Information for authors and presenters

Information for authors, chairs and committees: instructions, deadlines, and tips

Prepare to share

The 2025 call for papers is open. Find information on these pages about being a presenter at SPIE Medical Imaging. Find the conference that best aligns with your research. Then, click into the conference to submit an abstract.

Guidelines for oral and poster presenters and a helpful to-do list.

View abstract guidelines

Why present and publish your work as part of SPIE Medical Imaging?

Here's how submitting an abstract puts a spotlight on your work:

Your participation in the conference gains you international visibility
Your research becomes a part of the world's permanent scientific record
Your work will be indexed in all relevant scientific databases*

Make sure that your research gets timely publication in the SPIE Digital Library.

*SPIE partners with relevant scientific databases to ensure visibility for your research, including Astrophysical Data System (ADS), Ei Compendex, CrossRef, Google Scholar, Inspec, Scopus, and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

Prepare to share your work

Submit an abstract

First step of being part of the program: write an abstract for your work.

Prepare to present

Guidelines for oral and poster presenters, a to-do list, and due dates.

Author reviewing manuscript submission guidelines for SPIE Medical Imaging

Prepare your manuscript

Details and templates for preparing your paper for the SPIE Digital Library.

Chairs and committee members organize the conferences and present awards to authors

Chairs and committees

Timelines and overview of your duties before and during the event.

Important dates

Abstracts due	7 August 2024
Registration opens	October 2024
Authors notified and program posts online	28 October 2024
Applications open for RFW and conference awards	28 October 2024
Applications close for RFW and conference awards	29 November 2024
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs*	16 December 2024
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication	22 January 2025
Manuscripts due	29 January 2025
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides**	14 February 2025

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading
**After this date slides must be uploaded onsite at Speaker Check-in

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