Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Electronic Conference on Digestive Diseases Diagnostics (DDD 2021) that will be hosted online by sciforum.net.

This is the first international electronic conference on Digestive Disease Diagnostics (DDD 2021). COVID-19 has influenced our research and clinical care in medical activities, and a new trend has emerged for conferences to be held over the internet. It has become possible to share knowledge, new information, and skills all over the world more easily than the conventional style of conferences. As we cannot go abroad to join conferences, this online medium will provide the chance to publish your work on DDD. This conference has 5 selected sections, Gastroenterology, Pediatric GI, Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary. Each section chair provided specific topics for this conference. Basically, this conference is focused on the diagnosis of digestive diseases. We expect work exploring the new modality, strategy, and effectiveness of various methods of diagnosis. Early cancer detection or screening programs, and various images including endoscopy are also of interest. We want to collect various methods of diagnosis, and to share new, valuable information with the participants.

DDD 2021 seeks to fulfill this need by offering a completely digital (online) method for running a scientific conference. DDD 2021 will allow its participants to share their latest research results and receive near-instantaneous feedback from researchers throughout the world, through online question and answer sessions and discussion groups. In this way, DDD 2021 will serve as a platform to advance the state-of-the-art in digestive diseases diagnostics. There is no cost to participate in DDD 2021.

All submitted abstracts will be evaluated by the conference committee. Upon acceptance of their abstract, authors will contribute an extended abstract for the conference proceedings and a slide presentation of their work. The authors of the most outstanding contributions will be invited to submit a full manuscript for potential publication in Diagnostics.

I hope you will choose to be a part of this exciting conference and present your most transformative research on digestive diseases diagnostics.

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Isayama

Conference Secretariat
Ms. Yan Chen
Ms. Celia Xu
email: DDD2021@mdpi.com

Sessions

Submission should be completed online by authors by registering with https://sciforum.net/ and using the “Start New Submission” function once logged into system.

1. Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (about 200–300 words) online at this website until 15 November 2020.
2. Based on the submitted abstract, the Section Chair or Conference Committee will conduct a pre-evaluation of whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Digestive Diseases Diagnostics. All authors will be notified by 25 November 2020 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work (max. 8 pages), optionally accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation/poster, until the submission deadline of 20 December 2020.
4. The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available for discussion on https://sciforum.net/ during the time of the conference 15–31 January 2021 and will be published in the journal Proceedings.
5. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select abstracts for which extended papers may be included for publication in the journal Diagnostics (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer review and application of an APC).

Proceedings Manuscripts

Manuscripts for Proceedings must conform to the following structure:

First page:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors’ email addresses
• Abstract (200–250 words)
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• (Acknowledgments)
• References

Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables, and references).

Microsoft Word

Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and create difficulties related to layout.

DDD2021-template.docx

Manuscript Preparation

• Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm × 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, and left and right sides).
• Formatting/Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of the DDD 2021 template. The full titles and cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example, [4] or [1–3], and all the references should be listed separately as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
• Author List and Affiliation Format: Authors’ full first and last names must be given. Any abbreviated middle names can be added. For papers written by various contributors, a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should only be listed under Acknowledgments. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
• Figures, Schemes, and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and an explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text with numbers and titles supplied for all tables. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes, and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, figure, or scheme.

Presentation Slides

Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides, if available, will be directly displayed on the website using Sciforum.net’s proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.

DDD2021-PPT-template.pptx

Video Presentations

Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video should be no longer than 20 minutes and be prepared with the following formats:

• MOV
• MPEG4
• MP4
• AVI
• WMV
• MPEGPS
• FLV

The video should be submitted via email before 20 December 2020.

Presentation of Posters

Posters will be available on this conference website during and after the event. As with papers presented at conferences, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters can be presented without an accompanying Proceedings paper will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

It is the authors’ responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there are no conflicts, please state here “The authors declare no conflicts of interest”. This should be conveyed in a separate “Conflicts of Interest” statement preceding the “Acknowledgments” and “References” sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the “Acknowledgments” section.

Copyright

MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communications paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).