Series Health Informatics

https://www.springer.com/series/1114

Call for book chapters

Book Title
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Resources Poor Healthcare
Systems
Trends, Perspectives, and Applications

Series ISSN: 1431-1917

ISBN: …………
Publication in December 2020

Submission and Dates

Submission page: xxxxxxxxxx
Abstract submission: December 15th, 2019 (max. 500 words)
Acceptance notification: December 20th, 2019
Full chapters submission: April 30th, 2020 (max. 5 tables/figures, 25 pages, 15.000 to 20.000
words)
Full chapter acceptance notification: July 2nd, 2020
Final and revised paper: August 30th, 2020

Editors
1. Thierry Edoh, RFW-Universität Bonn, Bonn Germany
2. Vijayalakshmi Kakulapati, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Yamnampet,
Ghatkesar, Hyderabad India

Editorial Advisory Board Members

1. Samuel Fosso-Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France
2. Haruna Chiroma, College of Education, Gombe, Nigeria
3. Jules Degila, IMSP, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin
4. Pravin Pawar, SUNY, Korea.
5. Vania V. Estrela

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright Holder: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Theme
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data (BD) are the most useful technologies that could
powerfully improve health care service delivery, especially in resource-poor countries (Resources
Poor Healthcare Systems). Big Data basically consists of big amount of data coming from diverse
sources in different formats, while AI includes machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) and
can be used for repetitive tasks like diseases diagnosis, diseases screening, diseases prevention,
early diseases detection, medical decision making, medical treatment using AI-based tools, nursing
care at the end of life, home health and medical care, remote artificial doctor, etc.

Many countries, for example, China, are investing in AI for Healthcare to overcome challenges
such as healthcare workforce shortage.

Doctors are slowly being assisted by a software system in their daily duties, for example in decision
making. Though this can face some limitations. Most AI-based prediction tasks are done using DL
technics/technology. However, DL applications are limited in explanatory capacity. A trained DL
system cannot explain the “how” of performed predictions – even when the prediction outcomes
are correct. This kind of “black box problem” is challenging, especially in healthcare, where
doctors don't want to make life-and-death decisions without a firm understanding of how the
machine arrived at its recommendation (even if those recommendations have proven to be correct
in the past). Since Data sciences have great potential, combining Data sciences (including Data
analytics) with AI will be beneficial for Healthcare one on hand and other help to solve the black
box issues generated by DL. Data science combines different algorithms, technologies, and systems
and assists to extract the right information from well designed and collected data.

This book is looking to explore the concepts of AI (including machine learning, deep learning) and
big data (including IoT and Smart City) in health care along with the recent research development
with a focus on health care systems resources poor countries (Resources Poor Healthcare Systems)
as well as in rural areas in developed countries. It would also include various real-time/offline
applications and case studies in the field of engineering, computer science, IoT, Smart Cities with
modern tools & technologies used in healthcare.

As a population grows and resources become scarcer, the efficient usage of these limited goods
becomes more important. Smart cities are a key factor in the consumption of materials and
resources. Built on and integrating with big data, the cities of the future are becoming a realization
today. The integration of big data and interconnected technology along with the increasing
population will lead to the necessary creation of smart cities. To continue providing people with
safe, comfortable, and affordable places to live, cities must incorporate techniques and technologies
to bring them into the future. We are looking forward to seeing the advances that will come to our
cities soon.

The main objectives of this book are to analyze the chances of effectively using AI in healthcare,
especially in resource-poor countries (Resources Poor Healthcare Systems). Furthermore, this book
aims at presenting some use cases of AI in healthcare and though show its potential to improve
care services delivery, overcome the forthcoming challenges, which will face the sector regarding
the increasing world population, as well as resource scarcity and workforce shortage.

The reader will be provided with insight into AI, Big data, and Data sciences for healthcare, the
state-of-the-art, chances, challenges, limitations, and perspectives, as well as future development.
This book would cover disciplines such as, but not limited to, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
in Resources Poor Healthcare Systems: Theories, Chances, Trends, Perspectives, Future
Development, and Applications is a fascinating addition to the literature in this discipline.
1. Health informatics/Medical IT
2. Health care Services Delivery and management
3. Assistive Decision Making
4. Data science
5. Artificial intelligence

Keywords
 Expert system
 Machine learning
 Deep learning
 Drugs discovery
 Big data analytic
 Healthcare technology
 Explainable artificial intelligence

Unique features of the book

 Explores the concepts of AI (including machine learning, deep learning) and big data
(including the Internet of Things and Smart City) in healthcare.
  Includes various real-time/ offline applications and case studies in the field of
engineering, computer science, IoT, Smart Cities with modern tools & technologies used
in healthcare.
 Provides guidance on how health technology can face the challenge of improving the
quality of life regardless of social and financial consideration, gender, age, and residence
place.

Tentative chapters
1. Introduction to AI and Big data for resource-poor Healthcare
2. Introduction to Deep learning for resource-poor healthcare
3. Introduction to smart healthcare in the context of big data and AI
4. Challenges facing AI for Healthcare resource-poor Healthcare
5. AI and Big Data in Healthcare for resource-poor Healthcare: Trends and perspectives
6. Convolutional neural network for improving resource-poor Healthcare
7. Deep believe network for medical and health applications in resource-poor Healthcare
8. Deep learning network architectures for medical and health applications to improve
resource-poor Healthcare.
9. Stack Autoencoder for multimodal health care to improve resource-poor Healthcare
10. Deep learning scalability models in improving resource-poor Healthcare
11. Expert system for improving resource-poor Healthcare
12. Expert systems in smart hospitals and clinics
13. Developing smart doctors based on explainable AI for resource-poor Healthcare
14. Explainable AI-based Remote Care to improve resource-poor Healthcare
15. Explainable AI-based Medical Data Exchanges and Data interoperability for resource-
poor Healthcare
16. Explainable AI-based Electronic Health Records for resource-poor Healthcare
17. Improving resource-poor Healthcare based on Explainable AI
18. Expert system for exploring protein secondary structure to improve resource-poor
Healthcare
19. Exploiting structure in information for resource-poor Healthcare
20. Making use of heterogeneous information in machine learning for resource-poor
Healthcare.
21. Monitoring to personalized medicine through expert systems for resource-poor
Healthcare.
22. Improving patient privacy and security through expert systems for resource-poor
Healthcare
23. Deep learning in drug discovery for resource-poor Healthcare
24. Deep Transfer Learning in protein structure for resource-poor Healthcare
25. Hybrid of nature-inspired algorithm and deep learning structure for improving resource-
poor Healthcare in developing countries
26. Case studies of AI and big data in Healthcare delivery in improving resource-poor
Healthcare

Target audience
a) Medical Doctors and public Health care bodies
b) Medical Policymakers
c) Government Members
d) AI, Big data, Data sciences for medical and health care Experts
e) E-Health Industry
f) E-Health Researchers
g) Health Informaticians (with focus on Rural and Elderly)
h) Graduates and Postgraduates

Review process
1. Initial review and plagiarism check
Chapter Proposal and full chapters would be reviewed and plagiarism would be performed. If
the manuscript succeeds in this step, it would be sent to an in-depth peer review.

2. In-Depth review (blind peer review)

Researchers with a strong background in a given domain would be requested to review the
manuscript.

3. Final Decision and Final manuscript Request

At this stage, Grammarly is used to check grammar errors, etc. Native English is requested to
check the linguistic level and make a suggestion to the authors. The final manuscripts are
plagiarism at the last.