Best Paper Award @ ACM SAC'26![]()
Participants: G. Elisabeta Marai
URL: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2026/ Thessaloniki, Greece “Advancing Normal Tissue Complication Probability Modeling with Supervised Contrastive Learning for Predicting Osteoradionecrosis” by a multidisciplinary team led by Prof. Canahuate at the University of Iowa and including UIC CS Prof. Zhang and Prof. Marai has received a Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The paper describes the development of a supervised contrastive learning model for predicting a delayed-onset, significant toxicity associated with radiation therapy treatment for head and neck cancer. Date: March 23, 2026 - March 27, 2026 |