Computer applications in industry and technology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2025, which took place in Pavia, Italy, during June 23-26, 2025.

This book will provide readers with the essential information needed to understand knowledge representation with a focus on healthcare.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 20th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2023, which was held in Dubai, UAE, during December 11-12, 2023.

The book collects the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Speech Recognition and Understanding: Recent Advances, Trends and Applications"e;, held in Cetraro, Italy, during the first two weeks of July 1990.

This 4th edition of Introduction to Nursing Informatics is designed for use by practicing nurses and students in undergraduate programs of study.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th China Health Information Processing Conference, CHIP 2024, held in Fuzhou, China, November 15–17, 2024.

Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary science concernedwith understanding and utilizing models of cognition.

This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-23), held in Rome, Italy, on June 14-16, 2023.

Medical information systems such as Radiology Management Information Systems (RIS), Picture Archiving and Communications (PACS) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS) will soon be standard tools to support routine work in hospitals.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2022, as well as the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge, the Brain Tumor Sequence Registration (BraTS-Reg) Challenge, the Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation (CrossMoDA) Challenge, and the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) Challenge.

This book presents the best-selected research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC 2021), during 20-22 October 2021.

This book describes the current picture of healthcare and how medicine can develop in the 21st century to provide traditional hospital services differently with the use of clinical-digital transformation.

The three-volume set CCIS 761, CCIS 762, and CCIS 763 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2017, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2017, held in Nanjing, China, in September 2017.

This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2022), jointly organized by the Universidad del Rosario (Bogota, Colombia) and the Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (Cuenca, Ecuador), and as collaborators at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain), the University of Santiago de Compostela-Political Research Team (Galicia, Spain), and the Network of Communication Researchers of Ecuador (RICE), during August, 31-September 2, 2022.

Cancer is initiated by activation of oncogenes or inactivation of tumor suppressor genes.

Enormous advances in information technology have permeated essentially all facets of life in the past two decades.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on China Health Information Processing Conference 2022 held in Hangzhou, China from August 26-28, 2022.

The book focuses on mathematical modelling of COVID-19 pandemic using the Susceptible, Infectious, and Recovered (SIR) model.

This book presents high-quality peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Electronics, Biomedical Engineering, and Health Informatics (ICEBEHI 2023, October 4-5, Surabaya, Indonesia).

This book describes the current picture of healthcare and how medicine can develop in the 21st century to provide traditional hospital services differently with the use of clinical-digital transformation.

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at Congress on Smart Computing Technologies (CSCT 2022) organized by SAU Center for Research and Innovative Learning (SCRIL), South Asian University, India, from 3-4 December 2022.

This book addresses challenges for the development of a point-of-care-test platform.

Computers have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on professional activity in almost all areas.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the latest applications of telemedicine, imaging technology and artificial intelligence (AI) in dermatology.

This book provides an overview of the futuristic healthcare ecosystem, covering numerous beneficial medical devices such as tele healthcare kiosks 101 and 201, JEE-1 (Automatic ambu-bag), medical rambler, surgical snorkel masks, metallo surfactants, etc.

This book details the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) applied to the built environment problems.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th and the 8th International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications, ICT4AWE 2021 and ICT4AWE 2022, held in April 24-26, 2021 and April 23-25, 2022.

Following the intense research activIties of the last decade, artificial neural networks have emerged as one of the most promising new technologies for improving the quality of healthcare.

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a major threat to human life and health.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd ICBHI which took place in Thessaloniki on 18-21 November, 2017.

Advances in experimental technologies have given rise to tremendous amounts of biology data.

"e;Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Information Systems: Security and Privacy Challenges"e; offers a deep dive into the integration of AI in healthcare, with a primary focus on addressing the significant security and privacy concerns that arise in this domain.

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at Congress on Smart Computing Technologies (CSCT 2023) organized by SAU Center for Research and Innovative Learning (SCRIL), South Asian University, India, from 2-3 December 2023.

This book describes the state-of-the-art of chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, materials informatics and measurement/metrology informatics to develop drugs with desired activity or physicochemical properties and to optimize the functionality, efficacy, safety and quality of the compounds for drugs.

This book features multi-omics big-data integration and data-mining techniques.

This book presents innovative research works to demonstrate the potential and the advancements of computing approaches to utilize healthcare centric and medical datasets in solving complex healthcare problems.

The book introduces some challenging methods and solutions to solve the human activity recognition challenge.

This book introduces inclusive-cost-effective (ICE) approaches that have the potential to transform all aspects of daily lives of people at the base of the pyramid in the economic scale, who represent more than 75% of the world population.

This book concentrates on advances in research in the areas of computational intelligence, cybersecurity engineering, data analytics engineering, network and communications, cloud and mobile computing, software engineering, and robotics and automation.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Montreal, Canada on August 25-28, 2024.

"e;Implementing an Electronic Health Record System"e; addresses the range of issues and opportunities that implementing an electronic health records system (EHR) poses for any size of medical organization - from the small one-man operation to a large healthcare system.

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a major threat to human life and health.

In many fields of science and practice large amounts of dataand informationare collected for analyzing and visualizinglatent structures as orderings or classifications forexample.

This book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at International Conference on Intelligent and Smart Computing in Data Analytics (ISCDA 2020), held at K L University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

The discipline of genetic epidemiology pertains to the vertical transmission of the susceptibility (predisposition) to a complex disease in a structured population.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The book introduces some challenging methods and solutions to solve the human activity recognition challenge.

Previously published as Strategic Information Management in Hospitals; An Introduction to Hospital Information Systems, Health Information Systems Architectures and Strategies is a definitive volume written by four authoritative voices in medical informatics.