Artificial Intelligence for Pediatric Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to this Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence for Pediatric Monitoring, Diagnosis and Treatment”.

The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) refers to the general ability of computing algorithms to emulate human decision-making, while machine learning (ML) is a subdivision of AI that includes techniques that enable machines to learn from data without explicit programming. Over recent decades, both have deeply influenced personalized diagnostics and therapeutics, drug discovery, and medical imaging. These approaches have the potential to significantly improve our understanding of diseases and of therapeutic efficacy in both children and infants. Algorithms are employed in ML for the classification of data and to make predictions, while neonatal AI applications involve neuromonitoring, prediction of respiratory conditions such as respiratory distress syndrome, chronic lung disease, sepsis, retinopathy of prematurity, vital sign monitoring, jaundice, and more. Pediatric AI applications include analysis of medical imaging to improve the diagnosis of an array of conditions, and prediction of infections and chemotherapy-induced complications.

In the near future, AI may be able to improve clinical care and potentially transform healthcare resource organization, and there is a growing interest in the medical field regarding the modern applications of artificial intelligence in neonatal and pediatric care. In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in the field of artificial Intelligence for pediatric monitoring, diagnosis and treatment, encompassing both theoretical and experimental studies, as well as comprehensive reviews and survey papers.

Dr. Stefano Nobile
Dr. Alessandro Perri
Guest Editors

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• pediatric monitoring
• pediatric diagnosis
• pediatric treatment
• machine learning
• artificial intelligence
• pediatric AI
• artificial intelligence in neonatology
• neonatal medicine