Prof. Salvatore Vitabile is a Full Professor at the Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics at the University of Palermo, Italy. He received a Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering and a Doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Palermo in 1994 and 1999, respectively. In 2007, he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Radiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. Prof. Vitabile was included in the World Top 2% Scientists, 2021 Edition. He has co-authored more than 190 scientific papers in referred journals and conferences. He has chaired, organized, and served as a member of the organizing committee of several international conferences and workshops. He is Associate Editor of the Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences journal (IF 6.6) and an Editorial Board Member of Electronics, MDPI. Dr. Vitabile is currently a member of the Board of Directors of SIREN (Italian Society of Neural Networks). His research interests include medical data processing and analysis, clinical decision support systems, specialized architecture design and prototyping, machine and deep learning applications, and biometric authentication systems.