Data Analytics and Visualization in Health Informatics

Dear Colleagues,

Health informatics (HI) has emerged as a growing domain of interest among researchers worldwide, owing to its significant implications on society. It aims to develop methods and technologies for acquiring, processing, detecting, and visualizing health-related data that can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic health records, diagnostic test results, medical scans, news articles, etc. Making sense of all this information is a challenging process.      

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) use algorithms to learn from data to gain knowledge from experience and make decisions and predictions. Information visualizations (IV) are interactive visual externalizations of abstract data that can assist one in making sense of a large amount of information. Thus, applying AI, ML, and IV in health informatics has the most significant potential to raise the quality, efficacy, and efficiency of treatment and care.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to seek high-quality submissions that highlight emerging applications of information visualization, artificial intelligence, and data analytics techniques for health informatics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Interactive visualization for health informatics;
• Robust visual encoding methods for health informatics;
• Cognitive and perception science for health data visualization;
• Explainable visualization system for health informatics;
• Machine learning for health informatics;
• Artificial Intelligence for health informatics;
• Data Mining and Knowledge discovery for health informatics;
• Health-related misinformation/fake news detection;
• COVID-19 data analysis and visualization;
• Health-related smartphone apps use;
• Smartphone apps development for health;
• Wearable devices and sensors for health;
• Artificial intelligence for behavior data analysis.

Dr. Ashad Kabir
Dr. Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
Dr. Enamul Hoque
Dr. Mufti Mahmud
Dr. Naeemul Hassan
Guest Editors

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