Dear colleagues,
The 22nd European Congress on Digital Pathology (ECDP2026) Scientific Committee is pleased to invite you to submit your work for presentation.
The congress will take place in Graz, Austria, on 15-20th June 2026 as an in-person meeting.
The ECDP2026 focus areas will include (but are not limited to):
- Integrative Diagnostics - Studies that merge Pathology and other specialties/domains
- AI Agents - Examples of early applications of the AI Agents in Pathology
- Machine Learning and Algorithm Development - Studies focused on the creation and optimization of ML algorithms tailored to Pathology
- ML and AI applications - Examples of ML/AI applications in pathology subfields (e.g. breast, lung, renal, head and neck and cytopathology)
- Digital Pathology Workflow Implementation - Strategies and best practices for deploying digital pathology solutions
- Quality Assurance - Studies related to the development and application of QA tools in the digital workflow
- Interoperability in Digital and Computational Pathology - Data standardization, compatibility of digital imaging formats, and cross-platform functionality
- Spatial and 3D pathology - Studies regarding the application of spatial and 3D pathology
- Virtual staining - Development and application of virtual staining techniques in pathology
- Structured Reporting - Digital Pathology/AI & structured reporting
- Bias in AI - Data and other bias in AI applied to Pathology
- Ethics and Regulation - Ethical and regulatory aspects in digital and computational pathology
- The Odd Couple - Special session where we are looking for joint presentations showcasing the joint effort across disciplines (e.g. 1 Pathologist / 1 Computer scientist; 1 Pathologist / 1 Biomedical Scientist / etc.). The topic should fit one of the previous categories
In this last category, for the third year, the ECDP2026 organization will allow authors to present their work together. This is an innovative format that aims to bring together interdisciplinary teams (pathologists and computer scientists/ pathologists and lab technicians / etc.).
On behalf of the Scientific Committee of the ECDP2026 Congress,
Vincenzo L’Imperio (Chair)
Abstract Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit your work under the format of a structured abstract to ECDP2026.
Start of abstract submission: 17.12.2025
Deadline for abstract submission: 15.02.2026
Notification of abstract acceptance: 24.03.2026
The abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee of ECDP2026 in a peer-review, double-blinded process that will select the abstracts accepted and those selected for either oral or poster presentation. All accepted abstracts will be published on the conference website.
As usual, the best oral and poster presentations will receive awards from ESDIP.
For the first time, chairs and moderators will select the best oral presentation in their session and this ranking will be matched with the score obtained from the peer-review, double-blinded abstract selection process to award the best oral presentation of this ECDP.
The poster presentation award will be selected among the 10 best-ranked posters based on the score from the peer-review, double-blinded abstract selection process, and after the on-site evaluation of the poster presentation by members of the Scientific Committee.
Registration for the congress is mandatory for at least one author (speaker, correspondence). If the abstract is selected for oral presentation, then the speaker needs to be registered for the congress.
The submission of the abstract must include the following:
- Abstract title
- Corresponding author details (full name, institutional address, e-mail address - provided on registration)
- Other authors’ details (full name, institutional address)
- Abstract body with a maximum of 250 words. This does not include the title or authors
- 3 to 6 keywords
The body of a scientific abstract should be structured as follows:
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results
- Conclusions
Use CAPITALS only if necessary (e.g., DNA).