Program

This is the VAHC 2025 program - further updates may be made as the workshop approaches. Times are expressed in 24hrs format, local time.

	Time	Program	Chair
Session 1	09:00	Opening and Welcome	Alessio Arleo + Velitchko Filipov
	09:05	Keynote Speaker: Prof. G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois Chicago (USA) Director, UIC Institute for Health Data Science Research We are proud to announce that Prof. Marai accepted to be keynote speaker at VAHC 2025! Further details about her talk will be available here.
	10:05	Paper Chairs Summary and Best Paper Session
	10:10	Best Paper + Honorable Mention Presentations
	10:35	Poster Pitches
	10:35	Explaining Model Predictions When Users Aren't Sure: XAI for scRNA-seq Cell-Type Classification – Josh Shell
	10:38	A Dashboard for Visualizing Health Data of Children with Aortic Valve Disease – Anna Kleinau
	10:41	Exploring Human-AI Interaction with Patient-Generated Health Data Sensemaking for Cardiac Risk Reduction – Pavithren V S Pakianathan
	10:44	InViTAG: a web application for AI-assisted exploration and grouping of health images and data – Michaël Aupetit
Break	10:45	Coffee Break, Poster and Demo Exposition
Session 2	11:15	Intro and Setup – Full Papers: Clinical Applications & Patient Data	Gabriela Morgenshtern
	11:20	Embedding Empathy into Visual Analytics: A Framework for Person-Centred Dementia Care – Rhiannon Owen
	11:32	VAIR: Visual Analytics for Injury Risk Exploration in Sports – Chunggi Lee
	11:44	The MoBa GWAS Explorer: Designing Approachable Visualizations of GWAS Data for a Mixed Audience – Hanna Balaka
	11:56	Lessons from the Development and Deployment of an Interactive Oncological Risk Estimator – Md Nafiul Alam Nipu
	12:08	Understanding Expert Exploration in EHR Visualization Tools: The ParcoursVis Use Case – Ambre Assor
	12:12	Buffer / Discussion
Break	12:30	Lunch Break
Session 3	14:00	Doctoral Consortium Introduction	TBD
	14:05	Doctoral Consortium Candidate #1
	14:21	Doctoral Consortium Candidate #2
	14:37	Introducing the Grand Challenge – Jürgen Bernard
	14:43	Visual Analytics for Causal Reasoning from Real-World Health Data – Arran Zeyu Wang
	14:46	Bridging Service Design, Visualizations, and Visual Analytics in Healthcare Digital Twins: Challenges, Gaps, and Research Opportunities – Mariia Ershova
	14:49	Changing the Paradigm from Dynamic Queries to LLM-generated SQL Queries with Human Intervention – Ambre Assor
	14:52	Grand Challenge: The Urgent Need for Methods and Tools to Mediate Between the Research Cultures of Health Sciences and Visual Analytics – Jürgen Bernard
	14:55	Recap of EuroVis 2025 Panel (HC & VIS) – Robert S. Laramee
	15:10	Buffer / Discussion
Break	15:15	Afternoon Coffee Break
Session 4	15:45	Grand Challenge Interactive Session
	17:20	VAHC Closing – Alessio Arleo