Guest Editorial Special Issue on Data-driven Cognitive Computing for Smart Healthcare Systems

With the rising costs of drugs, medical devices, and diagnostic development, the topic of data-driven cognitive computing is currently an emerging research area in smart healthcare construction. With the support of machine learning and artificial intelligence empowered cognitive computing, the significant insights and knowledge hidden behind medical data can be capitalized for process optimization, anomaly detection, energy management, and so on. The special issue is an effort to provide a platform for researchers to explore healthcare issues supported by data-driven cognitive computing-related technologies from both theoretical and practical perspectives.