The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Revolutionizing Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: An Integrated Approach for Gleason Grade Classification and Explainability
Anil Gavade, Rajendra Nerli, Shridhar Ghagane, Les Sztandera

Heavy Metals in Human Health and Pregnancy: How Data Analysis, Mining, and Modeling Present a Solution
Emma Frennborn, Khalil Rust, Les Sztandera

Detecting Suicide Risk and Exploring Contributing Factors: Classification and Topic Modeling of Social Media Data
Evan Dan, Jianfeng Zhu, Ruoming Jin

Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Log File-Based PSQA for IMRT and VMAT
Kellin De Jesus, Leon Dunn, David Thomas, Les Sztandera

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Enhanced Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, and Gradient Boosting
Fazila Patel, Adedayo Olowolayemo, Amina Souag

Personalized Automated Blood Glucose Forecasting for Type-1 Diabetes Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Avijay Sen, Dr. Sindhu Ghanta, Pallavi Bajpai

BARRIER: Beta-Secretase 1 Reduction for Amyloid Plaque Regulation through Inhibition Exploration and Research
Neel Banga