For a Special Section on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine, we invite original research, system, and survey papers that summarize and expand the state of the art in visual computing with a strong focus on applications in biology and medicine. We especially encourage submissions on interdisciplinary approaches that contribute to the next generation of visual computing solutions for medicine, healthcare and the biotechnology sector by integrating elements from visualization, visual analytics, computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, and human computer interfaces, guided by domain expertise in biology and medicine.
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Visual computing solutions for medical applications like radiology, surgery, pathology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, etc., including medical education
- Visual computing solutions for applications that support biomedical research in systems biology, *omics research, molecular pathology, neuroanatomy, biomedical imaging, etc.
- Operation room of the future, including the uses of virtual reality and augmented reality in medical applications.
- Visualization approaches for data from new or challenging imaging modalities including real-time imaging (e.g., ultrasound)
- Visual computing solutions in the context of the virtual physiological human. Medical simulation and visual computing solutions that support new approaches in computational medicine.
- Visual analytics solutions for data coming from epidemiological studies, like population studies.
- Survey papers on visual computing in biology and medicine. Computers and Graphics has an OpenAccess option, and has offered to waive the OpenAccess fee for survey type papers within this special section.
We solicit three types of submissions:
- Significantly extended and revised versions of full papers presented at the 2018 EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM)
- Significantly extended and revised versions of papers presented at the 2018 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) insofar as they clearly elate to visualization, visual analytics, augmented or virtual reality, computer graphics, or human computer interaction
- Additional, completely new journal paper submissions within the scope described above
All submissions will be fully peer reviewed according to the standards of Computers and Graphics. Extended versions of conference papers need to have at least 30% new material. Please refer to https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors for the complete author guidelines.
Important Dates
- Submission Due: January 15, 2019
- First Decision: February 15, 2019
- Revised Papers Due: March 15, 2019
- Final Decision: June 15, 2019
- Publication: August 2019
