Mental health issues are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern society. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Diagnosing, predicting, and preventing mental health diseases and disorders can be challenging due to the complexity and diversity of these conditions. In many parts of the world, mental health services and resources are limited, making it difficult for people to access the help they need.

Mental health issues are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern society. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Diagnosing, predicting, and preventing mental health diseases and disorders can be challenging due to the complexity and diversity of these conditions. In many parts of the world, mental health services and resources are limited, making it difficult for people to access the help they need.

This special session is aimed to invite AI researchers to contribute their recent work to address mental health challenges. It aims to publish recent works in Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illnesses, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Prediction and bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry to share their scientific contributions.

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health is a rapidly growing area of research. We welcome the submission of manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics: Special focus will be given (but is not restricted) to:

  • Machine learning for diagnosis and prediction
  • Natural language processing for mental health assessment
  • Digital interventions for mental health
  • Ethics and privacy of AI in mental health
  • Deep learning for healthcare informatics.
  • Human-AI collaboration in mental health
  • Statistical analysis for healthcare informatics.
  • Novel use of visualization in solving diverse problems.
  • Multimodal data integration in mental health

Important Dates

  • Special Session Papers Submission: 29 July 2023
  • Acceptance Notification: 15 September 2023
  • Author Registration: 1 October 2023
  • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023

Paper submission instruction

Paper submission system is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023.

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity.

Please note:

  • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available from here.
  • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts special session papers (6 pages).
  • The page count above excludes the references.
  • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review.
  • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
  • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.
  • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work.
  • Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing).
  • (NEW) The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text.

Chairs

General Chairs
Anwaar Ulhaq, Charles Sturt University, Australia (aulhaq[at]csu.edu.au)
Md Rafiqul Islam, Australian Institute of Higher Education, Australia (r.islam[at]aih.nsw.edu.au)