Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods in Medicine

Abstract: In modern dynamic, constantly developing society more and more people suffer from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease. They are the leading cause of death worldwide and represent an emerging global health threat. Moreover, the population in a lot of countries is getting more and more old and need medical and health care.

Accordingly, world renowned health stakeholders have been recognized importance of development of services that will support and help patients suffering from different kinds of diseases in everyday activities. For development of adequate medical services, comprehensive medical architectures, smart environments, and intelligent decision support systems collection of huge amounts of patient’s complex big data (like clinical, environmental, nutritional, everyday activities, data from smart devices …) is needed. Such data should be properly aggregated, analyzed and obtained results must be presented to the doctors/caregivers in trustworthy and friendly manner to recommend adequate treatment and actions to improve patient’s health related factors and status. To achieve reliable decisions and recommendations the focus will be on personalized medicine and healthcare. Additionally, we will also present important aspects of development of sophisticated e-coaching facilities supported by agent and metaverse technologies to obtain proper recommendations and advice to patients to increase their wellbeing.

Biography

Mirjana Ivanovic holds the position of Full Professor at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She is a member of National Scientific Committee for Electronics, Telecommunication and Informatics within Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia and member of Board of directors of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research and Development of Serbia. She was a member of University Council for Informatics for more than 12 years. Prof. Ivanovic is author or co-author of 14 textbooks, several international monographs and more than 450 research papers, most of which are published in international journals and conferences. Her research interests include agent technologies, intelligent techniques, applications of data mining and machine learning techniques in medical domains and technology enhanced learning. She is member of Program Committees of more than 300 international conferences, Program/General Chair of several international conferences, and leader of numerous international research projects. Mirjana Ivanovic delivered numerous keynote speeches at international conferences and visited many academic institutions all over the world as visiting researcher (Germany, Slovenia, Portugal, Australia, China, Korea). Currently she is Editor-in-Chief of the Computer Science and Information Systems journal.