IEEE CIBCB 2026 Special Session – AI Agents in Digital Health and Medicine

Scope

Advances in computational intelligence (CI) and autonomous systems are enabling a new generation of AI agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting within digital health and clinical environments. AI agents and multi-agent systems are accelerating innovation in healthcare by supporting clinical decision-making, autonomous health monitoring, multimodal medical assistants, and adaptive intelligence embedded in clinical workflows.

Despite these opportunities, deploying AI agents in healthcare presents challenges related to heterogeneous data, interoperability, trust, safety, hallucinations, bias, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Ensuring trustworthy and clinically aligned behavior requires transparent reasoning, robust evaluation, and effective human oversight.

This special session aims to bridge computational intelligence researchers and clinical experts, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and showcasing emerging advances in AI agents for digital health, precision medicine, bioinformatics, clinical decision support, and biomedical engineering.

Topics of Interest

AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in Healthcare
Clinical co-pilot agents and decision support
Multi-agent workflows for tumor boards, triage, and care coordination
Human-in-the-loop and safety-aware agentic systems
Generative AI for medical imaging, reporting, and multi-omics
LLMs and retrieval-augmented systems for clinical knowledge support
Agent-enabled diagnostic, prognostic, and risk stratification systems
Personalized treatment recommendation and therapy planning
Wearables, IoT, remote monitoring, and virtual care agents
Digital therapeutics and AI health coaching
Agentic pipelines for bioinformatics, genomics, and drug discovery
Trustworthy, explainable, ethical, and regulatory AI agents in medicine

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2026
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2026
Final paper submission: June 30, 2026
Conference dates: 31 August – 2 September 2026

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit unpublished original research papers through the IEEE CIBCB 2026 paper submission system. When submitting, please select:

“Special Session on AI Agents in Digital Health and Medicine” as the main research topic.

More details are available at: https://cibcb2026.dib.uth.gr/

Organizers

Dr. Yasin Mamatjan

Associate Professor, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Visiting Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
Chair, IEEE-BBTC Taskforce on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine
https://www.mamatjanlab.com/
Email: ymamatjan@tru.ca

Dr. Arvind S. Mer

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine and School of EECS
University of Ottawa, Canada
Vice-Chair, IEEE-BBTC CIHM Taskforce
https://merLab.github.io
Email: amer@uottawa.ca

Dr. Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón

Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Senior Member, IEEE
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