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Karolj Skala (Croatia), Aleksandra Rashkovska Koceva (Slovenia), Davor Davidović (Croatia)

The High Performance Computing, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (HPC-BBE) conference provides an international forum for presenting recent advances in High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Digital Health. The conference fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among computer scientists, biomedical engineers, clinicians, life scientists, and industry by promoting innovative computational methods, scalable algorithms, intelligent systems, and advanced digital infrastructures to address complex biomedical and healthcare challenges.

Particular emphasis is placed on exploiting HPC infrastructures, the cloud-edge-fog continuum, AI-driven methodologies, digital twins, and large-scale biomedical data analytics to accelerate scientific discovery, precision medicine, medical imaging, omics research, and healthcare innovation. Throughout, the unifying focus is the application of high-performance and intelligent computing to biomedicine: HPC is treated as an enabling technology for next-generation healthcare and the life sciences.

Original research papers are invited on theoretical developments, novel algorithms, software platforms, engineering solutions, practical implementations, and industrial applications contributing to next-generation biomedical computing and digital healthcare.Submissions should demonstrate scientific excellence together with innovative applications of computational technologies in Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Digital Health and Healthcare.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas. We particularly welcome contributions that bridge two or more of these categories:

High Performance Computing for Biomedicine

• HPC Architectures for Biomedical Workload
• Parallel and Distributed Computing for the Life Sciences
• GPU and Heterogeneous Computing for Omics and Imaging
• Cloud, Edge and Fog Computing for Healthcare
• EuroHPC Technologies and Applications
• HPC Software Frameworks and Scientific Computing for Biomedicine
• Scientific Workflow Systems for Biomedical Pipelines
• Quantum Computing for Biomedical Applications

Artificial Intelligence for Health and Life Sciences

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Medicine
• Foundation Models for Healthcare
• Explainable and Trustworthy Clinical AI
• Federated Learning for Sensitive Medical Data
• Multi-agent AI Systems and Medical Knowledge Graphs
• Clinical Decision Support Systems
• Medical Imaging AI
• AI for Precision Medicine

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics
• Multi-omics Data Integration
• Systems Biology and Biological Network Analysis
• Computational Drug Discovery
• Molecular Modelling and Simulation
• Protein Structure Prediction
• Biomedical Knowledge Discovery

Biomedical Engineering and Digital Health

• Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
• Biomedical Sensors and Smart Medical Devices
• Wearable Technologies, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and Digital Biomarkers
• Digital Twins in Healthcare
• Remote Monitoring and Telemedicine
• Digital Therapeutics and Personalized Healthcare
• Electronic Health Records Analytics and Population Health Analytics

Biomedical Data Management

• Biomedical Big Data and FAIR Data
• Biomedical Databases and Ontologies
• Semantic Technologies and Data Integration
• Data Quality and Data Governance
• Secure Biomedical Computing and Healthcare Cybersecurity
• Privacy-preserving Data Analytics

Application domains. Submissions are encouraged across the full range of biomedical application areas, including Oncology and Cancer Informatics, Neuroscience, Cardiovascular Medicine, Computational Pathology and Radiology, Drug Discovery, Public Health and Epidemiological Modelling, and Digital Health Innovation more broadly. 

The official language is English.

Rok za dostavu sažetaka: 19. listopad 2026
Rok za dostavu radova: 30. studeni 2026
Rok za konačnu recenziju: 1. veljača 2027

The student discount doesn't apply to PhD students.

NOTE FOR AUTHORS: In order to have your paper published, it is required that you pay at least one registration fee for each paper. Authors of 2 or more papers are entitled to a 10% discount.

Karolj Skala
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Center for Informatics and Computing
Bijenicka 54
HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

E-mail: skala@irb.hr

Accepted papers will be published in the ISSN registered conference proceedings. Papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

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