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Enhancements in Screening Pathways for Early Detection of Lung Cancer

edited by

Paolo Albino Ferrari

and

Antonio Maccio

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: lung cancer screening; early diagnosis; multidisciplinary pathways; liquid biopsy; exhaled breath condensate; molecular imaging; sub-lobar resection; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Advancing Medical Imaging with AI: From Cutting-Edge Algorithms to Clinical Integration

edited by Kyong Joon Lee

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; medical imaging; deep learning; computer-aided diagnosis (CADx); diagnostic imaging; clinical validation; medical image analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)

The Role of AI and Radiomics in Diagnostic Oncology

edited by Laura Travascio and

Mario Leporace

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; pathophysiological; radiology and nuclear medicine; diagnostic imaging; diagnostic oncology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)

Artificial Intelligence in Eye Disease, 4th Edition

edited by

Jae-Ho Han

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 143 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical diagnosis; artificial intelligence; deep learning; fundus image; optical coherence tomography; ophthalmology; retinal vessel; glaucoma; retinopathy; macular degeneration; image segmentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)

Clinical Advances in Laryngoscopy

edited by Anaïs Rameau

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open

Keywords: laryngoscopy; otolaryngology; pharyngoscopy; endoscopy; laryngeal cancer; benign laryngeal lesions; diagnostic imaging; high-definition endoscopy; three-dimensional imaging; computer-aided diagnosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Optics)

Diagnostic Radiology for Breast Cancer

edited by Romuald Ferré

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: breast cancer screening; digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT); contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM); abbreviated breast MRI; artificial intelligence and radiomics; ultrasound correlation; risk-stratified imaging pathways

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Diagnostic Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis

edited by Emanuele Tinelli

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiple sclerosis; MRI; neuroimaging; diagnostic imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Musculoskeletal Tumors

edited by

Tomoki Nakamura

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open

Keywords: bone tumors; soft tissue tumors; metastatic bone tumors; diagnosis; chemotherapy; immunotherapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)

Advances in Diagnostic Cardiology

edited by Hélder Alexandre Correia Dores

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: cardiology; cardiac imaging; biomarkers; artificial intelligence (AI); wearable technology; precision diagnostics; point-of-care testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Laboratory Medicine)

Biochemical Testing Applications in Clinical Diagnosis—2nd Edition

edited by

Donatella Coradduzza

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: biochemical testing; clinical diagnosis; biomarkers; point-of-care tests; innovative analytical techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Laboratory Medicine)

Advances in Endoscopy—A New Era in Gastrointestinal Diagnostics

edited by

Anastasios Koulaouzidis

Ervin Toth

and

Mohammed Abdulrasak

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-supported detection; classification; and workflow in endoscopy; innovations in capsule and device-assisted endoscopy; image enhancement technologies and real-time analytics; therapeutic endoscopic advances and new instrumentation; integration of digital tools and automation into clinical practice; perspectives on training; quality; and standardization; ethical and regulatory considerations in emerging technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Recent Advances in Radiomics for Medical Imaging: Second Edition

edited by

Xiang Li

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: radiomics; PET/CT; SPECT/CT; medical imaging; cancers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Endometrial Diseases

edited by

Kotaro Kitaya

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: endometrial diseases; artificial intelligence; hysteroscopy; ultrasound; minimally invasive surgery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Breakthroughs in Advanced Medical X-Ray and CT Imaging: From Technology to Clinical Application

edited by Joyoni Dey

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced X-ray CT imaging; X-ray CT interferometry; phase-contrast X-ray; photon-counting detectors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Focus on Children's Oral Health: Advances in Pediatric Dentistry and Imaging Assessments

edited by Iole Vozza

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: special needs patients; oral healthcare; pediatric dentistry; dental hygiene; oral pathology; orthodontics; periodontics; imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Application of PET/CT in Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancers—2nd Edition

