**About the Editor**

## **Md Mahmudur Rahman**

Dr. Md Mahmudur Rahman is an Associate Professor who is currently serving as the Associate Chair in the Computer Science Department at Morgan State University, Maryland, USA. He received his PhD (2008) in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada with an emphasis on medical informatics and Image Retrieval. Prior to joining as an Assistant Professor at Morgan State University in 2014, Dr. Rahman extensively conducted research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, for almost six years as a Research Scientist. He has good expertise in the fields of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning, Image Processing and Computer Vision and their application to the classification, annotation, retrieval, and interpretation of biomedical images from large collections. Dr. Rahman has published two books, two book chapters, and more than eighty articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Rahman's current research is focused on deep learning techniques and their application for automatic captioning and concept generation of medical images, multi-modal retrieval of imaging entities in biomedical literature, and image-based computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) and decision support systems (DSSs).
