Swarm Intelligence and Machine Learning: Applications in Healthcare
暫譯: 群體智慧與機器學習：在醫療保健中的應用

今天，醫療保健領域面臨著諸多挑戰，例如檢測疾病的原因、疾病預防、高昂的運營成本、技術人員的可用性以及基礎設施的瓶頸。需要智能醫療管理技術來應對這些挑戰。醫療機構還需要不斷發現有用且可行的知識，以從大量生成的數據中獲取洞見，從而拯救生命、減少醫療錯誤、提高效率、降低成本，並使整個世界變得更健康。

本書介紹了在醫療資訊學中使用機器學習和群體智慧開發的技術。它還討論了人工智慧的一個主要應用：通過使用群體智慧，利用機器學習從多模態數據中最佳提取有用信息。它回顧了幫助最小化模式和分類開發錯誤的優化方法，這進一步有助於改善預測和決策。本書的目標是利用群體智慧和機器學習技術解決各種醫療問題，例如癌症、腦腫瘤、糖尿病視網膜病變、心臟病的診斷，以及藥物設計和開發。本書將作為一個一站式參考，認真思考和探索群體智慧和機器學習算法，以實現實時病人診斷。

Dr Shikha Agarwal is Director, Centre for University Placement, Training & Corporate Affairs, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University Institute of Technology, RGPV, Bhopal, MP, India. She obtained B.E., M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering. She has more than seventeen years of teaching experience. Her area of interest is artificial intelligence, soft computing, computational intelligence and particle swarm optimization. She has published more than 50 research papers in different SCI/SCIE/Scopus/UGC approved reputed international journals and 04 patents. She authored one book on Advanced Database Management System and 12 chapters with international publishers. She is heading research projects from various government organizations. For her outstanding research work in Information Technology, she has been awarded as Young Scientist by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal. She has been elected as an IEEE senior member and participated in numerous (more than 15) conference presentations (including invited and peer-reviewed oral presentations and panel discussions) and chaired technical sessions in various international conferences and also served as a member of reviewer committee of International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, USA, and many international conferences of IEEE, Springer, etc.

Manish Gupta is Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering in Amity University, Gwalior, MP, India. He has done B.E. from MITS Gwalior, MP, India, and M.Tech from ABV-IIITM Gwalior, MP, India. He is also pursuing Ph.D. from RGPV Bhopal, MP, India. He is 4-times GATE and 02-times NET qualified. He has published more than 25 research papers in various journals, IEEE conferences, Springer conferences. He has organized 02 IEEE special sessions and 01 Springer special session. He is also editorial board members of various organizations and journals. He has published two books. He has awarded 10 M. Tech thesis. He is currently working on a Central Govt. Project Unnat Bharat Abhiyan sanctioned by the Govt. of India. He is also working on research project on A new GUI based image cryptography using random key for IoT sanctioned by RGPV university Bhopal MP-India under TEQIP-III. He has completed a project on Cyber Security & Digital India Awareness Program for Rural Area sanctioned by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology Bhopal, MP, India.

Dr Jitendra Agrawal is an Associate Professor and Dean- Student Welfare in the School of Information Technology at the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, MP, India. He is a Teacher, Researcher and Consultant in the field of Computer Science and Information Technology. He earned his Master Degree from Samrat Ashok Technology Institute, Vidisha, MP, India in 1997 and awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Computer & Information Technology in 2012. He has 23 years of teaching and 18 years of research experience with a significant number of citations with h-index and i-index. He has organized several IEEE, ACM and Springer conferences in the capacity of conference Program Chair and editor of conference proceeding. His research interests include Database, Data Structure, Data Mining, Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence. He has published more than 70 publications in International Journals and Conferences, 04 patents filed, 12 chapters and three books. He is the recipient of the Best Professor in Information Technology award by the World Education Congress in 2013. He has participated in many Workshops/ Seminars/ Staff Development Programme (SDP) organized at National and International levels as Resource Person, Key note speaker, Session chairman, Moderator, Panellist, etc.

Dr Dac-Nhuong Le is Ph.D in Computer Science, Deputy-Head of Faculty of Information Technology, Haiphong University, Vietnam. Presently, he is also the Deputy-Head of Department of Educational Testing and Quality Assurance, Vice-Director of Information Technology Apply Centre in the same university. He is a research scientist of Research and Development Centre of Visualization & Simulation in (CSV), Duytan University, Danang, Vietnam. He has a total academic teaching experience of 10 years with many publications in reputed international conferences, journals and online book chapter contributions. His area of research include: evaluation computing and approximate algorithms, network communication, security and vulnerability, network performance analysis and simulation, cloud computing and image processing in biomedical. His core work in network security, wireless, soft computing and mobile computing. Recently, he has been the technique program committee, the technique reviews, the track chair for international conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014, IC4SD 2015, ICICT 2015, INDIA 2015, IC3T 2015, INDIA 2016, FICTA 2016 under Springer-ASIC Series. Presently, he is serving in the editorial board of international journals under AIRCC Publishing Corporation, Wireilla Scientific Publications.

Dr Kamlesh Kumar Gupta is Professor in Rustamji Institute of Technology (RJIT), BSF Academy, Tekanpur, MP, India. He completed B.E., M.Tech, and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from RGPV Bhopal, MP, India. He has published more than 40 research papers in various journals and conferences. He organized international conference in emerging trends of computer science and its applications in RJIT. Also, he organized various training course on computer literacy in Border Security Force Academy, Tekanpur (MHA). He also guided 07 Ph.D. in various universities like RGPV, Uttrakhand Technical University, Amity University, Gwalior. He is guiding 10 M.Tech. thesis. He is a member of CSI, IETE, and member in BOG of RGPV University, Bhopal.

Dr. Shikha Agarwal 是印度博帕爾拉吉夫甘地技術大學（Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya）大學就業、培訓與企業事務中心的主任，以及該校計算機科學與工程系的副教授。她獲得了計算機科學與工程的學士學位（B.E.）、碩士學位（M.Tech.）和博士學位（Ph.D.）。她擁有超過十七年的教學經驗。她的研究興趣包括人工智慧、軟計算、計算智能和粒子群優化。她在不同的SCI/SCIE/Scopus/UGC認可的國際期刊上發表了超過50篇研究論文，並擁有4項專利。她撰寫了一本關於高級資料庫管理系統的書籍，並與國際出版商合作撰寫了12個章節。她負責來自各政府機構的研究項目。因其在資訊技術領域的卓越研究工作，她被印度博帕爾的中央科學與技術委員會授予青年科學家獎。她被選為IEEE高級會員，並參加了多次（超過15次）會議報告（包括受邀和同行評審的口頭報告及小組討論），並在各種國際會議中擔任技術會議主席，同時也擔任《國際計算機科學與資訊安全期刊》（International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, USA）及多個IEEE、Springer等國際會議的審稿委員會成員。

Manish Gupta 是印度甘地阿米提大學（Amity University）計算機科學與工程系的助理教授。他在印度甘地的MITS獲得了學士學位（B.E.），並在ABV-IIITM獲得碩士學位（M.Tech.）。他目前也在RGPV博帕爾攻讀博士學位（Ph.D.）。他四次通過GATE考試和兩次通過NET考試。他在各種期刊、IEEE會議和Springer會議上發表了超過25篇研究論文。他組織了2場IEEE特別會議和1場Springer特別會議。他也是多個組織和期刊的編輯委員會成員，並出版了兩本書籍。他指導了10篇碩士論文（M.Tech. thesis）。目前，他正在參與由印度政府批准的中央政府項目「Unnat Bharat Abhiyan」。他還在RGPV博帕爾的TEQIP-III項目下，進行一項關於基於隨機密鑰的物聯網（IoT）圖像加密的新GUI研究項目。他完成了一個由印度博帕爾的中央科學與技術委員會批准的針對農村地區的網絡安全與數位印度意識計劃項目。

Dr. Jitendra Agrawal 是印度拉吉夫甘地技術大學（Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya）資訊技術學院的副教授及學生福利院長。他是計算機科學與資訊技術領域的教師、研究者和顧問。他於1997年在印度維迪沙的Samrat Ashok Technology Institute獲得碩士學位，並於2012年獲得計算機與資訊技術的哲學博士學位（Ph.D.）。他擁有23年的教學經驗和18年的研究經驗，並擁有顯著的引用數據及h-index和i-index。他以會議程序主席和會議論文集編輯的身份組織了多場IEEE、ACM和Springer會議。他的研究興趣包括資料庫、資料結構、資料挖掘、軟計算和計算智能。他在國際期刊和會議上發表了超過70篇論文，申請了4項專利，撰寫了12個章節和三本書籍。他於2013年獲得世界教育大會頒發的最佳資訊技術教授獎。他參加了許多在國內外舉辦的研討會/研討會/員工發展計劃（SDP），擔任資源人員、主題演講者、會議主席、主持人、小組成員等角色。

Dr. Dac-Nhuong Le 擁有計算機科學的博士學位，現任越南海防大學資訊技術系副主任。目前，他也是該校教育測試與質量保證部的副主任，以及資訊技術應用中心的副主任。他是越南岘港的Duytan大學可視化與模擬研究與發展中心的研究科學家。他擁有10年的學術教學經驗，並在多個知名國際會議、期刊和在線書籍章節貢獻中發表了許多論文。他的研究領域包括：評估計算與近似算法、網絡通信、安全性與脆弱性、網絡性能分析與模擬、雲計算和生物醫學中的圖像處理。他的核心工作涉及網絡安全、無線、軟計算和移動計算。最近，他擔任了多個國際會議的技術程序委員會、技術審查、專題主席，包括FICTA 2014、CSI 2014、IC4SD 2015、ICICT 2015、INDIA 2015、IC3T 2015、INDIA 2016、FICTA 2016等，這些會議均在Springer-ASIC系列下舉行。目前，他在AIRCC Publishing Corporation和Wireilla Scientific Publications的國際期刊編輯委員會中任職。

Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Gupta 是印度BSF學院（Rustamji Institute of Technology, RJIT）教授。他在印度博帕爾的RGPV獲得計算機科學與工程的學士學位（B.E.）、碩士學位（M.Tech.）和博士學位（Ph.D.）。他在各種期刊和會議上發表了超過40篇研究論文。他在RJIT組織了有關計算機科學及其應用的新興趨勢的國際會議。此外，他還在邊境安全部隊學院（Border Security Force Academy, Tekanpur）組織了多個計算機素養培訓課程。他指導了7篇來自RGPV、烏特拉坎德技術大學、甘地阿米提大學等多所大學的博士論文，並指導了10篇碩士論文（M.Tech. thesis）。他是CSI、IETE的成員，並在RGPV大學博帕爾的董事會中任職。