The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Constructing a Criteria Assessment Framework for Early Medtech Innovation Projects at China's Proof of Concept Centers
Fuping Pai

Detecting Gait Changes with Front-Facing Video and MediaPipe: A Hemiplegic Patient Case Study
Yasutaka Uchida, Tomoko Funayama, Eiichi Ohkubo, Daisuke Souma, Yoshiaki Kogure

Evaluation of Segmentation Schemes for Noisy and Denoised Dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Images
Simin Mirzaei, Hamid Reza Tohidypour, Shahriar Mirabbasi, Panos Nasiopoulos

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Effective Allocation of High-cost Medical Equipment Using Optimization Algorithms [PRESENTATION]
Norbert Doraczyńsk, Maciej Buńkowski, Michał Orleański

A Grounded Theory Study on Developing Competency Models for Technical Managers in Transformation of Medical R&D Findings
Qiufan Sun, Zhimin Hu