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We are inviting you to participate in the<span style="background-color: white;"><b> <u><a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://ai-medical-image-analysis.github.io/6th" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA9974f78e-e761-4329-b751-fd2c2741eb74" target="_blank" href="https://ai-medical-image-analysis.github.io/6th">PHAROS
AI Factory for Medical Imaging & Healthcare Workshop and Competition (PHAROS-AIF-MIH)</a></u> </b>to be held in conjunction with the</span> <u>IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2026</u>.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>A) The PHAROS-AIF-MIH Workshop (linked to the healthcare vertical of PHAROS AI Factory) aims to
</b>foster discussion and presentation of ideas regarding challenges of analysis of CT scans, MRIs, X-rays, EHRs and content metadata in the context of Digital Pathology and Radiology, adopting recent advances in GenAI, multimodal large language models, privacy
preserving architectures, ethics by design, AI models trained in supercomputing infrastructures, knowledge distillation and Agentic AI. A Competition will be also organized focusing on multi-disease diagnosis through multiple medical image datasets. Baseline
models will be provided to participants who will develop AI models improving performance and fairness of results. The topics covered by the PHAROS-AIF-MIH Workshop are closely related to the focus of the healthcare thematic area (vertical) of the PHAROS AI
Factory, one of the first seven AI Factories selected and funded by the European Union in late 2024 (currently EU, through EuroHPC-JU, has selected 19 AI Factories, operating all over Europe). More information can be found
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<u>Paper Submission Deadline: </u> 18 March, 2026</div>
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<u>Review Decisions Sent to Authors / Notification of Acceptance:</u> 6 April, 2026</div>
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<u>Camera-Ready Version Deadline:</u> 10 April, 2026</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">B) The Competition
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;">includes two</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Challenges</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">:
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;">i)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Multi-Source</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Covid-19 Detection
Challenge and ii) Fair Disease Diagnosis Challenge. </span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 1st Challenge's goal is to develop accurate models that detect Covid-19
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: white;">in chest 3D CT scans</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> obtained from multiple sources. </span></div>
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The 2nd Challenge's goal is to develop fair and accurate models for diagnosing lung cancer (Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma), Covid-19, and healthy cases from chest CT scans.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">More information can be found </span><a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://ai-medical-image-analysis.github.io/6th/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAbdcae74d-cbdf-2464-c1ad-a5dbb6a70e2e" target="_blank" href="https://ai-medical-image-analysis.github.io/6th/">here</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
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<u>Call for Participation Announced, Team Registration Begins, Data Available:</u> 30 January, 2026</div>
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<u>Final Submission Deadline:</u> 15 March, 2026</div>
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<u>Winners Announcement: </u> 17 March, 2026</div>
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<u>Final Paper Submission Deadline:</u> 18 March, 2026</div>
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<u>Review Decisions Sent to Authors / Notification of Acceptance:</u> 6 April, 2026</div>
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<u>Camera-Ready Version Deadline:</u> 10 April, 2026</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For registration and further information, please contact d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13.26px;"><br>
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<b>General Chair:</b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.71429;"><i>Stefanos Kollias</i> (National Technical University of Athens & GRNET) </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.71429;"><i>Dimitrios Kollias</i> (Queen Mary University London) </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.71429;"><i>Xujiong Ye</i> (University of Exeter) </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.71429;"><i>Francesco Rundo</i> (University of Catania) </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;">All accepted papers will be pa</span><span style="color: black; background-color: white;">rt of CVPR 2026 Conference Proceedings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5;">Kind Regards,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">on behalf of the organising committee,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5;">Dimitrios Kollias</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">Affiliate Member of Centre for Human Centred Computing <br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">Member of Queen Mary Computer Vision Group </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white;">Associate Member of Centre for Advanced Robotics <br>
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