25th UK Conference on

Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

12 - 14 July 2021

University of Oxford

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COVID-19 Update

Due to future uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have regretfully decided to cancel the physical meeting this year and move MIUA 2021 to a virtual context. The safety and well-being of MIUA participants is our top priority, therefore we believe that fully virtual meeting is the only viable option to run this conference smoothly.

As MIUA 2021 goes virtual this year, we will be using a virtual events platform across all three days, which will enable all of us to meet virtually, present the accepted papers and moderate live question and answer sessions, and deliver associated seminars and tutorials. The detailed schedule and guidelines about presentation will be released in due course. The conference registration fee will be reduced to reflect this change.

We appreciate the work that has gone into preparing contributions, hence we are still welcoming paper submissions until 28th March 2021 using our online submission system. Please note that this deadline is final and no further extensions can be granted at this point. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted articles will be published as MIUA Proceedings by the Springer Publishing Group.

Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to delivering MIUA 2021 in a way that is rewarding for our authors and interesting for the research community as a whole.

Scope

MIUA is a UK-based international conference for the communication of image processing and analysis research and its application to medical imaging and biomedicine. This is a rapidly growing subject with ever increasing real-world applicability.

MIUA welcomes all researchers in medical imaging including mathematicians, computer scientists, bioinformaticians, clinicians, engineers and bioscientists.

MIUA is the principal UK forum for communicating research progress within the community interested in image analysis applied to medicine and related biological science. The meeting is designed for the dissemination and discussion of research in medical image understanding and analysis, and aims to encourage the growth and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field by bringing together the various communities including among others:

Brain imaging Cancer Cardiac Imaging Circulation and Microcirculation
Computational anatomy and physiology Computed Tomography Dermatology Imaging Physics
In-vivo intravital imaging Inflammation Magnetic Resonance Imaging Microscopy
Neurology Novel Imaging Methods Ophthalmology Optical Imaging
Positron Emission Imaging Radiology Tissue Perfusion Ultrasound

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar

The John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge

Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar

The John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge

Biography: Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London, and a Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA.

Mihaela was elected IEEE Fellow in 2009. She has received numerous awards, including the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and several best paper awards, including the IEEE Darlington Award.

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Dr. Ben Glocker

Reader in Machine Learning for Imaging at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London

Dr. Ben Glocker

Reader in Machine Learning for Imaging at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London

Biography: Ben Glocker is Reader in Machine Learning for Imaging at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London where he co-leads the Biomedical Image Analysis Group. He also leads the HeartFlow-Imperial Research Team and is scientific advisor for Kheiron Medical Technologies and a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He holds a PhD from TU Munich and was a postdoc at Microsoft and a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research is at the intersection of medical imaging and artificial intelligence aiming to build computational tools for improving image-based detection and diagnosis of disease.

Prof. Aris Papageorghiou

Professor of Fetal Medicine and the Clinical Research Director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute

Prof. Aris Papageorghiou

Professor of Fetal Medicine and the Clinical Research Director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute

Biography: Aris is a Professor of Fetal Medicine and the Clinical Research Director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute. He leads a number of research projects focused in the areas of maternal, fetal and perinatal health and using diverse methods - including basic science, clinical epidemiology, trials, knowledge transfer and implementation science. A major research interests is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in pregnancy imaging and screening, and for several years he has worked with biomedical engineers on these problems. Through this work, Aris co-founded the Oxford University spin-out, Intelligent Ultrasound.

Important Dates

Submission System Opens January 2021 (Open now)
Paper Submission Deadline 28th March 2021
Author Notification (Regular Papers) 4th May 2021
Camera-ready regular papers due 14th May 2021
Conference Abstract Submission deadline 31st May 2021
Author Notification (Conference Abstracts) 15th June 2021
Camera-ready conference abstracts due 22nd June 2021
Conference 12th - 14th July 2021

Call for Papers / Author Instructions

Consent for Publication
All accepted papers must fill and submit the consent to publish form. Please download and submit to CMT.

Camera-ready submission
All accepted papers must submit the following documents to CMT.
1- The paper in PDF format
2- The source of your paper. If the paper is written using MS Word, please submit the Word file. If the paper is written using LaTex, please compress all source files and submit one zip file.
3- The Consent for publication form (see above).

You are invited to submit your abstract paper to MIUA 2021 which will be held in Oxford, UK. The abstract paper submission system is now open.

