Program

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Room: Curie B (U)


Time (CEST)
Session
08:00 AM – 08:15 AM Open Remarks
08:15 AM – 09:15 AM Oral Presentation 1: Robust Adaptation and Grounding in Medical Foundation Models
When Adaptation Hurts: Connecting Representational Drift to OOD Failures in MedSAM Fine-Tuning
     Haralovic, Marko; Akkaraju, Sounic; Baretta, Carlo; Zapryanov, Vasil; Briassouli, Alexia
Few-Shot Concept Prompt Learning for Segmentation Foundation Models via Visual Grounding
     Venkataramani, Rahul; Sathish, Rachana
CADRE: Stable, Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Medical Vision–Language Models with Bounded Forgetting and Prior Drift
     Jha, Rishabh; Singh, Amrita; Chudal, Prashanna
Priors Over Pixels: Present-Bias in Organ-Presence Grounding for Medical VLMs
     Nazarov, Alexander; Mayer, Arnaldo
09:15 AM – 10:00 AM Keynote Speech #1
Beyond Performance: Evaluating Foundation Models for Trustworthy Medical AI
Annika Reinke, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Keynote Speech #2
Promise Versus Performance: A Faithful Benchmark of Vision-Language Foundation Models Against Specialized AI for Lung Cancer Prediction
Pierre Baudot, Median Technologies
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Oral Presentation 2: Trustworthy Reasoning and Evaluation in Medical VLMs
MeVisQA: Medical Visual Question Answering via Visual Programming
    Hong, Fan; Anselmet, Marie; Ndoko, Arthur
Faithful Reasoning, Not More Reasoning: Chain-of-Thought Ablation for Tuberculosis Findings in Indonesian Chest X-Rays
     Hanfan, Luthfi N.; Montana, Giovanni; Setiawan, Cindy A.; Yunus, Reyhan E. ; Valindria, Vanya
CORTEX: A Structured Reasoning Benchmark for Trustworthy 3D Chest CT MLLMs
     Malik, Hashmat S.; Hashmi, Anees U. R.; Saeed, Numan; Naseer, Muzammal; Khan, Salman; Lippert, Christoph
Robustness Evaluation of Surgical Medical Visual Question Answering Models Under Textual Perturbations
     Saadat, Asir; Linte, Cristian
EviCal-RR: Evidence-Calibrated Reasoning for Contactless Respiratory Monitoring
     Saklb, Shadman; Roy, Nlrmalya (Presenter on their behalf: Kazmina, Anastasiia)
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Closing Remarks
12:30 PM – 01:30 PM Lunch Break / Poster Session