Workshop Title: CMMCA2026: The 5th Workshop on Computational Mathematics Modeling in Cancer Analysis
Workshop Date: Saturday, September 27th, 2026 (8:00 – 10:30)
Website: https://cmmca.github.io/CMMCA2026/
Brief Introduction: CMMCA 2026 brings together researchers and clinicians to advance mathematically grounded, interpretable approaches to multimodal cancer data analysis. This year’s themes encompass spatial tumor ecosystems, generalizable multi-omics modeling for radiotherapy, and AI methods ranging from classical machine learning to foundation models. Contributions explore imaging reconstruction, cross-modal synthesis, tumor microenvironment analysis, biophysical simulation, and prognostic prediction, connecting computational innovations with biological understanding across scales to support precision oncology and address challenges in clinical translation.

Session 1: Keynote Session
Session Chairs: Prof.Wenjian Qin, Dr.Jia Wu
Time Paper Title
8:00–8:10 Open Remarks
8:10–8:30 Keynote: From Histology to Spatial Tumor Ecosystems:
Multimodal AI for Cancer Analysis

Prof. Tingying Peng, Helmholtz Munich
8:30–8:50 Keynote: Towards Generalizable Multi-Omics Modeling for Radiation Therapy
Prof. Jing Cai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
8:50–9:10 Keynote: AI in Cancer Research: From Classical Machine Learning to Foundation Models, and Beyond
Prof. Yalin Zheng, University of Liverpool

Session 2: Oral Session
Session Chairs: Prof.Wenjian Qin
Time Paper Title
9:10–9:18 Oral 1 - Murari Ambati
The Glioma Epigenome as a Potential Landscape: A Continuous G-CIMP Erosion Coordinate that the Methylation Class Discards
9:18–9:26 Oral2 - Hongjie Zhu
TriSCoV-Net: Cross-Scale Verified Virtual Immunomarker Proxy Generation from Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
9:26–9:34 Oral3 - Wenyuan Huang
Pulmonary Vascular Fractal Dimension on Non-Contrast Planning CT as a Potential Imaging Biomarker for Early Radiation-Induced Lung Injury: A Multi-Scale Structural Analysis
9:34–9:42 Oral4 - Zhitong Li
OncoRelay3D: Foundation-Model-Assisted Reconstruction of 3D Tumor Cell-Expression Fields for Mechanism-Aware Directed Cell-Cell Communication

Poster Presentation Section
1. ID-7: Nerve-Centric Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Tumor–Nerve Interaction Modeling in Survival Prediction
HanWenNan, Ying Cao, Bingxue Wang, Zhenghua Cai, Yingying Cao, Xiuyuan Zhang, Chunjun Qian, Luying Gui
2. ID-6: Bridging Slices to Volumes: Anatomy-Guided Latent Diffusion for 3D-Consistent MR-to-CT Synthesis in Radiotherapy
Yao Pu, Zhiqing Zhang, Peixin Yu, Mayang Zhao, Yitao Zhuang, Zhenxi Zhang, Jing Cai, Ge Ren
3. ID-5: D²TMIL: Disentangled Dual-Task Multiple Instance Learning for 1p/19q Status Prediction from Whole Slide Images
Xiangyu Zhao, Jiaxin Hou, Ranran Zhang, Hao Hu, Yanhua Lu, Ben Jin, Miaoxia He, Wenjian Qin
4. ID-4: Shared-Private Subspace Decomposition for Multi-Task Lung Cancer Classification in CT
Weiyi Chen, Chengcai Liu, Haolin Sang, Xingyu Huang, Chenghao Wang, Yi Wu, Jie Tian, Shuo Wang
5. ID-2: Zero-Shot Ultra-Quality 4D-MRI Motion Reconstruction Framework Based on Augmented Digital Phantom Pre-Training
Peilin Wang, Pengyuan Qi, Fan Zhang, Chenyang Liu, Lu Wang, Xiang Wang, Zhichu Li, Yimin Ni, Yenpeng Liao, Jie Deng, Zhiyong Yang, Zhaoheng Xie, Jing Cai, Tian Li
6. ID-19: A Differentiable Brain Tumor Mass Effect Solver
Marco L. Wittrich, Michal Balcerak, Lucas Zimmer, Ivan Ezhov, Bjoern Menze, Marie-Christin Metz, Benedikt Wiestler, Jonas Weidner
7. ID-14: Pulmonary Vascular Fractal Dimension on Non-Contrast Planning CT as a Potential Imaging Biomarker for Early Radiation-Induced Lung Injury: A Multi-Scale Structural Analysis
Wenyuan Huang, Lixin Ma, Jia Gu, Jiahui He, Xin Jiang, Wenjian Qin
8. ID-12: OncoRelay3D: Foundation-Model-Assisted Reconstruction of 3D Tumor Cell-Expression Fields for Mechanism-Aware Directed Cell-Cell Communication
Zhitong Li, Yixuan Jiang, Ziming Liu, Chenjie Wu, Ningfeng Que, Chao Li
9. ID-11: Free-breathing Time-resolved Cine MR Fingerprinting Using Self-supervised Motion Navigation for Liver Cancer Radiotherapy
Chenyang LIU, Xiang WANG, Lu Wang, peilin wang, Yimin NI, Fan Zhang, Victor Ho Fun Lee, Peng Cao, Tian Li, Jing Cai
10. ID-10: TriSCoV-Net: Cross-Scale Verified Virtual Immunomarker Proxy Generation from Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hongjie Zhu, Huayuan Zhou, Hao Tang, Hanyu Liu, Chao Li
11. ID-9: The Glioma Epigenome as a Potential Landscape: A Continuous G-CIMP Erosion Coordinate that the Methylation Class Discards
Murari Ambati