Research excellence

Academic awards

Below is a list of academic awards that gVXR (or its predecessor) contributed to. If your research making use of gVXR was awarded a prize, please let me know so that I can add it to the list.

2026

Joint Best Oral Presentation Award

C. Hatton: "Physics-based synthetic X-ray image generation for improving deep learning in medical imaging"

1st gVXR User Meeting

2026

Joint Best Oral Presentation Award

N. Gupta: "Mono-material beam hardening correction workflow using gVXR and CIL"

1st gVXR User Meeting

2026

Best Early Career Researcher Oral Presentation Award

B. Meere: "X-ray Image Generation for Robotic Radiography: a Case Study on Motion Blur in Drone-Based Infrastructure Inspections"

IBSim-4i 2026

2025

3rd Place

F.P. Vidal et al.: "X-ray simulations with gVirtualXray in medicine and life sciences"

Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences 2025

DOI: 10.2312/evm.20251974

2024

Best Paper Award for Tomography Outreach Tools

F.P. Vidal et al.: "X-ray simulations with gVXR as a useful tool for education, data analysis, set-up of CT scans, and scanner development"

Developments in X-Ray Tomography XV, SPIE Optics & Photonics 2024

DOI: 10.1117/12.3025315

2024

Best Presentation Award

S. Afshari and C.-Y. Chou: "Enhancing Material Decomposition in Spectral CT Imaging via Deep Learning"

ISMAB 2024

2023

Runner-up Award for Best Student Presentation

I. Mitchell, F.P. Vidal, S. Middleburgh, A. Garbout, J.-Y. Buffière and J.M. Létang: "Creating Functional Digital Shadows of X-ray Systems"

IBSim-4i 2023

2022

Best Poster Presentation

I. Mitchell, L.M. Evans and F.P. Vidal: "WebCT: Fully Featured Browser-Based Interactive X-Ray Simulations for Scan Planning and Training"

6th Dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography Conference (dXCT 2022)

2019

David Duce Prize for Best Short Paper

A. Sujar, G. Kelly, M. Garcia and F.P. Vidal: "Projectional Radiography Simulator: an Interactive Teaching Tool"

Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC 2019)

DOI: 10.2312/cgvc.20191267

2009

Ken Brodlie Prize for Best Paper

F.P. Vidal, M. Garnier, N. Freud, J.M. Létang and N.W. John: "Simulation of X-ray Attenuation on the GPU"

Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics (TPCG 2009)

DOI: 10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/TPCG/TPCG09/025-032

2009

Eurographics Medical Prize – Second Prize

F. Bello et al.: "ImaGiNe-S : Imaging Guided Needle Simulation"

Eurographics Medical Prize 2009

DOI: 10.2312/egm.20091024