Part of the 2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
July 13-18
Sydney, Australia
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL HEALTH
ICDH 2026 - Conference Program
9:00 – 10:10
ICDH-INV-S1
(Remote)
Symposium on Digital Health I: Clinical AI and Healthcare Systems
Room: 106
Session Chair: Yasmeen Rawajfih, Tuskegee University
Session Co-Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
CDH_INV_014: Clinical Reasoning-Augmented Prediction: Agentic Verification Improves Reliability of VTE Detection from Radiology Reports
Phuong Nguyen, Yusen Wu, Brigitte Anderson, Minerva Mayorga-Carlin, John Sorkin, Yelena Yesha and Brajesh Lal
CDH_INV_017: Mapping App-Store Reviews to Nielsen Heuristics with Human-AI Agreement Analysis: Scalable Usability Assessment For Reliable Connected Mental Health Software Systems
Syeda Umme Salma, Chalavadi Gayathri, Evelina Stering and Nazmus Sakib
CDH_INV_047: Governance-Aware, Privacy-Preserving Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models for Clinical Triage Decision Support
A B M Kamrul Islam Riad, Md Abdul Barek, Mahmudul Islam Prakash, Yasmeen Rawajfih, Eman El-Sheikh, Guillermo Francia III, Hossain Shahriar and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
CDH_INV_003: SHIELD: Sensing-Enabled Health-Aware Infrastructure for Environmental Localized Defense
Ragib Hasan, Md Ismail Hossain and Nasim Uddin
10:40 – 11:50
ICDH-INV-S2
(Remote)
Symposium on Digital Health II: AI-Enabled Disease Screening and Digital Diagnostics
Room: 106
Session Chair: Oluwafemi Oyeleke, Stevens Institute of Technology
Session Co-Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
CDH_INV_019: [Invited] – Towards Developing an mHealth Platform for Stroke Screening Utilizing Audio-Video Recordings
Kazi Shafiul Alam, Subho Ghose, Paramita Basak Upama, Masud Rabbani, Iysa Iqbal, Hansika Kolli and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
CDH_INV_020: (Invited) PAD-Net: Towards Intelligent Diagnosis of Peripheral Artery Disease with a Deep Learning Framework
Md Raisul Islam, Mashrukh Zaman, Syed Ahmmed, Riad Hassan, M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal, Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
CDH_INV_042: Pattern Discovery from Digital Health Data for Early Juvenile Arthritis Detection
Connor Hryhoruk, Carson Leung, Lily Lim, Lisa Lix, Ruth Ann Marrie and Christine Peschken
11:50 – 13:00
ICDH-INV-S3
(Remote)
Symposium on Digital Health III: Trustworthy AI, Emerging Intelligence, and Future Digital Health Technologies
Room: 106
Session Chair: Prathamesh Bhope, Walmart Global Tech
Session Co-Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
CDH_INV_004: Towards Quantum Prediction of Glucose
Maria Valero
CDH_INV_038: Perspective on Bias in Biomedical AI: Preventing Downstream Healthcare Disparities
Michal Rosen-Zvi, Yoav Kan-Tor, Michael Danziger, Agata Ferretti, Javier Aula-Blasco, Julia Falcao, Ron Shamir, Mira Marcus and Mordechai Muszkat
CDH_INV_039: Engineering Trustworthy AI: the VERITAS Framework for Responsible AI Research
Keshav Mishra, Tran Vinh Kha Doan, Keeley Crockett and Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi
14:00 – 15:10
ICDH-INV-S4
(Remote)
Symposium on Digital Health IV: Medical Imaging, Diagnostic AI, and Physiological Monitoring
Room: 106
Session Chair: Jiachen Ma, Marquette University
