IMPORTANT NOTE: NEW SUBMISSIONS SHOULD USE OUR NEW TEMPLATE, ON BRANCH V2
This repository is used as a ressource for authors wishing to submit to the MELBA journal. The repository is structured as follow:
Thank you for submitting to MELBA!
Any new submission to MELBA should be accompanied by a cover letter. Authors can use the following template as a starting point:
[PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN SQUARE BRACKETS. BEFORE SUBMISSION, ERASE ALL INSTRUCTIONS.]
[INSERT DATE]
Dear Editor,
We hereby submit our paper entitled:
[INSERT TITLE]
By following authors:
[INSERT AUTHOR NAMES]
We acknowledge that:
- All authors have approved the submission for publication and consent to its review by MELBA.
- Authorship implies taking full responsibility for the accuracy and originality of the content of the submission.
- The work presented followed all appropriate ethical standards in conducting research and writing the manuscript, following all applicable laws and regulations regarding treatment of animals or human subjects.
- [OPTIONAL, BUT ENCOURAGED] The code, models, and/or data to replicate the results presented in this paper are made publicly available at: [INSERT LINK]
[PLEASE KEEP ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO STATEMENTS]
This is an original submission and there is no other paper (published or under review) with significant overlapping content.
[OR]
This submission is an extension of a previous conference or workshop paper. [PLEASE PROVIDE REFERENCE TO THE PRIOR PAPER AND INSERT A DESCRIPTION OF THE EXTENSION WORK].
[PLEASE DISCLOSE BELOW AND IN THE MANUSCRIPT ANY FINANCIAL, COMMERCIAL, OR PERSONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST THAT MIGHT HAVE BIASED YOUR WORK. IF THERE ARE NONE, PLEASE STATE SO.]
[PLEASE DISCLOSE ANY CONFLICTS THAT MIGHT POTENTIALLY BIAS THE PEER REVIEW - E.G., AN AUTHOR HAS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN EDITOR. FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST EDITOR(S) AND/OR POTENTIAL REVIEWER(S) WHO SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN THE EVALUATION. IF THERE ARE NO CONFLICTS/CONCERNS, PLEASE STATE SO]
Sincerely,
[INSERT CORRESPONDING AUTHOR’S NAME AND SIGNATURE]
We provide a minimalist latex template, requiring only the melba.sty style file. Samples PDFs, from different stage during the reviewing process, are available:
- submission: to submit a manuscript for review (mandatory, using any other template will result in a desk reject);
- arxiv-submission: to upload a manuscript on arXiv while it is being reviewed (turns off line-numbers);
- accepted: to use once the paper has been accepted and is moving to publication stage;
- accepted in a special issue: to use for accepted paper that belong to a special issue only.
By default, line-numbering is enabled, and any un-needed display (such as issue information) is disabled. During submission, authors should not modify it.
This correspond to the template that we provide 'as-in', authors should not need to modify anything at that stage.
These are the final formatting and submission instructions for MELBA Accepted papers, please read them carefully. The publishing editor will guide you through it, and may ask for changes if you deviate from it; which might delay final publication.
At every step below where we ask for communication or delivery of a file, please use the scholastica Discussions mechanism.
- Switch the template option to
acceptedin the first lines of the latex:\usepackage[accepted]{melba}; - populate the
\melbaheadingcommand as instructed in the latex comments with the information provided by the publishing editor; - complete the Ethical Standards and Conflicts of Interest sections at the end of the paper;
- upload your final pdf version via the Discussions page;
- please also provide a representative, high-resolution image of your paper—this will act as a graphical abstract on the MELBA website;
- (Optional) authors can also send a video presentation of their paper, that would be embedded into the website.
Nowadays, MELBA publishes directly the papers (as opposed to initially being an arXiv-overlay), but it is still preferred that authors also upload their papers in arXiv (and other archive repository when relevant, e.g. HAL).
When submitting to arXiv, if a pre-print already exists, please update it instead of creating a new arXiv submission.
Please pay attention to the following fields (YYYY:NNN is the MELBA paper ID that has been communicated earlier by the publishing editor):
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| License | CC-BY 4.0 |
| Comment | Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) https://melba-journal.org/YYYY:NNN |
| journal-ref | Machine.Learning.for.Biomedical.Imaging. 2 (2023) |
| DOI | value communicated by the publishing editor |
- Let us know of the final arXiv preprint ID (e.g. 1809.05231) and version (e.g. v3);
- once this is done, no further updates are permitted to the arxiv submission, as any update would not have been reviewed by the MELBA journal.
The following special issues are currently open for submissions:
- special issue on generative models Deadline 2023/08/31
- special issue on image registration Deadline 2023/09/01
MELBA has currently the following published special issues:
- Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2020 Guest Editors: Marleen de Bruijne, Tal Arbel, Ismail Ben Ayed, Hervé Lombaert
- Uncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (UNSURE) 2020 Guest Editors: Christian Baumgartner, Adrian Dalca, Carole Sudre, Ryutaro Tanno, Sandy Wells
- Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2021 Guest Editors: Aasa Feragen, Stefan Sommer, Julia Schnabel, Mads Nielsen
- MICCAI 2021 Workshops Ominibus -- DART Guest Editors: Ziyue Xu, Konstantinos Kamnitsas
- Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis (PIPPI) 2021 Guest Editors: Esra Abaci-Turk, Jana Hutter, Roxane Licandro, Christopher Macgowan, Andrew Melbourne
- MICCAI 2022 UNSURE Workshop Guest Editors: Christian Baumgartner, Adrian Dalca, Koen Van Leemput, Raghav Mehta, Chen Qin, Carole Sudre, Ryutaro Tanno, William (Sandy) Wells
- Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging (MLCN) 2022 Guest Editors: Seyed Mostafa Kia, Mohamad Habes
- Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis (PIPPI) 2022 Guest Editors: Jana Hutter, Roxane Licandro, Andrew Melbourne, Esra Abaci Turk, Daphna Link-Sourani, Christopher Macgowan
- Special Issue for Generative Models Guest Editors: Mert Sabuncu, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris
- Special Issue on Image Registration Guest Editors: Veronika Zimmer, Alessa Hering, Mattias Heinrich
- MICCAI 2023 LNQ challenge special issue Guest Editors: Steve Pieper, Erik Ziegler, Tawa Idris, Bhanusupriya Somarouthu, Reuben Dorent, Gordon Harris, Ron Kikinis