Computational Intelligence for Oncology and Neurological Disorders: Current Practices and Future Directions

隨著基於計算智能的方法的興起，例如生物啟發技術，以及來自各種複雜實驗的臨床數據的可用性，醫療顧問、研究人員、神經科醫生和腫瘤科醫生在醫療腫瘤學和神經疾病領域中有著巨大的計算智能應用潛力。本書專注於該領域的跨學科研究，將處理神經疾病和醫療腫瘤學的醫療從業人員與計算智能研究者聚集在一起。

本書收集了高品質的原創貢獻，包含最新的發展或實用價值的應用，呈現智能系統在計算腫瘤學和神經疾病領域的跨學科研究和綜述文章。它汲取了計算機科學、物理學、數學、醫學、心理學、認知科學、腫瘤學和神經生物學等領域的研究，結合了理論、應用、計算、實驗和臨床研究。對於任何專注於計算方法的神經學或腫瘤學研究人員來說，這本書將引起極大的興趣。

Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Berhampur University. He obtained his Master in Communication System Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, under Sambalpur University (Now, VSSUT, Burla), MBA in HRM from IGNOU, New Delhi, Bachelor in Electronics and Tele Communication Engineering from Utkal University. He is having 23 years of teaching and research experience and presently working as Associate Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Science and Applications, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He is a member of KES (Australia), IAENG (Hong Kong), ACEEE(I), IETE(I), CSI(I), ISTE(I). He has published about 130 research papers in International and National journals and conferences of repute. He has also published 15 book chapters, edited five books in Springer, Taylor and Francis, IGI Global etc., Guest editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence studies (IJCIStudies), Inderscience, UK and authored two text books on Soft Computing Techniques by Universal science press and Modern approaches of Data Mining by Narosa Publications to his credit. He is a program committee member of various international conferences. He is acting as a member of editorial board and active reviewer of various international journals and conferences. He is an Associate editor of International Journal of cognitive informatics and natural intelligence (IJCINI), IGI Global, USA and Journal of network and Innovative Computing (JNIC), MIR Labs, USA, Editorial board member of International Journal of knowledge engineering and soft data paradigms, (IJKESDP) Inderscience, UK, and reviewer of journals including: IEEE Access, Applied soft computing, Elsevier, Journal of King Saud University of computer and Information sciences, Elsevier, Wiley WIREs, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer to name a few. His active area of research includes Data Mining, Granular Computing, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things, Intrusion detection system, Social networking, wireless sensor networks, Image Processing, Text and Opinion Mining and Bioinformatics, Natural language processing etc.

Dr. Ajith Abraham presently working as Dean of Faculty of Computing and Data Science at FLAME University, Pune India. Dr. Abraham was the Founding Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a Not-for-Profit Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence connecting Industry and Academia. The Network with HQ in Seattle, USA has currently more than 1,000 scientific members from over 100 countries. As an Investigator / Co-Investigator, he has won research grants worth over 100+ Million US$ from Australia, USA, EU, Italy, Czech Republic, France, Malaysia and China. Dr. Abraham works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, network security, sensor networks, Web intelligence, Web services, data mining and applied to various real-world problems. In these areas he has authored / coauthored more than 1,400+ research publications out of which there are 100+ books covering various aspects of Computer Science. One of his books was translated to Japanese and few other articles were translated to Russian and Chinese. About 1,200+ publications are indexed by Scopus and over 1,000+ are indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Science. Some of the articles are available in the ScienceDirect Top 25 hottest articles. He has 1,100+ co-authors originating from 40+ countries. Dr. Abraham has nearly 50,000+ academic citations (h-index of 104 as per google scholar). He has given more than 150+ plenary lectures and conference tutorials (in 20+ countries). For his research, he has won seven best paper awards at prestigious International conferences held in Belgium, Canada Bahrain, Czech Republic, China and India. Since 2008, Dr. Abraham was the Chair of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing (which has over 200+ members) and served as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computer Society representing Europe (2011-2013). Dr. Abraham was the editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves/served the editorial board of over 15 International Journals indexed by Thomson ISI. He is actively involved in the organization of several academic conferences, and some of them are now annual events. Dr. Abraham received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2001) and a Master of Science Degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1998). More information at: http: //www.softcomputing.net/

