Dear Colleague,

The journal Applied Sciences (IF 2.679, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Advances of Transformers in Medical Imaging”, which is now open for submissions:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Transformers_Medical_Imaging

The main aim of this Special Issue is to collect original contributions as either research papers or comprehensive reviews that address and discuss the impact and relevance of the application of transformers models in the medical imaging field. 

The official submission deadline is *31 December 2022*. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website.

Benefits of publishing with Applied Sciences:

1. Gold open access: unlimited and free access for readers.

2. High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) (search for “Applied Sciences-Basel”), Scopus, Inspec (IET), and other databases. The 2020 impact factor for this journal has increased from

2.474 to 2.679.

3. Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 17.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in approximately 3.5 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2021).

Please visit the instructions for authors page on the following website before submitting your manuscript:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions

Please note that an article processing charge (APC) of CHF 2300 (Swiss Francs) currently applies for each paper accepted for publication in this journal in 2022. 

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards,

Dr. Nadia Brancati

Dr. Maria Frucci

Prof. Dr. Daniel Riccio

Dr. Mara Sangiovanni

Guest Editors