Intelligent Systems and Methods to Combat Covid-19

This book discusses intelligent systems and methods to prevent further spread of COVID-19, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, signal processing, pattern recognition, and robotics. It not only explores detection/screening of COVID-19 positive cases using one type of data, such as radiological imaging data, but also examines how data analytics-based tools can help predict/project future pandemics. In addition, it highlights various challenges and opportunities, like social distancing, and addresses issues such as data collection, privacy, and security, which affect the robustness of AI-driven tools. Also investigating data-analytics-based tools for projections using time series data, pattern analysis tools for unusual pattern discovery (anomaly detection) in image data, as well as AI-enabled robotics and its possible uses, the book will appeal to a broad readership, including academics, researchers and industry professionals.

Amit Joshi – Dr. Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an Entrepreneur & Researcher who has completed his Masters and research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging. Dr. Joshi has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. Dr. Joshi is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT, Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA, and many other professional societies. Currently, Dr. Joshi is the International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria). He has presented and published more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Joshi has also edited more than 40 books which are published by Springer, ACM, and other reputed publishers. Dr. Joshi has also organized more than 50 national and international conferences and programs in association with ACM, Springer, and IEEE to name afew across different including India, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Thailand, Egypt, and many more.

Dr. KC Santosh (IEEE Senior Member) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the Department of Computer Science at the University of South Dakota (USD). Before joining USD, Dr. Santosh worked as a Research Fellow at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the LORIA Research Centre, Universite de Lorraine, in direct collaboration with ITESOFT, France. He also served as a Research Scientist at the INRIA Nancy Grand Est Research Centre, France, where he has received his Ph.D. diploma in Computer Science. Dr. Santosh has published more than 55 peer-reviewed research articles, 85 conference proceedings, and 7 book chapters. He has authored 4 books, and edited 3 books, 11 journal issues, and 4 conference proceedings. He is currently Editor-In-Chief of IJSIP and anAssociate Editor for several journals, such as International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics and IEEE Access. He has also chaired more than 10 international conference events. His research projects have been funded by multiple agencies, including the SDCRGP, Department of Education (DOE), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Santosh is the proud recipient of the Presidents Research Excellence Award (USD, 2019) and an award form the Department of Health & Human Services (2014).