Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The workshop welcomes original research contributions, summaries of recent work, and work-in-progress studies on frameworks, applications, methodologies, tools, and systems concerning the use and impact of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare.

Submissions are welcome from a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of researchers and practitioners, including computer scientists, AI researchers, health informaticians, clinicians, biomedical researchers, public-health experts, epidemiologists, healthcare professionals, medical institutions, public-health agencies, industry, startups, and other stakeholders interested in AI-based solutions for healthcare.

Collaborations across disciplines are especially encouraged, as they can help bridge the gap between AI methods and real-world healthcare needs, supporting the development of actionable, trustworthy, and clinically meaningful AI-driven solutions.

Possible topics of interest are, but are NOT limited to:

• Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for clinical decision support

• Knowledge representation, reasoning, and formal argumentation in healthcare

• Hybrid, neuro-symbolic, and knowledge-enhanced AI for healthcare

• Explainable, transparent, accountable, and trustworthy AI in healthcare

• Large language models, generative AI, and foundation models for healthcare

• Natural language processing for clinical texts, electronic health records, and biomedical literature

• Medical imaging, signal processing, and multimodal AI in healthcare

• Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making

• Causal models, causal discovery, and causal reasoning in healthcare

• Learning, representation, and reasoning with time

• Methods for diagnosis, treatment selection, treatment planning, and prognosis

• Monitoring patients in healthcare

• Personalized medicine and patient-centered decision support

• Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines and clinical pathways

• Ontologies, medical vocabularies, knowledge graphs, and semantic technologies

• Privacy-preserving, federated, and distributed AI for healthcare

• Fairness, bias, robustness, safety, and reliability of medical AI systems

• Human-centered AI, usability, clinical adoption, and interaction with healthcare professionals

• AI for public health, epidemiology, surveillance, and prevention

• Ethical, legal, social, and regulatory aspects of medical AI

• Evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, reproducibility, and validation of AI systems in healthcare

• Tools for supporting authoring, execution, and maintenance of clinical protocols and guidelines

• Tools for building, deploying, and monitoring clinical decision-support systems

• Real-world case studies, lessons learned, and deployed AI systems in healthcare

• Other...

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS 

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the submission system here:

    https://chairingtool.com/conferences/aixia2026/main-track?role=author

The workshop welcomes both full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are suggested for presenting work in progress, extended abstracts, software prototypes, doctoral research, or general overviews of research projects. The workshop also welcomes position and discussion papers.

The following types of submissions are invited:

• Full papers: mature original research contributions.

• Short papers: work in progress, preliminary results, extended abstracts, doctoral research, software prototypes, or focused contributions.

• System and prototype descriptions: research or industrial systems, prototypes, tools, platforms, and demonstrators.

• Position and discussion papers: visionary contributions, open challenges, methodological reflections, or critical analyses.

• Non-original communications: papers already submitted, accepted, or published in other conferences or journals, suitable for dissemination within the HC@AIxIA community and for opening discussion.

All submissions must be in PDF format, written in English, and formatted according to the LNCS format:

    https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

As a preliminary indication, the following page limits apply:

• Full papers should not exceed 15 pages, including bibliography.

• Short, position, and discussion papers should not exceed 7 pages, including bibliography.

• No page limit is set for non-original contributions.

To ease the reviewing process, the authors of full papers may add an appendix, although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation.

STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The workshop actively encourages submissions with students as authors, especially when a student is the first or main contributor.

To recognise outstanding work, the PC Chairs will consider conferring a Best Student Paper Award, possibly with the support of AIxIA and the HC@AIxIA Working Group.

Details will be announced later on, possibly during the workshop.

CONTRIBUTIONS AND REGISTRATION

For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to:

• register to AIxIA 2026 

• attend the HC@AIxIA 2026 workshop 

• present the paper (each attendee should not present more than 2 works at the workshop).

The event is locally organized by AIxIA.

PROCEEDINGS, POST-PROCEEDINGS, JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

The publication venue for the proceedings is TBA, and will be unveiled later.

• All accepted original contributions will be considered for inclusion in the workshop proceedings.

• Non-original communications will not be published as original workshop papers, but will be given visibility on the workshop website, including a link to the original publication, if already published.

If a sufficient number of high-quality papers is accepted, the Chairs will also consider the publication of a selection of extended and revised contributions in an international journal special issue or post-proceedings volume.

In such a case, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their workshop contributions. A further formal review process will be carried out according to the standards of the selected publication venue.

WORKING GROUP MEETING 

All authors of accepted papers and interested participants are invited to participate in the annual meeting of the AI and Healthcare Working Group of AIxIA, which will be held in connection with the workshop.

VENUE 

The workshop will be held in the context of AIxIA 2026, and will take place in Perugia, October 6-9, 2026. 

CONTACTS 

All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

    hc-aixia@googlegroups.com

IMPORTANT DATES (tentative)

• Abstract submission: July 17, 2026

• Paper submission: July 24, 2026

• Notification of acceptance: August 27, 2026

• Camera-ready copy due: September 15, 2026

• Early registration: September 4, 2026 (see details on AIxIA-2026 website)

• Workshop: October 6-9, 2026

• Working Group meeting: TBA

Contacts

Please contact us at hc-aixia@googlegroups.com.