<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We are happy to announce an open call for submissions to the <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none">Computers and Graphics Journal (C&G)</a> Special Section on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM)</span>. We invite <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">original research, system, and survey papers</span> that summarize and expand the state of the art in visual computing with a strong focus on applications to biology and medicine. We especially encourage submissions on interdisciplinary approaches that contribute to the next generation of visual computing solutions for medicine, healthcare, and the biotechnology sector by integrating elements from visualization, visual analytics, computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, and human-computer interfaces, guided by domain expertise in biology and medicine.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">We solicit three types of submissions:</p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Journal paper submissions </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">presenting original work within the scope described below.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Survey papers </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">discussing the state of the art in topics relevant to VCBM.</span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Significantly extended and revised versions</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">(at least 30% of additional material)</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">of full papers and surveys</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> presented at the</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">VCBM</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">2020 EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (</span><a href="https://conferences.eg.org/vcbm2019/" style="font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none">vcbm.org</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">).</span><br></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:</p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Visual computing solutions for medical applications like radiology, surgery, pathology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, etc., including medical education</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Visual computing solutions for applications that support biomedical research in systems biology, *omics research, molecular pathology, neuroanatomy, biomedical imaging, etc.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Operation room of the future, including the uses of virtual reality and augmented reality in medical applications.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Visualization approaches for data from new or challenging imaging modalities including real-time imaging (e.g., ultrasound)</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Visual computing solutions in the context of the virtual physiological human. Medical simulation and visual computing solutions that support new approaches in computational medicine.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Visual analytics solutions for data coming from epidemiological studies, like population studies.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Survey papers on visual computing in biology and medicine.</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">All submissions will be fully peer-reviewed by at least three experts according to the standards of Computers and Graphics. Please find for the complete author guidelines at: <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors</a> .</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Important Note to Authors: </span>To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Virtual Special Section you are editing, it is important that authors select <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">“VSI: VCBM 2020”</span>, when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:1.375rem">Important Dates</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Submission Due: <s style="box-sizing:inherit">January 15, 2021 </s>January 29, 2021</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">First Decision: <s style="box-sizing:inherit">February 19, 2021 </s>March 8, 2021</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Revised Papers Due: <s style="box-sizing:inherit">March 19, 2021 </s>April 8, 2021</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Final Decision: <s style="box-sizing:inherit">May 21, 2021 </s>June 11, 2021</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Projected Date of Publication: <s style="box-sizing:inherit">July 2021 </s>August 2021</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit"><br></li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">For questions, please contact us at: <a href="mailto:chairs-vcbm2020@eg.org">chairs-vcbm2020@eg.org</a>  <br></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Libre Franklin","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-size:18.8px">The Guest Editors</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.625rem;max-width:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Barbora Kozlikova, Michael Krone, Kay Nieselt, Renata Raidou, Noeska Smit</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.625rem;max-width:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></p></div>