This special section showcases optimization and computational approaches applied to medical and biological challenges. It aims to bring together mathematical programming researchers and healthcare professionals to address complex decision problems in medicine, from medical devices to clinical data analysis.
The special section welcomes theoretical and methodological research on optimization models and algorithms, including continuous, integer, combinatorial, and stochastic methods, applied to healthcare and life sciences. Topics of interest span disease modeling, diagnosis, treatment planning, medical imaging, epidemiology, and molecular biology.