Publications for the 2026 Challenge

Citations

We ask teams to cite the description and data papers for the Challenge to ensure that your readers can better understand the context for your approaches.

For this year’s Challenge, please cite the Challenge description paper:

Reyna MA, Weigle A, Li Q, Koscova Z, Sun HS, Wen S, Katwa U, Thomas R, Hwang D, Trotti LM, Mignot E, Sameni R, Nasiri S, Westover MB, Clifford GD. Screening for Cognitive Impairment During Sleep Studies: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2026. In Computing in Cardiology 2026, volume 53. 2026; 1–3.

@inproceedings{2026Challenge,
 author = {Reyna, Matthew A. and Weigle, Audrey and Li, Qichen and Koscova, Zuzana and Sun, Haoqi Sun and Wen, Shenghan and Katwa, Umakanth and Thomas, Robert and Hwang, Dennis and Trotti, Lynn Marie and Mignot, Emmanuel and Sameni, Reza and Nasiri, Samaneh and Westover, M. Brandon and Clifford, Gari D.},
 title = {{Screening for Cognitive Impairment During Sleep Studies: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2026}},
 booktitle={Computing in Cardiology 2026},
 volume={53},
 pages={1--4},
 year={2026}
}

For this year’s Challenge data, please cite the Challenge data paper:

@article{HumanSleepProject,
author = {Li, Qichen and Wen, Shenghan and Sun, Haoqi and
Ganglberger, Wolfgang and Tripathi, Ayush and Turley, Niels and
Waters, Samuel and Gupta, Arnav and Gupta, Aditya and Ghanta,
Manohar and Nearing, Bruce and Wu, Han and Stone, Katie L and
Robichaux, Chad and Zhang, Zhiyong and Li, Qiao and Ganjoo, Gauri
and Silvers, Christine Tsien and Gunapati, Bharath and Maski,
Kiran and Nasiri, Samaneh and Hwang, Dennis and Trotti, Lynn
Marie and Katwa, Umakanth and Clifford, Gari D and Mignot,
Emmanuel and Thomas, Robert J and Westover, Michael Brandon},
title = {The {Human Sleep Project}: A Multi-Center Clinical
Polysomnography Dataset Across the Human Lifespan},
journal = {Sleep},
pages = {zsag215},
year = {2026},
month = {08},
issn = {0161-8105},
doi = {10.1093/sleep/zsag215},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsag215},
}

Additionally, please include the standard citation for PhysioNet:

Goldberger AL, Amaral LA, Glass L, Hausdorff JM, Ivanov PC, Mark RG, Mietus JE, Moody GB, Peng CK, Stanley HE. PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation; 101(23): e215-e220.

Preparing Your Paper

Please follow the preparation and submission instructions for your CinC papers.

We have prepared templates to help you prepare your CinC paper. Please use the LaTeX template on Overleaf or the Word template. These templates include important instructions, advice, and references. Please use this checklist to check your paper.

Please read and follow the templates. Each year, we need to provide feedback for many teams that miss some of the paper requirements, and each year, some papers are unfortunately rejected because the teams were unable to address important issues that the conference required.

Conference Papers

The conference papers for Computing in Cardiology 2026 will be available on the CinC website.

Supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under NIH grant number R01EB030362.

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