On September 26 in Daejeon, South Korea, the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI) officially announced that Professor Fan Dengping from the College of Computer Science at Nankai University won the 2025 MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award. This marks the first time that a scholar affiliated with a university in Chinese mainland has received this award.

Professor Fan earned the award for his paper PraNet: Parallel Reverse Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation, published at MICCAI 2020. The study focuses on colonoscopic polyp segmentation in medical imaging. PraNet introduces an innovative framework that combines a parallel partial decoder (PPD) with a reverse attention (RA) mechanism. This approach significantly improved the delineation of polyp boundaries and demonstrated outstanding performance on multiple challenging medical datasets. Clinically, accurate detection and segmentation of colon polyps are critical for the early screening and intervention of colorectal cancer. The introduction of PraNet enhances both the efficiency and accuracy of physicians’ diagnoses during endoscopic examinations, reduces the risk of missed detections, and ultimately enables earlier treatment opportunities for patients.

Established in 2011 by the MICCAI Society, the MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award recognizes young scholars whose work has made a substantial and lasting impact in the field of medical image computing. Widely regarded as one of the highest international honors for young scholars in this field, the award has spotlighted major breakthroughs by global young scholars.

（Edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)