10 September
Medical Corpus, Aula
11 September
Medical Corpus, Hall 221
12 September
From To Medical Corpus, Aula
12:00 13:40 Registration
13:40 14:00 Conference Inauguration
Special Session: Artificial Intelligence in Biology and Medicine
Session Chair: Sotir Sotirov
14:00 14:40 Invited Speaker Maia Angelova (United Kingdom)
Applications of AI for Personalised and Patient-Centred Healthcare
14:40 15:00
Quality of Collaboration: A Formal Metric for Human-AI Teaming in Medical Decision Support
Ioannis Patias
15:00 15:20
Future Doctors, Future Machines: How Medical Students Weigh the Role of AI
Nikoleta Leventi, Vidin Kirkov, Alexandrina Vodenicharova
15:20 15:40
Operationalizing XAI: A NIST AI RMF-Aligned Evaluation Methodology for Model-Based Systems
Ioannis Patias
15:40 16:00
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Reliability Evaluation of Classification CNNs in Medical Diagnostics
Krasimir Kralev, Sotir Sotirov, Stoyan Hristov
16:00 16:20
From Spatiotemporal Data Streams to Cognitive Insights: A Semantic Agentic Framework for Multimodal Environmental Intelligence
Miroslav Markov, Todor Ganchev, Valentina Markova, Aleksandar Dimitrov, Evdokia Sotirova, Sotir Sotirov
16:20 16:40 Coffee Break
Special Session: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Session Chair: Tania Pencheva
16:40 17:00
A Dual-Partition Ensemble Deep Learning Model for Chlorophyll Forecasting in Non-Stationary Environments
Krasimir Kralev, Blagovesta Midyurova, Aleksandar Dimitrov, Ina Agafonova, Givi Gavardashvili, Konstantine Bziava, Tamriko Supatashvili, Mykhailo Broshkov, Marian Tudor
17:00 17:20
High-Throughput Genomic Analysis Using Sketch Algorithms
Dobromir Petrov, Katya Gabrovska, Stanislav Simeonov
17:20 17:40
GPU-Accelerated FASTQ Preprocessing for Clinical Genomics: Verified Correctness and Reduced Turnaround Time
Dobromir Panchev, Veselin Georgiev, Katya Gabrovska, Stanislav Simeonov
17:40 18:00
Sequence Search and Matching Algorithms Inspired by Seed Strategies and Frequency-Guided Progressive Filtering
Veselina Bureva, Krassimir Atanassov
10 September
Medical Corpus, Aula
11 September
Medical Corpus, Hall 221
12 September
From To Medical Corpus, Hall 221
Special Session: Technologies and Innovations in Healthcare
Session Chair: Evdokia Sotirova
10:00 10:30 Keynote Speaker Chandan Karmakar (Australia)
Beyond Traditional Entropy Biomarkers for Physiological Signals
10:30 11:10 Invited Speaker Evguenia Vassileva (Bulgaria)
Small Vessel Disease: Recent Advances and Future Directions
11:10 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 11:50
Process‑Centric Agent Orchestration: An APQC‑Aligned Framework with a Healthcare Use Case
Ioannis Patias
11:50 12:10
From IoMT to Agentic AI: Enabling Secure Agentic Payments and Autonomous Procurement
Boris Robev, Ioannis Patias
12:10 12:30
Generalized Net Model of a Patient–Robot Interaction for Home Care Assistance
Simeon Ribagin, Krasimir Kralev, Velichka Traneva
12:30 12:50
Generalized Net Model of the Diagnostic Process of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men
Martin Lubich, Elenko Popov, Chavdar Slavov, Anthony Shannon, Lyudmila Todorova, Peter Vassilev, Vassia Atanassova, Krassimir Atanassov
12:50 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 15:00 Poster Session
14:00 15:00
Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Molecular Mechanisms of Interactions with Lipid Membranes and Toxicity
Rusina Hazarosova, Vesela Yordanova, Dayana Benkova, Ralitsa Angelova, Albena Momchilova, George Ivanov, Aneliya Kostadinova, Galya Staneva
Non-Disruptive Membrane Modulation by Clozapine and Chlorpromazine: Evidence from Erythrocyte Models
