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Over the last decades, there has been a revolution in the use of new intelligent technologies to analyze and interpret medical images for diseases diagnosis, assessment ad treatment. This new volume explores the latest cutting-edge research in medical image analysis. The advanced intelligent technologies discussed include machine learning, ensemble methods in machine learning, deep learning methods and firebase technology, infrared thermography, deep convolution neural networks, and more. Some of the specific uses of these technologies include for brain tumor MRIs, for breast cancer screening, for polycystic ovary syndrome classification, for detecting and monitoring Alzheimer's disease, for monitoring of newborns, for retinal disease diagnosis, for Covid-19 detection, and more.

This volume demonstrates the diverse state-of-the-art applications that combine artificial intelligence with soft computing, which has great potential for creating smart personalized healthcare services. The book showcases the myriad uses of AI and computer techniques in healthcare that employ deep learning, robotics, machine learning, blockchain, emerging cloud, edge computing, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus, CNN architecture, Splunk, genetic algorithms (GA), DurBhashan, and many more. These technologies can be used in healthcare for enhanced data sharing, remote health monitoring, tele-rehabilitation, connecting rural populations with healthcare services, identifying diseases and health issues, automated medical diagnosis, analyzing information in surgical videos, ensuring timely communication and transportation during health disasters and emergencies, for optimizing expenditures, and more.

COVID-19 has pushed companies, schools, and healthcare institutions over the technology tipping point—and transformed the business of healthcare forever. This timely book, Global Digital Transformation Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, explores this transformation by looking at the adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that have proven effective in the medical context. These technologies are now being used to improve treatment efficiency, avoid the risk of false diagnosis, make therapeutic decisions, and predict the outcome of many clinical scenarios, especially the COVID-19 pandemic.The book begins with the fundamentals of computer intelligence, related techniques, and procedures. This book describes the cutting-edge methods of new information technology used in healthcare, addressing the problem of effective data analysis and storage in healthcare institutions.The volume provides an overview of communication technology for combating the COVID-19 pandemic and delves into mobile application technology, medical diagnosis technology, transmission dynamics prediction models, social media and technology instruction design in teaching amid COVID-19, post-pandemic crowd safety provisioning applications, to name a few.The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research advances discussed here will be valuable for academics, engineers, industry professionals, researchers, scientists, and students working in the fields of data and information science.

This new volume explores how the merging of interactive multimedia with artificial intelligence has created new and advanced tools in healthcare. It looks at how the latest technologies (artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, big data, IoT, smart device, etc.) help to manage health data, diagnose health issues, monitor treatment, predict pandemic diseases, and more. The book covers several important applications of multimedia in healthcare, including for data visualization purposes, for computer vision for elder healthcare monitoring, for detection of lung nodules, for management systems using machine learning techniques, and for fusion applications in medical image processing. The chapter authors discuss using data mining and machine learning techniques for COVID-19 diagnosis and prediction, in detecting knee osteoarthritis using texture descriptor algorithms, in applying algorithms in fetal ECG enhancement using blockchain for wearable internet of things in healthcare, and more. A chapter also reviews how doctors can make good use of genomics and genetic data through advanced technology. The book concludes with discussions of open issues, challenges, and future research directions for using intelligent interactive multimedia in healthcare. Key features: Provides an in-depth understanding of emerging technologies and integration of artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, IoT in healthcare Details specific applications for the use of AI, big data, and IoT in healthcare Discusses how AI technology can help in formulating protective measures for COVID-19 and other diseases Includes case studies Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems for e-Healthcare Applications will be valuable to undergraduate and graduate students planning their careers in either industry or research and to software engineers for using multimedia with artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, and IoT for healthcare applications.

This powerful new volume explores the diverse and sometimes unexpected roles that IoT and AI technologies played during the recent COVID-19 global pandemic. The book discusses the how existing and new state-of-the art technology has been and can be applied for global health crises in a multitude of ways.The chapters in Pandemic Detection and Analysis through Smart Computing Technologies look at exciting technological solutions for virus detection, prediction, classification, prevention, and communication outreach. The book considers the various modes of transmission of the virus as well as how technology has been implemented for personalized healthcare systems and how it can be used for future pandemics.The huge importance of social and mobile communication and networks during the pandemic is addressed such as in business, education, and healthcare; in research and development; for health information and outreach; in social life; and more. A chapter also addresses using smart computing for forecasting the damage caused by COVID-19 using time series analyses.This up-to-the-minute volume illuminates on the many ways AI, IoT, machine learning, and other technologies have important roles in the diverse challenges faced during COVID-19 and how they can be enhanced for future pandemic situations. The volume will be of high interest to those in different fields of computer science and other domains as well as to data scientists, government agencies and policymakers, doctors and healthcare professionals, engineers, economists, and many other professionals. This book will also be very helpful to faculty, students, and research scholars in understanding the pre- and post-effect of this pandemic.

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering focuses on recent AI technologies and applications that provide some very promising solutions and enhanced technology in the biomedical field. Recent advancements in computational techniques, such as machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and big data, accelerate the deployment of biomedical devices in various healthcare applications. This volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to these expert systems by mimicking the human expert's knowledge in order to predict and monitor the health status in real time. The accuracy of the AI systems is drastically increasing by using machine learning, digitized medical data acquisition, wireless medical data communication, and computing infrastructure AI approaches, helping to solve complex issues in the biomedical industry and playing a vital role in future healthcare applications. The volume takes a multidisciplinary perspective of employing these new applications in biomedical engineering, exploring the combination of engineering principles with biological knowledge that contributes to the development of revolutionary and life-saving concepts.