[CfP] Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2026)

Dear Semantic Web community,

We are delighted to announce the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2026), taking place July 7 – 10, 2026, at the University of Ottawa, Canada. It will have a dedicated theme centred on knowledge, reasoning and semantic integration.

AIME 2026 is co-hosted by the Telfer School of Management and the Faculty of Medicine, uniting researchers, clinicians, and innovators to advance AI methods and applications across biomedicine and healthcare.

Conference Structure
July 7, 2026 – Tutorials & Doctoral Consortium (Desmarais – DMS)
July 8–9, 2026 – Main Conference: Keynotes, Papers & Panels (Learning Crossroads – CRX)
July 10, 2026 – Workshops (DMS and adjacent venues)
Call for Papers

The AIME 2026 conference invites original research contributions on the development of AI theories, methods, systems, and applications in medicine and biomedicine.

Submissions may address the following topics (but are not limited to), organized under two main streams:

1. AI Foundations and Methodological Innovations
  a) Learning Paradigms and Representational Advances:
 • Multimodal learning, generative AI, foundation models
 • Causal inference, reinforcement and transfer learning
 • Federated and privacy-preserving methods
  b) Knowledge, Reasoning, and Semantic Integration:
 • Knowledge graphs, ontologies, terminologies
 • Symbolic reasoning, Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic
 • Data harmonization and integration of structured/unstructured data
  c) Language, Imaging, and Signal Intelligence:
 • Clinical NLP, summarization, and extraction
 • Biomedical imaging and signal processing
 • Multimodal fusion of text, vision, and time series
2. Applications, Systems, and Health Impact
  a) Clinical AI and Decision Support Systems:
 • CDSS, triage tools, precision medicine
 • Practice guidelines and adaptive workflows
  d) Deployment, Evaluation, and Governance:
 • Smart hospitals, telemedicine, and ambient intelligence
 • Human-AI collaboration, validation, trust, safety, ethics
  e) Patient-Centred and Population-Level Applications:
 • mHealth, wearables, digital therapeutics
 • Public health, epidemiology, equity
 • Personalized engagement and remote monitoring
Important Dates – Papers
Submission system opens: November 3, 2025
Abstract submission deadline: February 10, 2026
Full paper submission deadline: February 17, 2026
Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2026
Camera-ready submission: April 30, 2026
Conference dates: July 7–10, 2026
Submission Guidelines

Papers must follow Springer’s LNCS / LNAI format and be submitted through the AIME 2026 EasyChair portal (link on the website).

Submission types:

• Full papers – up to 10 pages (incl. references)
• Short papers – up to 5 pages (incl. references)
• Demo papers – up to 5 pages (incl. references)
Accepted papers will appear in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

Selected best papers may be invited for extended versions in the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine journal.

🔗 Details: https://aime26.aimedicine.info/call-for-papers/ <https://aimedicine.info/aime26/call-for-papers/>
Workshops & Tutorials

AIME 2026 invites proposals for workshops and tutorials that complement the main conference themes.

Workshop proposal deadline: February 28, 2026
Tutorial proposal deadline: March 17, 2026
Tutorial day: July 7, 2026  •  Workshop day: July 10, 2026
🔗 Details: https://aime26.aimedicine.info/call-for-workshops-tutorials/ <https://aimedicine.info/aime26/call-for-workshops-tutorials/>
Awards
Mario Stefanelli Award – Best Student Paper
Marco Ramoni Award – Best Full Paper
AIME Rising Star Award – Outstanding Early-Career Researcher
Conference Website

https://aime26.aimedicine.info <https://aime26.aimedicine.info/>
Please circulate this announcement within your networks and join us in Ottawa for AIME 2026 - a global forum exploring the future of AI in Medicine.

 

Warm regards,

Pavel Andreev – General Chair
Antoine Sauré – Local Organization & Logistics Co-Chair
William Van Woensel & John Holmes – Scientific Co-Chairs
Enea Parimbelli – Doctoral Consortium Chair