4–8 March：European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2026

European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2026 was held during 4–8 March in Wien, Austria. Student Tanaka S participated in the congress.

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Report by Tanaka Shinichi

I participated in ECR 2026 in Wien, Austria, during 4–8 March. ECR is the annual meeting of the European Association of Radiology, and is held in Wien every year. The topics are mostly in diagnostic radiology, whereas my study is at the interface between diagnostics and therapeutics. I was interested in this congress because Europe would be one of my potential destinations for academic positions. This congress was very large, with 11.376 submitted abstracts; presenters came from Argentina, India, China, Korea, Japan, and other non-European countries as well.

My presentation was accepted as an EPOS pulse, which is poster-based presentation with invitation to six-minute casual oral presentation. I presented my study on 6 March, titled Diagnosis of Grade Group in prostate cancer at biopsy-level accuracy using deep learning with non-linear fixed kernel on MRI. EPOS pulse is a casual oral presentation without chairpersons. The presentation date and time were arbitrarily chosen by the presenters; presentations from completely different fields are held at the same time slot. Hence, audiences come to a particular presentation rather than to a session. As a result, the popularity of each presentation was clearly visible; this situation is much more severe for presenters than in normal oral sessions, in which the audiences’ level of interest in a given presentation is not clearly expressed. As far as I observed, the number of audience members was about 20 at most, usually three or four, and two at minimum. For my presentation, fortunately, about 20 audiences members attended, although it was not clear whether they were interested in my study or had come simply by chance.

I would appreciate everyone who gave me the opportunity to understand the current trends and level of research in radiology in Europe.