Guest editorial: special issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medicine”

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Guo Y, Ashour AS, Sun B. A novel glomerular basement membrane segmentation using neutrsophic set and shearlet transform on microscopic images. Health Inf Sci Syst. 2017;5:15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13755-017-0036-7 .

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Shahin AI, Guo Y, Amin KM, Sharawi AA. A novel white blood cells segmentation algorithm based on adaptive neutrosophic similarity score. Health Inf Sci Syst. 2017;6(1):1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13755-017-0038-5 .

Barakat MS, Field M, Ghose A, Stirling D, Holloway L, Vinod S, Dekker A, Thwaites D. The effect of imputing missing clinical attribute values on training lung cancer survival prediction model performance. Health Inf Sci Syst. 2017;5(1):16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13755-017-0039-4 .