Session Co-Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
CDH_INV_013: Brain Tumor Segmentation using Transfer Learning with Modified U-Net
Pallavi Priyadarshini, Tejaswini Kar, Sachi Nandan Mohanty and Fernando Moreira
CDH_INV_041: Multimodal AI in Digital Health: Machine Learning Solutions to Classify Malignant Mammograms
Duc Do, Carson Leung and Alexandr Yermakov
CDH_INV_046: A multi-model analysis of non-invasive Oxygen Saturation from smartphone-captured fingertip video
Nafi Us Sabbir Sabith, Md Martuza Ahamad, Kazi Zawad Arefin, Masud Rabbani and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
CDH_INV_105: UbiWhite-Plus: Non-invasive White Blood Cell Subtypes Monitoring Using Microscopic Images
Nafi Us Sabbir Sabith, Sakifa Aktar, Masud Rabbani and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
15:40 – 16:50
ICDH-CON-S1
(Remote)
Clinical AI, Predictive Modeling, and Healthcare Analytics
Room: 106
Session Chair: Yanlan Kang, Fuyao University of Science and Technology
Session Co-Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
CDH_REG_007: Enhancing Clinical Trust in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: A Multi-Strategy Rule Extraction Framework from CNN
Nunzia Lomonte, Vita S. Barletta, Giovanni Dimauro and Antonio Colamartino
CDH_REG_010: Enhancing Medicaid Social Risk Identification: Comparing Linear and Non-Linear Machine Learning Models with Expert Heuristics
Saad Khan, Prathyusha Kumar, Hala Algrain, Lorena de Leon, Bryce Parker, Vincent Mays, Edith Estrada, Latoya Turner and Ian Stockwell
CDH_REG_032: Personalized growth modeling using local polynomials
Pratyusha Sarkar, Siddhartha Nandy and Snigdhansu Chatterjee
CDH_REG_067: KACIO: Keyword‑Aware Cross‑Attention for Long‑Tailed ICD‑9 Coding
Jing Tao and Farhana Zulkernine
13:00 – 14:10
ICDH-CON-S2
(Invited Talk)
Distinguished Invited Talks in Digital Health
Room: 106
Session Chair: Karuna P. Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Invited talk: AI for Dementia Screening: NIA-Supported Resources, Research, and Future Opportunities
Yuan Luo
Invited talk: CyberAI (AICyber) Framework for Digital Health Applications: A Position Paper
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Invited talk: Nothing Happened: What Blast Monitoring Taught Us About Invisible Risk
Jeffrey L. Rogers, Yale University
14:10 – 15:20
ICDH-INV-S5
Symposium on Digital Health V: Digital Health Governance, Security, and Compliance
Room: 106
Session Chair: Karuna P. Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Session Co-Chair: Yanwei Xu, Peking University
CON_REG_012: Ontology Driven Agentic System for Automating Security Compliance in Medical Cyber-Physical WBANs
Zeliatu Ahmed and Karuna Joshi
CDH_INV_021: Towards Understanding the Role of Technology on the Quality of Life of Parents of Autistic Children
Moushumi Sharmin, Mitrasree Deb, Jennifer Bateman and Shameem Ahmed
CDH_INV_028: MedEthicsBench: Evaluating Medical Ethics Reasoning Across Jurisdictions
Yanlan Kang, Lee Shou-Yu, Liying Chu, Sunsi Wu, Wenqing Qu, Weichen Liu, Longlong Cao, Chengbin Hou and William Chu
15:50 – 17:00
ICDH-CON-S3
Neuro-AI, Medical Imaging, and Cognitive Health
Room: 106
Session Chair: Shiyi Yang, UNSW and CSIRO
Session Co-Chair: Karuna P. Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
CDH_REG_037: Multiscale Hypergraph Dynamic Autoencoders for Whole-Brain Activity Prediction
