Special Session IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2026 Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal) · 23-26 June 2026

INSIGHT: INtelligent Systems for Imaging-based diaGnosis in HealThcare

INSIGHT focuses on intelligent systems and AI-driven methods for imaging-based diagnosis in healthcare, bridging robust machine learning, interpretability, and clinically actionable decision support.

Submit a paper Call for Papers ICTS4eHealth 2026 website

Co-located with the 31st IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).

Quick facts

  • Conference: 23-26 June 2026
  • Location: Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
  • Paper deadline: 15 March 2026
  • Status: Accepted Special Session

Dates shown are from the official ICTS4eHealth 2026 “Important Dates” section.

About INSIGHT

Intelligent Systems are playing an increasingly important role in clinical practice, supporting physicians and healthcare professionals in disease diagnosis, therapy optimization, and health monitoring. Among these advancements, a promising research direction is imaging-based diagnosis, where intelligent systems enable accurate, robust, and timely interpretation of medical images.

This Special Session, INSIGHT, aims to bring together recent advances in AI-driven image analysis for healthcare, focusing on methods and systems that support imaging-based clinical decision making across key application domains (e.g., radiology, digital and computational pathology, computational cytology, and neuroimaging). Contributions addressing both methodological advances and clinically oriented applications are encouraged.

Call for Papers

We invite high-quality submissions on intelligent systems and machine learning methods for imaging-based diagnosis in healthcare. Topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Imaging-based clinical decision support system for patient-specific outcome prediction
  • AI-driven medical image analysis across imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MRI, PET, ultrasound)
  • AI-based systems in digital pathology and computational cytology
  • Multimodal medical image analysis and data integration
  • Learning-based medical image segmentation, classification, and anomaly detection
  • Generative and diffusion-based models for medical imaging, including synthetic data generation
  • Self-supervised and unsupervised learning for medical image analysis
  • Explainable and interpretable AI for medical imaging and neural signal analysis, including post-hoc and ante-hoc approaches
  • Human-AI collaboration for explainable and clinically usable systems
  • Federated learning and privacy-preserving approaches for medical imaging
  • Bias, fairness, and safety in AI-driven medical imaging systems
  • Clinical validation, reproducibility, and regulatory aspects of AI for medical imaging
  • Novel datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies for AI in medical imaging
  • Real-world deployment and clinical impact of AI-driven medical imaging systems
  • Ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI in medical imaging
  • Data governance, quality, and standardization in medical imaging AI

Paper format

Papers should follow the IEEE conference format and the ICTS4eHealth submission rules (up to 7 pages; accepted papers up to 6 pages without extra charge, per conference info). In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings, use the following link: IEEE Conference Templates.
Submission platform (EDAS link) will be added as soon as it is announced on the main conference website.

Important Dates

Conference timeline

  • Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026
  • Conference dates: June 23-26, 2026

INSIGHT papers follow the same submission deadlines and review process as the main conference.

Program

The detailed session program (talk titles, times, and presenters) will be published after the notification of acceptance.

Placeholder schedule

  • Welcome & session opening
  • Paper presentations (long/short talks)
  • Discussion & wrap-up
TBA

Committees

Organizing Committee

Roberta De Fazio
Roberta De Fazio
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Ciro Russo
Ciro Russo
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Grazia Gargano
Grazia Gargano
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Gaetano Settembre
Gaetano Settembre
University of Bari Aldo Moro

Technical Program Committee

TBA (will be published as soon as the committee list is finalized).

Submission

Papers for INSIGHT must be submitted through the official ICTS4eHealth 2026 submission system (EDAS). The EDAS submission link is marked as “TBA” on the conference website at the moment.

Templates

Please use the IEEE conference templates available on the IEEE website: IEEE Conference Templates.

Registration

Registration details and fees will be provided by the main conference organizers (currently shown as “available soon” on the conference website).

Venue

IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2026 will be held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, from June 23 to June 26, 2026.

Hotel / conference location (as per conference website)

Hyatt Regency Vilamoura Algarve (also called Hotel Dom Pedro).
Address: Stefano Saviotti 65, 8125-478 Vilamoura, Portugal
Phone: (+351) 289 371 234