Non-invasive Diagnostics for Cardiovascular Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

The development of non-invasive cardiovascular disease diagnostics necessitates ongoing knowledge and skills updates to match the current demands and progress in the field. In today’s chaotic world, there is an increasing trend to seek out simple, non-invasive solutions for complex problems that can increase efficiency, reduce resource consumption, and improve scalability. This desire has spilled over into the world of science and research, where many disciplines have taken to investigating and applying more simplistic non-invasive approaches to replace existing invasive technologies that are often costly and require high levels of training. Interestingly, through a review of current literature it seems that invasive diagnostic methods continue to be the gold standard with limited effort towards exploring noninvasive alternatives. Theoretically, a shift towards more simple and non-invasive solutions could yield equal or better results than invasive methods, in addition to needing less resources and training.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of expertise including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences that are interested in studying and using non-invasive techniques for diagnosing diseases. A diversity of non-invasively measured signal types is included in this research area including electrical, image, audio and other biological sources of information. Developing efficient diagnostic tools requires multidisciplinary research that integrates knowledge from medicine (e.g., disease etiology, disease annotation, diagnostic accuracy), engineering (e.g., signal processing, modelling), computer science (e.g., pattern recognition, machine learning, computational intelligence techniques) and other related areas.

Dr. Mohamed Elgendi
Guest Editor

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