The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 2025 @ MICCAI 2025 – Call for Participants and Papers

Hi everyone,
We cordially welcome and invite you to take part in The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 2025, hosted at MICCAI this year in Daejeon, South Korea. This challenge aims to advance AI for critical care in austere, low-resource, and emergency response environments. Participants will tackle a range of computer vision and multimodal AI tasks, including action recognition and anticipation, hand tracking, tool detection, visual question answering, and realism assessment. Teams will work with a unique egocentric dataset of ~3700 video clips featuring unscripted and lifesaving regular and just-in-time procedures under diverse environments. Top-performing teams will be eligible for prizes and publication opportunities. You can find more information and register for the challenge with the URL below. Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues or groups who may be interested.
We look forward to your participation in pushing the boundaries of AI for emergency medicine! 
 
Best regards,
The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 2025 Organizing Committee
 
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Title: The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 2025
Venue:  MICCAI 2025 (T3Challenge2025)
Date: September 23-27, 2025
 
Abstract
The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 2025 invites participants to develop AI algorithms for autonomous remote instruction systems that provide real-time medical guidance in austere and disconnected settings, such as disaster zones. Specifically, the scientific community is invited to submit algorithms that, given videos as input, they can: (a) recognize and anticipate actions, (b) track hands, (c) detect tools, and (d) answer medical questions to support inexperienced providers during high-stakes procedures. Sample algorithms are provided to encourage participation. The goal is to drive innovation in AI for emergency care under low resource environments, ultimately improving patient outcomes in first response medicine.  
 
Important Dates
·      Release of train data: Jun. 1st, 2025
·      Start of test phase: Aug. 1st, 2025
·      End of test phase: Aug. 22nd, 2025
·      Presentation invitation: Sep. 1st, 2025
·      Summary report submission deadline: Sep. 12th, 2025
·      Winner announcements & awards: On challenge day at MICCAI 2025
·      Challenge day: TBD 
 
Prizes: First and second places for every task. Total funds in prizes, $3,000.
 
Organizers
Yupeng Zhuo (Purdue University), Juan Wachs (Purdue University), Eddie Zhang (Purdue University), Xiangchen Yu (Purdue University), Aditya Pachpande (Purdue University), Andrew W. Kirkpatrick (University of Calgary), Jessica Mckee (University of Calgary), Edgar Rojas-Muñoz (Texas A&M University), Brian Vanvoorst (RTX BBN Technologies), Jin Tae Kwak (Korea University), Stas Tiomkin (Texas Tech University), Vikhyat Bebarta (University of Colorado Anshutz), Yanjun Gao (University of Colorado Anshutz)
 
Contact 
If you have any questions about The Trauma THOMPSON Challenge 2025, please email Yupeng Zhuo (zhuoy@purdue.edu” style=”color:blue;margin:0px” target=”_blank”>zhuoy@purdue.edu).

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Call for participation – ICIAP 2025 Tutorials

;word-spacing:0px”> We are excited to announce the comprehensive tutorial program for the 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2025), which will be held in Rome, Italy, from September 15–19, 2025.

Our tutorials are designed cover cutting-edge topics in computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing. These sessions provide a fantastic opportunity to deepen your understanding, acquire new skills, and engage with leading experts in focused learning environments.

The tutorials will cover a diverse range of subjects, from foundational concepts to advanced techniques, ensuring there's something valuable for every attendee, whether you are a student, researcher, or practitioner.

Detailed information about the tutorial topics and are available here:

https://www.iciap.org/program/workshops

Don't miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and enhance your expertise at ICIAP 2025!

We look forward to welcoming you to Rome.

Sincerely,
Antonino Furnari
(on behalf of the ICIAP 2025 Organising Committee)

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IEEE BHI 2025 – “Precision Health: AI Tailored to Individuals” Deadline Extension

June 10th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
 

We are pleased to share that, in response to numerous requests, the deadline for submitting full conference papers to the 2025 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) has been extended to June 20, 2025. This final extension offers additional time to finalize and polish your submissions. Please note that no further extensions will be granted.

We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity and look forward to receiving your contributions!

