Call for Papers – Special Issue on AI, IoMT and Blockchain for Precision Healthcare
LEAD GUEST EDITOR
Prof. Engr. Dr. S M Nazmuz Sakib
Researcher and Inventor, Dhaka, Bangladesh
ORCID; Scopus; Google Scholar;
Email: sakib.bee5@dsce.edu.bd / sakibpedia@gmail.com
SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION
The Journal of Applied Engineering Science and Technology (JAEST) is pleased to invite submissions to the Special Issue:
Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and Blockchain Technology for Next-Generation Precision Healthcare and Intelligent Drug Delivery Systems
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and Blockchain Technology is creating new opportunities to transform healthcare from conventional reactive models toward intelligent, connected, secure, and personalized systems.
Artificial Intelligence provides powerful capabilities for prediction, diagnosis, biomarker discovery, treatment planning, and clinical decision support. The Internet of Medical Things enables continuous physiological monitoring through wearable, implantable, and connected medical devices, while Blockchain Technology provides secure, transparent, traceable, and decentralized mechanisms for managing sensitive healthcare information.
This Special Issue aims to bring these technologies together within a unified interdisciplinary framework for next-generation precision healthcare and intelligent drug delivery systems. Particular attention will be given to research demonstrating meaningful scientific, engineering, clinical, technological, or policy impact rather than isolated proof-of-concept applications.
We invite researchers, engineers, healthcare professionals, biomedical scientists, computer scientists, pharmaceutical researchers, cybersecurity specialists, mathematicians, legal scholars, and policymakers to submit original and high-quality contributions.
Interdisciplinary studies integrating two or more of the principal technological areas covered by this Special Issue are particularly encouraged.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for healthcare
• AI-driven medical diagnostics and clinical decision support
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare
• AI-driven biomarker discovery
• Precision oncology and personalized medicine
• Radiomics and multi-omics data integration
• Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) architectures
• Wearable and implantable medical sensors
• Remote patient monitoring
• Edge AI and real-time physiological signal processing
• Digital twins for healthcare
• Intelligent and closed-loop drug delivery systems
• Transdermal drug delivery systems
• Microneedle and iontophoretic drug delivery platforms
• AI-driven personalized dosage optimization
• Computational pharmacokinetic modelling
• Blockchain-secured electronic health records
• Smart contracts for healthcare
• Health-data provenance, consent, and interoperability
• Federated learning and privacy-preserving healthcare AI
• Cybersecurity of connected medical devices
• Intrusion detection for Medical IoT networks
• Lightweight cryptography for wearable and implantable devices
• Adversarial robustness of clinical AI systems
• Mathematical modelling of disease dynamics
• Computational oncology
• Genomic and proteomic data analysis
• Quantum-inspired optimization for drug discovery
• Medical-device safety and biocompatibility
• Ethical, legal, and regulatory aspects of AI-enabled healthcare
TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
The Special Issue welcomes:
• Original Research Articles
• Review Articles
• Short Communications
All submissions must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the author guidelines of the Journal of Applied Engineering Science and Technology (JAEST).
All manuscripts submitted to this Special Issue will undergo the journal's standard editorial screening and peer-review process. Acceptance for publication will be based on scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to the scope of the Special Issue, and the recommendations of independent reviewers.
Authors must submit their manuscripts through the JAEST Online Submission System (OJS).
During the submission process, authors must select:
Section: Special Issue – AI, IoMT & Blockchain for Precision Healthcare
Special Issue Code: SI-AI-2027
Authors must also clearly indicate SI-AI-2027 in their cover letter.
The cover letter should include the following statement:
“This manuscript is submitted for consideration in the Special Issue ‘Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and Blockchain Technology for Next-Generation Precision Healthcare and Intelligent Drug Delivery Systems’ (SI-AI-2027).”
SUBMIT YOUR MANUSCRIPT
Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts through the JAEST Online Submission System (OJS).
During submission, please select:
Section: Special Issue – AI, IoMT & Blockchain for Precision Healthcare
Special Issue Code: SI-AI-2027
Authors must also indicate the Special Issue code SI-AI-2027 in their cover letter.
GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
Before submitting a manuscript, authors are strongly encouraged to carefully read the JAEST Guide for Authors, including manuscript preparation, formatting, ethical requirements, references, figures and tables, and submission requirements.
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Papers: 10 August 2026
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
First Round of Peer Review: January - March 2027
Revised Manuscript Deadline: 15 April 2027
Final Editorial Decisions: 10 May 2027
Expected Publication: Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2027
Note: Depending on the number of high-quality manuscripts received and the progress of the peer-review and editorial processes, the Special Issue may be published earlier in Volume 7, Issue 1 (March 2027).
KEYWORDS
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; Internet of Medical Things (IoMT); Blockchain Health Data; Federated Learning; Precision Oncology; Wearable Biosensors; Intelligent Drug Delivery; Transdermal Drug Delivery; Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI); Smart Contracts; Digital Twin Medicine; Cancer Biomarkers; Machine Learning Diagnostics; Medical Device Cybersecurity; Mathematical Biomedical Modelling; Personalized Medicine; Remote Patient Monitoring; IoT Cybersecurity.
SUBMIT YOUR MANUSCRIPT
Journal of Applied Engineering Science and Technology (JAEST)
Faculty of Sciences and Technology
University of Biskra, Algeria
Special Issue Code: SI-AI-2027
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
