Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

The book explores the applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare systems, with a focus on its use in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It provides an overview of the current state of artificial intelligence in healthcare and discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing intelligent healthcare systems. The text covers topics such as assistive technology for remote patient monitoring, and applications of explainable artificial intelligence in healthcare.

This book:

• Covers a comprehensive overview of the current applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare, including diagnostic imaging, drug discovery, patient monitoring, and personalized medicine.
• Discusses data management techniques for healthcare, classification techniques for diagnosis, and risk assessment.
• Presents clustering techniques for patient stratification and dimensionality reduction techniques for feature selection.
• Explains neural networks for healthcare predictions and convolutional neural networks for medical imaging analysis.
• Illustrates big data analytics, management, and data security aspects in biomedical applications.

It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Smita Nirkhi is a distinguished academic and researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, she is working as Associate Professor at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Nagpur. She has 23 years of experience in teaching and research, with expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, data mining, digital forensics, cybersecurity, pattern recognition, machine learning, and deep learning. Dr. Nirkhi has received numerous accolades, including the Outstanding Woman in Engineering Award (2019) by Venus International Foundation, Best Teacher Award (2021) by Universal Innovators Leadership, Nari Samman Award (2021) by Literoma, and the Elite Teacher Award (2021) by I2OR. Dr. Nirkhi has published over 75 research papers in esteemed journals and international conferences.
Dr. Nirkhi serves as an Editor for Scientific Reports and is an active peer reviewer and editorial board member for leading journals and IEEE conferences. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), and an active member of CSI, ISTE, and the Internet Society. She also leads various initiatives as the Branch Counselor for the IEEE Student Branch, Secretary of IEEE Maharashtra section, and Chair of the System Council Chapter of the IEEE Maharashtra section.

Vivek Kapur is working as Director at GHRCEM, Nagpur. A professional and dedicated academician with 20+ years of cross-functional experience in the areas of strategic planning, project management, quality assurance and quality enhancement of technical institutions, outcome-based education, and signal and image processing. He is Approved Guide (PhD/MTech) of Nagpur University. He is appointed as NBA Evaluator by the National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi. Also, he is a member of the delegations of the top universities of the United States. He is an active participant/contributor in NBA initiatives related to quality assurance and quality enhancement within Maharashtra. He is also a member of various LEC Committees. He is a professional member of the IEI, ISTE, and a senior member of IEEE.

Suman Lata Tripathi is a Professor in the Department of E & TC, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India. She has also worked as a Professor at Lovely Professional University, India. She has more than 23 years of experience in academics and research. She completed her PhD in the area of microelectronics and VLSI Design from MNNIT, Allahabad. She completed her remote postdoc from Nottingham Trent University, London, UK, in 2022–2023. Her areas of expertise include microelectronics device modeling and characterization, low-power VLSI circuit design, VLSI design of testing, and advanced FET design for IoT, embedded system design, reconfigurable architecture with FPGAs, and biomedical applications.

Ved Prakash Mishra is working as Head of Academics, Assistant Professor and Program Leader at Amity University Dubai, UAE. He is Program Leader, Senior Member-IEEE, PhD, Quality Control (IQAC) Coordinator, Conference Chair – ICCIKE2023, ICCIKE2021, and ICCIKE2019. He has more than 15 years of experience. His areas of expertise include computer networks, compiler design, cryptography, network security, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.