\documentclass{midl} % Include author names

% The following packages will be automatically loaded:
% jmlr, amsmath, amssymb, natbib, graphicx, url, algorithm2e
% ifoddpage, relsize and probably more
% make sure they are installed with your latex distribution
\input{preamble}

\usepackage{mwe} % to get dummy images
\jmlrvolume{-- 101}
\jmlryear{2026}
\jmlrworkshop{Full Paper -- MIDL 2026}
\editors{Accepted for publication at MIDL 2026}


\title[Vesselpose]{Vesselpose: Vessel Graph Reconstruction from Learned Voxel-wise Direction Vectors in 3D Vascular Images}

 % Use \Name{Author Name} to specify the name.
 % If the surname contains spaces, enclose the surname
 % in braces, e.g. \Name{John {Smith Jones}} similarly
 % if the name has a "von" part, e.g \Name{Jane {de Winter}}.
 % If the first letter in the forenames is a diacritic
 % enclose the diacritic in braces, e.g. \Name{{\'E}louise Smith}

 % Two authors with the same address
 % \midlauthor{\Name{Author Name1} \Email{abc@sample.edu}\and
 %  \Name{Author Name2} \Email{xyz@sample.edu}\\
 %  \addr Address}

 % Three or more authors with the same address:
 % \midlauthor{\Name{Author Name1} \Email{an1@sample.edu}\\
 %  \Name{Author Name2} \Email{an2@sample.edu}\\
 %  \Name{Author Name3} \Email{an3@sample.edu}\\
 %  \addr Address}


% Authors with different addresses:
% \midlauthor{\Name{Author Name1} \Email{abc@sample.edu}\\
% \addr Address 1
% \AND
% \Name{Author Name2} \Email{xyz@sample.edu}\\
% \addr Address 2
% }

%\footnotetext[1]{Contributed equally}
%\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.9}
%\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.85}
%\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.1}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.8}

% More complicate cases, e.g. with dual affiliations and joint authorship
\midlauthor{
\Name{Rajalakshmi Palaniappan\nametag{$^{1,2}$}}\Email{Rajalakshmi.Palaniappan@mdc-berlin.de}\\
\Name{Christoph Karg\nametag{$^{1}$}}\\
\Name{Nemesio Navarro-Arambula}\nametag{$^{3}$}\\
\Name{Peter Hirsch\nametag{$^{1,4}$}}\orcid{0000-0002-2353-5310}\\
\Name{Dagmar Kainmueller\midljointauthortext{Contributed equally}\nametag{$^{1,3,4}$}}\orcid{0000-0002-9830-2415
}\\
\Name{Lisa Mais\midlotherjointauthor\nametag{$^{1,3,4}$}}\orcid{0000-0002-9281-2668} \Email{Lisa.Mais@mdc-berlin.de}\\
\addr $^{1}$ Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), \\
\addr $^{2}$ Humboldt University of Berlin, 
\addr $^{3}$ University of Potsdam, 
\addr $^{4}$ Helmholtz Imaging
}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\input{abstract}

\begin{keywords}
Blood Vessel Reconstruction, Centerline Topology, Evaluation.
\end{keywords}

\input{introduction}
\input{method}
\input{evaluation}
\input{experiments}
\input{conclusion}

\clearpage  % Acknowledgements, references, and appendix do not count toward the page limit (if any)
% Acknowledgments---Will not appear in anonymized version
\midlacknowledgments{This work was supported by the Berlin Center for Translational Vascular Biomedicine through the project “Post-preeclampsia: common mechanisms in microvascular dysfunction cause long-term risks for cardiovascular and retinal end-organ damage” and by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Individual Research Grant UMDISTO (project no.\ 498181230). We thank Kristin Kraeker, Hanna Napieczy\'nska and the Animal Phenotyping Platform of the Max Delbr\"uck center for kindly providing unpublished rat heart data.   We thank the Kainmueller Lab for their support and feedback.}


\bibliography{midl26_101}


\appendix
\include{appendix}

\end{document}
