Nowadays, in the international scientific community of machine learning, there exists an
enormous discussion about the use of black-box models or explainable models; especially …

Hypertension and diabetes have become a global health and economic issue, being among
the major chronic conditions worldwide, particularly in developed countries. To face this …

Noisy labeled data represent a rich source of information that often are easily accessible
and cheap to obtain, but label noise might also have many negative consequences if not …

Background Chronic diseases are becoming more widespread each year in developed
countries, mainly due to increasing life expectancy. Among them, diabetes mellitus (DM) and …

The COVID-19 outbreak, originated in China in late December 2019, resulted in around 15
million deaths by 2021 due to its rapid transmission and challenging early diagnosis. Since …

Hypertension and diabetes are chronic conditions that have a considerable prevalence in
the elderly. It is estimated that both hypertensive patients and people with diagnosed …

Chronic diseases, and in particular the co-occurrence of more than one chronic disease in
an patient, which is known as multimorbidity, represent an increasing problem in modern …

In healthcare, vast amounts of data are stored digitally in the electronic health records
(EHRs). EHRs represent a largely untapped source of clinically relevant information, which …