CFP: Ethics in Clinical AI Applications Workshop @ IJCAI–ECAI 2026

[Roland Roller]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop "Ethics in Clinical AI Applications (ETHICAIA)", to be held in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI 2026.

🌐 Website: https://ethicaia.loria.fr/
📍 Location: Bremen, Germany
📅 Workshop dates: August 15–17, 2026 (TBC)
📝 Submission deadline: May 25, 2026

About the workshop

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in clinical contexts—supporting diagnosis, risk prediction, treatment planning, and patient interaction. However, these applications raise critical ethical challenges related to fairness, bias, accountability, transparency, privacy, and patient safety.

ETHICAIA provides a dedicated forum to explore these issues as an integral part of AI research, not as an afterthought. We particularly emphasize the connection between ethical concerns and the robustness and real-world reliability of clinical AI systems, including challenges such as data shifts, uncertainty, and deployment conditions.

We welcome contributions from across AI fields, including machine learning, NLP, computer vision, multimodal systems, and foundation models in healthcare.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Fairness, bias, and representation in clinical AI
• Ethical challenges in clinical decision support
• Robustness and resilience under real-world conditions
• Multimodal and foundation models in healthcare
• Explainability, accountability, and contestability
• Human–AI interaction and shared decision-making
• Privacy, consent, and secondary use of clinical data
• Synthetic data: benefits and ethical risks
• Evaluation beyond accuracy (metrics, benchmarks, validation)
• Regulatory and governance challenges
• Real-world case studies and failure analyses
• Ethical-by-design methodologies for clinical AI

See you hopefully in Bremen!

Best,
Roland Roller (DFKI), Karën Fort (Universite de Lorraine/ LORIA), Massimo Esposito (ICAR-CNR), Paolo Soda (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma/ Umeå universitet)