The full paper submission deadline will be 23:59, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), on 28th March 2021.

The abstract paper submission deadline will be 23:59, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), on 31st May 2021.

High-quality papers are requested, containing original contributions to the topics within the scope of MIUA.

Paper Submissions:
For the 25th MIUA conference, we welcome submissions, as regular conference papers and conference abstracts.

Regular papers: Authors are invited to submit full papers of length between 8 and 15 pages (1 column – the LNCS template) showing original research contributions under the topics of the conference. All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed and accepted articles will be published as MIUA Proceedings by the Springer Publishing Group.

Conference abstracts: Authors are invited to submit short papers of length up to 3 pages excluding references (1 column – the LNCS template) showing proof-of-concept research contributions under the topics of the conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted articles will be published as MIUA Abstract Proceedings on the MIUA website.

Accepted papers will be published in the MIUA proceedings in the Springer LNCS Series. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

MIUA continues to foster fairness, diversity, and inclusion within its community. Submissions from typically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged.

Review Process
MIUA seeks your assistance as an expert reviewer for this annual conference. If you would like to review for MIUA, please contact us via: miua2021(at)eng.ox.ac.uk or twitter @miua2021. Please share this CfP with colleagues who might want to contribute to MIUA2021.

Registration Information

We are delighted to inform you that the registration fees will be reduced from normal registration fees for this year’s meeting.

Student registration fee is £40

Non-student registration fee is £60

Please follow this link to register your attendance and your paper: Register now!.

Conference Programme (all times are in GMT+1)

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Monday 12th July 2021

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome/opening remarks
09.15 – 10.45 Oral Session 1 (Biomarker Detection)
Session chairs: Michael Brady & Reyer Zwiggelaar

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Exploring the Correlation between Deep Learned and Clinical Features in Melanoma Detection [pdf]
    Tamal Chowdhury, Angad R. S. Bajwa, Tapabrata Chakraborty, Jens Rittscher, Umapada Pal
  • A comparison of computer vision methods for the combined detection of Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy and Cataracts [pdf]
    Jarred Orfao, Dustin T. van der Haar
  • Prostate Cancer Detection Using Image-based Features in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI [pdf]
    Liping Wang, Yuanjie Zheng, Andrik Rampun, Reyer Zwiggelaar

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Controlling False Positive/Negative Rates for Deep-Learning-Based Prostate Cancer Detection on Multiparametric MR images [pdf]
    Zhe Min, Fernando J. Bianco, Qianye Yang, Rachael Rodell, Wen Yan, Dean Barratt, Yipeng Hu
  • Optimising Knee Injury Detection with Spatial Attention and Validating Localisation Ability [pdf]
    Niamh Belton, Ivan Welaratne, Adil Dahlan, Ronan T. Hearne, Misgina Tsighe Hagos, Aonghus Lawlor, Kathleen M. Curran
  • An Efficient One-stage Detector for Real-Time Surgical Tools Detection in Robot-assisted Surgery [pdf]
    Yu Yang, Zijian Zhao, Pan Shi, Sanyuan Hu
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote Lecture
By Prof Aris Papageorghiou
Title: Ultrasound in Fetal and Maternal Health
Session chair: Mohammad Yaqub
12.00 – 13.30 Oral Session 2 (Image Segmentation)
Session chairs: Heba Sailem & Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Deep learning-based landmark localisation in the liver for Couinaud segmentation [pdf]
    Zobair Arya, Gerard Ridgway, Arun Jandor, Paul Aljabar
  • Reproducibility of retinal vascular phenotypes obtained with optical coherence tomography angiography: importance of vessel segmentation [pdf]
    Darwon Rashid, Sophie Cai, Ylenia Giarratano, Calum Gray, Charlene Hamid, Dilraj S. Grewal, Tom MacGillivray, Sharon Fekrat, Cason B. Robbins, Srinath Soundarajan, Justin P. Ma, Miguel O. Bernabeu
  • Fast automatic bone surface segmentation in ultrasound images without machine learning [pdf]
    Shihfan Jack Tu, Jules Morel, Minsi Chen, Stephen J. Mellon

