Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare

Healthcare has recently seen numerous exciting applications of artificial intelligence industrial engineering and operations research. This book designed to be accessible to a diverse audience provides an overview of interdisciplinary research partnerships that leverage AI IE and OR to tackle societal and operational problems in healthcare. The topics are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines ranging from optimizing the location of AEDs for cardiac arrests to data mining for facilitating patient flow through a hospital. These applications highlight how engineering has contributed to medical knowledge health system operations and behavioral health. Chapter authors include medical doctors policy-makers social scientists and engineers. Each chapter begins with a summary of the health care problem and engineering method. In these examples researchers in public health medicine and social science as well as engineers will find a path to start interdisciplinary collaborations in health applications of AI/IE/OR.