BME PhD student Cosmas Mwikirize received a best paper award at the 2017 MICCAI conference workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures. The paper was reporting on a machine learning method for automatic and accurate localization of needles with 3D ultrasound data. Cosmas is part of the CompAST laboratory and is supervised by Prof. Hacihaliloglu. The annual MICCAI meeting is the premier conference in medical image computing and computer assisted interventions.