Computer applications in industry and technology

Tropical diseases continue to impose a significant burden on global health, particularly in low- and middle-income regions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2018, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

Computer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways.

This book deals with the recent advancements in computer vision techniques such as active learning, few-shot learning, zero shot learning, explainable and interpretable ML, online learning, AutoML etc.

Der Psychologe und Politikwissenschaftler Philip Tetlock gibt in seinem leichtverständlichen Wissenschafts-Sachbuch ›Superforecasting.

This book provides an overview of the role of AI in medicine and, more generally, of issues at the intersection of mathematics, informatics, and medicine.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshop on Shape in Medical Imaging, ShapeMI 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

This book is intended for professionals who must deal with telemedicine having little or no knowledge of matrix algebra and matrix calculus, and little or no knowledge of higher mathematics with special reference to differential equations: no other books cover these topics starting from scratch.

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the tra- formation of healthcare by using information and knowledge.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Body Area Networks, BodyNets 2020, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in October 2020.

This book offers a detailed overview of translational bioinformatics together with real-case applications.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

This book describes, extends, and illustrates the metrics of binary classification through worked examples.

This book provides the results of an extensive scientific measurements campaign using advanced technologies and innovative non-invasive approaches carried out for the first time in such large numbers inside one of the most important baroque residences in Italy, the Chigi Palace in Ariccia, near Rome (Italy), with the aims of monitoring, characterizing and documenting several kinds of heritage items with different conservative and artistic issues.

This book provides an insightful review and methodological contribution about future healthcare system.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Formal Methods in Macro-Biology, FMMB 2014, held in Noumea, New Caledonia, in September 2014.

Computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems are capable of real-time or near real-time detection of serious illnesses and potential bioterrorism agent exposures and represent a major step forward in disease surveillance.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the state-of-the-art in cardiovascular computing and highlights novel directions and challenges in this constantly evolving multidisciplinary field.

This book explores current research and development in the area of digital healthcare using recent technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence.

This Brief highlights Informatics and related techniques to Computer Science Professionals, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Bioinformatics researchers and other interdisciplinary researchers.

This book presents the latest cutting edge research, theoretical methods, and novel applications in the field of computational intelligence and computational biological approaches that are aiming to combat COVID-19.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedproceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technologies forAgeing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May2015.

This two-volume set LNCS 11383 and 11384  constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2018, as well as the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation, BraTS, Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation, ISLES,  MR Brain Image Segmentation, MRBrainS18, Computational Precision Medicine, CPM, and  Stroke Workshop on Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH, which were held jointly at the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

This book has been a long time in the making.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Buildings Services (CIBv), held in Brasov, Romania, on November 7–8, 2024.

There is little doubt that information technology is a major force in transforming healthcare systems: physicians need to have considerable patient data at hand, even if diagnosis and treatment are relatively straightforward.

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.

Several hundred million citizens suffer from allergic diseases, ranging from watery eyes to life-threatening anaphylactic shock.

This book focuses on advanced techniques used for feature extraction, analysis, recognition, and classification in the area of biomedical signal and image processing.

The eight-volume set LNCS 12901, 12902, 12903, 12904, 12905, 12906, 12907, and 12908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021, held in Strasbourg, France, in September/October 2021.

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Lehrende in Pflege-und Gesundheitsberufen und zeigt, wie man digitale Medien für das Lehren und Lernen erfolgreich einbindet.

Edited by five leaders in the field of health informatics, Consumer Health Informatics explores all aspects of this evolving science.

This book constitutes selected papers from the 16th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2019, held in Dubai, UAE, in October 2019.

This book is dedicated to addressing the major challenges in fighting COVID-19 using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) - from cost and complexity to availability and accuracy.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017.

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of healthcare systems management.

This book aims to highlight the latest achievements in epidemiological surveillance and internet interventions based on monitoring online communications and interactions on the web.

The book presents the proceedings of four conferences: The 24th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'20), The 6th International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'20), The 21st International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'20), and The 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (BIOENG'20).

This book presents outstanding contributions in an exciting, new and multidisciplinary research area: the application of formal, automated reasoning techniques to analyse complex models in systems biology and systems medicine.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich in October 2015.

This book showcases the different ways in which contemporary forms of data analysis are being used in urban planning and management.

This two volume set LNBI 10813 and LNBI 10814 constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2018, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2018.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014.

This is the first book offering a systematic description of tongue image analysis and processing technologies and their typical applications in computerized tongue diagnostic (CTD) systems.