<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">[Apologies for cross-posting]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">Call for papers</span></h3>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">Special track on Explainable Machine Learning models in Medical
Imaging</span></h3>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Computational
medical imaging techniques aim towards enhancing the diagnostic performance of
visual assessments in medical imaging, improving the early diagnosis of various
diseases, helping to obtain a deeper understanding of physiology and pathology,
and therefore contributing to advance the field of Quantitative Radiology. To
reach these goals, medical image computing and signal processing are commonly
combined with biophysical models, which describe explicitly the organ or tissue
under investigation.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Machine
Learning (ML) models revolutionised multiple tasks in medical image computing,
such as image segmentation, registration and synthesis, through the extensive
analysis of big imaging data. Although ML models outperform classic approaches
on the above tasks, they remain to a large extend implicit in terms of
describing the data under investigation. This limits ML model interpretability,
which in turn is one of the main barriers towards ML-based pathology detection
assessments and generalised single- or multi-modal ML analysis in medical
imaging. Moreover, in modern clinical practices and settings, detailed
explanations of the model behaviours are increasingly required to support
reliability towards improving clinical decision making. Model explainability becomes
also critical when data integration techniques are required to cross-assess
learning performance from imaging data against mutual, complementary or
“clinical reference standard” information from “additional modalities” (either
imaging, or other types of biomedical/clinical data such as invasive methods or <em style="box-sizing:inherit">ex vivo </em>analysis, and/or other). To support further
development of ML models for clinical applications, model explainability is
highly important towards enhancing generalisability, trustworthiness,
causality, transferability, informativeness, confidence, accessibility and
interactivity. Last not least, being of the most promising topics in ML/medical
imaging research, the main challenge for developing explainable models is to
improve explainability whilst maintaining high learning performances.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">The
main objective of this special issue is to attract original high-quality
research and survey articles that reflect the most recent advanced on
explainable ML models in medical imaging (MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, Ultrasound and
other), by investigating novel methodologies either through interpreting
algorithm components and/or exploring algorithm-data relationships.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">We
welcome researchers from both academia and industry, to present their state-of-
the-art scientific developments, technologies, and ideas covering all possible
aspects of explainable ML models in medical imaging.</span></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">Topics
of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Develop and interpret ML models in single- or multi-modal (MRI,
CT, Ultrasound, PET, SPECT) imaging (using either single- or multiple-inputs
and thus, biophysical information)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">To improve explainability, combine ML with biophysical modelling
and/or visual assessments from additional/complementary imaging modalities
(e.g. multiple sequences in MRI, or combining MRI with Ultrasound, CT, PET or
SPECT)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">To improve explainability, combine ML with other types of
“reference standard” input data (e.g. clinical data, electrophysiology signals,
molecular analysis, invasive methods) that can enhance ML interpretability in
medical imaging</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Enhance explainability through combining multiple tasks (e.g.
segmentation and/ or image synthesis)/ Multi-task learning on multi-modality
medical images</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Enhance explainability by incorporating graphical deep learning
models for single- or multi-modality image analysis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Solidify explainability in cross-domain image synthesis between
different imaging modalities or sequences (e.g. from different MRI sequences,
or MRI and CT, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Transfer learning and transferability for single- or
multi-modality medical images</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">ML model explainability in semi-supervised, weakly-supervised
and unsupervised learning in medical imaging</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Post-hoc explainability techniques for ML models in single- or
multi-modality images</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Enhance explainability through developing ML models to detect or
predict pathology versus healthy statuses</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Explain strengths and weaknesses of ML models through
quantitative evaluation and interpretation of algorithm performances</span></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">Paper
submission guidelines</span></h3>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Authors
are invited to submit their original contributions before the deadline
following the conference submission guidelines. Each contribution must be
prepared following the IEEE two-column format, and should not exceed the length
of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages. For detailed instructions please visit: <a href="https://cbms2021.web.ua.pt/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(98,37,103)">https://cbms2021.web.ua.pt/</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">All
submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers of the Program Committee.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and will be
published by the IEEE. For each accepted paper, at least one author must
register at the conference before the Author Registration Deadline. Publication
in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper
at the conference by one of their authors. If the paper is not presented at the
conference, it will not be included in the proceedings.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Authors
of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended contribution to a
journal special issue.</span></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">Important
dates</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Paper submission deadline: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">February 5, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Notification of acceptance:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"> March 26,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Camera-ready due:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"> April 16,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Registration</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 132pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Early registration deadline:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"> April 16,
2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><strong style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Conference: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">June 7, 2021</span></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">More
information</span></h3>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66);font-weight:normal">Webpage: <a href="https://essexnlip.uk/cbms2021/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://essexnlip.uk/cbms2021/</a> </span></h3>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66);font-weight:normal"> </span></h3>
<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 6.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Montserrat,serif;color:rgb(98,37,103)">Special Track Chairs</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/papan14104/giorgos-papanastasiou" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(98,37,103)">Dr Giorgos Papanastasiou</span></a>, University of Essex,
UK [g.papanastasiou(at)<a href="http://essex.ac.uk">essex.ac.uk</a>]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/GARCI58409/alba-garcia-seco-de-herrera" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(98,37,103)">Dr Alba García Seco de Herrera</span></a>, University of
Essex, UK [alba.garcia(at)<a href="http://essex.ac.uk">essex.ac.uk</a>]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"><a href="https://chengjiawang.github.io/" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(98,37,103)">Dr Chengjia Wang</span></a>,
University of Edinburgh, UK [Chengjia.Wang(at)<a href="http://ed.ac.uk">ed.ac.uk</a>]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4.5pt 66pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(66,66,66)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Professor Heye Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
[ZhangHeye(at)<a href="http://mail.sysu.edu.cn">mail.sysu.edu.cn</a>]</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)"><a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.yang" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(98,37,103)">Dr Guang Yang</span></a>, Imperial College London, UK
[G.Yang(at)<a href="http://imperial.ac.uk">imperial.ac.uk</a>]</span></p>
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committee members</span></h3>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Sotirios
A. Tsaftaris, University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Gabriele
Valvano, IMT Lucca, Italy</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Victor
Gonzalez-Castro, University of Leon, Spain</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Lin
Gu, RIKEN AIP, University of Tokyo, Japan</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Hao
Dong, Peking University, China</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Zhangming
Niu, Aladdin Healthcare Technologies, Germany</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Chunliang
Wang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Sivarama
Krishan Rajaraman, NIH/NLM, USA</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Emanuele
Trucco, University of Dundee, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">George
Matsopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">David
Rodriguez Gonzalez, University of Cantabria, Spain</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Sammy
Danso, University of Edinburgh</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Xurui
Jin, Duke Kunshan University, China-USA</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Adrian
Clark, University of Essex, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Adrian
Martín Fernández, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Eirini
Christinaki, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 17pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(66,66,66)">Oscar
Jiménez del Toro, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland,
Switzerland</span></p>
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Duangsoithong, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand</span></p>
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