🧑🏼🎓🧑🏿🎓👩🏼🎓👨🏽🎓👩🏻🎓🏳️🌈If you are from an underrepresented group at VCBM or know someone who is please have a look at our widening participation scholarships.
Application is still possible until September 12. A paper at the conference is not required!
Keynote Speakers
We are happy to announce the keynote speakers of this years VCBM. Looking forward to see you in Delft this fall!
Barbora Kozlíková,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
Bio • Barbora Kozlikova is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She a member of the Department of Visual Computing and is heading the Visitlab research group focusing on diverse topics in visualization. Barbora got her Ph.D. in Computer Graphics in 2011. Her main research interests are visualization and visual analysis with diverse application areas, including biochemistry, medicine, geography, and criminology. With her 7 Ph.D. students she is working on many interesting research topics. She is responsible for several courses taught at our faculty and I’m always interested in starting new collaborations. She has organized the EG EuroVis 2018 conference and also the EG VCBM 2019 workshop.
Geert-Jan Rutten,
Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Bio • Geert-Jan Rutten is a neurosurgeon at Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital (ETZ) in Tilburg with a clinical and scientific focus on the relationship between brain structure and function. He specializes in awake brain tumor surgery and deep brain stimulation. His research employs advanced neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI and tractography to understand how neurological and cognitive functions are affected by brain tumors and surgery. Dr. Rutten has co-led multiple interdisciplinary projects to develop personalized, image-guided neurosurgical tools based on the human connectome. He holds a professorship at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at TU Eindhoven, bridging clinical neuroscience with computational modeling.
Sara Colombo,
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Bio • Dr. Sara Colombo is an Assistant Professor of Designing Responsible AI at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. She is director of the Feminist Generative AI Lab at TU Delft. Her academic work investigates novel approaches, methodologies, and tools to design fair and ethical AI systems, empower individuals through AI, and shape AI futures through public engagement. Her research aims to merge data feminism and design futuring approaches to explore new ways to co-create more inclusive and just AI futures. She believes in the ability of design to envision future worlds and to inspire a more just and ethical development of technology for society.
Frits Koning,
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Bio • Frits Koning has been a staff member in the department of Immunology of the Leiden University Medical Centre since 1993. He was the CEO of the Dutch Celiac Disease Consortium (CDC) in which immunologists, geneticists, food specialists and medical doctors collaborated with industrial partners to improve the quality of life of patients with celiac disease. He is well recognized for his contributions to the field of immune mediated disorders, celiac disease in particular. Through his work it is now well established which gluten fragments are disease causative and how they are recognized by disease-related T cells, providing a molecular basis for the genetic association between HLA-DQ and celiac disease. In his most recent work he uses high dimensional flow and mass cytometry to unravel the involvement of the innate and adaptive immune system in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
Bio+Med+VIS x GI VCBM x VCBM 2025
This year VCBM will feature a four full days of program from September 30th to October 3rd thanks to two exciting co-located events organized by the Bio+Med+Vis community and the German computer societies Fachgruppe for Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine.
On September 30th we will start with the 5th Bio+Med+Vis Summerschool, a full day event primarily for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in Computer Science, but anyone who wants to learn more about principles and challenges in visualization for Life Sciences applications is welcome! The registration for the Summer School is free of charge and it will provide access to an educational platform, where all materials will be available afterward. Registration is required through the Summerschools own website.
October 1st will feature the annual meeting of the Fachgruppe for Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine. The meeting is free of charge and open to anyone interested. The primary goal is to discuss late breaking and ongoing research and provide room for discussion. Further information will soon be published by the FG VCBM.
Finally, on October 2nd and 3rd the main EG Symposium on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine (VCBM) will take place, featuring invited talks, a full paper, short paper and posters/demos track, social events and more. We invite submissions to the scientifc tracks. More information and calls will be available soon. Please note the upcoming deadlines indicated on the right.
Please note that the Bio+Med+Vis summer school and the annual meeting of the Fachgruppe for Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine, while both closely related to the content of VCBM 2025 can both be attended independently of the main symposium. We invite everyone interested to join any of the three events.
VCBM 2025
We are happy to announce that the annual Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) is coming back to it’s birthplace, the TU Delft in Delft, The Netherlands, on 2nd and 3rd October, 2025. We are looking forward to seeing all of you in person!
EG VCBM addresses the state of the art in visual computing research with a strong focus on applications in biology and medicine. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for experts (researchers and practitioners) from visualization, visual analytics, computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, human-computer interfaces as well as experts from biology and medicine, jointly working on next-generation visual computing solutions for medicine, healthcare, and the biotechnology sector.
All papers (regular papers as well as short papers) will focus on a well-defined biological/medical problem, and demonstrate a significant innovation or improvement in visual computing. We are looking forward to your exciting submissions and will look forward to welcome you in Delft.
Thomas Höllt
EG VCBM 2025 General Chair