Chengyao Xie, Qi Liu, Shuo Yu, Yanli Xie, Ciyuan Peng, Xin Zheng, Xinshu Li, Adil Bagirov and Feng Xia
CDH_REG_055: Toward Multimodal AI for Dementia: A Challenge-Driven Survey of LLMs and VLMs
Afrouz Sheikholeslami, Dexuan Ding, Yuankai Qi and Amin Beheshti
CDH_SHT_029: Frequency-Aware Wavelet-Guided Diffusion for Efficient Low-Dose PET Reconstruction
Aliakbar Attari, Siamak Talatahari, Yuankai Qi, Mahakim Newton and Amin Beheshti
13:00 – 14:10
ICDH-CON-S4
Mental Health and Behavioral Analytics
Room: 106
Session Chair: Yuankai Qi, Macquarie University
CDH_REG_034: Performative Empathy vs. Authentic Support: Benchmarking LLM Counselling Alignment for Digital Mental Health
Alexander Marrapese, Basem Suleiman, Jinglin Sun, Imdad Ullah and Juno Kim
CDH_REG_040: Context as a Signal: Context-Aware Transformers for Fine-Grained Depression Emotions
Saman Sarker Joy, Tanusree Das Aishi, Shuchismita Anwar, Tanjim Islam Riju and Adnan Mahmood
CDH_SHT_072: Engagement Dynamics in Unstructured Digital Journaling: Insights from Eight Months of Multimodal Data in Early Outpatient Psychiatric Care
Adam Davidson, Joseph T. Colonel, Shalaila S Haas, Baihan Lin, David Kimhy, Justin T. Baker, Cheryl Corcoran, René Kahn and Guillermo Cecchi
13:00 – 14:10
ICDH-CON-S5
Wearables, Physiological Sensing, and Monitoring
Room: 107
Session Chair: Kexuan Xin, Macquarie University
CDH_REG_049: ModelXc: A Novel Data-Efficient Personalization for Fall Detection
Awatif Yasmin, Tarek Mahmud, Sana Alamgeer, Tanzima Islam and Anne Ngu
CDH_REG_051: MUSIC-CAR: A Multi-label Complex Health-Related Activity Recognition Dataset from Smartphone Sensors
Kavin Chandrasekaran, Luke Buquicchio, Emmanuel Agu and Elke Rundensteiner
14:10 – 15:20
ICDH-CON-S6
Omics, Genomics, Precision Health, and Biomedical AI
Room: 106
Session Chair: Shou-Yu Lee, Tunghai University
CDH_REG_027: Privacy Preserving Search on Genomic Data
Srija Mukherjee, Sushmita Ruj and Sara Ballouz
CDH_REG_035: GRN-GEARS: Interpretable Gene Regulatory Modeling for Single-Cell Perturbation Response Prediction in Precision Oncology
Marjan Baghgolshani, Amin Beheshti, Mahakim Newton and Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
14:10 – 15:20
ICDH-CON-S7
Trustworthy AI, Ethics, and Responsible Digital Health
Room: 107
Session Chair: Vinesh V. George, UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering
CDH_REG_036: An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in NIH-Funded Research
Navapat Nananukul and Mayank Kejriwal
CDH_REG_066: When Confidence Fails: Overconfidence in LLMs under Uncertainty and Missing Clinical Information
Maryam Tahermazandarani, Adnan Mahmood, Fahmida Islam and Quan Z. Sheng
CDH_SHT_046: From Regulatory Text to Executable Constraints: Operationalising Compliance for Medicine Labelling
Frank Tran, Paul Benjamin Ramirez, Vinesh George, Aditya Joshi, Hye-young Paik and Salil Kanhere
15:50 – 17:00
ICDH-CON-S8
Agentic AI, Decision Support, and Healthcare Analytics
Room: 106
Session Chair: Anne Ngu, Texas State University
CDH_REG_008: PhysioAgent: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Personalised Exercise Prescription and Longitudinal Adherence Monitoring in Physiotherapy
Hirad Rezaei, Fethi Rabhi, Amin Beheshti and Arash Behnia
CDH_REG_042: JudgEHR: LLM-Guided Cohort Inference for Clinical Decision Confidence Estimation
