Dear Colleagues
We would like to announce that the Full Paper submission deadline for the 2025
Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine has been extended by
one week. New timeline is as follows:
== Important Dates (full papers and survey papers) ==
* Abstract submission (EXTENDED): May 9th, 2025
* Submission deadline (EXTENDED): May 9th, 2025
* Author notification (1st cycle): June 6th, 2025
* Revision due (1st cycle): July 4th, 2025
* Author notification (2nd cycle): August 1st, 2025
* Minor Revision due (2nd cycle): August 22nd, 2025
* Final notification: September 5th, 2025
* Camera-ready deadline: September 26th, 2025
* Workshop: October 2nd & 3rd, 2025
All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
== Aims and Scope ==
Work presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine
EG VCBM [
http://vcbm.org/ <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
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10S5T4911MR>] and previous EG VCBM
proceedings [
https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/463
<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
<https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle.zip>
[2]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics/publish/guide-…
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics/publish/guide-for-authors>
== 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
<https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle.zip>
[4]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics/publish/guide-…
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics/publish/guide-for-authors>
== Short Paper & Posters ==
EG VCBM 2025 will also feature a short paper track and a poster and demos program, the
details of which are announced in a separate call [5].
[5]
https://conferences.eg.org/vcbm2025/contribute/short-papers/
<https://conferences.eg.org/vcbm2025/contribute/short-papers/>
== Submission Instructions ==
Full and survey papers must be submitted using the Editorial Manager for Computers &
Graphics [6]. 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 [7] 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 [8]. We remark
that submitting a paper without prior abstract submission will lead to desk rejection.
[6]
https://www.editorialmanager.com/cag/default.aspx
<https://www.editorialmanager.com/cag/default.aspx>
[7]
https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/ <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/>
[8]
https://conferences.eg.org/vcbm2025/contribute/full-survey-papers/
<https://conferences.eg.org/vcbm2025/contribute/full-survey-papers/>
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)