Internet-of-Medical-Things-Streamed Medical-Image-Based Recommendation and Optimization Techniques Using Federated Learning

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, the use of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices has the great potential to revolutionize the biomedical and healthcare services by generating a huge amount of data (particularly, medical images) that can be utilized to enhance patients’ outcomes and further decision making. IoMT devices include a wide range of connected medical devices such as wearable sensors, implantable devices, and mobile apps that can easily collect patient data in real-time scenarios. However, the utilization of the IoMT devices also raises several concerns about the security and privacy of the patients’ medical imaging data. Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that basically allows multiple IoMT devices to collaborate and learn from each other's data while keeping the sensitive patients’ data secure. FL enables the machine learning models to be trained across multiple devices without the necessity to transfer the data to a central server/hub, thereby reducing the risk of data breaches and protecting the patients’ privacy.

FL-based IoMT has the great efficiency to transform healthcare services by enabling personalized healthcare delivery, chronic disease management, and the early detection of infectious diseases from medical image datasets. Personalized medication recommendations for chronic diseases can be generated through analyzing data from multiple IoMT devices and tailoring the treatment plans to individual patients. The early detection of infectious diseases can be achieved by analyzing real-time data from the connected devices and identifying outbreaks before they become widespread. This Special Issue invites review and research papers on IoMT-based medical image streaming, recommendation, and optimization techniques using FL to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Topics of interest include personalized medication recommendations for chronic diseases, the early detection of infectious diseases, secure FL-based healthcare data analysis, FL-based optimization of medical image analysis, FL-based chronic disease management, and privacy and security concerns in FL-based IoMT.

We encourage authors to submit original research articles, reviews, and case studies on IoMT-based recommendation and optimization techniques via FL. All submissions will be peer reviewed to ensure the quality and relevance of the articles. We hope that this Special Issue will contribute to the advancement of IoMT-based healthcare and encourage the adoption of FL in healthcare to enhance patients’ outcomes.

The current Special Issue will cover a wide range, including the following topics associated with IOMT and medical imaging, but is not limited to these only:

• Personalized medication recommendations for chronic diseases using medical image processing.
• MRI/CT-based early detection of infectious diseases.
• Secure FL-based biomedical and healthcare data analysis.
• FL-based optimization of medical image analysis.
• FL-based medical image retrieval techniques for chronic disease management.
• Privacy and security issues in IoMT.
• FL-based prediction and prevention of cancer and various neurodegenerative diseases.
• Secure and efficient FL-based IoMT systems for resource-constrained devices.
• Privacy-preserving FL-based IoMT systems via differential privacy or other privacy-enhancing methodologies.
• FL-based IoMT for personalized nutrition and dietary recommendations.
• FL-based IoMT for mental health monitoring and treatment.
• FL-based IoMT for the early detection and management of cardiovascular diseases from CT/MRI/Xray image datasets.
• FL-based IoMT for real-time image monitoring and management of sleep disorders.
• FL-based IoMT for personalized rehabilitation as well as physical therapy.
• FL-based IoMT for detecting adverse drug events and improving medication safety.
• FL-based IoMT for enhancing clinical decision making and patients’ outcomes.

Dr. Saurav Mallik
Guest Editor

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