Explainable Machine Intelligence in Healthcare

Riccardo Ortale is currently a researcher at ICAR-CNR. He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Engineering and graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science Engineering, both from the University of Calabria. He holds a Master's degree in Internet Software Design from Cefriel (Politecnico di Milano) and Siemens. His research interests span explainable/interpretable machine intelligence, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent information systems, recommender systems, text analysis, and social network/media analysis. He has published various scientific papers in international journals, conference proceedings, and volumes from renowned publishers. He has served as a program committee member for premier international conferences, including IEEE ICDM, IJCAI, ACM CIKM, SIAM SDM, and PAKDD. He has served as an associate/guest editor for numerous esteemed international journals. His service as a reviewer has been acknowledged on the corresponding WoS/ORCID profiles by several prestigious international journals. He has organized and co-chaired international workshops at premier international conferences.

Gianni Costa is currently a researcher at the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networks (ICAR-CNR) of the National Research Council of Italy. He graduated summa cum laude in computer science engineering in 2003 and received Ph.D. in systems and computer engineering in 2007 from the University of Calabria, Italy. His research interests include data mining and knowledge discovery, recommender systems, social network analysis, explainable AI, and topic modeling. He published several scientific papers in international conferences and journals. He serves as a program committee member for various international conferences, as an associate editor for different international journal and as Guest Editor for diverse Special Issues among which: "Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications" - Neural Computing and Applications, "Recent Applications of Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics" - Applied Sciences, "Automatic Disinformation Detection on Social Media Platforms" - Data, "Role-Aware Analysis of Complex Networks" - Entropy.

Agostino Forestiero is Senior Researcher at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking of Italian National Research Council (CNR). He received the National Scientific Habilitation as full professor of Information Processing Systems (09/H1). He is adjunct professor of Medical Informatics at University of Calabria. He published more than 150 papers on international conferences and journals. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, eHealth, Internet of Things and Cybersecurity. He co-founded the company eco4cloud srl, spin-off of the University of Calabria and CNR, and he filed six patents. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Access, Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Frontiers in Big Data (Frontiers), and Editorial Board Member of Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Communication (Elsevier), Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, and Journal of Healthcare Engineering (Hindawi). He edited the book "Integrating Artificial Intelligence and IoT for Advanced Health Informatics", Springer Series.