Late-breaking is breaking news that has not been reported in any other publication or broadcast. In the United States, the term is often used to refer to weather-related emergencies that require immediate attention such as severe storms or tornado warnings. In the days before 24-hour news networks, television stations would typically interrupt regular programming with cut-ins to air emergency news coverage, and alert crawls were added to the bottom of the screen for important stories that could not wait for a news break.
Recognizing that some highly relevant and impactful research cannot be completed in time to meet the general abstract submission deadline, SIOP offers a late-breaking abstract category to allow scientists to present results of this work. Unlike the general abstract category, late-breaking abstracts cannot contain data that has been presented or published in any other venue at the time of submission.
All late-breaking abstracts are peer-reviewed and selected for presentation by a scientific committee. Accepted abstracts will be published in an online supplement of Multiple Sclerosis Journal and featured on the MSMilan2023 Congress website. Authors of accepted late-breaking abstracts will be required to submit a physical poster (A0) and attend the congress to present their work. Similarly, accepted demo submissions will showcase XAI research prototypes or commercially available products in a dedicated demonstration session.
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