[General] Call for Contributions: Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS 2025

Call for Contributions: Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS 2025 Interested in some hands-on practice with visualizing biological and/or medical data? The 2025 Bio+MedVis Challenge @ IEEE VIS is now live (http://biovis.net/2025/biovisChallenges_vis/) and is a great opportunity to explore and ideate on new, exciting ways to visualize data from biology and medicine! This year, we have two exciting challenges: 1) A redesign of magnetic resonance spectroscopy data, which is a promising modality to visualize subtle chemical changes in, for instance, your brain, but is very abstract and tough to understand in its usual presentation. Redesigns can be sketches/prototypes or full-blown interactive solutions. 2) A larger challenge to develop visualization(s) facilitating the identification of cell-cell interactions in biological tissue from 3D microscopy imaging! Here, we are looking for solutions incorporating some degree of interactivity. To learn more about the challenges, submission guidelines, and any further details, see the challenge website: http://biovis.net/2025/biovisChallenges_vis/ The submission deadline is August 15, 2025. Please send a two-page PDF abstract with up to 5 additional figures. Submissions for either the redesign or the main challenge will be considered for talk or poster presentations during the Bio+MedVis session at the IEEE VIS 2025 conference. If you have any questions, reach out at biovis_challenge(a)ieeevis.org <mailto:biovis_challenge@ieeevis.org> Organizers: Laura Garrison, University of Bergen, Norway Katarína Furmanová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Simon Warchol, Harvard University, USA