Preface
The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application in Health (WAIAH 2017) was held in Bari (Italy)
on November 14, 2017, within the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AI*IA 2017).
   Artificial Intelligence is changing the healthcare industry from many perspectives; a major topic of AI in
medicine is the one related to Clinical Decision Support (CDS) to assist clinicians at the point of care. CDS
can support all aspects of clinical tasks, but to be effective, it must be properly integrated within the clinical
workflow as well as with health records. A typical application is a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) to assist
doctors in the interpretation of medical signals and images. CAD involves not only AI but also Computer
Vision, Signal Processing and specific medical aspects. CADs find application in: breast cancer, lung cancer,
colon cancer, coronary artery disease, Alzheimer’s disease and many others. eHealth is relevant to the AI
community, in fact many open research aspects are still open in the field: Big Data (data collection, processing,
etc.), interoperability of systems, IoT and health, human/patient interaction with advanced devices, medical
signal and image processing, medical expert systems, etc. Most part of submission received fall within the
mentioned topics covering theoretical and practical aspects as well as technologies. Each submission
underwent a peer-review process, seven papers were accepted for oral presentation. We would like to thank
the Program Committee and the authors who responded to the call for papers.
                                                                                                           Chairs
                                                                                               Donato Impedovo
                                                                                                  Giuseppe Pirlo

Workshop Chairs

Donato Impedovo (University of Bari)
Giuseppe Pirlo (University of Bari)

Program Committee

MariaTeresa Angelillo (IRCCS Maugeri, Italy)
Donato Barbuzzi (Aizoon, Italy)
Micheal Blumenstein (Griffith University, Australia)
Mohamed Cheriet (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Matteo D’Aloia (Masvis, Italy)
Claudio De Stefano (Univ. Cassino, Italy)
Moises Diaz (Universidad del Atlantico Medio, Spain)
Jihad El-Sana (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Miguel A. Ferrer (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
Francesco Fontanella (Univ. Cassino, Italy)
Irman Malik (DFKI, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Angelo Marcelli (Univ. Salerno, Italy)
Luiz E. S. Oliveira (Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil)
Umapada Pal (ISI, Kolkata, India)
Ioannis Pratikakis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Maria Rizzi (Politechnic of Bari, Italy)
Kurban Ubul (Xinjiang University, China)
Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu University, Japan)
Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari, Italy)