*** 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 We solicit submissions on previously unpublished research work.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

Special Tracks
CBMS 2026 will also feature a number of special tracks:

• Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Network and Text Mining in Computational
Biology and Medicine
https://sites.google.com/unicz.it/greenai-nettext/

Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
https://sites.google.com/view/maih2026/home

GEAI4ND — Generalizable & Explainable AI for the Care Continuum of Neurodegenerative
Disease
http://geai4nd-cbms2026.conf.uoi.gr/

Interoperability and Federated Analytics in Biomedical Data Using OMOP CDM
https://bioinformatics-ua.github.io/ieee-cbms-st-IFABD/

Network Medicine
https://medal.ctb.upm.es/CBMS26_ST_NM.html

Image Processing and Machine Vision for Intelligent Healthcare
https://sites.google.com/view/2026-cbms-impvih

Artificial Intelligence for Inclusion, Accessibility and Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
https://www.uco.es/kdis/cbms-2026/

Synthetic Healthcare Data Generation and Clinical Decision Support
https://is-innovation.eu/CBMS2026/search-workshop.htm

Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI)
https://sites.google.com/view/cbms/cbms-cimi

Management and Quality of Data Lifecycle in Health and Medicine
https://raise-suite.eu/management-and-quality-of-data-lifecycle-in-health-and-medicine/

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 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
related topics in the field.

Submissions
Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection
of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a
research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the
conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers
except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work.

In particular:
• Title and author
• The research problem that your PhD addresses
• Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem
• How your approach compares to other known approaches
• Any preliminary results or expected results
• Future plans and directions with specific questions

Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management
system (see link below).

Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific
“Doctoral Consortium” section.


SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026
Please choose the track that best fits for your submitted paper.


OTHER INFORMATION

For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org .


IMPORTANT DATES (all types of contributions)

• Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026
• Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE)


ORGANIZATION

CBMS SC Chair
• Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

General Chairs
• Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy
• Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
• Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus

Publication Chairs
• Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA
• Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden

Special Tracks Chairs
• Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy
• Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Showcase / Research Projects Chair
• Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy

Doctoral Consortium Chair
• Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA

Sponsorship Chair
• KC Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA

Local Organizing and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus