Advances in artificial intelligence tools and methods provide better insights, reduce waste and wait time, and increase speed, service efficiencies, level of accuracy, and productivity in health care and medicine [1]. Also, the recent revolution in digital devices (e.g. mobile apps, fitness trackers, sensors, IoT assets) and their software applications enables clinicians and health care workers, consumers and patients to make better informed decisions [2]. Moreover, new initiatives such as precision health and medicine emphasize the importance of focusing on individuals’ risk factors for disease prevention, early diagnosis, and intervention [3].
This special issue of theArtificial Intelligence in Medicinejournal seeks original contributions presenting significant results on theory, methods, systems, and applications of data mining, machine learning, databases, network theory, natural language processing, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, semantic web, and big data analytics, focused on applications in precision health and digital medicine. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Knowledge Representation and Extraction
- Integrated Health Information Systems
- Patient Education
- Patient-Focused Workflows
- Shared Decision Making
- Geographical Mapping and Visual Analytics for Health Data
- Social epidemiology
- Social Media Analytics
- Epidemic Intelligence
- Predictive Modeling and Decision Support
- Semantic Web and Web Services
- Biomedical Ontologies, Terminologies, and Standards
- Bayesian Networks and Reasoning under Uncertainty
- Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning
- Case-based Reasoning in Healthcare
- Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence
- Risk Assessment, Trust, Ethics, Privacy, and Security
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Computational Behavioral/Cognitive Modeling
- Health Intervention Design, Modeling and Evaluation
- Online Health Education and E-learning
- Mobile Health
- Internet of Things (IoT) in Health and Medicine
- Applications in Epidemiology and Surveillance (e.g. Bioterrorism, Participatory Surveillance, Syndromic Surveillance, Population Screening)