IEEE BBTC Taskforce on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine (CIHM)

Announcements

Upcoming

IEEE CIBCB 2026 — Greece

30 Aug – 2 Sep 2026
  • Paper submission: March 31, 2026
  • IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Conference series page

2026 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2026)

21–26 June 2026 — Maastricht, The Netherlands

Flagship gathering for IEEE CIS (FUZZ-IEEE, IJCNN, CEC co-located).

Official website

XAI in Personalized Cancer Medicine 2025

IEEE SSCI 2025 — Student Competition

Student Competition on Explainable AI (XAI) in Personalized Cancer Medicine.

Check the website for tasks, timeline, and eligibility details.

Competition website

IEEE SSCI 2025 — CI in Health and Medicine Symposium

Organized by our Task Force

A dedicated symposium on advances and applications of CI in health and medicine.

Symposium page

Past

Special Session: Advances on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine

IEEE WCCI — Japan, Aug–Sep 2024

Special session held at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2024.

21st IEEE CIBCB 2024 — Natal, Brazil

27–29 August 2024

Computational intelligence in bioinformatics, computational biology, and healthcare informatics.

2024 event page

2024 IEEE CIS Student Grand Competition on CI in Biomedicine & Healthcare

Final contest: June 30, 2024 (WCCI Japan). Prizes awarded to top teams.

Competition website

Mission

The objective of this task force is to bridge the gap between scientific communities in computational intelligence and clinical experts in health and medicine from diverse multidisciplinary backgrounds.
  • Provide opportunities and resources for members to advance in research and clinical practice centered on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine.
  • Promote collaboration among academia, industry, hospitals, national research centers and agencies to foster translation of research from bench to bedside.
  • Contribute to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts by recruiting members from diverse backgrounds and affiliations.
  • Provide support, training, and mentorship to students in accordance with EDI principles.
  • Promote cooperation between professionals from different areas and fields, providing interdisciplinary work.

Technical Areas

There are many potential topics, but we listed a few of them below:
  • Emerging areas in Health and Medicine
  • Advances in Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine
  • Applications of Computational Intelligence in Clinical Practice
  • Big Heterogeneous Data Analytics in Health Research
  • Supporting Standardization and Research Reproducibility in Health and Medical Data Analysis
  • Translational Research in Bioinformatics
  • Promoting Data Sharing and Collaboration on Interesting Research Projects
  • The Application of Computational Intelligence Based Image Analysis for Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis.
  • Computational Intelligence Solutions for Medicine and Health Sciences in Demanding Scenarios

Members

IEEE BBTC Taskforce Chair:

  • Dr. Yasin Mamatjan: Assistant Professor at the Thompson Rivers University and Visiting Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

IEEE BBTC Taskforce Vice Chairs:

  • Professor Alvaro David Orjuela Cañón: Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
  • Dr. Arvind S. Mer: Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada

IEEE BBTC Taskforce Members:

  • Dr. Alex Shenfield: Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
  • Dr. Alvaro Orjuela-Cañón: School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
  • Dr. Daniela Besozzi: University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
  • Dr. Gary Fogel: Natural Selection, Inc., US
  • Dr. Giuseppe Nicosia: Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological sciences, University of Catania, Italy
  • Dr. Jennifer Hallinan: Biothink, Australia
  • Dr. Joseph Alexander Brown: Department of Computer Science, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
  • Dr. Jung-Hsien Chiang: Department of Computer Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • Dr. Kay C. Wiese: Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Dr. Marco Nobile: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
  • Dr. Michael Lones: Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  • Dr. Munima Jahan: Faculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
  • Dr. Musfiq Rahman: Faculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
  • Dr. Renan Moioli: Bioinformatics Multidisciplinary Environment, Digital Metropolis Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
  • Dr. Roberto Tagliaferri: DISA-MIS, Universita Degli Studi Di Salerno, Italy
  • Dr. Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul: Dept. of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Institute, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
  • Dr. Shaghayegh Sadeghi: Computer Science, University of Windsor, Canada
  • Dr. Shandar Ahmad: School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Dr. Sheridan Houghten: Department of Computer Science, Brock University, Canada
  • Dr. Shouyong Jiang: Department of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen, UK
  • Dr. Steven Corns: Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, US
  • Dr. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi: Engineering Program, Missouri State University, US
  • Dr. Vassilis Plagianakos: Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Greece

Contact

For more information about IEEE BBTC on CIHM, please contact:

Dr. Yasin Mamatjan
Assistant Professor at the Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Visiting Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada
ymamatjan'at'tru.ca
https://www.mamatjanlab.com/

Dr. Arvind S. Mer
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
amer'at'uottawa.ca
https://merlab.github.io/

Dr. Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón
Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
https://pure.urosario.edu.co/es/persons/alvaro-david-orjuela-ca%C3%B1%C3%B3n/