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Computer-Vision-Based Biomedical Image Processing

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 879

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Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computer Science (ICS) Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), GR 70013 Heraklion, Greece
Interests: computer vision; deep learning; medical computer vision
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Dear Colleagues,

Computer vision has a rich history spanning decades of efforts towards enabling computers to perceive visual stimuli meaningfully. Machine perception covers a range of levels, from low-level tasks such as identifying edges to high-level tasks such as understanding complete scenes. The growth of modern computer vision has overlapped with the generation of large amounts of digital data in several scientific fields. Large datasets allow computer vision models to acquire varied pattern recognition abilities, ranging from physician-level diagnostics to medical scene perception.

This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of computer vision and biomedical imaging to showcase cutting-edge developments in computer vision algorithms and their applications in biomedical image processing and digital healthcare. This Special Issue invites original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and insightful case studies that focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Deep-Learning-Enabled Medical Computer Vision
  • Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD)
  • Imaging Biomarkers
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Multi-level Biomedical Data Integration
  • Explainable and Trustworthy Computer Vision
  • Screening, Early Detection, and Prediction of Future Outcomes

Dr. Grigorios E. Kalliatakis
Dr. Christos Chrysoulas
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Keywords

  • computer vision
  • artificial intelligence
  • biomedical image processing
  • medical image analysis
  • deep learning
  • representation learning
  • computer-aided detection
  • anomaly detection
  • biomarkers
  • digital healthcare

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Moving Healthcare AI Support Systems for Visually Detectable Diseases to Constrained Devices
by Tess Watt, Christos Chrysoulas, Peter J. Barclay, Brahim El Boudani and Grigorios Kalliatakis
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(24), 11474; https://doi.org/10.3390/app142411474 - 10 Dec 2024
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Image classification usually requires connectivity and access to the cloud, which is often limited in many parts of the world, including hard-to-reach rural areas. Tiny machine learning (tinyML) aims to solve this problem by hosting artificial intelligence (AI) assistants on constrained devices, eliminating [...] Read more.
Image classification usually requires connectivity and access to the cloud, which is often limited in many parts of the world, including hard-to-reach rural areas. Tiny machine learning (tinyML) aims to solve this problem by hosting artificial intelligence (AI) assistants on constrained devices, eliminating connectivity issues by processing data within the device itself, without Internet or cloud access. This study explores the use of tinyML to provide healthcare support with low-spec devices in low-connectivity environments, focusing on the diagnosis of skin diseases and the ethical use of AI assistants in a healthcare setting. To investigate this, images of skin lesions were used to train a model for classifying visually detectable diseases (VDDs). The model weights were then offloaded to a Raspberry Pi with a webcam attached, to be used for the classification of skin lesions without Internet access. It was found that the developed prototype achieved a test accuracy of 78% when trained on the HAM10000 dataset, and a test accuracy of 85% when trained on the ISIC 2020 Challenge dataset. Full article
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Title: Moving Healthcare AI-Support Systems for Visually Detectable Diseases onto Constrained Devices
Author: Watt
Highlights: -The model produced a test accuracy of 78% and a test loss of 1.08. The test data consisted of 1000 images. -Our model produced a higher accuracy than a similar model developed by Ramlakhan & Shang, who used a smaller dataset. -However, our model produced a lower accuracy than two similar models using higher spec hardware.

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