Vesela Yordanova, Ralitsa Angelova, Philippe Nuss, Isabel D. Alves, Albena Momchilova, Galya Staneva
Petasin Alters Lipid Order and Dipole Potential without Disrupting Bilayer Integrity of Biomimetic Mast Cell Membranes
Vesela Yordanova, Ralitsa Angelova, Dayana Benkova, Aleksandrina Nesheva, Albena Momchilova, Rusina Hazarosova, Galya Staneva
Chitosan-Based Nanocomposites in Cancer Nanomedicine: Functionalization with Metallic Nanoparticles and Drug Delivery Strategies
Aneliya Kostadinova, Galya Staneva, Dayana Benkova, Ema Gaydarska, Hisham Elshoky
Beyond Cytotoxicity: Membrane Lipid Organisation as an Early Target of PFAS
Galya Staneva, Rusina Hazarosova, Vesela Yordanova, Ralitsa Angelova, Aleksandrina Nesheva, Dayana Benkova, Aneliya Kostadinova, Victoria Vitkova, Albena Momchilova, George Ivanov
A Portable Platform for Instrumented Footwear Sensor Calibration and Data Acquisition
Kamen Ivanov, Dayana Benkova, Ema Gaydarska, Aneliya Kostadinova
Thyroid Dysfunction and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: A Retrospective Case-Control Study
Zlatko Kirovakov, Evdokia Sotirova, Nikolay Kostadinov
Trends in Maternal Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain During Pregnancy in Southeastern Bulgaria
Zlatko Kirovakov, Atanaska Stoeva, Monika Obreykova, Nikoilay Kostadinov
AI-Ready Framework for Water Quality Monitoring in Bulgaria: Proof-of-Concept in the Burgas Region
Vanya Georgieva, Plamena Yovcheva, Iliana Ishmerieva, Evdokia Sotirova
A Survey on the Bulgarian Segment of the Danube River
Kristina Zhivkova, Peter Vassilev, and Tania Pencheva
Application of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets to Estimate Spatial Indeterminacy in CNNs for Imaging Diagnostics
Daniel Stoyanov, Sotir Sotirov, Vladimir Kornovski
Uncertainty-Aware Risk Assessment for Type 2 Diabetes Using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets
Dimka Shivacheva, Sotir Sotirov, Valentina Ignatova
Multiple Linear Regression Modeling of Gibbs Free Energy in Silica Gel Absorption Systems
Natalia Angelova, Stanislav Popov, Nikola Dimitrov, Yordanka Tasheva, Aleksander Dimitrov
15:00 15:30 Keynote Speaker Shereen Fouad (United Kingdom)
Responsible AI in Chest Diseases: From Innovation to Trustworthy Clinical Decision-Making
Special Session: Biomolecules and Tissue Engineering
Session Chair: Galya Staneva
15:30 15:50
Effects of Selected Thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine Derivatives on Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation and Membrane Organization
Aleksandrina Nesheva, Ivan Iliev, Anelia Mavrova, Denitsa Yancheva, Aneliya Kostadinova, Severina Semkova, Albena Momchilova, Iana Tsoneva, Biliana Nikolova, Galya Staneva
15:50 16:10
Oxidative Remodeling of Neuronal Membrane Models Modulates Amyloid-β–Membrane Interactions
Monika Konstantinova, Vesela Yordanova, Miglena I. Angelova, Albena Momchilova, Galya Staneva
16:10 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 16:50
Quercetin as Functional Food Supplement
Milka Atanasova, Zlatina Chengolova, Katya Gabrovska
16:50 17:10
Comparative Analysis of Methods for Extraction of Collagen from Pork By-products
Katya Gabrovska, Marina Yaneva, Tanya Tsaneva, Avi Abner, Yordan Georgiev
17:10 17:30
Rapid Detection of Mycotoxins and Foodborne Pathogens: Advances in Immunoassays and Nanoparticle-Based Analytical Methods
Katya Gabrovska, Milka Atanasova, Mihaela Lukova
17:30 17:50
Mycotoxins in Food: Distribution, Toxicity and Oxidative Stress-Mediated Biological Effects
Katya Gabrovska
17:50 18:00
Closing Ceremony
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