edited by Alberto Miceli

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open

Keywords: PET/CT; 18F-FDG; cancers; diagnosis; cancer treatment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Novel Diagnostic Approaches and Personalized Interventions for Sleep Disorders

edited by Dagmara Dimitriou, Zaid Awad and Mustafa Jaafar

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: sleep disorders; obstructive sleep apnoea; diagnosis; personalized treatment; neurodivergence; comorbidities; cross-cultural sleep; wearable technology; paediatric sleep; public health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus

edited by

Franklyn Iheagwam

and

Aw Tar-Choon

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: diabetes diagnosis; glycemic monitoring; personalized treatment; chronic complications; point-of-care testing; insulin resistance; diagnostic biomarkers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Diagnosis and Management of Thrombotic Disorders

edited by

Zhi-Chun Gu

and Dong Jia

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamic biomarker monitoring; AI-driven decision systems; precision strategies; digital health innovations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Diagnostics and Management

edited by Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos and

Dimitris Tatsis

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: oral squamous cell carcinoma; molecular diagnostics; artificial intelligence in oncology; advanced imaging techniques; personalized medicine; immunotherapy for OSCC; targeted therapies; multidisciplinary care; genomic profiling; early detection strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Disease Monitoring

edited by

Wei-Chih Lien

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; artificial intelligence; real-time monitoring; digital health; biosensors; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices)

Advances in Pediatric Ophthalmology Diagnostics and Management

edited by Mariola Dorecka and Bogumiła Wójcik-Niklewska

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: pediatric ophthalmology; children; congenital glaucoma; congenital cataract; cornea; strabismus; myopia; retinopathy of prematurity; amblyopia

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Optics)

Recent Advances in Imaging in Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Wounds

edited by Thomas E. Serena

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: chronic wounds; wound infection; surgical site infection; diabetic foot ulcer; venous leg ulcer; pressure ulcer; medical imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain, Third Edition

edited by

Ferran Cuenca-Martínez

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open

Keywords: chronic pain; pain diagnostics; pain classification; pain management; pain approach; biopsychosocial

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Imaging Research on Gastrointestinal Disorders: Second Edition

edited by

Takahiro Emoto

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open

Keywords: gastrointestinal diseases; inflammatory bowel disease; intestinal obstruction; irritable bowel syndrome; gastric cancer; signal and imaging processing; visualization techniques for the gastrointestinal tract

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Recent Advancements in Endoscopy

edited by

Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux De Moura

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI) in endoscopy; confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE); endoscopic ultrasound (EUS); capsule endoscopy; early gastrointestinal cancer detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Early-Stage Lung Cancer Diagnostics

edited by

Jieke Liu

and

Zhigang Chu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: early-stage lung cancer; low-dose CT screening; artificial intelligence; deep learning; radiomics; habitat imaging; early detection; precision diagnosis; risk stratification; prognosis prediction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Hematologic Tumors of the Bone: From Diagnosis to Prognosis

edited by Fabio Stagno

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open

Keywords: bone marrow tumors; hematologic malignancies; diagnostic biomarkers; prognostic tools; targeted therapies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Detection and Characterization of Focal Lesions in the Solid Abdominal Organs

edited by

Gavin Low

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open

Keywords: diagnostic imaging ; disease diagnosis; detection or characterization ; multi-modality imaging ; morphologic and functional assessments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases

edited by

Carmen Fierbinteanu-Braticevici

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: gastrointestinal diseases; liver diseases; biomarkers in GI disease; imaging in GI diagnosis (CT; MRI; ultrasound); non-invasive diagnostic tools; GI Endoscopic procedures; treatment approaches; personalized medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Next-Generation Diagnostics: Innovative Technologies Shaping the Future of Infectious Disease Testing

edited by

Luis Gustavo Carvalho Pacheco

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: molecular diagnostics; next-generation sequencing; CRISPR; biosensing; microfluidics; nucleic acid; pathogen; antimicrobial resistance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease)