Dr Gopi Biju holds a M.B.B.S degree from Medical College, Trivandrum in the year 1981 and BCCPM (PALLIATIVE MEDICINE) from General Hospital, Ernakulam, in 2020. He is the recipient of the national fellowship of palliative medicine 2021-22, in institute of palliative medicine, calicut medical college, kozhokode, kerala, India and the global fellowship program in palliative medicine from Pallium India, Trivandrum, Kerala. He has worked as Consultant Palliative Physician, Palliative Physician and General Practitioner since 1984 till date in several medical colleges and hospitals suc as Khorfakkan Hospital, Sharjah, U.A.E and Pain and Palliative Care Dept, Lakeshore Hospital, Nettoor, Ernakulam, Kerala, India to name a few. He has very rich clinical experiences in and around the globe, some of which are as follows:

Clinical Experience and Job Description:

• Started the Pain and Palliative Home Care facilities for the first time in Lakeshore Hospital during the Covid Pandemic. Made all the SOPs for the smooth functioning of the Department. Extended the facility by opening IP facilities and admitting patients for Terminal care under Palliative Care Dept, Consultation for Palliative care from other in-house departments, like Oncology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Neurology and Physical Rehabilitation. Home Care facility is well established now.
• Started a Joint Venture called "Doctor on Wheels" in Association with Signature Aged Care, Chalikkavattom, Ernakulam, Kerala with the view of providing Palliative and curative care especially for elderly patients who have difficulty in visiting doctors in the hospitals due to the restrictions due to the Lockdown during the Corona Pandemic. This has been a blessing for a lot of old people and their families who were in a dilemma as to what to do for the care of their aged relatives who could not be taken to hospitals for treatment and follow up.
• Worked in Peace Mission Centre, as Palliative Physician taking care of terminally ill patients with cancer and other end of stage chronically ill patients after obtaining my BCCPM course certification.
• Worked in Al Ghail Medical Centre, Al Ghail, R.A.K, as General Practitioner looking after workers in the Al Ghail Free Zone and the local patients residing in the area.
• Worked in Reem Al Nahda Medical Centre as General Practitioner conducting Family Medical Practice.
• Completed Basic life support course as per American Heart Association guidelines conducted by Eduscope International LLC, Dubai Health Care City, Dubai, U.A.E, and became a BLS Provider on 22nd August 2016

- In Metro Medical Centre and Dr. Sanjay Medical Centre, I was working as a General Practitioner looking after the company patients in the clinic as well as in the company clinics.

- Grand Sunny Medical Centre, is situated in the Industrial area no.2 in Sharjah, U.A.E. It is a part of Dr. Sunny Healthcare Group which is a well-established healthcare group in the Northern Emirates with several quality awards from the Govt. of Sharjah. I was the Medical Director and General Practitioner in the clinic which had a dental dept. and a female GP dept. in addition to the Male GP dept. We usually treated common illnesses and injuries among the labour class population who visited the clinic from the surrounding industrial area.

- In Vitalis Medical Centre, Bangalore, India, I was working as a General Practitioner doing all the routine general practice in the multispecialty clinic with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities.

- In Gopi Medical Clinic, Sharjah, I have set up a family practice clinic in 1993, in the Industrial area where low-income families and labourers were living, near their places of work. I was one of the first to implement a tailor-made Medical Insurance Policy for Factory workers in the area when no such medical insurance facility was available in the country. We had computerized our medical records from the inception of the clinic when it was a rarity in private practice. We had a system in place even in the early days for the safe disposal of hazardous medical waste when no such facility was available at that time.

- In Kuwaiti Hospital, Sharjah, I had worked in the Paediatric department and with the Anesthesiology Consultant had set up the Paediatric ICU and NICU. We used to manage critically ill children in our department without the need to refer to other tertiary hospital.

- In Khorfakkan Hospital, Sharjah, I joined the new Hospital in the Accident and Emergency Dept. which was not fully functional. On the instruction of the Director of the Hospital at the time, we made the A & E Dept. fully functional in time for the official opening of the Hospital by the Ruler of Sharjah in 1984.

