eHealth and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is changing the healthcare industry from many perspectives: diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. A wide range of techniques has been proposed in the literature. In this special issue, 13 selected and peer-reviewed original research articles contribute to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches in various real-world problems. Papers refer to the following main areas of interest: feature selection, high dimensionality, and statistical approaches; heart and cardiovascular diseases; expert systems and e-health platforms.

Keywords

• applications of AI in health care
• knowledge
• data mining and knowledge discovery in medicine
• medical expert systems
• personal medical feature data
• medical device technologies
• diagnoses and therapy support systems
• machine learning-based medical systems
• pattern recognition in medicine