Hruska, Carrie; Thielemans, Kris
O02 – X-ray Micro-CT for Intra-Operative Tumour Margin Assessment Using a Microfocus X-ray Source and Photon-Counting Detector
Croughan, Michelle; Gureyev, Timur; Pollock, James; Harker, Stephanie; Kitchen, Marcus
O03 – Clinical Relevance and Technical Feasibility of Opportunistic Breast Evaluation on Body CT
Vancoillie, Liesbeth; Nelson, Jeffrey; Segars, Paul; Felice, Nicholas; Abadi, Ehsan; Samei, Ehsan
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 | Oral Presentations – 3D Printed Phantoms
Moderators: Oliver Diaz, Susan Astley
O04 – Assessment of 3D printing resins attenuation properties for mimicking breast tissue
Borges, Bruno; Boiset, Gisell; Tomal, Alessandra; Costa, Paulo
O05 – Anthropomorphic Breast Phantom Evaluation Based on 3D-Printed and Resin Materials: A Monte Carlo Study
Boiset, Gisell; Tomal, Alessandra; Costa, Paulo
O06 – Impact of 3D-printing infill patterns on anatomical noise in an anthropomorphic breast phantom for DM and DBT
Belarra, Adrian; Chevalier, Margarita; García, Eloy; Hernández-Girón, Irene; Castillo, María; Martí, Robert
12:15–13:00 | Panel Discussion
Moderator: Alexandra Athanasiou
What should we be working on?
Alexandra Athanasiou, Sophia Zackrisson, Ritse Mann
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:00 | Oral Presentations – AI: Image generation
Moderators: Aimilia Gastounioti, Andrew Maidment
O07 – Realtime biomechanical simulation of mammographic compression using MeshGraphNet
Hopp, Torsten; Tan Jerome, Nicholas; Bott, Frederic; Ruiter, Nicole
O08 – Density-Guided Mammogram Synthesis Using Diffusion Models
Nabil Hossni Mohamed, Raneim; Michielsen, Koen; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
O09 – Efficient 3D Deep Learning for Joint DBT Reconstruction and Faithful Uncertainty Estimation: Preliminary Clinical Evaluation
Quillent, Arnaud; Bismuth, Vincent; Bloch, Isabelle; Kervazo, Christophe; Ladjal, Saïd
15:00–16:00 | Oral Presentations – Breast cancer screening interpretation
Moderators: Ritse Mann, Alexandra Athanasiou
O10 – Enhancing Mammography Screening Utilization Through Self-Referral Workflow
Quedess, Humaira
O11 – Within-Session Changes in Mammographic Diagnostic Performance Across Sequential Reading Phases
Trieu, Yun PD; Awwad, Dania Abu; Nocum, Don; Clarke, Jillian; Robinson, Melissa; Lewis, Sarah
O12 – A Relative-Utility Estimate for Screening Mammography Performance in the Netherlands
Abbey, Craig; van der Waal, Daniëlle; Broeders, Mireille; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–17:30 | Oral Presentations – Dedicated Breast CT
Moderators: Ann-Katherine Carton, Hilde Bosmans
O13 – System characterization and projection image quality evaluation of a benchtop breast CT with a monochromatic x-ray source
Groot Koerkamp, Maureen; Valk, Nuhamin; Weernink, Cas; Liu, Shawn; Pautasso, Juan J.; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
O14 – Photon-counting-detector (PCD) versus Energy-integrating-detector (EID) for Iodine Quantitation in Breast CT
Tomal, Alessandra; Michielsen, Koen; Costa, Paulo; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
O15 – Texture Analysis of Early-Enhancement Parametric Maps on Dedicated Breast CT: Insights into Tumor Aggressiveness
Tsarouchi, Marialena; Hoxhaj, Alma; Molenaar, Lyanne; Pautasso, Juan Jose; Michielsen, Koen; Sechopoulos, Ioannis; Mann, Ritse