- At present, he is working as Consultant Palliative Physician at Pain and Palliative Care Dept, Lakeshore Hospital, Nettoor, Ernakulam, Kerala, India. He is the member of the Indian Medical Association, Trivandrum Branch.

Dr. Reuel Ajith finished an MD degree in June 2021 from the Faculty of Medicine in Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research interests are in Internal medicine with a focus on neuro-degenerative diseases. He was in a team of researchers that developed the usage of artificial intelligence and free-speech to detect early signs of Parkinson's disease (https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2018.09.018). The early detection mechanism used signal and speech processing techniques integrated with machine learning algorithms. He is affiliated with Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) dealing with AI and health care related projects.

Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda 擁有來自 Berhampur University 的計算機科學博士學位。他在 Sambalpur University（現為 VSSUT, Burla）下的 University College of Engineering, Burla 獲得通信系統工程碩士學位，並在 IGNOU, New Delhi 獲得人力資源管理 MBA，還在 Utkal University 獲得電子與通信工程學士學位。他擁有 23 年的教學和研究經驗，目前擔任印度奧迪沙邦布巴內斯瓦爾 Utkal University 計算機科學與應用系的副教授及系主任。他是 KES（澳大利亞）、IAENG（香港）、ACEEE(I)、IETE(I)、CSI(I)、ISTE(I) 的成員。他在國際和國內的知名期刊及會議上發表了約 130 篇研究論文，並出版了 15 篇書章，編輯了五本書籍，出版於 Springer、Taylor and Francis、IGI Global 等。他是《國際計算智能研究期刊》（IJCIStudies）的客座編輯，並著有兩本教科書，分別是《軟計算技術》（Universal Science Press）和《數據挖掘的現代方法》（Narosa Publications）。他是多個國際會議的程序委員會成員，並擔任多個國際期刊和會議的編輯委員會成員及活躍審稿人。他是《國際認知信息學與自然智能期刊》（IJCINI，IGI Global, USA）和《網絡與創新計算期刊》（JNIC，MIR Labs, USA）的副編輯，並擔任《國際知識工程與軟數據範式期刊》（IJKESDP，Inderscience, UK）的編輯委員會成員，還是包括 IEEE Access、Applied Soft Computing、Elsevier、King Saud University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences、Wiley WIREs、Neural Computing and Applications、Springer 等期刊的審稿人。他的研究主題包括數據挖掘、粒狀計算、大數據分析、物聯網、入侵檢測系統、社交網絡、無線傳感器網絡、圖像處理、文本與意見挖掘、生物信息學、自然語言處理等。

Dr. Ajith Abraham 目前擔任印度浦那 FLAME University 計算與數據科學學院的院長。Dr. Abraham 曾是機器智能研究實驗室（MIR Labs）的創始主任，這是一個非營利的科學創新與研究卓越網絡，連接產業與學術。該網絡總部位於美國西雅圖，目前擁有來自 100 多個國家的 1,000 多名科學成員。作為研究者/共同研究者，他獲得了來自澳大利亞、美國、歐盟、意大利、捷克共和國、法國、馬來西亞和中國的超過 1 億美元的研究資助。Dr. Abraham 在多學科環境中工作，涉及機器智能、網絡物理系統、物聯網、網絡安全、傳感器網絡、網絡智能、網絡服務、數據挖掘等，並應用於各種現實世界的問題。在這些領域，他已發表/共同發表超過 1,400 篇研究出版物，其中包括 100 多本涵蓋計算機科學各個方面的書籍。他的一本書被翻譯成日文，其他幾篇文章則被翻譯成俄文和中文。約 1,200 篇出版物被 Scopus 索引，超過 1,000 篇被 Thomson ISI Web of Science 索引。一些文章在 ScienceDirect 的前 25 篇熱門文章中可查閱。他擁有來自 40 多個國家的 1,100 多位共同作者。Dr. Abraham 擁有近 50,000 次的學術引用（根據 Google Scholar 的 h-index 為 104）。他在 20 多個國家發表了超過 150 次的全體講座和會議教程。因其研究，他在比利時、加拿大、巴林、捷克共和國、中國和印度舉辦的多個國際會議上獲得了七項最佳論文獎。自 2008 年以來，Dr. Abraham 擔任 IEEE 系統人與控制論學會技術委員會主席。