GRNET, coordinator of PHAROS AI Factory, participated in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026 (CVPR 2026), held from 3 to 7 June 2026 at the Colorado Convention Center. The PHAROS AI Factory for Medical Imaging & Healthcare Workshop and Competition brought together researchers and practitioners working on AI applications in medical imaging and healthcare.
The workshop provided a dedicated forum for discussing the transparent, secure and human-centred use of Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging and healthcare. Building on PHAROS AI Factory and its healthcare vertical, the programme brought together researchers and practitioners working across AI, medical imaging, data science and clinical innovation, with a focus on trustworthy and privacy-preserving AI solutions for healthcare applications.
Stefanos Kollias, Professor Emeritus at the National Technical University of Athens, Chairman of the Board of GRNET and Coordinator of the PHAROS AI Factory EU Project, contributed to the workshop, highlighting the role of PHAROS in supporting the development of advanced
AI methods that can be translated into robust, reliable and deployable healthcare solutions.
The programme included keynote talks from leading experts, technical paper presentations and a competition focusing on two important healthcare challenges: Multi-Source COVID-19 Detection and Fair Disease Diagnosis. Through real-world datasets and fairness-aware evaluation protocols, the competition aimed to promote robust performance across different healthcare settings and equitable outcomes across demographic groups.
PHAROS AI Factory for Medical Imaging & Healthcare reflects the growing importance of transparent, secure and high-performance AI systems for medical decision support, while fostering benchmarking, collaboration and innovation across the medical imaging and healthcare community in Europe and beyond.
GRNET’s participation in CVPR 2026 reaffirms its strategic role in developing advanced national digital infrastructures and supporting the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in research, innovation and digital transformation.
To explore the workshop programme in more detail, visit the official CVPR 2026 website here.
