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Artificial Intelligence for Health and Well-Being
This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial intelligence is poised to change the world in the coming decades, from the way we do business to domestic applications. Artificial intelligence gives systems the ability to learn and make decisions, benefiting areas such as medicine and well-being.
This Special Issue aims to disseminate the latest research results and developments in artificial intelligence for health and well-being. We at inviting researchers and practitioners to contribute their high-quality original research or review articles on these topics to this Special Issue.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Machine learning in health and well-being;
- Data analysis in health and well-being;
- Social robots;
- Affective computing;
- Medical image processing;
- Intelligent medical devices and sensors;
- Medical expert systems;
- Explaining AI in medical systems;
- Computer-aided diagnosis.
Dr. Jose-Maria Buades-Rubio
Dr. Antoni Jaume-i-Capó
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- healthcare and well-being informatics
- explainable systems
- deep learning
- bioinformatics
- AI in medicine

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