2026
General Chair

João Manuel R. S. Tavares
Professor, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Research Focuses: Computational Vision, Medical Imaging, Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering
João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also obtained his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university in 1995 and 2001, respectively, and received his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is a senior researcher at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI) and a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Since June 2023, he has been serving as the Head of DEMec. João Tavares has made significant contributions to his field, serving as co-editor of over 90 books and co-authoring more than 50 book chapters and 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences. He also holds 3 international and 3 national patents. His editorial roles are extensive; he is a committee member for numerous international and national journals and conferences, co-founder and co-editor of the "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" series published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" published by Taylor & Francis, and Editor-in-Chief of "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering," also published by Taylor & Francis. Furthermore, he is a co-founder and co-chair of several international conference series, including the International Symposium on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images, the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences, and the International Conference on Biodental Engineering. João Tavares has also (co-)supervised numerous MSc and PhD theses and supervised several post-doctoral projects, participating in many scientific projects as both a researcher and scientific coordinator.
Organizing Committee Chair
Lei Chen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Zefeng Wang, Huzhou University, China
Organizing Committee Member
Mohanad S AL-Musaylh, Southern Technical University, Iraq
Muhammad Attique khan, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Omkar Singh Kushwaha, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Technical Committee Chair
Mukesh Prasad, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ahmed G. Hegazi, National Research Centre, Egypt
Technical Committee Member
Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi, Children Teaching Hospital of Baghdad Medical City, Iraq
Ata Jahangir Moshayedi, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Emin Taner Elmas, Igdir University, Turkey
Fahad Hassan Shah, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Farid Menaa, CIC-Fluorotronics, Inc., USA
Huseyin Canbolat, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey
Joanna Bojarska, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Laura Gabriela Sarbu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Luca Roncati, Medical Executive at the University Hospital of Modena, Italy
Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain
Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Maria Dalamagka, Larisa General Hospital, Greece
Mihail Lucian Birsa, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Mohana Kumara Patel, IIT Madras, India
Mokhnache Mohamed, Ferhat Abbas Setif University, Algeria
Murtaza Hasan, The Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Qiang Cheng, University of Kentucky, USA
Tingzhong Yang, Zhejiang University, China
Ubaldo Comite, University of Calabria, Italy
Varalakshmi Manchana, University of Hyderabad, India
Vivek Mittal, Ehealthsystem Healthcare Limited, India
Xiao Jian Tan, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Malaysia