Scope
The Adaptive and Continual Learning for Intelligent Healthcare Systems (ACL-IHS 2026) workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss emerging trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning for healthcare applications. The primary focus is on models capable of adapting to new data and clinical scenarios over time—minimizing the problem of catastrophic forgetting and improving real-time learning in medical contexts. The workshop aims to bring together experts from computer science, biomedical engineering, and healthcare domains to exchange ideas, present new methods, and share experiences that promote the development of sustainable and adaptive AI systems for healthcare, including seizure prediction, cardiovascular analysis, and remote patient monitoring.
Topics of Interest
· Lifelong and continual learning in medical AI
· Adaptive deep learning for clinical data
· Explainability and transparency in AI-based diagnosis
· Federated and privacy-preserving learning for patient data
· Graph neural networks in biomedical informatics
· Multimodal data fusion for healthcare decision-making
· Temporal and physiological signal analysis (EEG, ECG, etc.)
· Predictive modeling for early disease detection
· Cloud–edge and distributed architectures in smart healthcare
· AI-driven Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) systems
· Wearable-based AI for continuous health monitoring
· Healthcare big data management and analytics
· Reinforcement learning in health support systems
· Evaluation of metrics and benchmarking frameworks for AI in healthcare
· Responsible, ethical, and fair AI in medical applications
· Self-supervised and weakly supervised learning for medical data
· Catastrophic forgetting mitigation in medical deep learning models
· AI governance frameworks for healthcare institutions
Organizing Committee
Dr. Adnan Amin
Assistant Professor, Program Director
School of Computer Science & IT,
Institute of Management Sciences (IMSciences), Peshawar, Pakistan
Email:
Prof. Fernando Moreira
Professor,
REMIT, Portucalense University.
Email:
Program Committee
1. Prof. Sajid Anwar — Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan.
2. Prof. Maria José Sousa — University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.
3. Asso. Prof. Atif Khan — Islamia College University Peshawar, Pakistan.
4. Prof. Awais Adnan — Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan.
5. Dr. Inam ul haq — King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudia Arabia.
6. Dr. Haji Gul — Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei.
7. Prof. Muhammad Tahir — FAST University Peshawar.
8. Dr. Omar bin Samin — Al-Madina International University Malysia.
9. Dr. Ahmad Hassan Afridi — Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan.
10. Dr. Khalid Haseeb — Department of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan.
11. Muhammad Waseem — Department of Games Technology and mathematics, Abertay University, UK.
12. Babar Shah — Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.
Important Dates
· Paper Submission Deadline: March 3, 2026
· Acceptance Notification: April 3, 2026
· Camera-Ready Papers & Registration: April 12, 2026
· Conference Dates: June 17–20, 2026
· Payment of registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: April 12, 2026
Paper submission and formatting guidelines:
Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website). The version of these papers for evaluation by the Scientific Committee, saved in PDF format, must not include identification, e-mail and affiliation of the authors. This information must only be available in the camera-ready version of accepted papers, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system.
Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 6-page limit) must follow the formatting rules of IEEE.The version of these papers for evaluation by the Scientific Committee, saved in PDF format, must not include identification, e-mail and affiliation of the authors. This information must only be available in the camera-ready version of accepted papers, saved in Word format. These files must be uploaded at the conference management system in a ZIP file.
To submit an article go to: https://cisti2026.itmaoc.org/account/signin.php
