39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): First Call for Contributions

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*** First Call for Contributions ***

39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

(CBMS 2026)

June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus

https://2026.cbms-conference.org

Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based

medical systems, and one of the main conferences in the fields of medical informatics and

biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and technologies between

academic and industrial scientists. The scientific program of IEEE CBMS 2026 will consist

of regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by

an international program committee, as well as, keynote talks and tutorials given by

leading experts in their fields. The CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality

papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow researchers leading

international projects to show to the scientific community the main aims, goals, and

results of their projects. We solicit submissions on previously unpublished research work.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Example areas include but are not limited to:

• Active and Healthy Ageing System

• Analytics and solutions in Public Health

• Artificial intelligence in healthcare

• Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

• Bioinformatics

• Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design

• Biomedical Signal and Image Processing and Machine Vision

• Cognitive Computing in Healthcare

• Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare (CSCW)

• Databases and blockchain in Medicine or Healthcare

• Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery in Medicine or Healthcare

• Decision Support and Recommendation Systems in Medicine or Healthcare

• Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models

• e-Health

• Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine

• Explainable AI for Decision Support

• Generative AI and Foundational Models for Biomedicine

• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Healthcare

• Knowledge Representation in Medicine or Healthcare

• m-Health

• Medical education using ICT

• Medical Robotics, Intelligent Medical Devices, and Smart Technologies

• Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality

• Multimodality Data Analysis

• Network and Telemedicine Systems

• Pervasive Computing for Wearables

• Privacy and Security in Healthcare

• Radiomics and Radiogenomics

• Serious Games for Healthcare

• Software Systems in Medicine

• Technology in Clinical and Healthcare Services Research

• Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information

Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one

of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details.

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management

system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program

Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in

the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in

proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the

conference by one of the authors.

Type of Submissions

Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose

template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates .

The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three

types of submissions:

• Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible

to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for

more information.

• Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3

pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral

presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones.

• Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be

included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference.

The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the

conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the

poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length).

CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS

IEEE CBMS 2026 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in

parallel with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not

overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields.

All tracks are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging,

visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant

unpublished work and must meet the same standards as main conference papers. All

accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We expect all accepted

tracks to adhere to the conference paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined

in the dates indicated below.

Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure

a high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the

CBMS 2026 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals.

Special Track Requirements

The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations,

listed below:

• A specific webpage with information about the special track will be created by CBMS

after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to

be added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers,

submission information (must be the same as CBMS 2026 regular track), special track

organizers, special track program committee members, any other relevant information.

• The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within

their track. They must add their own Program Committee members/reviewers to the

submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the

reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by

CBMS 2026 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of

interest and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed.

• At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend CBMS 2026

in Limassol, Cyprus. The organizer(s) who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session

that will be assigned in the agenda to their track.

• The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try

to win as many submissions as possible. Please bear in mind that a special track with less

than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved

to the regular track.

Submission Guidelines

Each proposal must include:

• Special track title

• Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per

session)

• A brief biography of ST organizer(s)

• List of Special Track Program Committee members

• A draft of Special Track “Call for Papers” (important dates must be the same of the

main conference)

• One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to

organize a special issue, if planned.

The proposal must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference

management system (see link below).

CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS

CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite

(a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions.

Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative

computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences

with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific

methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be

accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor,

value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the

proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track.

Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to:

• Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty

• Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field

• Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice

• Experience papers based on use and data from the field

• Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the

field

• Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field

• New and practical data analytics useful in practice

• Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine

Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed

with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration

papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your

demonstration with a limit of two pages.

Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about

research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their

project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals,

consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects

funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be

considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have

preference.

Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the

following information:

• Project/initiative title

• Description

• Participant entities

• Project goals

• Funding agency (when applies) or agencies

• Results obtained so far (publications, patents, …)

The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the

contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages.

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management

system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program

Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference

proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is

conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of

the authors.

CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to

present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive

atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are

addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an

opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable

advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral

Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the

Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different