Kexuan Xin, Guillaume Pelat, Jonathan Vitale, Shun Takeuchi, Shlomo Berkovsky and Amin Beheshti
CDH_SHT_052: Securing Autonomous Clinical Agents: Time-Scoped Hypergraph Delegation for Controlling Patient Data Access
Hassan Karim, Sai Sitharaman, Deepti Gupta and Danda Rawat
15:50 – 17:00
ICDH-CON-S9
Clinical Prediction, Risk Forecasting, and Healthcare Analytics
Room: 107
Session Chair: Maryam Tahermazandarani, Macquarie University
CDH_REG_002: Optimizing Cancer Classification in High-Dimensional Data by Integrating Generative AI with Feature Selection
Helia Farhood, Ibrahim Joudah, Amin Beheshti and Samuel Muller
CDH_REG_013: Socioeconomic Gradients in Chronic Disease for Digital Health Risk Stratification and Targeted Interventions
Yike Lu and John Grundy
CDH_REG_054: SAPIF: A Severity-Aware Framework for Pressure Injury Forecasting
David Sommerfield, Katia Obraczka, Jonathan Casper, Hitesh Chudasama and Collin Engstrom
10:40 – 11:50
ICDH-CON-S10
(Remote)
Healthcare Security, Medical IoT, and Digital Health Monitoring
Room: 106
Session Chair: Bing Dang, IBM Research
Session Co-Chair: Lavanya Elluri, Texas A&M University-Central Texas
CDH_REG_022: Automated Compliance Verification of Medical IoT Privacy Policies Using Knowledge Graphs
Meyah Garnett, Lavanya Elluri, Maryam Ramezanzadehmoghadam, Anantaa Kotal and Deepti Gupta
CDH_REG_026: Microbenchmarking Cloud Cryptographic Workloads for Privacy-Preserving Healthcare IoT
Jeremiah Webb, Laxima Niure Kandel, Deepti Gupta and Lavanya Elluri
CDH_SHT_048: Explainable Subject-Independent Freezing-of-Gait Detection Using Wearable Sensors: Toward Real-World Digital Neurological Monitoring Surya Anand
13:00 – 14:10
ICDH-CON-S11
(Remote)
Medical AI, Physiological Monitoring, and Digital Diagnostics
Room: 106
Session Chair: Lavanya Elluri, Texas A&M University-Central Texas
Session Co-Chair: Bing Dang, IBM Research
CDH_REG_047: Robust Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation via PPG-Conditioned Diffusion and Contrastive Transformer Fusion
Natalia Valencia, Jean T Rodriguez, Mohammad A Rahman, Kyoungeui Hong, Tan Vo, Fahad Saeed and Viktoria Meskova
CDH_REG_023: Adverse Drug Event Prediction in Pharmacovigilance using KG-augmented LLM
Shirish Bajpai, Anirudh Sharma, Suman Roy, Aman Tomar and Supratik Mukhopadhyay
CDH_WIP_011: Detecting Parkinson’s Disease Using Voice Signals and Deep Learning Models
Jason Dang and Fei Wang
14:10 – 15:20
ICDH-CON-S12
(Remote)
Cognitive Monitoring, Clinical AI, and Decision Support
Room: 106
Session Chair: Atsushi Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Session Co-Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
CON_REG_045: Modeling Short-Term Cognitive State Transitions Using EEG and Lifestyle Features
Katsunori Oyama and Shu Harada
CDH_SHT_045: Multi-Agent Framework for Neural Signal Decoding in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Najmeh Razfar and Rasha Kashef
CDH_WIP_064: From Lived Experience to Digital Biomarkers: Methods for Scaling Narrative Data with Large Language Models in Mental Health
Jenna Reinen, Cheryl Corcoran, René Kahn, Guillermo Cecchi
CDH_WIP_075: Agentic AI for Personalized Physiotherapy: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generative Video Training and Real-Time Pose Correction
Abhishek Dharmaratnakar, Srivaths Ranganathan, Anushree Sinha and Debanshu Das