17:30–19:00 | Poster Session I
Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
08:30–09:15 | Lecture
Moderator: Despina Kontos
Mapping and enhancing the chemotherapeutic response of breast cancer using theranostic ultrasound imaging
Elisa Konofagou
09:15–10:15 | Oral Presentations – 4D Breast CT
Moderators: Elisa Konofagou, Anders Tingberg
O16 – 4D Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast CT: First Clinical Case
Pautasso, Juan; Goris, Liselot; Molenaar, Lyanne; Tsarouchi, Marialena; Mikerov, Mikhail; Mann, Ritse; Michielsen, Koen; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
O17 – A perfusion phantom study for the evaluation of quantitative accuracy in 4D dynamic contrast-enhanced dedicated breast CT
Goris, Liselot; Pautasso, Juan; Michielsen, Koen; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
O18 – Fluid Flow Analysis of Breast Tumors using 4D Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast CT and the Unbalanced Regularized Optimal Mass Transport Algorithm
De Wever, Anne; Goris, Liselot; Chen, Xinan; Michielsen, Koen; Deasy, Joseph; Sechopoulos, Ioannis
10:15–11:00 | Siemens Symposium – Contrast-Enhanced Mammograph re-imagined: From quality assurance to quantitative clinical impact
Moderator: Axel Hebecker
Setting the stage: Quality assurance as the foundation of modern CEM
Hilde Bosmans
Contrast Enhanced Mammography: Quantitative imaging from physics to clinical application
Lesley Cockmartin
11:00–11:20 Coffee Break
11:20–12:20 | Oral Presentations – Contrast-enhanced mammography
Moderators: Alistair Mackenzie, Ingrid Reiser
O19 – Improved Material Decomposition for Contrast-Enhanced Mammography with Dual-Layer Detector
Wu, Xiangyi; Bookbinder, Alexander; Zhao, Wei
O20 – Evaluation of Glandular Dose Distribution in Contrast Enhanced Mammography by Monte Carlo Simulation
Giaccone Thomaz, Sofia; Trevisan Massera, Rodrigo; Tramontin Carneiro, Giovanna; Tomal, Alessandra
O21 – Quality Control Evaluations in Contrast-Enhanced Mammography: Results from a Multicenter Study
Barcella, Alice; Sarno, Antonio; Brambilla, Laura; Pignoli, Emanuele; Giandini, Tommaso; Paruccini, Nicoletta; Villa, Raffaele; Bertolini, Marco; Rosasco, Raffaella; Origgi, Daniela; De Marco, Paolo; Bruschi, Giulia; Vendrame, Alessandra; Lenardi, Cristina; Giovannini, Giulia; Campoleoni, Mauro; Azzeroni, Raffaella; Ardu, Veronica; Vaccara, Elena M. L.; Dighero, Edoardo; Puppo, Emanuela; D’Urso, Davide; Maestri, Davide; Di Biaso, Simona; Rossetti, Veronica; Sardo, Anna; Lucio, Francesco; Soprani, Laura; Ravaglia, Valentina
12:20–13:00 | Panel Discussion
Moderator: Aimilia Gastounioti
Trust, Truth, and Translation: AI in Breast Imaging at the Crossroads
Fredrik Strand, Bob Nishikawa, Maryellen Giger, Reyer Zwiggelaar, Melissa Hill, Sue Astley
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:00 | Oral Presentations – Breast Phantoms
Moderators: Robert Marti, Maryellen L. Giger
O22 – Configurable Synthetic Breast Phantoms for Paired CC-MLO Mammograms to Advance AI Development and Virtual Clinical Trials
Morrow, Alexander; Vimieiro, Rodrigo; Borges, Lucas; Ng, Susan; Maidment, Andrew
O23 – Evaluation of Analytical Breast Phantoms in Dosimetry with Monte Carlo Simulations
Giaccone Thomaz, Sofia; Sarno, Antonio; Tomal, Alessandra
O24 – New phantom for Breast Compositional Imaging Performance Assessment
