[NFBCS] Submission Deadline Approaching - IEEE SBiND 2027 – ICASSP Satellite Workshop

Tue Nov 3 14:28:59 UTC 2026

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce SBiND 2027, the ICASSP 2027 Satellite Workshop
on Speech Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Signal Processing,
Artificial Intelligence, and Clinical Translation, and invite you to
contribute your research.

The workshop will be held on May 17, 2027, in Toronto, Canada, in
conjunction with the 2027 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2027).

SBiND 2027 will bring together researchers, clinicians, engineers, and
practitioners to discuss advances in speech-based biomarkers and their
potential for clinical use. We welcome contributions spanning speech and
signal processing, artificial intelligence, neurology, clinical
neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and digital health, with particular
interest in interpretable approaches and clinically meaningful evaluation.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit substantially extended
and enhanced versions of their contributions to a dedicated Special Issue
of the journal MAKE.

The SBiND 2027 Best Paper Award, sponsored by MAKE
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/events/20251>, will include a CHF 200
prize and the opportunity to submit an extended version of the winning
paper with a full Article Processing Charge (APC) waiver. Publication will
remain subject to acceptance through the journal’s standard peer-review and
editorial process.

We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to
Toronto!

Best regards,
The SBiND 2027 Organizing Committee

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SBiND 2027

Speech Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Signal Processing,
Artificial Intelligence, and Clinical Translation

May 17, 2027 – Toronto, Canada
https://www.sbind.icar.cnr.it/

Satellite Workshop of the 2027 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing – ICASSP 2027

Submit your paper:
https://cmsworkshops.com/ICASSP2027/papers/submission.asp?ID=7&Type=WS
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MISSION
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,
Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease progressively affect speech
production through changes in motor control, cognition, language, and
respiratory function. Speech and voice therefore represent promising
non-invasive and easily accessible biomarkers for supporting disease
assessment, monitoring progression, and evaluating treatment response.
SBiND 2027 aims to bring together researchers, clinicians, engineers, and
industry professionals working on speech and voice biomarkers for
neurodegenerative diseases. The workshop will promote interdisciplinary
discussion on the development of reliable signal-processing and
artificial-intelligence methods and their translation into clinically
meaningful and deployable solutions.
Building on previous research and challenge-based initiatives in this
field, SBiND will address the methodological, clinical, and technological
barriers that currently limit the generalizability, interpretability,
reproducibility, and real-world adoption of speech-based biomarkers.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Speech and voice biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases
• Speech signal processing for neurological assessment and monitoring
• Acoustic, phonetic, prosodic, linguistic, and conversational biomarkers
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for speech-based assessment
• Deep learning, self-supervised learning, and foundation models
• Automatic detection, classification, and differential diagnosis
• Longitudinal modelling and disease-progression prediction
• Multilingual, cross-lingual, and cross-corpus generalization
• Domain adaptation and robust learning across recording conditions
• Explainable and clinically interpretable artificial intelligence
• Multimodal integration of speech, language, clinical, imaging, and sensor
data
• Digital phenotyping and remote patient monitoring
• Mobile, wearable, and telemedicine solutions for speech assessment
• Data quality, annotation protocols, and dataset harmonization
• Privacy-preserving learning and secure health-data processing
• Federated learning for distributed clinical data
• Bias, fairness, ethics, and responsible AI in clinical applications
• Reproducibility, benchmarking, and open science
• Clinical validation and real-world deployment
• Human-centred technologies and clinician–AI collaboration
• Regulatory and translational challenges for speech-based digital
biomarkers

IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper submission deadline: November 11, 2026
• Notification of paper acceptance: December 16, 2026
• Camera-ready paper submission: January 6, 2027
• Workshop date: May 17, 2027

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions addressing
the workshop topics.
Submitted papers must follow the ICASSP 2027 paper style, formatting, and
length requirements. Papers may contain a maximum of four pages of
technical content, including figures and references, with an optional fifth
page containing references only.
Papers must be submitted through the official ICASSP 2027 Satellite
Workshop submission system:
https://cmsworkshops.com/ICASSP2027/papers/submission.asp?ID=7&Type=WS

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process managed
independently by the SBiND 2027 Technical Program Committee.
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library under a separate ICASSP 2027 Satellite Workshop record number.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop
and present the paper in person. Papers that are not presented in
accordance with the conference policies will be withdrawn from the official
proceedings.

BEST PAPER AWARD
A Best Paper Award will be presented to the author or authors of an
outstanding paper presented at SBiND 2027.
The award, sponsored by the journal MAKE, will include:
• A Best Paper Award certificate
• A cash prize of CHF 200
• The opportunity to submit a substantially extended version of the winning
paper to MAKE with a full Article Processing Charge waiver

The winning contribution will be selected by the Workshop Chairs based on
scientific significance, originality, methodological quality, clinical
relevance, and the evaluations of the Technical Program Committee.

The extended manuscript will be subject to MAKE’s standard independent
peer-review and editorial process. The full Article Processing Charge
waiver will apply if the manuscript is accepted for publication.

SPECIAL ISSUE IN MAKE
A dedicated Special Issue of the journal MAKE will be associated with SBiND
2027.
Authors of selected high-quality papers presented at the workshop will be
invited to submit substantially extended and enhanced versions of their
contributions for possible publication in the Special Issue.
Extended submissions must provide significant new material beyond the
conference paper and will be treated as new journal manuscripts. All
submissions will undergo the journal’s standard independent peer-review and
editorial process. An invitation to submit does not guarantee acceptance
for publication.
Further information regarding the Special Issue, including its title,
scope, submission procedure, and deadlines, will be announced soon.

CONTACT
For further information, please visit: https://www.sbind.icar.cnr.it/

For questions, please contact: sbind at icar.cnr.it

-- 
Nadia Brancati
Senior Researcher @ AI-ISA Lab
<https://www.icar.cnr.it/en/gruppi-di-ricerca/artificial-intelligence-in-image-and-signal-analysis/>
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research
Council of Italy (CNR - ICAR)
Via P. Castellino, 111 - 80131 Napoli
Tel. 081.6139228
nadia.brancati at icar.cnr.it
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