Edge AI for Biomedical Applications: Innovations in Sensing, Computing and Security

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioelectronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 478

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79912, USA
Interests: applied machine learning; deep learning; edge AI; circuits and devices for AI; biomedical signal and image analysis; biomedical instrumentation

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Department of Electrical Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
Interests: cybersecurity; human factors; autonomous systems security; AI security; audio visual safety; computer vision

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Department of Computer Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing prevalence of edge devices, such as wearables, cyber-physical systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT), in smart environments has catalyzed the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) directly into edge computing systems, a paradigm known as Edge AI. Edge AI marks a promising era for biomedical applications, enabling transformative innovations in sensing, computing, and security. This Special Issue emphasizes solutions that enable real-time, energy-efficient, and privacy-preserving machine learning and deep learning operations directly on edge devices, with applications including intelligent wearable sensors, implantable medical devices, clinical decision support systems, and mobile healthcare platforms.

The scope of the Special Issue spans a wide range of topics, including the following:

Advanced Sensing: The development and integration of novel biosensors and sensor fusion techniques that leverage Edge AI for precise data acquisition and analysis in real-time.

Efficient Computing: Algorithm–hardware co-design for energy-efficient AI inference, optimized machine learning models for edge devices, and low-power biomedical signal and image processing.

Robust Security: Ensuring data integrity and privacy in edge-based biomedical systems, with a focus on secure data transmission, federated learning, and adversarial robustness.

Applications: The deployment of Edge AI in diverse biomedical applications such as remote patient monitoring, wearable health diagnostics, neuroprosthetics, and personalized healthcare.

This Special Issue aims to bring together a collection of original research and review papers showcasing the unique constraints and opportunities of edge computing and AI in healthcare, such as latency-sensitive decision-making, resource-constrained environments, and enhanced data security, while addressing the gap between centralized AI methodologies and the emerging need for decentralized, edge-based systems tailored for biomedical applications.

Dr. Md Maruf Hossain Shuvo
Dr. Krishna Roy
Dr. Sanchita Ghose
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Keywords

  • AI-enabled bioinstrumentation
  • biomedical edge computing
  • edge AI
  • embedded AI systems
  • cyber-physical systems
  • clinical decision support
  • efficient deep learning
  • real-time biosignal analytics
  • privacy and security at the edge
  • distributed intelligence

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A Supervised System Integrating Image Processing and Machine Learning for the Staging of Chronic Hepatic Diseases
by Giulia Iaconi, Alaa Wehbe, Paolo Borro, Marco Macciò and Silvana Dellepiane
Electronics 2025, 14(8), 1534; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14081534 - 10 Apr 2025
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Liver disease is a major global health concern. Given the critical role of medical image categorization in fibrosis staging (low, moderate, severe, cirrhotic) and the challenges posed by limited medical image datasets, this paper aims to leverage ultrasound imaging to assess liver margin [...] Read more.
Liver disease is a major global health concern. Given the critical role of medical image categorization in fibrosis staging (low, moderate, severe, cirrhotic) and the challenges posed by limited medical image datasets, this paper aims to leverage ultrasound imaging to assess liver margin characteristics at the level of Glisson’s capsule—here referred to as Glisson’s line—to develop a simple, automated model for accurately distinguishing fibrosis stages. The proposed approach combines traditional image processing techniques in a pre-processing stage with machine learning algorithms for classification. The pre-processing phase introduces an attention-focusing mechanism that stretches the gray levels of Glisson’s line while shrinking the intensity levels associated with the liver parenchyma and surrounding tissues. This results in the so-called region of contrast interest (ROCI), where potential classification distractors are minimized. For classification, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model is used to process original, rotated, and transformed ultrasound images. To address dataset imbalance and overfitting, a 10-fold cross-validation strategy was implemented. The results demonstrate that, by effectively enhancing the information content of Glisson’s line, different liver fibrosis stages can be accurately distinguished without the need for explicit edge detection, achieving accuracy levels comparable to those reported in the literature. The novelty of this work lies in analyzing the morphology of Glisson’s capsule—obtained through this method—rather than focusing on the liver parenchyma and texture, as is traditionally carried out. Full article
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