Devauges, Viviane; Carton, Ann-Katherine; Milioni, Pablo; Vancamberg, Laurence; Muller, Serge
15:00–16:00 | Oral Presentations – AI: Image interpretation
Moderators: Elizabeth Krupinski, Juhun Lee
O25 – Ethnic Disparities in AI Cancer Detection Scores: A Multi-Region Study in Sweden
Tsirikoglou, Apostolia; Choi, Taeyang; Dustler, Magnus; Gustafsson, Håkan; Zackrisson, Sophia; Strand, Fredrik
O26 – Performance of the GMIC Deep Learning Model for Breast Cancer Detection Across Breast Densities, Mammography Vendors, and Lesion Types in Australian Screening Data
Zhang, Rowan; Trieu, Phuong D; Jiang, Zhengqiang; Robinson, Melissa; Lewis, Sarah; Tavakoli Taba, Amir
O27 – Complementary Roles of AI Computer-Aided Detection and Mammographic Risk Models in Breast Cancer Screening
Wang, Yao-Kuan; Cockmartin, Lesley; Klanecek, Zan; Studen, Andrej; Wagner, Tobias; Marshall, Nicholas; Van Ongeval, Chantal; Jeraj, Robert; Bosmans, Hilde
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–17:30 | Oral Presentations – AI: Prognosis
Moderators: Reyer Zwiggelaar, Despina Kontos
O28 – Multimodal Deep Learning for Aggressive Breast Cancer Classification Using Breast Tomosynthesis
Mota, Ana M.
O29 – From Unstructured Text to Clinical-Grade Information Extraction from Breast MRI Reports Using Large Language Models
Mokhber, Parishad; Dahdal, Rony; Gerigoorian, Annika; Ntoula, Dimitra; Baniasadi, Reihaneh; Choi, Taeyang; Strand, Fredrik; Tsirikoglou, Apostolia
O30 – Early Prediction of Pathologic Complete Response Using Multimodal AI: Leveraging DBT and DCE-MRI Image Embeddings
Bhalla, Kanika; Sanchez, Adrian; Hernandez, Juanita; Yu, Xiaobing; Das Gupta, Sneha; Luo, Aaron; Bennett, Debbie; Davis, Andrew; Luna, Jose; Gastounioti, Aimilia
17:30–19:00 | Poster Session II
Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
09:00–09:45 | Lecture
Moderator: Aimilia Gastounioti
Thirty Years, Three Eras: AI in Breast Imaging from CAD to Clinical Intelligence
Hari Trivedi
09:45–10:45 | Oral Presentations – Breast density and breast cancer risk
Moderators: Melissa Hill, Hari Trivedi
O31 – Cross-Ethnic Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Breast Density Prediction using VAS
Hervas Gomez, Samuel; Romanov, Stepan; Perrett, Adam; Astley Theodossiadis, Susan; Fergie, Martin
O32 – MADAM: Multi-vendor AI breast density assessment
Perrett, Adam; Romanov, Stepan; Ebsim, Raja; Gomez, Samuel; Astley, Susan
O33 – Unlocking DBT Breast Cancer Risk Prediction using the 2D Mirai Model
Santhanam, Hari; Doiphode, Nehal; Nguyen, Alex; Ehsan, Sarah; Mankowski, Walter; Cohen, Eric; McCarthy, Anne Marie; Vachon, Celine; McGuinness, Julia; Sippo, Dorothy; Pinker-Domenig, Katja; Kontos, Despina
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 | Lecture
Moderator: Ioannis Sechopoulos
Perceptual science in breast imaging: A case study on visual adaptation
Craig Abbey
12:00–13:00 | Oral Presentations – AI/Human Interaction
Moderators: Chisako Muramatsu, Craig Abbey
O34 – The Efficacy of Explainable AI Heatmaps for Visual Search Between Novices and Experts
Rakusen, Lyndon; Adamo, Stephen; Eich, Brandon
O35 – Association of Tomosynthesis Acquisition Parameters with AI and Human Observer Performance
Sanchez, Adrian; Cui, Junjie; Chiu, Sherwin; Lee, Michelle; Bennett, Debbie; Gastounioti, Aimilia
O36 – What Characteristics of Radiologists and Cases Affect Automation Bias
Nishikawa, Robert