{"id":362,"date":"2017-04-24T07:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eg5.cgv.tugraz.at\/wp\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:50:14","slug":"visual-computing-in-biology-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eg.org\/wp\/eg-events\/visual-computing-in-biology-and-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Eurographics Symposium on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) is addressing state-of-the-art visual computing research with a strong focus on applications in biology and medicine. 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href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2010 &#8211; Leipzig, Germany<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2012 &#8211; Norrk\u00f6ping, Sweden<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2014 &#8211; Vienna, Austria<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2015 &#8211; Chester, UK<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2016\/\">EG VCBM 2016 &#8211; Bergen, Norway<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2017 &#8211; Bremen, Germany<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2018 &#8211; Granada, Spain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2019 &#8211; Brno, Czech Republic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.mpi-inf.mpg.de\/dagm\/2020\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2020 &#8211; T\u00fcbingen, Germany<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2021 &#8211; Paris, France<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2022 \u2013 Vienna, Austria<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG VCBM 2023 \u2013 Norrk\u00f6ping, Sweden<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.eg.org\/vcbm2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EG 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