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Informatics, Volume 12, Issue 4

2025 December - 41 articles

Cover Story: Artificial intelligence (AI) now shapes decisions in domains where errors carry profound consequences for safety, welfare, and long-term societal well-being. As AI capabilities grow, the central challenge shifts from smarter algorithms to responsible Human–AI Collaboration. This work reveals a pivotal shift in decision support: from replacing human judgment to amplifying the intuitive reasoning behind complex choices. It identifies four pillars of successful collaboration: complementary human–AI roles, adaptive user-centered systems, context-aware task allocation, and calibrated reliance on automation. Surprisingly, our findings expose a performance paradox—human–AI teams do not always outperform the best individual decision-makers. These insights redefine the sociotechnical blueprint for AI systems that empower, rather than override, human expertise in critical environments. View this paper
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Articles (41)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,287 Views
24 Pages

Combining Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Metaheuristic Algorithms to Predict Preeclampsia and Intrauterine Growth Restriction

  • María Paula García,
  • Jesús David Díaz-Meza,
  • Kenia Hoyos,
  • Bethia Pacheco,
  • Rodrigo García and
  • William Hoyos

15 December 2025

Preeclampsia (PE) and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) are obstetric complications associated with placental dysfunction, which represent a public health problem due to high maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Early detection is crucial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,865 Views
32 Pages

11 December 2025

This study presents SpineCheck, a fully integrated deep-learning-based clinical decision support platform for automatic vertebra segmentation and Cobb angle (CA) measurement from scoliosis X-ray images. The system unifies end-to-end preprocessing, U-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,630 Views
22 Pages

In the realm of children’s education, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are already being utilized to create educational materials for young learners. But how significant are the differences between image-based fairy tales generated by M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,087 Views
24 Pages

AI-Enabled Intelligent System for Automatic Detection and Classification of Plant Diseases Towards Precision Agriculture

  • Gujju Siva Krishna,
  • Zameer Gulzar,
  • Arpita Baronia,
  • Jagirdar Srinivas,
  • Padmavathy Paramanandam and
  • Kasharaju Balakrishna

Technology-driven agriculture, or precision agriculture (PA), is indispensable in the contemporary world due to its advantages and the availability of technological innovations. Particularly, early disease detection in agricultural crops helps the fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,629 Views
23 Pages

Mapping the AI Surge in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Study Spanning a Decade (2015–2025)

  • Mousin Omarsaib,
  • Sara Bibi Mitha,
  • Anisa Vahed and
  • Ghulam Masudh Mohamed

There has recently been a pronounced global escalation in scholarly output concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the context of higher education (HE). However, the precise locus of this growth remains ambiguous, thereby hindering the systema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,261 Views
18 Pages

With the rapid development of information technology, there is an increasing demand for the digital preservation of traditional festival culture and the extraction of relevant knowledge. However, existing research on Named Entity Recognition (NER) fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,453 Views
36 Pages

As AI decision support systems play a growing role in high-stakes decision making, ensuring effective integration of human intuition with AI recommendations is essential. Despite advances in AI explainability, challenges persist in fostering appropri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,087 Views
27 Pages

Accurate classification of cognitive levels in instructional dialogues is essential for personalized education and intelligent teaching systems. However, most existing methods predominantly rely on static textual features and a shallow semantic analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,566 Views
35 Pages

Fuzzy Ontology Embeddings and Visual Query Building for Ontology Exploration

  • Vladimir Zhurov,
  • John Kausch,
  • Kamran Sedig and
  • Mostafa Milani

Ontologies play a central role in structuring knowledge across domains, supporting tasks such as reasoning, data integration, and semantic search. However, their large size and complexity—particularly in fields such as biomedicine, computationa...

(This article belongs to the Section Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,841 Views
27 Pages

28 November 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has transformed Australian higher education, amplifying online harms such as misinformation, fraud, and image-based abuse, with significant implications for cybercrime prevention. Combining a PRISMA-guided s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI in Higher Education: Applications, Implications, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,916 Views
19 Pages

27 November 2025

The harmfulness of online fake news has brought widespread attention to fake news detection by researchers. Most existing methods focus on improving the accuracy and early detection of fake news, while ignoring the frequent cross-topic issues faced b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,915 Views
28 Pages

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Workplace Mental Health Prediction

  • Tsholofelo Mokheleli,
  • Tebogo Bokaba and
  • Elliot Mbunge

26 November 2025

The increased prevalence of mental health issues in the workplace affects employees’ well-being and organisational success, necessitating proactive interventions such as employee assistance programmes, stress management workshops, and tailored...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,502 Views
23 Pages

