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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are pleased to announce the special issue on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Health Systems Engineering in the journal of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems
Engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By exploring the intersections of AI, data analytics, and systems engineering, this special issue aims to publish high-quality papers that have a strong methodological focus and innovation to
address pressing issues in healthcare. Detailed information can be found in the attached CFP file.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In brief, we invite contributions exploring AI across diverse healthcare domains, aiming to bridge the gap between AI and clinical practice. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from researchers,
scientists, clinicians, and engineers in healthcare, industrial and systems engineering, health informatics, and related fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We welcome submissions covering a wide range of topics focusing on the following areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Overcoming Systems Challenges in Health AI:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Methods and theories to address the critical systems-level challenges in the adoption and implementation of Health AI. Topics may include how health AI tools can be designed to support and improve clinical workflows without burdening healthcare providers;
how AI solutions effectively interact with existing infrastructure while maintaining data integrity and usability; who should bear the financial responsibility for new smart health devices and AI tools, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Health Informatics and Smart Health Solutions:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Contributions that explore innovative uses of health informatics to support smart health initiatives. Topics may include real-time patient monitoring, analysis related to healthcare disparities, informatics solutions that enhance the quality and accessibility
of care, health data acquisition, management, and interoperability applications to enable seamless, data-driven healthcare delivery, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Data Challenges in Healthcare Systems:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Approaches to handling data imbalance, high-dimensional data processing, sparse data, weakly labeled data, etc. in healthcare systems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Clinical Decision Support Systems:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
AI-driven tools for enhancing clinical decision-making, predictive models for patient outcomes, personalized treatment planning using data analytics, AI-driven natural language processing (NLP) in electronic health records (EHRs), etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">AI Fairness in Healthcare Systems:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Development of decision support systems with an emphasis on AI fairness and explainable AI, addressing transparency, interpretability, and trustworthiness in healthcare systems AI.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Emerging AI Technologies in Public Health Systems:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Applications of AI in epidemiology, health monitoring, and public health operations, including IoT, blockchain, and other emerging technologies to enhance public health infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Education and Workforce Training in AI-Enhanced Healthcare Systems:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Use of digital twins, virtual/augmented reality, and AI-driven simulations in training healthcare professionals and preparing the future workforce for AI-integrated healthcare systems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Medical Imaging and Diagnostics:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
Machine learning and deep learning applications in medical imaging to support disease prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Innovation AI Applications in Healthcare Systems</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">:
AI in mobile health (mHealth), drug discovery and precision medicine, large language models (LLMs) in healthcare systems, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submissions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All papers should be submitted through the journal's ScholarOne online submission website
<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fjournals%2Fuhse21&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Ca0bf2bcd0b4a4848b91208dd41842385%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638738758183874798%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gZmawSDmvtU3aGseHKuxeiZ14OK0Yo4%2F13pv%2FJETdCY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/uhse21" shash="z5fq7bqGctWSOcKNELnjnGbyXPjUmVJymH5n9bOxDv8vSraZOcZRLyENr8KnOjJJCKO5MJfvf6M+SokqmR4hR6cThj6V34SvL2EVTrhaUzoQxrnMK2DX8CnrRfQ9SJuOvcykAfAtztQkJYD1AM5gcOWrdwyq9FCTOvmvFjQlVzY=">https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/uhse21</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important Dates:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deadline for Manuscript Submission: August 1, 2025.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Completion of 1st Round Review: October 1, 2025.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Completion of 2nd Round Review: December 1, 2025.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Final Decision: February 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Expected Publication: May 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Guest Editors:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Haifeng Wang, Mississippi State University, USA (<a href="mailto:wang@ise.msstate.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">wang@ise.msstate.edu</span></a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville, USA (faisal.aqlan@louisville.edu)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Shengfan Zhang, University of Arkansas, USA (shengfan@uark.edu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Muhammad Noor E Alam, Northeastern University, USA
<a href="mailto:md.alam@northeastern.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">(</span></a>mnalam@neu.edu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Haifeng Wang, Ph.D.</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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