The new book presents a valuable selection of new and state-of-the-art technological advancements in various application areas using the concepts of AI and machine learning, highlighting the use of predictive analytics of data from various application domains to find timely solutions to various problems. The book focuses on the research developments, limitations, and management of real-time problems using computational intelligence by identifying applicable approaches in order to enhance, automate, and develop effective solutions. The volume introduces empirical research, prospects of theoretical research, and applications in data science and artificial intelligence.

The various novel approaches include applications in healthcare, natural language processing, and smart cities. As such, the book is divided into sections that address:

• Computational Intelligence in Image Processing
• Computational Intelligence in Healthcare
• Techniques for Natural Language Processing
• Computational Intelligence in Smart Cities

The very diverse range of topics include AI and machine learning applications for

• In security: For using digital image processing for image fusion (face recognition, feature extraction, object detection as well tracking, moving object identification), for person re-identification for security purposes.
• In healthcare and medicine: For diagnosis and prediction of breast cancer, other cancers, diabetes, heart disease; for predicting susceptibility to COVID-19; for prediction of mood and anxiety disorders.
• In agriculture: For prediction of crop profit; for prediction of cropping patterns and recommendation for crop cultivation.
• In traffic science/smart cities: For understanding road scene images, for detection of traffic signs, for devising a fog-based intelligent traffic phase timing regulation system
• In language/speech/text: For automatic text summarization, for document indexing for unstructured data, for speech/accent recognition, for sound separation, for American Sign Language interpretation for nonsigners, for emotional recognition and analysis through speech, body postures with facial expressions, and other body movements (to improve the performance of virtual personal assistants / emotion recognition using speech, body postures with facial expressions and other body movements.

This volume offers valuable information for researchers working in interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary areas of healthcare, image analysis, natural language processing, and smart cities. This includes academicians, people in industry, and students with engineering background with research interest in these areas.

These peer-review chapters were selected from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Analytics and Information Systems (CIAIS- 2021), held in April 2021 at Manav Rachna University, India.
About the Author:

Hardeo Kumar Thakur, PhD, is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Manav Rachna University (MRU), Faridabad, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in leading institutions of India. He earned his PhD (Computer Engineering) from the University of Delhi in 2017 in the field of data mining. His current research interests are data mining, dynamic graph mining, machine learning and big data analytics. He is an active referee for many international journals and conferences.

Manpreet Kaur, PhD, is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Manav Rachna University, India. She has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience. She is currently working in the domains of machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. She is a Senior Member, IEEE (USA).

Parneeta Dhaliwal, PhD, has over 16 years of experience in teaching and research. Presently, she is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Manav Rachna University, India. She is also working as Head of the Research Cluster of Computing (RCC) to facilitate students in their research and innovative projects.

Rajeev Kumar Arya, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Patna, India. His current research interests are in wireless communication, soft computing techniques, cognitive radio, signal processing, communication systems, and circuits design.

Joan Lu, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Research Group Leader of Information and System Engineering (ISE) in the Centre of High Intelligent Computing (CHIC) at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, having previously been team leader in the IT Department of the publishing company Charlesworth Group.