Call for Posters and Demos at EG VCBM 2025

Dear colleagues,
the 15th Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing for Biology and medicine continues the poster track and is pleased to introduce a new demo track as part of the conference program.

This combined Poster and Demos track provides an opportunity for researchers to present their work in progress, minor improvements beyond the state-of-the-art, application showcases, and student projects in the area of visual computing for biology and medicine as either poster presentation, a live demonstration, or both. Posters are ideal for sharing research results, open problems, or research group overviews. Demos, introduced for the first time this year, offer the chance to present live demonstrations of tools, systems, or applications that support or result from visual computing research.

Accepted posters and demos will be displayed in the workshop area during the event. A dedicated session will allow authors to present their work, foster discussion, and build connections within the community.

Posters and Demos will be presented on-site during VCBM 2025 hosted by TU Delft, Netherlands, on October 2-3, 2025.

Important Dates

• Poster abstract submission deadline: August 9, 2025

• Author notification: August 30, 2025

• Final version deadline: September 6, 2025

• Symposium: October 2 – 3, 2025

All deadlines are at 23:59 CET (UTC+1).

We welcome the following types of submissions:

• Original, application-oriented research posters and demos advancing the fusion of visual computing methods within medicine and biology, according to the general call.

• Research overview posters summarizing biomedical visualization research on topics below. This is an excellent way to highlight, for example, the research carried out within the scope of a Ph.D. project, to promote Ph.D. direction discussions with experts, or to present activities of a specific research group.

• Demos of educational or training tools including desktop and VR/AR environments that demonstrate the potential of modern technology for both students and practitioners.

• Research group overview posters presenting the current research work of an entire group or a research center. The scope of such a poster can also include upcoming funded projects and thus even indicate open vacancies.

• Posters describing an open research problem presenting a unique opportunity to present an exciting research problem to a broad professional audience and to promote new collaborations that may have been defined by a domain scientist (e.g., a physician or biologist).

• Posters and demos showcasing an application, tool, or framework that either addresses challenges for developing visual computing solutions or helping domain scientists. This work does not necessarily present uniquely new ideas as long as the application or tool presents an interesting view.

Suggested topics for posters and demos include, but are not limited to:

• Visual computing solutions for medical applications like radiology, surgery, pathology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, etc., including medical education

• Visual computing solutions for applications that support biomedical research in systems biology, -omics research, molecular pathology, neuroanatomy, biomedical imaging, etc.

• Medical simulation and visual computing solutions that support new approaches in computational medicine, including also the uses of stereoscopy and haptics

• Visualization approaches for data from new or challenging imaging modalities including real-time imaging (e.g., ultrasound)

• Visual computing solutions in the context of the virtual physiological human

Methods might include, but are not limited to:

• Visualization and analysis of all kinds of biomedical data (signals and images)

• Visualization, mining, and analysis of biomedical data collections, including cohort data

• Information visualization of medical data sets, e.g., electronic health records

• Computer models of biomechanical, physiological, and biochemical functions in living systems

• Fusion, analysis, and visualization of heterogeneous and/or multi-source data

• Multi-scale methods and data structures for large data

• Interaction and design of visual computing workflows in medicine and biology

• Data tracking and registration

• Data reconstruction and geometry extraction

• Real-time rendering and interaction with anatomy models

Submission Instructions

The submission to the poster and demos track at EG VCBM consists of a 1 – 2 page abstract plus up to one additional page for references (in the VCBM 2025 Latex style) and must include at least one figure. The abstracts will be reviewed by the conference poster chairs and the abstracts of the accepted posters and demos will be included on the VCBM 2025 webpage. The material from the submission can be re-used for a full paper submission somewhere else. This act is not to be considered self-plagiarism. At least one author of an accepted submission must register for the conference and present their work at the dedicated poster and demo session. Please submit your non-anonymized abstract submissions including authors’ names, affiliations, and acknowledgments. You can also attach a poster draft or video as additional material for the submission, but it is not mandatory. Note that the authors must bring the final printed poster with them (there will be no printing at the venue). 

For poster submission: posters should be printed on a paper no larger than A0 portrait (84.1cm x 118.9cm = 33.1in x 46.8in).

For demo submission: please indicate technical requirements (e.g., table, power, internet, VR space). Authors are responsible for bringing and setting up demo equipment.

Please submit one .zip file with all the material, using this link.

Please make sure your submissions include authors’ names, affiliations, and acknowledgments.

For any questions concerning poster and demo submissions, please contact the posters chairs at posters@vcbm.org.

Sincerely,
the Posters Co-Chairs of EG VCBM 2025,

Christina Gillmann (Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Information Technology)

Tim Gerrits (RWTH Aachen University)