 

IEEE BHI 2025: Precision Health: AI Tailored to Individuals

 

https://bhi.embs.org/2025/

 

The IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS), is EMBS’s primary technical conference on informatics and computing in healthcare and life sciences. BHI 2025 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from October 26 – 29, 2025. It will provide a unique forum to showcase basic and translational research on big data analytics and machine learning that address challenges in the acquisition, transmission, processing, security, visualization, and interpretation of vast volumes of multi-modal biomedical data, as well as related social, behavioral, environmental, and geographical data. It will also demonstrate the deployment of BHI informatics solutions that integrate key technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, mHealth, e-Health, human-computer interface, telemedicine, bioinformatics, sensors, imaging, and public health monitoring, to achieve patient-centric and outcome-driven effective health care.

 

Important Information

  • IEEE JBHI format: 8-page J-BHI format papers will be evaluated by JBHI with accepted papers published in JBHI Special Issue and featured by an oral presentation at the conference.
  • Opportunities for regular conference papers (4-7 pages) and 1-page abstracts.
  • Open Access: BHI 2025 proudly features Open-Access publishing for accepted regular papers.
  • Accepted regular conference papers for publishing in IEEE Xplore.
  • Open Double-Blind Review for high quality: BHI 2025 will use OpenReview for establishing open review processes.
  • Best paper awards for recognizing innovative and excellent research
  • 1-page extended abstracts for poster presentations and rapid fire sessions
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for clinicians
  • Travel Awards: for undergraduate and graduate students from US Institutions
  • Data competition and awards for students 

The topical areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:

The BHI2025 scope covers multimodality data collection by novel sensors, imaging, omics, public and global health surveillance, robots, drug discovery, immunotherapy, and multiple other biomedical technologies; data transmission (security, encryption); data visualization; data analysis by signal processing and machine learning; advanced AI such as Generative AI and Cognitive AI for large range of biomedical and health technologies and applications, including Metaverse, Digital Health, Bioinformatics, Electronic Health Records, Human-Computer Interaction, Telemedicine, Public Health, Aging, Infectious Diseases, Chronic Conditions, and so on under the six big categories of informatics:

  • Biomedical Sensor Informatics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Imaging Informatics
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Public Health Informatics
  • Theoretical Biomedical Informatics

The detailed categories include but are not limited to:

  • AI Implementation Science in Medicine
  • AI in Precision and Predictive Health
  • AI in Wellness and Preventative Care
  • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design
  • Causal Inference for Biomedicine
  • Cognitive Automation in Health and Medicine
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy Preservation
  • Data Harmonization and Quality Control
  • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models
  • Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Biomedical AI
  • Explainable AI for Decision Support
  • Generative AI and Foundational Models for Biomedicine
  • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality
  • Multimodality Data Analysis
  • Pervasive Computing for Wearables
  • Robotic Surgery and Interventions
  • Single-cell and spatial genomics
  • Biomedical digital twins

 

IEEE AIxVR 2026 – Call for Papers

June 10th, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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IEEE AIxVR 2026 – Call for papers

8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual Reality

January 27-29, 2025 (Osaka, Japan)

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Deadline 1st call (full/short papers): September 26, 2025

See https://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026/ for details.

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IEEE AIxVR stands out as a distinctive event that brings together researchers and professionals across the spectrum of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Virtual Reality. This event serves as a global platform fostering collaboration between these diverse fields, facilitating the presentation of cutting-edge advancements, identifying emerging research avenues, and collectively shaping the future of these dynamic research domains.

 

=== AREAS OF INTEREST ========== 

+ Integration of AI in XR

+ Innovation at the Intersection of AI and XR:

+ XR for AI

+ Technical and Human Challenges

+ Ethical Considerations in AI-driven XR

+ Industry Relevance

 

=== SUBMISSIONS ==========

See https://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026/aixvr2026_cfp.html for details. Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Contributions of distinguished quality will be selected for best paper awards and invited to be extended for a special section in the Computers & Graphics journal (Elsevier) and International Journal of Semantic Computing.

 

=== VENUE & DATES ==========

The conference will take place from Jan 26-28, 2026, at the University of Osaka, Japan.

 

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