Special Issues

Diagnostics publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Advanced Radiological Diagnostics in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhosis
edited by Masahiro Okada
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2118 | Submission Open
Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma; contrast-enhanced ultrasonography; contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance; Gd-EOB-DTPA; MR elastography; dual-energy CT
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Diagnosis and Management of Heart Disease in Aging
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1978 | Submission Open
Keywords: aging; cardiovascular impairment; neurodegenerative disease; metabolic homeostasis; inflammatory response; diagnosis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Point-of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1755 | Submission Open
Keywords: point-of-care device; POCTS; infectious disease; standard operation protocol; pathogens; quick diagnosis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices)
Diagnostic Approach and Innovations in the Different Dentistry Fields submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1587 | Submission Open
Keywords: diagnosis; oral surgery; implantology; orthodontic; endodontic; oral health; orthodontic diseases and innovation; tissue regeneration; reconstructive surgical procedures; tissue engineering; biomedical engineering; stem cells regeneration tissue; oral surgery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Imaging Diagnosis in Abdomen, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1521 | Submission Open
Keywords: ultrasound computed tomography; MR imaging; PET imaging diagnosis; oncologic imaging; therapeutic response assessment; biomarkers; multidisciplinary management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Generative AI and Deep Learning in Medical Diagnostics submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1486 | Submission Open
Keywords: generative AI; medical diagnostics; medical imaging processing and analysis; deep learning; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
New Perspectives of Digestive Endoscopy for Diagnosing Biliopancreatic Diseases submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1344 | Submission Open
Keywords: endoscopic ultrasound; fine-needle biopsy; ERCP; cholangioscopy; pancreatic cancer; pancreatic cysts; autoimmune pancreatitis; acute pancreatitis; chronic pancreatitis; cholangiocarcinoma
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Image-Based Diagnostics and Radiometabolic Therapy of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: 3rd Edition submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1265 | Submission Open
Keywords: differentiated thyroid cancer; neck ultrasound; diagnostic radioiodine scan; 131I-SPECT/CT; FDG-PET/CT; computed tomography; MRI; PET/MRI; tetrafluoroborate; 131I-iodine therapy; dosimetry; theranostics; thyroglobulin; radiomics; personalized medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Pathology and Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1250 | Submission Open
Keywords: pathology; clinical diagnosis; prognosis; thyroid disease; marker
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Imaging of Fetal and Maternal Diseases in Pregnancy: 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1179 | Submission Open
Keywords: fetal; MRI; US; placenta; pregnancy; maternal diseases; imaging; surgery; obstetrics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1118 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Diagnosis and Prognosis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
edited by Liliana Łykowska-Szuber
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1117 | Submission Open
Keywords: inflammatory bowel disease; tuberculosis; acute pancreatitis; chronic pancreatitis; celiac disease; biliary disease; gall bladder diseases; pancreatic cancer; colon cancer; diverticulitis; gastrointestinal infections; esophageal cancer; Barrett esophagus
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Novelty and Challenge in CT Angiography
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1028 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Research Update on Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 985 | Submission Open
Keywords: contrast-enhanced ultrasound; diagnosis; treatment; prediction; microbubbles
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Pulmonary Disease: Diagnosis and Management
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 960 | Submission Open
Keywords: pulmonary disease; lung disease; chronic airway diseases; diagnosis; treatment; prognosis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) as a New Diagnostic Tool in Ocular and Systemic Diseases—Third Edition
edited by , Stanislao Rizzo and Fabrizio Giansanti
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 951 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical coherence tomography angiography; non-invasive retinal imaging; biomarkers; Ocular and Systemic Diseases; diagnostics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Diagnostics)
Diagnosis and Management in Prenatal Medicine—3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 889 | Submission Open
Keywords: prenatal diagnosis; fetus; pregnancy; prenatal screening; invasive prenatal test; amniocentesis; chorionic villous sampling; NIPT
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Laboratory Tests for Kidney Diseases
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 721 | Submission Open
Keywords: kidney diseases; laboratory testing; diagnosis; biomarkers; kidney function; renal injury; diagnostic approaches
(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Laboratory Medicine)
Advanced Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 624 | Submission Open
Keywords: rotator cuff and shoulder instability; knee ligament rupture and osteoarthritis; foot and ankle injury; cervical and back pain; sports medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Disorders
edited by Ioannis A. Ziogas and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 601 | Submission Open
Keywords: liver cancer; pancreatic cancer; hepatobiliary disorders; pancreatic disorders; liver transplantation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
A Rheumatologists’ Pocket Book: Current Evidence in Diagnosis and Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 501 | Submission Open
Keywords: rheumatoid arthritis; serological markers; synovial biopsy; auto-antibodies; inflammatory cytokines; musculoskeletal ultrasound; magnetic resonance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Advances of Autoinflammatory Diseases: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 478 | Submission Open
Keywords: autoinflammatory disease; innate immune-mediated disease; autoimmunity; genetic variation; biomarker; inflammation; next-generation sequencing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) in the Clinical Laboratory submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 386 | Submission Open
Keywords: LC-MS; clinical diagnostics; biomarker discovery; metabolomics; lipidomics; clinical samples; method validation; precision medicine; analytical techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section Clinical Laboratory Medicine)
Signatures Underlying Inflammation in the Pathogenesis and Evolution of Chronic Diseases submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 368 | Submission Open
Keywords: inflammation; biomarkers; inflammaging; inflammasome; diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular diseases; renal pathology; immunomodulatory therapy; periodontitis; oral diseases
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Diagnosis and Management of Open-Angle Glaucoma
edited by and Alina Popa-Cherecheanu
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open
