[General] Call for Papers VCBM 2025

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that the annual Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) will be hosted by TU Delft, Netherlands, on October 2-3, 2025. Note that all accepted full papers and survey papers will be published as journal publications in Computers and Graphics! == Aims and Scope == Work presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine EG VCBM [http://vcbm.org/] should reflect the state of the art in visual computing and its applications in biology and medicine. VCBM’s scope encompasses all aspects of visual computing research, technological development, and practices in medicine and life sciences. Relevant topics include the acquisition, processing, visualization, and interpretation of image data in biology and medicine, and the visual analysis and communication of life science data. == Submission types for VCBM 2025 == Submissions for this year’s meeting include short, full, and survey papers. Please see the previous Computers & Graphics special issue [ https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10S5T4911MR] and previous EG VCBM proceedings [https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/463] for examples of published papers. We encourage authors to provide supporting information in the form of video and other media. The deadline for full and survey paper submissions is May 2, 2025. Please note that this is one month earlier than in previous years. Furthermore, all accepted full papers and surveys will be featured in a special issue of the journal Computers & Graphics (C&G), necessitating a significantly advanced submission deadline. Full Papers should describe original, application-oriented research that advances the fusion of visual computing methods within medicine and biology. Accepted work will focus on a well-defined biological or medical problem and demonstrate significant innovation or improvement in visual computing. Surveys are long-form submissions addressing new and emerging topics in visual computing, biology, and medicine. == Topics == All aspects relating to the development, application, and practices of visual computing in the life sciences are relevant to the meeting. These include: * Visual computing solutions designed for use by medical, biomedical, and biological practitioners, researchers, and educators. * The use of eXtended Reality (e.g., for surgical procedures, molecular visualization, rehabilitation, and therapy). * Approaches for processing, visual analysis, and communication of data from new or challenging modalities (e.g., real-time ultrasound, CyTOF, Spectroscopy, layer fMRI, single-cell and spatial-omics, environmental monitoring). * Visual computing approaches incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and explainable AI (XAI). Including but not limited to XAI methods and approaches designed for clinical support on individual and cohort electronic health records * Visual computing solutions that support new approaches for modeling and simulation with applications in medicine and biology. * Workflows and processes leveraging visual computing to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration in biology and medicine. * Visualization and visual storytelling methods designed to communicate healthcare data to patients and laymen, supporting diagnoses interpretation and doctor-patient relationship We encourage the use of digital videos to support all submissions. Please use only the most common video codecs, such as MP4 H.264, to maximize the chances that the reviewers can view them. == Full Papers == We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted papers to the full papers track. However, it is unusual for papers to exceed 10 pages (in C&G LaTeX style [1], including all images and references). Papers should only be as long as their content justifies. Reviewers might rate a submission lower if it is perceived as being unnecessarily long or might recommend it for a short paper instead. Authors are encouraged to use supplementary material, such as videos or executable programs, to provide extra content. Authors have to anonymize their submissions. Please follow the instructions [2] in the guide for authors of Computers & Graphics. [1] https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle.zip [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics/publish/guide-… == Surveys == We do not impose strict maximum lengths for papers submitted to the survey track. However, it is unusual for surveys to exceed 20 pages (in C&G LaTeX style [3], including all images and references). Authors are encouraged to use supplementary material, such as videos, to provide extra content. Authors have to anonymize their submissions. Please follow the instructions [3] in the guide for authors of Computers & Graphics. [3] https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle.zip [4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics/publish/guide-… == Short Paper & Posters == EG VCBM 2025 will also feature a short paper track and a poster and demos program, the details of which will be announced in a separate call. == Submission Instructions == Full and survey papers must be submitted using the Editorial Manager for Computers & Graphics [5]. Please note that, in contrast to previous years, we are introducing a mandatory abstract submission (similar to EuroVis or VIS conferences) where the authors are required to submit the paper abstract one week prior to the submission deadline. For abstract submission, the SRM [6] system needs to be used. This means you have to use two systems for your submission: SRM for abstract submission and Editorial Manager for Computers & Graphics for full paper submission. The same applies to Surveys. Instructions regarding the submission process can be found on our website [7]. We remark that submitting a paper without prior abstract submission will lead to desk rejection. [5] https://www.editorialmanager.com/cag/default.aspx [6] https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/ [7] https://conferences.eg.org/vcbm2025/contribute/full-survey-papers/ == Important Dates (full papers and survey papers) == * Abstract submission (NEW): April 25, 2025 * Submission deadline: May 2, 2025 * Author notification (1st cycle): June 4, 2025 * Revision due (1st cycle): July 2, 2025 * Author notification (2nd cycle): August 1, 2025 * Minor Revision due (2nd cycle): August 22, 2025 * Final notification: September 5, 2025 * Camera-ready deadline: September 26, 2025 * Workshop: October 2 & 3, 2025 All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Sincerely, the Full Paper Co-Chairs of EG VCBM 2025, Alessio Arleo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Jan Byška (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Monique Meuschke (University of Magdeburg, Germany)