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Translational Bioinformatics in Healthcare and Medicine

  • 1st Edition - May 13, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Khalid Raza, Nilanjan Dey
  • Language: English

Translational Bioinformatics in Healthcare and Medicine offers an overview of main principles of bioinformatics, biological databases, clinical informatics, health informatics, vi… Read more

Description

Translational Bioinformatics in Healthcare and Medicine offers an overview of main principles of bioinformatics, biological databases, clinical informatics, health informatics, viroinformatics and real-case applications of translational bioinformatics in healthcare. Written by experts from both technology and clinical sides, the content brings together essential knowledge to make the best of recent advancements of the field.

The book discusses topics such as next generation sequence analysis, genomics in clinical care, IoT applications, blockchain technology, patient centered interoperability of EHR, health data mining, and translational bioinformatics methods for drug discovery and drug repurposing. In addition, it discusses the role of bioinformatics in cancer research and viroinformatics approaches to counter viral diseases through informatics.

This is a valuable resource for bioinformaticians, clinicians, healthcare professionals, graduate students and several members of biomedical field who are interested in learning more about how bioinformatics can impact in their research and practice.

Key features

  • Covers recent advancements in translational bioinformatics and its healthcare applications
  • Discusses integrative and multidisciplinary approaches to U-healthcare systems development and management
  • Bridges the gap among various knowledge domains in the field, integrating both technological and clinical knowledge into practical content

Readership

Graduate students and researchers on bioinformatics, medical informatics and biostatistics. Biomedical researchers in general, clinicians and healthcare professionals

Table of contents

1. Translational bioinformatics in healthcare: past, present, and future2. The fundamentals and potential of translational medicine in healthcare3. Next-generation sequencing: an expedition from workstation to clinical applications4. Genomics in clinical care through precision medicine and personalized treatments5. A review of a hybrid IoT-NG-PON system for translational bioinformatics in healthcare 6. IoT applications in translational bioinformatics7. Blockchain technology in healthcare: making digital healthcare reliable, more accurate, and revolutionary8. Integrity promised: leveraging blockchain technology for medical image sharing9. From molecules to patients: the clinical applications of biologic databases and electronic health records10. Translational bioinformatics methods for drug discovery and drug repurposing11. Role of Bioinformatics in cancer research and drug development12. Application, functionality, and security issues of data mining techniques in healthcare informatics13. Viroinformatics: a modern approach to counter viral diseases through computational informatics14. Viroinformatics for viral diseases: tools and databases15. Machine learning in translational bioinformatics16. An enhanced feature selection and cancer classification for microarray data using relaxed Lasso and support vector machine17. Fuzzy rule-driven data mining framework for knowledge acquisition for expert system18. High accuracy in algorithm bioinformatics efficient in healthcare in detection and counting of leukocytes, blasts, and erythrocytes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 14, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Khalid Raza

Dr. Khalid Raza is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, and an Adjunct Professor at UCSI University, Malaysia. He has over 14 years of teaching and research experience and previously served as an ICCR Chair Visiting Professor at Ain Shams University, Egypt. Dr. Raza has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers and authored/edited over 15 books with Springer, Elsevier, and CRC Press. He serves as Academic Editor of PLoS ONE, BMC Artificial Intelligence, and Guest Editor of npj Precision Oncology, JoVE, and several other journals. Recipient of Clarivate’s (Web of Science) India Excellence Research Citation Award 2025, Dr. Raza is consistently featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list (2022–2025). His research focuses on AI, bioinformatics, and health informatics

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, India

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Nilanjan Dey

Nilanjan Dey (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech., M.Tech. in information technology from West Bengal Board of Technical University and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2005, 2011, and 2015, respectively. Currently, he is Associate Professor with the Techno International New Town, Kolkata and a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He has authored over 300 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and 40 authored books. His research interests include medical imaging and machine learning. Moreover, he actively participates in program and organizing committees for prestigious international conferences, including World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD) etc.

He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing and Data-Intensive Research from Springer Nature and Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare from Elsevier etc. Furthermore, he was an Editorial Board Member Complex & Intelligence Systems, Springer, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier and he is an International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences etc. He is a Fellow of IETE and member of IE, ISOC etc.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India; Visiting Fellow , University of Reading, UK

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