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Pancreas Volumetry in UK Biobank: Comparison of Models and Inference at Scale [pdf]
    James Owler, Alexandre Triay Bagur, Scott Marriage, Zobair Arya, Paul Aljabar, John McGonigle, Michael Brady, Daniel Bulte
  • Ensemble of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Monte Carlo Dropout Sampling for Automated Image Segmentation Quality Control and Robust Deep Learning Using Small Datasets [pdf]
    Evan Hann, Ricardo A. Gonzales, Iulia A. Popescu, Qiang Zhang, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Stefan K. Piechnik
  • Reducing Textural Bias Improves Robustness of Deep Segmentation Models [pdf]
    Seoin Chai, Daniel Rueckert, Ahmed E. Fetit
13.30 – 14.00 Break
14.00 – 15.00 Oral Session 3 (Image enhancement, quality assessment, and data privacy)
Session chairs: Maria Valdes Hernandez & Claudia Lindner

4 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 20 minutes Q&A
  • Comparison of Privacy-Preserving Distributed Deep Learning Methods in Healthcare [pdf]
    Manish Gawali, Arvind C. S., Shriya Suryavanshi, Harshit Madaan, Ashrika Gaikwad, Bhanu Prakash K. N., Viraj Kulkarni, Aniruddha Pant
  • MAFIA-CT: MAchine learning tool For Image quality Assessment in Computed Tomography [pdf]
    Thiago V. M. Lima, Silvan Melchior, Ismail Ozden, Egbert Nitzsche, J ̈org Binder, Gerd Lutters
  • Echocardiographic Image Quality Assessment Using Deep Neural Networks [pdf]
    Robert B. Labs, Massoud Zolgharni, Jonathan P. Loo
  • Robust Automatic Montaging of Adaptive Optics Flood Illumination Retinal Images [pdf]
    Eva Valterova, Franziska G. Rauscher, Radim Kolar
15.00 – 16.00 Poster session and networking (individual rooms for each presenter of the day)
16.00 – 17.00 Workshop: by MathWorks, Title: 3-D Brain Tumour Segmentation using Deep Learning with MATLAB
Session chair: Bartek Papież
17.00 – 17.05 Day 1 closing


Tuesday 13th July 2021

09.00 – 10.00 Oral Session 4 (Image Registration and reconstruction)
Session chairs: Sharib Ali & Tryphon Lambrou

4 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 20 minutes Q&A
  • Virtual imaging for patient information on radiotherapy planning and delivery for prostate cancer [pdf]
    Miguel Martinez-Albaladejo, Josep Sule-Suso, David Lines, James Bisson, Simon Jassal, Craig Edwards
  • Data-Driven Speed-of-Sound Reconstruction for Medical Ultrasound: Impacts of Training Data Format and Imperfections on Convergence [pdf]
    Farnaz Khun Jush, Peter Michael Dueppenbecker, Andreas Maier
  • Selective motion artefact reduction via radiomics and k-space reconstruction for improving perivascular space quantification in brain magnetic resonance imaging [pdf]
    Jose Bernal, William Xu, Maria del C. Valdes-Hernandez, Javier Escudero, Angela C. C. Jochems, Una Clancy, Fergus N. Doubal, Michael S. Stringer, Michael J. Thrippleton, Rhian M. Touyz, Joanna M. Wardlaw
  • Mass Univariate Regression Analysis for Three-Dimensional Liver Image-Derived Phenotypes [pdf]
    Marjola Thanaj, Nicolas Basty, Yi Liu, Madeleine Cule, Elena P. Sorokin, E. Louise Thomas, Jimmy D. Bell, Brandon Whitcher
10.00 – 10.15 Break
10.15 – 11.00 Oral Session 5 (Biomarker detection)
Session chairs: Bogdan Matuszewski & Guang Yang

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Improved artifact detection in endoscopy imaging through profile pruning [pdf]
    Ziang Xu, Sharib Ali, Soumya Gupta, Numan Celik, Jens Rittscher
  • Automatic Detection of Extra-cardiac Findings in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance [pdf]
    Dewmini Hasara Wickremasinghe, Natallia Khenkina, Pier-Giorgio Masci, Andrew P. King, Esther Puyol-Anton
  • Brain-Connectivity Analysis to Differentiate Phasmophobic and Non-phasmophobic: An EEG Study [pdf]
    Suhita Karmakar, Dipayan Dewan, Lidia Ghosh, Abir Chowdhury, Amit Konar, Atulya K. Nagar
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 12.15 Keynote Lecture
By Prof Mihaela van der Schaar
Title: The Role of Imaging in Machine Learning for Healthcare
Session chair: Alison Noble
12.15 – 12.45 Break
12.45 – 14.00 Oral Session 6 (Classification)
Session chairs: Harshita Sharma & Michael Brady

