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Julio Silva-Rodríguez

Reliable Machine Learning
Computer Vision · Medical Imaging
ETH Zürich
jusilva (at) ethz.ch


About

My research focuses on developing machine learning methods with active reliability at deployment, with particular emphasis on high-stakes computer vision and medical imaging applications.

My goals are to:
  • Improve reliability under data constraints.
  • Control and monitor model performance.
Currently, my main research interests involve:
  • Pre-training and adaptation of specialized vision-language models.
  • Conformal prediction and related frameworks providing statistically grounded guarantees.

My work spans a broad range of generalist and medical imaging domains and modalities, including: histopathology, volumetric radiology, retinal fundus imaging, and endoscopic video.

I'm always open to new collaborations — drop me an email!

News

  • [10/26] 🆕 Best paper award at the 4th MICCAI Workshop on foundation models! 🏅
  • [09/26] 🆕 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS'26! 🎉 .
  • [06/26] 🆕 1 paper accepted at MICCAI'26! 🎉 .
  • [03/26] Serving as Area Chair at MICCAI.
  • [01/26] Awarded with the ETH Focus Grant! 💰
  • [07/25] Keynote talk at UQinMIA on conformal prediction for medical VLMs.
  • [07/25] Co-organizing FMLLM tutorial on medical foundation models.
  • [06/25] 3 papers accepted at MICCAI'25.
  • [05/25] 1 paper early-accepted at MICCAI'25 - see you in Daejeon! 🎉
  • [02/25] 1 work on conformal prediction for VLMs has been accepted at CVPR'25! 🎉 .
  • [02/25] 2 papers accepted at IPMI'25 on medical VLMs! 🎉 .
  • [01/25] FLAIR, the first VLM for fundus images has finally been published at MedIA 📜 .
  • [05/24] 2 papers accepted at MICCAI'24! 🎉 .
  • [03/24] 1 work on few-shot CLIP adaptation is accepted to CVPR'24! 🎉 .
  • [08/23] Best paper award at the 1st MICCAI Workshop on foundation models! 🏅
  • [04/23] Awarded the Postdoctoral Merit Scholarship for Foreign Students (PBEEE) from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ)! 💰
  • [06/22] 1 paper about unsupervised brain lesion segmentation is accepted to MedIA 📜 .
  • [06/20] Our article on prostate histology grading - SICAPv2 dataset - is accepted at CMPB.

Selected Publications

  1. NeurIPS'26
    Scaling Full Conformal Image Classifiers
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ender Konukoglu
    NeurIPS, 2026.  
    PDF Code
  2. MedIA
    A Foundation Language-Image Model of the Retina (FLAIR): Encoding Expert Knowledge in Text Supervision
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez et al.
    Medical Image Analysis, 2025.  
    PDF Code Project Page BibTex Poster Slides -Open weights (>500 downloads/month)
  3. CVPR'25
    Conformal Prediction for Zero-Shot Models
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ismail Ben Ayed, Jose Dolz
    CVPR, 2025.  
    PDF Code Project Page BibTex Poster
  4. CVPR'24
    A Closer Look at the Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez et al.
    CVPR, 2024.  
    PDF Code Project Page BibTex Poster Slides
  5. MICCAI'26
    Trustworthy Endoscopic Super-Resolution
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ender Konukoglu
    MICCAI, 2026.  
    PDF Code Poster
  6. IPMI'25
    Full Conformal Adaptation of Medical Vision-Language Models
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez et al.
    IPMI, 2025.  
    PDF Code BibTex Slides -Oral
  7. MICCAI'25
    Trustworthy Few-Shot Transfer of Medical VLMs through Split Conformal Prediction
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ismail Ben Ayed, Jose Dolz
    MICCAI, 2025.  
    PDF Code
  8. IPMI'25
    A Reality Check of Vision-Language Pre-training in Radiology: Have We Progressed Using Text?
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed
    IPMI, 2025.  
    PDF Code Project Page BibTex Poster Slides
  9. MICCAI'25
    Few-Shot, Now for Real: Medical VLMs Adaptation without Balanced Sets or Validation
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez et al.
    MICCAI, 2025.  
    PDF Code
  10. MedIA
    Towards Foundation Models and Few-Shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Volumetric Organ Segmentation
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed
    Medical Image Analysis, 2025.  
    PDF Code Project Page BibTex Poster Slides
  11. CMPB
    Going deeper through the Gleason scoring scale: An automatic end-to-end system for histology prostate grading and cribriform pattern detection
    Julio Silva-Rodríguez et al.
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2020.  
    PDF Code BibTex Dataset -SICAPv2 (+6.2K downloads)

Talks, Tutorials

  1. Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
    MICCAIw'26: Int. Workshop on Foundation Models for General Medical AI (MedAGI)
    [10/26] Strasbourg, France 🇫🇷 -
    Slides -Best Paper Award 🏅
  2. Uncertainty Quantification for Medical Foundation Models
    MICCAI'25 Tutorials: Uncertainty Quantification in Medical Image Analysis (UQinMIA)
    [09/25] Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷 -
    Slides Code -Invited Keynote
  3. Foundational models for segmentation
    MICCAI'25 Tutorials: From Foundational to Multimodal Models for Medical Imaging (FMLLM)
    [09/25] Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷 -
    Slides -Tutorial co-organizer
  4. Towards Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Retinal Image Analysis
    APTOS-JSAIO'25 - invited faculty symposium on foundation models.
    [06/25] Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵 -
    Slides -Invited Faculty
  5. Full Conformal Adaptation of Medical Vision-Language Models
    IPMI'25 Oral Presentation
    [05/25] Kos, Greece 🇬🇷 -
    Slides
  6. Towards Trustworthy Vision-Language Models trough Conformal Prediction
    CentraleSupélec - Mathematics and Bioinformathics (MICS) research group.
    [01/25] Paris, France 🇫🇷 -
    Slides
  7. Conformal Prediction for Zero-Shot Models
    Sorbonne Université - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique (ISIR).
    [01/25] Paris, France 🇫🇷 -
    Slides
  8. Foundation Models for Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
    MICCAI'24 Tutorials: Foundation Models For Medical Imaging (FOMMIA)
    [10/24] Marrakech, Morocco 🇲🇦 -
    Slides -Tutorial co-organizer
  9. Few-Shot Adaptation of Medical Vision-Language Models
    MICCAI'24 Spotlight Presentation
    [10/24] Marrakech, Morocco 🇲🇦 -
    Slides
  10. Hands-on: Few-Shot Adaptation of Medical VLMs
    Summer School on Deep Learning for Medical Imaging (DLMI) - ÉTS Montréal (MICCAI endorsed).
    [07/24] Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 -
    Slides Code -Tutorial organizer
  11. A Reality Check of Vision-Language Pre-training in Radiology
    Montréal 2024 Medical Imaging Workshop.
    [05/24] Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 -
    Slides
  12. A Closer Look at the Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
    Interview at CVPR'24 Pre-show - Voxel51.
    [04/24] Online 🌐 -
    Video Slides Posts Medium
  13. FLAIR: A Foundation Vision-Language Model of the Retina
    Montréal 2023 Medical Imaging Workshop.
    [10/23] Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 -
    Slides
  14. Towards Foundation Models and Few-Shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Volumetric Organ Segmentation
    MICCAIw'23: Int. Workshop on Foundation Models for General Medical AI (MedAGI)
    [10/23] Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 -
    Slides -Best Paper Award 🏅

Last updated: September 2026