Special Session: AI Innovations in Autism Diagnosis
https://aiih.cc/special-session-ai-innovations-in-autism-diagnosis/

Within the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIiH 2026)
26-28 August, Imperial College London (Remote Participation will be available)
https://aiih.cc/

We invite academic researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to contribute to this special session to explore the intersection of autism and AI. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
•AI-driven early detection and screening for ASD.
•LLMs and conversational agents for ASD screening and support.
•Generative AI for autism research (e.g., synthetic data, simulated scenarios).
•Multimodal data integration (e.g., neuroimaging, behavioural data, genetics).
•AI for personalised interventions and outcome monitoring.
•Interpretability and explainability in autism-related AI tools.
•Ethical and legal considerations for deploying AI in autism.
•Real-world and clinical deployment case studies (including evaluation lessons).

Submission Guidelines
We welcome both full-length papers (12 pages plus up to 2 pages of references) and abstracts (up to 5 pages including references). Please consult the detailed submission guidelines and templates:
https://aiih.cc/paper-submission/

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series as part of the conference proceedings.

Submission Deadline: 10th April 2026

Organisers
Federica Cilia, and Mahmoud Elbattah
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France / University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Contact
For any inquiries, please contact Mahmoud Elbattah at:
mahmoud.elbattah@uwe.ac.uk