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Dopamine Transporter SPECT Image Classification for Neurodegenerative Parkinsonism via Diffusion Maps and Machine Learning Classifiers [pdf]
    Jun-En Ding, Chi-Hsiang Chu, Mong-Na Lo Huang, Chien-Ching Hsu
  • BRAIN2DEPTH: Lightweight CNN Model for Classification of Cognitive States from EEG Recordings [pdf]
    Pankaj Pandey, Krishna Prasad Miyapuram
  • D’OraCa: Deep Learning-based Classification of Oral Lesions with Mouth Landmark Guidance for Early Detection of Oral Cancer [pdf]
    Jian Han Lim, Chun Shui Tan, Chee Seng Chan, Roshan Alex Welikala, Paolo Remagnino, Senthilmani Rajendran, Thomas George Kallarakkal, Rosnah Binti Zain, Ruwan Duminda Jayasinghe, Jyotsna Rimal, Alexander Ross Kerr, Rahmi Amtha, Karthikeya Patil, Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Tilakaratne, John Gibson, Sok Ching Cheong, Sarah Ann Barman

2 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 10 minutes Q&A
  • Towards Linking CNN Decisions with Cancer Signs for Breast Lesion Classification from Ultrasound Images [pdf]
    Ali Eskandari, Hongbo Du, Alaa AlZoubi
  • Improving Generalization of ENAS-based CNN Models for Breast Lesion Classification from Ultrasound Images [pdf]
    Mohammed Ahmed, Alaa AlZoubi, Hongbo Du
14.00 – 14.15 Break
14.15 – 14.45 Lightning presentation for abstracts (pre-recorded)
  • Variationally Bayesian Medical Image Reconstruction Applied to X-ray Tomography [pdf]
    Jonas Latz; Sergio Bacallado; Claire Delplancke; Matthias Ehrhardt; Carola-Bibiane B Schönlieb
  • Evaluation of Data Augmentation for GAN with Limited Histological Datasets [pdf]
    Ramzi Hamdi; Clément CB Bouvier; Thierry Delzescaux; Cédric Clouchoux
  • Developing a framework for CBCT-to-CT synthesis in paediatric abdominal radiotherapy [pdf]
    Adam Szmul; Sabrina Taylor; Pei Lim; Jessica Cantwell; Derek D'Souza; Syed Moinuddin; Mark Gaze; Jennifer Gains; Catarina Veiga
  • Segmentation of Skin Lesions by Superpixel Classification with Graph-Context CNN [pdf]
    Angel Victor Juanco Muller; Corné Hoogendoorn; Joao F.C. Mota
  • An U-Net-based Regression model incorporating parametricdescription of the prostate [pdf]
    Artur Kos
  • Early detection and classification of Parkinson’s disease using machine learning algorithms
    Sara Shahzadeh; Mohammad Mohammadzadeh; Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseini
14.45 – 15.45 Poster session and networking (individual rooms for each presenter of the day)
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Workshop: by NVIDIA, Title: Optimising deep learning solutions with PyTorch and TensorFlow
Session chair: Ana Namburete
17.00 – 17.05 Day 2 closing


Wednesday 14th July 2021

09.00 – 10.00 Oral Session 7 (Image Registration and reconstruction)
Session chairs: Saad Jbabdi & Yalin Zheng

4 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 20 minutes Q&A
  • Automatic re-orientation of 3D echocardiographic images in virtual reality using deep learning [pdf]
    Lindsay Munroe, Gina Sajith, Ei Lin, Surjava Bhattacharya, Kuberan Pushparajah, John Simpson, Julia A. Schnabel, Gavin V. Wheeler, Alberto Gomez, Shujie Deng
  • A simulation study to estimate optimum LOR angular acceptance for the image reconstruction with the Total-Body J-PET [pdf]
    Meysam Dadgar, Szymon Parzych, Faranak Tayefi Ardebili
  • Optimised Misalignment Correction from Cine MR Slices using Statistical Shape Model [pdf]
    Abhirup Banerjee, Ernesto Zacur, Robin P. Choudhury, Vicente Grau
  • Slice-to-Volume Registration Enables Automated Pancreas MRI Quantification in UK Biobank [pdf]
    Alexandre Triay Bagur, Paul Aljabar, Zobair Arya, John McGonigle, Michael Brady, Daniel Bulte
10.00 – 10.15 Break
10.15 – 11.15 Keynote Lecture
By Dr. Ben Glocker
Title: Towards Safer AI in Medical Imaging
Session chair: Ana Namburete
11.15 – 12.15 Poster session and networking (individual rooms for each presenter of the day)
12.15 – 13.15 Break
13.15 – 14.30 Oral Session 8 (Biomedical simulation and modelling (incl. generative models)
Session chairs: Robail Yasrab & Jens Rittscher

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, 15 min QA for all papers
  • HDR-Like Image Generation to Mitigate Adverse Wound Illumination Using Deep Bi-directional Retinex and Exposure Fusion [pdf]
    Songlin Hou, Clifford Lindsay, Emmanuel Agu, Peder Pedersen, Bengisu Tulu, Diane Strong
  • Deep learning-based bias transfer for overcoming laboratory differences of microscopic images [pdf]
    Ann-Katrin Thebille, Esther Dietrich, Martin Klaus, Lukas Gernhold, Maximilian Lennartz, Christoph Kuppe, Rafael Kramann, Tobias B. Huber, Guido Sauter, Victor G. Puelles, Marina Zimmermann, Stefan Bonn
  • Dense Depth Estimation from Stereo Endoscopy Videos Using Unsupervised Optical Flow Methods [pdf]
    Zixin Yang, Richard Simon, Yangming Li, Cristian A. Linte

2 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, 10 min QA for all papers
  • Image Augmentation using a Task Guided Generative Adversarial Network for Age Estimation on Brain MRI [pdf]
    Ruizhe Li, Matteo Bastiani, Dorothee Auer, Christian Wagner, Xin Chen
  • First Trimester Gaze Pattern Estimation Using Stochastic Augmentation Policy Search for Single Frame Saliency Prediction [pdf]
    Elizaveta Savochkina, Lok Hin Lee, Lior Drukker, Aris T. Papageorghiou, J. Alison Noble
14.30 – 14.45 Break
14.45 – 15.30 Oral Session 9 (Radiomics, predictive models, and quantitative imaging biomarkers)
Session chairs: Omar Al-Kadi & Xujiong Ye

3 oral presentations: 10 min presentation each, followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • End-to-End Deep Learning Vector Autoregressive Prognostic Models to Predict Disease Progression with Uneven Time Intervals [pdf]
    Joshua Bridge, Simon Harding, Yalin Zheng
  • Radiomics-Led Monitoring of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients During Radiotherapy [pdf]
    Roushanak Rahmat, David Harris-Birtill, David Finn, Yang Feng, Dean Montgomery, William H. Nailon, Stephen McLaughlin
  • Deep learning classification of cardiomegaly using combined imaging and non-imaging ICU data [pdf]
    Declan Grant, Bartlomiej W. Papiez, Guy Parsons, Lionel Tarassenko, Adam Mahdi
15.30 – 15.45 Closing remarks, Prizes, and MIUA 2022 Presentation

Our Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by the following patrons:

MathWorks

Premium Sponsorship

Brainomix

Basic Sponsorship

Journal of Imaging

Basic Sponsorship

Oxford University Innovation

Basic Sponsorship

Awards

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by the following patrons to sponsor the following awards:

IET

Students best and runner up papers

NVIDIA

Best paper award

Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee is comprised of academic members from the Medical Sciences Division (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences [NDCN], and The Big Data Institute [BDI]) and the Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division (Institute of Biomedical Engineering [IBME]), representing Oxford’s core strategic partners in medical imaging research.

Bartlomiej Papiez

Research Fellow at the Big Data Institute.

Bartlomiej Papiez

BDI, Oxford

Mohammad Yaqub

Assistant Professor at MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi) and Research Fellow at NDCN (Oxford).

Mohammad Yaqub

MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi and NDCN, Oxford

Jianbo Jiao

Researcher at the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) group and the Visual Geometry Group (VGG), Engineering SCience.

Jianbo
Jiao

IBME & VGG, Oxford

Ana Namburete

Royal Academy Research Fellow based at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Ana
Namburete

IBME, Oxford

Alison Noble

Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Alison
Noble

IBME, Oxford

Contact Us

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miua2021@eng.ox.ac.uk

@miua2021


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