Classification/Prediction Challenge within IEEE ICASSP 2026 - 3 weeks left!

Dear Colleagues,
We cordially remind you that only three weeks remain until the deadline!

Do not miss the opportunity to participate in the SAND Challenge!

Join this competition, where your expertise in speech analysis, signal 
processing, and artificial intelligence can make a real difference in 
the fight against neurodegenerative diseases, such as Amyotrophic 
Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

We're inviting you to tackle two critical tasks:
- Classifying subjects;
- Predicting disease progression over time.

The top-scoring teams will have the opportunity to present their work at 
the prestigious 2026 edition of the IEEE International Conference on 
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Barcelona and 
publish their contributions in the official conference proceedings, 
which are indexed in major academic databases.

For more information and to participate, please, visit the official 
website: www.sand.icar.cnr.it

The SAND challenge is organized by ICAR-CNR - University of Naples 
Federico II - University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

A particular thanks to the Fondazione D³4Health for its technical support.



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  Dr. Giovanna Sannino
  Senior Researcher
  Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)
  National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
  Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy

  Executive Editor of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
  Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  Associate Editor of Applied Soft Computing
  Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence