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The integration of cutting-edge technologies has grown increasingly important in the quickly changing environment of the healthcare industry, as it has become a crucial factor in improving efficiency, security, and patient outcomes. This book looks into the revolutionary junction of blockchain technology and healthcare, providing a full study of the promises, problems, and transformative potential that this synergy contains. This book guides readers through the complexities of implementing blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the role that blockchain technology plays in addressing issues regarding data security, maintaining privacy, and overcoming problems that are specific to the healthcare sector. By guiding readers through real-world applications, the authors, who are seasoned experts in both blockchain technology and healthcare, demonstrate how decentralized ledgers have the potential to revolutionize the management of medical records, streamline administrative procedures, and strengthen the protection of sensitive patient data.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is emerging from today’s world to futuristic vision in reshaping healthcare. From wearable devices to AI enabled implantable devices, the IoMT connects patients, providers, and policymakers promising unprecedented accuracy, efficiency, and personalization. Though this also brings critical challenges like cybersecurity threats, legal uncertainties, ethical dilemmas, and the urgent demand for transparency and trust. This book brings together leading voices from computer science, law, and ethics to present a comprehensive guide to smart IoMT decision systems where you will find: knowledge-based frameworks that blend AI, semantics, and predictive analytics; legal and regulatory analyses from India, the EU, and the United States; discussions on accountability, transparency, and ethical responsibility; practical insights into risks, threats, and proactive security architectures and a research roadmap for next-generation IoMT intelligence, including digital twins, federated learning, and hybrid AI models. Whether you are a healthcare professional, AI researcher, policymaker, or student, this book offers critical understanding and forward-looking vision needed to navigate the evolving world of IoMT with confidence and care.

This book demonstrates how Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) are having a transformational effect on industry and includes information on technology that is changing the future and revolutionizing different sectors. AR, VR, and MR are utilized in healthcare, including surgery, rehabilitation and personalized treatments. The primary goal of this book is to improve not only the immersive experience of patients, but to improve medical results and medicine overall. It also proposes critical insights into the difficulties and completion of the use of virtual reality in the medical territory, including ethical, privacy, and regulation themes. The first part of the book reveals the full potential of virtual reality and links into the extensive description of the basic principles by which they work in the healthcare sector. The sections on advances in medical education through immersive simulations, being a major driver to both remote surgical procedures and telemedicine consultations, are detailed discussions of the potential impacts of these technologies in healthcare. The readers are facilitated on an educative path which is inclusive of, and exclusive in, touchstones of AR, VR, and MR. Through these lenses, users will have the opportunity to enrich techniques in formal education and interact with digital activities while not limited by physical reality. Spanning eighteen chapters, the book is aimed at medical staff as well as information technology professionals and policymakers as it contains opinions from medical practitioners, engineers, and other people developing technologies. Thanks to its interdisciplinary approach and futuristic views, the book is an excellent source of information for people that would like to get a comprehension of the transformative power of AR, VR, and MR technologies in the future.

This book presents cutting-edge, effective methods of artificial intelligence and machine learning for data modeling, with applications to the important and challenging area of air pollution. Both classical stochastic and tree-based ensemble learning approaches and their hybrid combinations are considered, including: ARIMA, Temporal Causal Modeling, wavelet transforms, Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), Random Forests, and Adaptively Resampling and Combining (Arcing). The selected methods require minimal computer resources (execution time and memory) and are oriented for inclusion in distributed environments and mobile devices. In addition, the book emphasizes the statistically correct construction and investigation of the problems under consideration and detailed analysis of model errors, rather than presenting statistical theory or ready-made codes from software packages. The indicated approaches have been demonstrated to forecast time series of air pollutants such as particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and others, depending on a small number of rapidly changing meteorological and atmospheric factors. The methods and frameworks are applied to empirical data from several cities in Bulgaria. The results of the individual applications are presented in five chapters as case studies. These studies demonstrate in detail the steps of the developed approaches for modeling and forecasting of real measured data related to urban air pollution. The book has the potential to serve not only as a systematic introduction to the selected ensemble learning methods for time series, but also as a tool and guide for building adequate and statistically valid forecasting models.