The workshop IMPACT aims to explore the most innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, with a particular focus on medical image analysis techniques and clinical decision support systems. In the healthcare domain, AI has immense potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, personalize treatments, and optimize clinical workflows. However, the impact of AI applications in medical diagnosis raises important challenges related to the interpretability and explainability of the results, particularly to ensure the transferability of technical aspects to real clinical practice.

This workshop seeks to address these challenges by exploring cutting-edge technical approaches that are currently reshaping the healthcare domain, specifically focusing on how AI can aid medical diagnosis and personalized treatment through the analysis of large amounts of patient data, including medical images, genetic information, and patient history. Advanced AI techniques are employed to analyze complex medical images (MRI, CT, X-rays, PET, ultrasound, H&E staining) to detect anomalies, such as malignancies and other medical conditions, particularly in specialized areas like cancer imaging and digital pathology. These approaches are revolutionizing disease detection, characterization, and treatment, enabling earlier intervention and more precise diagnoses. The proposed workshop will encourage a discussion on technical aspects and their potential integration into a transdisciplinary methodology, incorporating the contributions of domain experts.

Submission Guidelines

IMPACT welcomes diverse contributions, ranging from research papers showcasing well-established findings or ongoing work to innovative papers introducing novel ideas or exploratory research. Additionally, the conference embraces papers that share industry experiences and case studies. Submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages (including references). Only original contributions that have not been previously published or simultaneously submitted to other venues will be considered for inclusion in the proceedings.

List of Topics

We invite submissions related to the following topics, including, but not limited to:

• AI in Cancer Imaging and Digital Patology
  • AI for early disease detection
  • AI applications in cytology, histopathology, and multimodal imaging
  • Integration of medical images, genetic data, and clinical information for personalized treatment
  • AI-enhanced decision support systems for precision medicine
  • Optimizing segmentation, classification and anomaly detection
  • Self-supervised and unsupervised learning
• Generative AI in Medical Imaging
  • Synthetic data generation for data augmentation and model training
  • AI-driven prediction of patient-specific clinical conditions
  • Generative models for disease progression modeling and anomaly detection
  • Therapeutic optimization strategies
• Explainable medical imaging AI
  • Post-hoc and ante-hoc methods for explainability
  • XAI methods for neuroimaging and neural signals interpretation
  • Human-AI collaboration: integrating explainability for clinical adoption

Committees

Program Committee

• Alessandro Bria, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio 

• Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Ciro Castiello, University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Sabino Ciavarella, MD, IRCCS Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II - Bari 

• Nicoletta Del Buono, University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Flavia Esposito, University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Xavier Llado, University of Girona 

• Luisa Lorenzi, MD, University of Brescia & ASST degli Spedali Civili di Brescia 

• Claudio Marrocco, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio 

• Stefano Marrone, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli 

• Pierluigi Marzuillo, MD, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli 

• Francesco Mercaldo, University of Molise 

• Arnau Oliver, University of Girona 

• Giulio Russo, University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale 

• Laura Verde, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli 

• Sabina Tangaro, National Institute for Nuclear Physics & University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Gennaro Vessio, University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Jan Vrba, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague 

Organizing committee

• Roberto Bellotti, University of Bari Aldo Moro

• Ciro Russo, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

• Grazia Gargano, University of Bari Aldo Moro 

• Roberta De Fazio, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli 

• Gaetano Settembre, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Publication

IMPACT25 proceedings will be published in a joint Post-Workshop proceeding published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), indexed in Web of Science; Scopus; EI Engineering Index; Google Scholar; DBLP; etc. We suggest workshop papers are prepared and submitted using this template in LNCS format.

Venue

The conference will be held in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP25), 15-16 September 2025 at Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome. 

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: June 16, 2025 

• Notification of acceptance: July 3, 2025 

• Camera-ready papers: July 10, 2025