Machine Learning in Sports Medicine

Dear colleagues,

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is organizing a Special Issue to present recent research achievements in the field of sports medicine using machine learning techniques.

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that is designed to classify and predict data without explicit instructions by processing large datasets using computational algorithms. In the field of sports medicine, ML algorithms have demonstrated great potential in predicting outcomes of sports injuries, analysing a correlation between modifiable factors and outcomes and evaluating the future injury risks. The literature has shown that the performance of ML algorithms could exceed that of conventional statistical techniques and presented the potential to improve data-driven insights and automate medical tasks. There are a lot of aspects that should be considered to apply ML algorithms in sports medicine, such as the accuracy of computational algorithms, quality of the training datasets, preparation of large datasets, and metrics for performance evaluation. For this Special Issue, we seek papers that present recent research achievements using ML algorithms in sports medicine and discuss various aspects of ML algorithms.

This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to machine learning in sports medicine. The topics related to computational algorithms, performance comparison of various ML algorithms, collection of large datasets, and implementation of ML algorithms in sports medicine applications are welcome for submission. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possible topics for papers submitted to this Special Issue.

Dr. Hoeryong Jung
Dr. Hun-Young Park
Guest Editors

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• machine learning
• deep learning
• artificial intelligence
• support vector machine
• multiple linear regression
• random forest
• neural network
• sports medicine