Long Papers
Up to eight pages, including figures and tables, in NeurIPS 2026 style; additional pages for references allowed.
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Med-Reasoner 2026
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models
The NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models (Med-Reasoner) brings together researchers and clinicians to advance reasoning capabilities in vision-language models for medical imaging and clinical decision-making. The workshop focuses on interpretable, trustworthy, and clinically valid AI systems that bridge visual findings with medical knowledge, addressing challenges in evaluation, fairness, privacy, and deployment.
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Short Papers
Up to four pages, including figures and tables, in NeurIPS 2026 style; additional pages for references allowed.
Research areas in scope
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Reasoning Architectures and Methods
Reasoning Architectures for Medical Vision-Language ModelsChain-of-Thought Reasoning for Medical DiagnosisInterpretable and Explainable Decision-Making in Medical AIMultimodal Reasoning Across Imaging, Clinical Notes, and PathologyProbabilistic Reasoning Frameworks for Clinical DecisionsGrounding Visual Features in Clinical Knowledge
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Evaluation and Benchmarking
Evaluation Frameworks for Reasoning QualityAssessment Metrics for Clinical ReasoningValidation Benchmarks for Diagnostic Reasoning in Medical Imaging
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Foundation Models and Applications
Vision-Language Models for Radiology, Pathology, and Clinical ImagingMultimodal Medical Foundation ModelsFew-Shot and Zero-Shot Reasoning in Medical ContextsRetrieval-Augmented Medical Reasoning Systems
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Clinical Deployment and Safety
Clinical Deployment and SafetyBias Detection and Fairness Across Patient PopulationsPrivacy-Preserving Reasoning SystemsWorkflow Integration in Healthcare SettingsHallucination Detection and Mitigation in Medical Explanations
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Emerging Topics
Large Language Models for Clinical ReasoningAgent-Based Medical AI SystemsInterpretability and Transparency in Medical Foundation ModelsEthical Aspects of Reasoning-Based Medical AI
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions are double-blind and managed via OpenReview.
- Papers must use the official NeurIPS 2026 Submission Template.
- Long papers are limited to eight pages and short papers to four pages (excluding references).
- Papers that are not anonymized, do not use the template, or exceed page limits will be rejected without review.
- Both long and short papers are non-archival and will not appear in any proceedings.
- All submissions must disclose dataset licensing and governance protocols, including use of synthetic data.
- Submissions must not include protected health information and must respect consent and sharing regulations.
- Authors must create or update their OpenReview profile by the submission deadline, preferably using institutional email.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026