25 November 2025

The widespread dissemination of multimodal disinformation, which combines inflammatory text with manipulated images, poses a severe threat to society. Existing detection methods typically process textual and visual features in isolation or perform si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Applications of Sentiment Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,162 Views
24 Pages

22 November 2025

This study evaluated the generalization and reliability of machine learning models for multiclass classification of retinal pathologies using a diverse set of images representing eight disease categories. Images were aggregated from two public datase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,062 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2025

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) represent an innovative online learning paradigm that has garnered considerable popularity in recent years, attracting a multitude of learners to MOOC platforms due to their accessible and adaptable instructional s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,334 Views
17 Pages

Automated Hyperparameter Optimization for Cyberattack Detection Based on Machine Learning in IoT Systems

  • Fray L. Becerra-Suarez,
  • Lloy Pinedo,
  • Madeleine J. Gavilán-Colca,
  • Mónica Díaz and
  • Manuel G. Forero

20 November 2025

The growing sophistication of cyberattacks in Internet of Things (IoT) environments demands proactive and efficient solutions. We present an automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) method for detecting cyberattacks in IoT that explicitly addresse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,288 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2025

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) deployments has created an urgent need for energy-efficient communication strategies that can adapt to dynamic operational conditions. This study presents a novel adaptive protocol selection framework that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,806 Views
18 Pages

13 November 2025

Modern companies often rely on integrating an extensive network of suppliers to organize and produce industrial artifacts. Within this process, it is critical to maintain sustainability and flexibility by analyzing and managing information from the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,784 Views
26 Pages

GraderAssist: A Graph-Based Multi-LLM Framework for Transparent and Reproducible Automated Evaluation

  • Catalin Anghel,
  • Andreea Alexandra Anghel,
  • Emilia Pecheanu,
  • Adina Cocu,
  • Marian Viorel Craciun,
  • Paul Iacobescu,
  • Antonio Stefan Balau and
  • Constantin Adrian Andrei

Background and objectives: Automated evaluation of open-ended responses remains a persistent challenge, particularly when consistency, transparency, and reproducibility are required. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in rubric-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,631 Views
33 Pages

This article describes a model for optimizing traffic flow control and generating traffic signal phases based on the stochastic dynamics of traffic and the percolation properties of transport networks. As input data (in SUMO), we use lane-level vehic...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,650 Views
36 Pages

Digital Competencies for a FinTech-Driven Accounting Profession: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Saiphit Satjawisate,
  • Kanitsorn Suriyapaiboonwattana,
  • Alisara Saramolee and
  • Kate Hone

Financial Technology (FinTech) is fundamentally reshaping the accounting profession, accelerating the shift from routine transactional activities to more strategic, data-driven functions. This transformation demands advanced digital competencies, yet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,802 Views
17 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly significant in healthcare around the world, especially in China, where rapid population ageing coincides with rising expectations for quality of life and a shrinking care workforce. This study exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
13,627 Views
27 Pages

Explainable AI for Clinical Decision Support Systems: Literature Review, Key Gaps, and Research Synthesis

  • Mozhgan Salimparsa,
  • Kamran Sedig,
  • Daniel J. Lizotte,
  • Sheikh S. Abdullah,
  • Niaz Chalabianloo and
  • Flory T. Muanda

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises significant enhancements for Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs), the opacity of many AI models remains a major barrier to clinical adoption, primarily due to interpretability and trust challenges. Ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,921 Views
17 Pages

Meme image sentiment analysis is a task of examining public opinion based on meme images posted on social media. In various fields, stakeholders often need to quickly and accurately determine the sentiment of memes from large amounts of available dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Applications of Sentiment Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,670 Views
34 Pages

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that affects individuals; hence, preemptive diagnosis is required. Accurate classification of seizures is critical to optimize the treatment of epilepsy. Patients with epilepsy are unable to lead normal lives due to the u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,452 Views
18 Pages

Colorectal cancer cases are on the rise and have become a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is widely used in traditional herbal medicine and has been proposed as a potential treatment for colorectal cancer. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,491 Views
24 Pages

This study focuses on human awareness, a critical component in human–robot interaction, particularly within agricultural environments where interactions are enriched by complex contextual information. The main objective is identifying human act...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,449 Views
18 Pages

Social media platforms have become a widely used medium for individuals to express complex and multifaceted emotions. Traditional single-label emotion classification methods fall short in accurately capturing the simultaneous presence of multiple emo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practical Applications of Sentiment Analysis)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,465 Views
22 Pages