Advances in Multimodal Diagnostics for Lung Diseases

edited by

Ioannis P. Tomos

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: interstitial lung diseases; asthma; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; respiratory infections; biomarkers; diagnostic techniques; drug discovery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Recent Advances in Abdominal Imaging

edited by Pál Kaposi

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open

Keywords: abdominal Imaging; photon-counting spectral CT; multiparametric quantitative MRI; total-body perfusion PET/CT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Advances in Diagnosis of Gynecological Cancers: 2nd Edition

edited by

Angela Santoro

and

Gian Franco Zannoni

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: gynecological cancers; histopathology; next-generation sequencing; liquid biopsy; theranostics; digital pathology; artificial intelligence and machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Decoding Complexity in Traumatic Injury Diagnosis: Forensic Approaches

edited by

Alice Chiara Manetti

and

Fabio Del Duca

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 44 | Submission Open

Keywords: traumatology; forensic pathology; vitality; post-mortem examination; trauma diagnosis; forensic imaging; individual protections; job security; histology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)

Clinically Integrated AI for Corneal and Ocular Surface Disease

edited by

Mohammad Soleimani

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; corneal diseases; ocular surface; diagnostic imaging; clinical translation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)

Liquid Biopsy and Molecular Diagnostics in Neuro-Oncology

edited by Santiago Cabezas-Camarero and Juan Manuel Sepúlveda-Sánchez

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

Keywords: liquid biopsy; biofluids; biomarkers; molecular techniques; gliomas; neuro-oncology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)

Diagnosing, Treating, and Preventing Eye Diseases

edited by Ermete Giancipoli

submission deadline 16 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3828 | Submission Open

Keywords: retinal disease; vitreoretinal surgery; cataract surgery; intraocular lens; cornea; glaucoma; neuro-ophthalmology; multimodal imaging; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Medical Image Analysis and Machine Learning

edited by

Inzamam Nasir

and

Costin Teodor Streba

submission deadline 21 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 543 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-enhanced clinical imaging workflows; deep learning for disease classification and segmentation; radiomics and multi-omics integration; federated learning and privacy-preserving analytics; next-generation medical image annotation techniques; explainable AI in diagnostic imaging; high-throughput screening in digital pathology; cross-domain adaptation and transfer learning in healthcare; prognostic and predictive imaging biomarkers; clinical decision support systems using machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)

Diagnosis, Prognosis and Management of Breast Cancer

edited by

Marko Spasic

submission deadline 21 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: breast cancer; diagnostics; personalized medicine; breast surgery; individualized treatment; radiotherapy; immunotherapy; targeted therapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Emerging Insights in Dental Diagnostics, Biomaterials and Digital Workflow

edited by

Marina Meleșcanu Imre

and

Ana Maria Cristina Țâncu

submission deadline 21 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: dental diagnostics; artificial intelligence (AI); digital dentistry; biomaterials; 3D printing; intraoral scanning; CAD/CAM; digital workflow; predictive analytics; clinical innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Diagnostic Progress in Gynecologic Oncology

edited by

Antoni Llueca

submission deadline 21 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: gynecologic oncology; early diagnosis; molecular diagnostics; imaging techniques; artificial intelligence; biomarkers; cervical cancer; endometrial cancer; ovarian cancer; personalized medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Diagnostics in the Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

edited by

Zhongheng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 14 articles | Viewed by 38398 | Submission Open

Keywords: diagnostics; emergency and critical care medicine; trauma; anesthesiology; respiratory failure; sepsis; cardiovascular disease; healthcare-associated infection prevention; end-of-life care

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

New Diagnostic and Testing Strategies for Infectious Diseases

edited by

Fernanda De-Paris

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 25239 | Submission Open

Keywords: infectious diseases diagnosis; clinical laboratory techniques; molecular biology; infection control; virulence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease)

Diagnosis and Prognosis of Sepsis

edited by

Zhongheng Zhang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21374 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis)

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