In this edition on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Healthcare”, a total of 21 chapters from researchers and practitioners around the world are presented. Divided into two volumes, the first covers selected AL/ML-based image and data analytic solutions to address a variety of medical and healthcare problems, while the second presents several current methodologies and future trends in advancement of AL/ML for healthcare. There are 11 chapters in this first volume. A general overview of AI/ML is given in the first chapter. Other selected chapters describe various AL/ML models, e.g. support vector...