Keywords: open-angle glaucoma; new technology; artificial intelligence in ophthalmology; gene therapy in glaucoma; new device
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Novel Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
edited by Carlo Gabelli and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 270 | Submission Open
Keywords: Alzheimer’ s disease; biomarkers; neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation; miRNA; tau; exosomes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Nanotechnology-Based Detection and Cancer Theranostics
edited by Chao Wang
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open
Keywords: nanotechnology; detection; multifunctional nanoplatform; cancer; nanomedicine; tumor; theranostics; EPR effect
(This special issue belongs to the Section Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices)
Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Techniques in Pancreatic Diseases
edited by Germana De Nucci
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open
Keywords: pancreatic cancer; neuroendocrine tumor; endoscopy ultrasound; radiofrequency ablation; fine needle injection therapy; cryothermal ablation; therapeutic endoscopy; pancreas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Pathology and Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders
edited by James Yip
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 221 | Submission Open
Keywords: stroke; CNS tumors; neurodegenerative diseases; traumatic brain injury
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Advances in Embolization: Diagnosis and Treatment
edited by Venkatesh Krishnasamy
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Diagnosis and Management of Arrhythmias
edited by Laura Vitali-Serdoz, Martina Nesti and Dirk Bastian
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open
Keywords: arrhythmia; electrocardiogram (ECG); cardiac implantable devices; antiarrhythmic drugs; cardiac monitoring; implantable loop recorder; digital health; wearable devices; electrophysiology study; catheter ablation; ventricular tachycardia; atrial fibrillation; supraventricular tachycardia; syncope
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Headache and Visceral Pain: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis
edited by , Giannapia Affaitati, Raffaele Costantini and Maria Adele Giamberardino
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open
Keywords: visceral pain; headache; cardiac pain; migraine; urinary pain; clinical diagnosis; pain comorbidities
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
New Technologies in Oral Medicine: From Molecular Pathology to Clinical Practice submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open
Keywords: oral medicine; molecular pathology; clinical dentistry; periodontics; orthodontics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Kidney Diseases: 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Keywords: chronic kidney disease; diabetic kidney disease; glomerulonephritis; polycystic kidney diseases; renal pathology; biomarker; kidney regeneration; hemodialysis; peritoneal dialysis; diagnosis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Future Perspectives submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; chronic inflammatory diseases; inflammation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
Diagnosis and Management of Perinatal Medicine
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open
Keywords: perinatal medicine; diagnosis; prognosis; antenatal fetal assessment; management of labor  
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Form Diagnosis to Prognosis
edited by Fabio Tirotta
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open
Keywords: Soft Tissue Sarcoma; sarcoma; sarculator retroperitoneal sarcoma; cancer diagnosis; prognosis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management of Rheumatic Disease
edited by Miguel Ángel González-Gay
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: rheumatic disease; systemic vasculitis; rheumatoid arthritis; metabolic syndrome; atherosclerosis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Skin and Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors: Diagnosis and Management—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: cutaneous adnexal tumors; follicular and sebaceous tumors; sweat gland tumors
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Vascular Diagnostic Imaging
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open
Keywords: flow-mediated dilation (FMD); optical coherence tomography (OCT); intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
New Diagnostic Technologies in Urological Care
edited by Alberto Piana, and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open
Keywords: urological care; prostate cancer; diagnostics technologies; surgical challenges; laparoscopic urology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Technological Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for Diagnosis submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open
Keywords: oral and maxillofacial surgery; oral cancers; maxillofacial trauma; surgical and informatics technology; intraoperative navigation; robotic surgery; oral and maxillofacial surgery reconstruction; nanotechnologies; DNA sequencing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
AI/Machine Learning in Abdominal and Pelvic Diagnostics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); diagnostic imaging; abdominal diagnostics; pelvic diagnostics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
Optimization of Clinical Imaging: From Diagnosis to Prognosis submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: clinical imaging; medical image analysis; imaging management; computed tomography (CT); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Lung Images of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
edited by Massimo Cressoni
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: ARDS stratification; CT; imaging of overinflation; imaging of lung inflammation; lung perfusion; EIT; ultrasound; animal models
(This special issue belongs to the Section Medical Imaging and Theranostics)
Pushing the Boundaries: Advancing Bladder Cancer Diagnosis through the Integration of Detection and Precision Medicine
edited by and Merce Jorda
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open
Keywords: bladder cancer; blood analysis; biomarkers; benetic biomarkers; CT; MRI; PET; and SPECT; personalized medicine; prognostic diagnostics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Lung Involvement in Connective Tissue Disease: Diagnosis and Management
edited by Laura Groșeanu
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open
Keywords: interstitial lung disease; connective tissue disease; complication; etiology; genetic risks; epigenetic changes; dysregulated immunity; CT patterns; mechanisms; screening; assessing; biomarkers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Diagnosis and Management of Primary Liver Cancers submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open
Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma; cholangiocarcinoma; radiofrequency ablation; ecoendoscopy; chemotherapy; immunotherapy; surgery
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain, Second Edition submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: chronic pain; pain diagnostics; pain classification; pain management; pain approach; biopsychosocial
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
The Rise of Diagnostics in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds: 3rd Edition
edited by Thomas E. Serena
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open
Keywords: chronic wound; imaging  ; biomarker; point-of-care techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
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