Dr. Akash Kumar Bhoi accomplished academic and researcher with over a decade of experience in Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Biomedical Computing. Recognized globally for research excellence, ranked in the Top 0.5% of Scholars worldwide (ScholarGPS, 2024 & 2025) and listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University & Elsevier, 2022, 2023 & 2025). Prolific contributor with 200+ Scopus-indexed publications, multiple edited books with Springer/Elsevier, and an h-index of 39 (Google Scholar). Dr. Bhoi is currently associated with Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun. More than a decade of academic & research experience in India, Italy, Australia, and South Korea. Expertise spans computational intelligence, data analytics, healthcare informatics, biomedical signal and image processing, cloud/edge computing, and IoT applications.Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque [M’17, SM’19] is a collaborator Professor and senior researcher at the Graduate Program on Teleinformatics Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and at the Graduate Program on Telecommunication Engineering, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará, Fortaleza/CE, Brazil. He has a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, 2010), an MSc in Teleinformatics Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC, 2007), and he graduated in Mechatronics Engineering at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Ceará (CEFETCE, 2006). He is a specialist, mainly, in Image Data Science, IoT, Machine/Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Robotic. Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu has earned his Ph.D. degree at GITAM (Deemed to be University) and his areas of research include Biomedical Imaging, Image Enhancement, Image Segmentation, Object Recognition, Image Encryption, Optimization Algorithms, Soft computing, and Natural Language Processing. He is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GIT, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam. He is a member of CSI, IAENG, IARA and a regular reviewer for Scopus indexed journals like JCS and IJAIP, Inderscience. He is a guest editor for the special issues and books that are published by reputed publishers like Bentham Science, Springer, and Elsevier. He is a passionate researcher and his articles have been published in national and international journals alongside conferences.Gonçalo Marques holds a PhD in Computer Science Engineering and is member of the Portuguese Engineering Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros). He is currently working as Assistant Professor lecturing courses on programming, multimedia and database systems. His current research interests include Internet of Things, Enhanced Living Environments, machine learning, e-health, telemedicine, medical and healthcare systems, indoor air quality monitoring and assessment, and wireless sensor networks. He has more than 80 publications in international journals and conferences, is a frequent reviewer of journals and international conferences and is also involved in several edited books projects.

• Section 1: Cognitive Technology for processing of Healthcare data 1. Cognitive technology in personalized Medicine/healthcare solutions2. Cognitive technology for blend of personalized healthcare information with scientific data for better clinical risk analysis and healthcare innovation3. Healthcare data encryption, data processing for the data acquired from smart sensors and approachesSection 2: Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Healthcare Industry4. Artificial Neural Networks based approaches for computer-aided disease diagnosis and treatment5. AI and Deep Learning for processing the huge amount of patient centric data that assists in clinical decisions6. Pattern Recognition and Computer vision approaches for handling healthcare data7. Applications of Recurrent Neural Networks, Generative Neural Networks, Ensemble methods, Weakly Trained Approaches towards Data associated with healthcare solutionsSection 3: Evolutionary Algorithms for Healthcare Data Analysis8. Optimization inspired by biological evolution for high dimensional data for forecasting of illness in advance like Cancer, Heart disease, Brain tumors9. Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in processing the Healthcare Data10. Recent advancements in evolutionary algorithms for handling the information related to healthcare industrySection4: Computational Intelligence and soft computing models in processing the data related to healthcare industry11. Natural computing and Unsupervised Learning Methods in healthcare data-centric operations12. Soft Computing and Machine Learning Techniques for healthcare data analytics13. Probabilistic approaches for minimizing the healthcare diagnosis cost through data-centric operations14. Computational Intelligence in Human-machine interface (HMI) e.g. ECG, EEG, EMG, PCG and predictive data analysis