Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Basset is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, within the Faculty of Computers and Informatics, at Zagazig University, Egypt. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc and Ph.D in operations research at the Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University. Dr. Abdel-Basset's research interests are in Optimization, Operations Research, Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, Applied Statistics, Decision Support Systems, Robust Optimization, Engineering Optimization, Multiobjective Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Artificial Neural Networks. He is currently working on the application of multi-objective and robust meta-heuristic optimization techniques. Dr. Abdel-Basset is an Editor or Reviewer for several international journals and conferences, and has published more than 100 articles in international journals and conference proceedings.Dr. Reda Mohamed is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Computers and Informatics at Zagazig University, Egypt. His research interests include Optimization, Deep Learning algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Artificial Neural Networks. He has published more than 70 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He is currently working on the application of multi-objective and robust meta-heuristic optimization techniques.Dr. Mohamed Elhoseny is an Associate Professor at the University of Sharjah, UAE. Dr. Elhoseny is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and IEEE Senior Member. His research interests include Smart Cities, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Intelligent Systems. Dr. Elhoseny is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the IJSSTA journal published by IGI Global, as well as Associate Editor at several Q1 journals such as IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, IEEE Future Directions, Remote Sensing, International Journal of E-services and Mobile Applications and Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. He has also served as the co-chair, publication chair, program chair, and a track chair for several international conferences published by recognized publishers. Dr. Elhoseny is Editor-in-Chief of two book series, on Sensor Communication for Urban Intelligence and Distributed Sensing and Intelligent Systems.

1. Metaheuristic algorithms and medical applications2. Wavelet-based image denoising using improved artificial jellyfish search optimizer3. Artificial gorilla troops optimizer for human activity recognition in IoT-based medical applications4. Improved gradient-based optimizer for medical image enhancement5. Metaheuristic-based multilevel thresholding segmentation technique for brain magnetic resonance images6. Metaheuristic algorithm's role for machine learning techniques in medical applications7. Metaheuristic algorithms collaborated with various machine learning models for feature selection in medical data: Comparison and analysis8. Machine learning and improved multiobjective binary generalized normal distribution optimization in feature selection for cancer classification9. Metaheuristics for assisting the deep neural network in classifying the chest X-ray images infected with COVID-1910. Metaheuristic algorithms for multimodal image fusion of magnetic resonance and computed tomography brain tumor images: a comparative study11. Metaheuristic algorithms for medical image registration: a comparative study12. Challenges, opportunities, and future prospects