<div dir="ltr"><table class="gmail-Bs gmail-nH gmail-iY gmail-bAt" cellpadding="0" style="border-spacing:0px;padding:0px;border-collapse:collapse;width:950px;display:block;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-Bu gmail-yM" style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;width:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></td><td class="gmail-Bu gmail-bAn" style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;display:block;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-if" style="margin:0px 16px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-nH gmail-aHU" style=""><div class="gmail-nH gmail-hx" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);min-width:502px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-nH"><div class="gmail-h7 gmail-ie gmail-nH gmail-oy8Mbf" tabindex="-1" style="clear:both;padding-bottom:0px;max-width:100000px;outline:none"><div class="gmail-Bk" style="margin-bottom:0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-right-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-radius:0px;width:934px;float:none"><div class="gmail-G3 gmail-G2" style="padding-top:0px;background-color:transparent;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px rgba(100,121,143,0.12);border-left:0px;border-top:none;border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div><div id="gmail-:19q"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:862px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:19t" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:19s" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><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="color:rgb(5,99,193);box-sizing:inherit"><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/" target="_blank" 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="color:rgb(5,99,193);box-sizing:inherit"><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/" target="_blank">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="color:rgb(5,99,193);box-sizing:inherit"><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/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);box-sizing:inherit"><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/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">mail.sysu.edu.cn</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.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.yang" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);box-sizing:inherit"><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/" target="_blank">imperial.ac.uk</a>]</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)">Program 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><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)">Rakkrit Duangsoithong, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_-2967316916629073650__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)"> </span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)">Dr Alba García Seco de Herrera</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PhD<span style="color:rgb(238,52,36)"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lecturer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">University of Essex</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)">T</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">+44 (0)</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1206 872907</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)">E </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:alba.garcia@essex.ac.uk" target="_blank">alba.garcia@essex.ac.uk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)">►</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/garci58409/alba-garcia" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.essex.ac.uk/</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)">WE ARE ESSEX</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(75,48,106)"><br></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-ajx" style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="gmail-gA gmail-gt gmail-acV" style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px;width:auto;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;margin:0px;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-gB gmail-xu" style="border-top:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-ip gmail-iq" style="clear:both;margin:0px;padding:16px 0px;border-top:none"><d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