Artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare apply computational methods to clinical and biomedical data to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and health system operations. Common applications include medical image analysis using convolutional neural networks to detect tumors, fractures, and other abnormalities in radiology and pathology images; predictive models that estimate patient risk for readmission, sepsis, or disease progression from electronic health records; natural language processing for extracting information from clinical notes; and drug discovery models that predict molecular properties and candidate compounds. Regulatory activity reflects this growth: the FDA had authorized more than 1,300 AI-enabled medical devices by December 2025, with a record 295 cleared that year alone. Deploying AI in clinical settings raises distinct requirements around model interpretability for clinician trust, validation across diverse patient populations, and integration with existing hospital information systems. As an open-access healthcare AI journal, IJACSA publishes research on AI and machine learning models in healthcare, their clinical validation, and applied systems for diagnostic support and patient monitoring.
Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA)
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Medical text classification is critical for applications such as automated triage and disease surveillance. However, real-world data is often corrupted by character-level noise, which substantially degrades the performan…
Lung cancer is among the deadliest cancers worldwide, largely because it is usually caught too late. Building AI tools for earlier, stage-aware diagnosis is hard in practice: patient scans are scattered across hospitals…
This work presents a Model-Augmented Masked Autoencoder (MAE) framework, augmented with domain-adaptive denoising and multi-level feature fusion, for self-supervised representation learning in MRI-based brain tumor analy…
Lung diseases are detected effectively by Chest CT Medical im-ages. Chest CT images are 3D, and they are used for detecting abnormalities in the lungs like pneumonia, tuberculosis, tumors, etc. Chest CT images suffer fro…
Automated epileptic seizure detection from electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings remains a challenging biomedical signal analysis task because of the nonlinear, non-stationary, and high-dimensional characteristics of neu…
Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, motivating the development of accurate and scalable screening-support tools. This study presents an integrated framework for heart-disease status cl…
This research examines the challenges of AI adoption in Saudi Arabia healthcare sector in terms of the framework defined by the Vision 2030 healthcare transformation agenda. We utilized the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AH…
Pneumoconiosis remains a major occupational lung disease among workers exposed to silica, coal, and other in-organic dusts. Although chest X-ray screening is widely used in clinical practice, diagnostic performance is of…
With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), hospitals have become prime targets for cyberattacks. To overcome the limitations of traditional defenses and computationally heavy deep learning mod…
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