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.
Aarti, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India. She is currently working on optimization of nature-inspired algorithms for the medical field, along with data mining, machine learning, and optimization of learning techniques medical images and fault-tolerance. She has published papers in the field of mining, security, and medical image analysis and is a reviewer for several journals.
Raju Pal, PhD, has more than eleven years of teaching and research experience. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the School of Information and Communication Technology at Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India. He was formerly a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, where he earned his doctorate degree in Medical Images Analysis. He is passionate in the area of machine learning, medical image analysis, and wireless sensor networks. He has made substantial contributions to the field of image processing and machine learning with many published research articles of high repute. He was part of the successfully completed SERB-DST (New Delhi) funded project on Histopathological Image Analysis. He is the reviewer of many international journals, including the Journal of Communications and Networks, Future Generation Computer Systems, Neural Computing and Applications, etc.
Himanshu Mittal, PhD, has more than eleven years of teaching and research experience. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Delhi, India. He was formerly a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, where he earned his doctorate degree. His interest areas include deep learning, machine learning, medical image analysis, and soft computing. He has published research publications in the field of image analysis. He is one of members of the successfully completed SERB-DST funded project on Histopathological Image Analysis. He is the reviewer of many international journals, including Future Generation Computer Systems, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, etc.
Mukesh Saraswat, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience, during which he has guided many PhD, MTech and BTech students. He has published journal and conference papers on image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, and soft computing, and also guest edited the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence. He is a part of several funded projects on histopathological image analysis.