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed to personalize healthcare delivery, yet their real-world readiness remains uncertain. We conducted a systematic literature review to assess how LLM-based systems are designed and used to enhance...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,695 Views
19 Pages

Background: Significant progress has been made in the field of machine learning, enabling the development of methods for automatic interpretation of medical images that provide high-quality diagnostics. However, most of these methods require access t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Data Management in the Age of AI)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
21,090 Views
26 Pages

The widespread integration of artificial intelligence into university academic activity requires responsibly addressing the ethical challenges it poses. This study critically analyses these challenges, identifying opportunities and risks in various a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,056 Views
22 Pages

Comparison of Ensemble and Meta-Ensemble Models for Early Risk Prediction of Acute Myocardial Infarction

  • Daniel Cristóbal Andrade-Girón,
  • Juana Sandivar-Rosas,
  • William Joel Marin-Rodriguez,
  • Marcelo Gumercindo Zúñiga-Rojas,
  • Abrahán Cesar Neri-Ayala and
  • Ernesto Díaz-Ronceros

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of mortality around the world. This underscores the critical need to implement effective predictive tools to inform clinical decision-making. This study aimed to compare the predictive performance of ense...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,199 Views
24 Pages

Heart Attack Risk Prediction via Stacked Ensemble Metamodeling: A Machine Learning Framework for Real-Time Clinical Decision Support

  • Brandon N. Nava-Martinez,
  • Sahid S. Hernandez-Hernandez,
  • Denzel A. Rodriguez-Ramirez,
  • Jose L. Martinez-Rodriguez,
  • Ana B. Rios-Alvarado,
  • Alan Diaz-Manriquez,
  • Jose R. Martinez-Angulo and
  • Tania Y. Guerrero-Melendez

Cardiovascular diseases claim millions of lives each year, yet timely diagnosis remains a significant challenge due to the high number of patients and associated costs. Although various machine learning solutions have been proposed for this problem,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Data Management in the Age of AI)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,319 Views
30 Pages

The exponential growth of scientific literature has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to identify relevant and timely publications within vast academic digital libraries. Although academic search engines, reference management tools, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8,590 Views
46 Pages

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced rapidly, evolving from early template-matching systems to modern deep learning frameworks. This review systematically traces ASR’s technological evolution across four phases: the template-based er...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,071 Views
31 Pages

From Mammogram Analysis to Clinical Integration with Deep Learning in Breast Cancer Diagnosis

  • Beibit Abdikenov,
  • Tomiris Zhaksylyk,
  • Aruzhan Imasheva and
  • Dimash Rakishev

Breast cancer is one of the main causes of cancer-related death for women worldwide, and enhancing patient outcomes still depends on early detection. The most common imaging technique for diagnosing and screening for breast cancer is mammography, whi...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical and Clinical Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,963 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2025

This study investigated how icon array layouts influence comprehension of medical risk information, particularly in relation to users’ cognitive abilities. In a within-subjects experiment (N = 121), participants reviewed clinical scenarios with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,460 Views
26 Pages

Democratization of Virtual Production: Usability Analysis of Three Solutions with Different Levels of Complexity: Professional, Educational and Cloud-Based

  • Roi Méndez-Fernández,
  • Rocío del Pilar Sosa-Fernández,
  • Fátima Fernández-Ledo and
  • Enrique Castelló-Mayo

30 September 2025

The technical and technological advances of recent years in the field of real-time photorealistic rendering have enabled enormous development in virtual production. However, the democratization of this technology faces two main obstacles: the high ec...

(This article belongs to the Section Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,648 Views
30 Pages

OntoCaimer: An Ontology Designed to Support Alzheimer’s Patient Care Systems

  • Laura Daniela Lasso-Arcinegas,
  • César Jesús Pardo-Calvache and
  • Mauro Callejas-Cuervo

25 September 2025

Caring for Alzheimer’s patients presents significant global challenges due to complex symptoms and the constant demand for care, which are further complicated by fragmented information and a lack of explicit integration between physical and com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,195 Views
14 Pages

24 September 2025

Shaded resting zones in rotational grazing systems are prone to thermal stress due to limited ventilation and the congregation of animals during peak heat periods. Addressing these challenges requires sensing solutions that are not only accurate but...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,611 Views
24 Pages

23 September 2025

The axle box of a railway vehicle is a critical component, and its maintenance involves complex procedures that are difficult to convey with traditional, document-based manuals. To address these challenges, augmented reality (AR)-based educational co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-World Applications and Prototyping of Information Systems for Extended Reality (VR, AR, and MR))
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