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Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Nutrition and Non-Communicable Chronic Related Diseases of Obesity for Patients and Health Professionals

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 155

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1. Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Av. Ramón y Cajal, 3, 47003 Valladolid, Spain
2. Instituto de Endocrinología y Nutrición (IENVA), Universidad de Valladolid, Av. Ramón y Cajal, 3, 47003 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: obesity; nutrigenetics; enteral nutrition; malnutrition related to the disease
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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping numerous scientific disciplines, and clinical nutrition is experiencing a significant transformation as a result. This Special Issue of Nutrients is dedicated to exploring how AI-driven technologies are revolutionizing the field by addressing critical challenges, refining research methodologies, and enabling the development of highly personalized and precise nutritional interventions and new potential diagnostic tools. By leveraging AI, researchers can uncover complex relationships between diet, obesity, non-communicable chronic diseases related to obesity, and malnutrition related to disease. These new potentialities will allow for new diagnostic approaches with images and various biological signals in this type of disease, approaches to the analysis of large databases with the discovery of new diagnostic or prognostic algorithms, and even the design of new educational strategies for health professionals and new methodologies in clinical and basic research, as well as translational research.

This new Special Issue will feature pioneering studies and innovative applications of AI in clinical nutrition. Topics of interest include the use of general artificial intelligence in clinical nutrition, virtual assistants, or chat bots for training health professionals, metaverse tools, deep learning and machine learning techniques in nutritional diseases databases, medical image segmentation tools for nutritional diagnosis, and new explanatory artificial intelligences and their uses in clinical nutrition, as well as new educational and research strategies using cutting-edge tools in artificial intelligence.

As Guest Editor, I warmly encourage researchers, professors, and professionals in the field of clinical nutrition to submit original studies, meta-analyses, and comprehensive reviews that explore contemporary challenges, introduce ground-breaking AI methodologies, or demonstrate the real-world applications of AI in this broad field of clinical nutrition and diseases. Through this collective effort, we aim to deepen our knowledge of AI’s transformative potential in clinical nutrition and to inspire future innovations, with the aim to improve the health of our patients.

Dr. Daniel-Antonio de Luis Roman
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • chat-bots
  • clinical nutrition
  • deep and machine learning
  • education
  • explainable artificial intelligence
  • generative artificial intelligence
  • image analysis-based AI
  • malnutrition
  • non-communicable chronic diseases related to obesity

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Predicting Weight Loss Success After Gastric Sleeve Surgery: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
by Mónica Casas Domínguez, Isabel Herrena Montano, Juan José López Gómez, Beatriz Ramos Bachiller, Daniel Antonio de Luis Román and Isabel de la Torre Díez
Nutrients 2025, 17(8), 1391; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17081391 - 21 Apr 2025
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Background/Objectives: Obesity is a global health issue, and in this context, bariatric surgery is considered the most effective treatment for severe cases. However, postoperative outcomes vary widely among individuals, driving the development of tools to predict body weight loss success. The main objective [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Obesity is a global health issue, and in this context, bariatric surgery is considered the most effective treatment for severe cases. However, postoperative outcomes vary widely among individuals, driving the development of tools to predict body weight loss success. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate predictive variables for successful weight loss one year after Sleeve bariatric surgery, defining success as a weight loss exceeding 30%. Methods: A dataset of 94 cases was included in this study. Data were collected between 2013 and 2018 from the Nutrition Section of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Department in the Eastern Area of Valladolid, Spain. Machine learning algorithms applied included Random Forest, Multilayer Perceptron, XGBoost, Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, and Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Results: The SVM model demonstrated the best performance, attaining an accuracy of 88% and an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.76 with a 95% CI between 0.5238 and 0.9658. The main predictive variables identified were potassium (K), folic acid, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), height, transferrin, weight, body mass index (BMI), triglyceride (Tg), Beck Depression Test score, and insulin levels. Conclusions: In conclusion, this study highlights the potential of machine learning models, particularly Support Vector Machines (SVMs), in predicting successful weight loss after Sleeve bariatric surgery. The key predictive variables identified include biochemical markers, anthropometric measures, and psychological factors, emphasizing the multifactorial nature of postoperative weight loss outcomes. Full article
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