{"title":"Metaverse technology tree: a holistic view.","authors":"Sepehr Ghazinoory, Fatemeh Parvin, Fatemeh Saghafi, Masoud Afshari-Mofrad, Nafiseh Ghazavi, Mehdi Fatemi","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1545144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1545144","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The Metaverse has emerged as a significant trend in recent years, offering solutions across diverse fields. Despite substantial investments and extensive research efforts, a comprehensive understanding of the Metaverse environment and its full potential remains elusive. This article seeks to address this gap by developing a technology tree for the Metaverse based on published standards, prior studies, and frameworks proposed by leading firms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To construct the Metaverse technology tree, a systematic literature review approach was employed. From an initial pool of 354 scientific papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, and reports, a rigorous screening process -focused on titles, abstracts, and full-texts -resulted in a selection of 81 final sources. These sources were synthesized using a meta-analysis methodology.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The meta-synthesis of the selected literature produced a comprehensive Metaverse technology tree encompassing seven key branches: artificial intelligence, Mirror World, extended reality, network infrastructure, lifelogging, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. Each branch represents a critical technological area necessary for the development and realization of the Metaverse.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The proposed Metaverse technology tree offers a holistic overview and roadmap of the technological domains underlying the Metaverse. By identifying these seven branches, this research provides valuable guidance for future studies and development trajectories in Metaverse technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1545144"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12043874/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144031516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approach for enhancing the accuracy of semantic segmentation of chest X-ray images by edge detection and deep learning integration.","authors":"Lesia Mochurad","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1522730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1522730","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in chest X-ray images remains challenging, especially for regions with low contrast and overlapping structures. This limitation significantly affects the diagnosis of cardiothoracic diseases. Existing deep learning methods often struggle with preserving structural boundaries, leading to segmentation artifacts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To address these challenges, I propose a novel segmentation approach that integrates contour detection techniques with the U-net deep learning architecture. Specifically, the method employs Sobel and Scharr edge detection filters to enhance structural boundaries in chest X-ray images before segmentation. The pipeline involves pre-processing using contour detection, followed by segmentation with a U-net model trained to identify lungs, heart, and clavicles.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experimental evaluation demonstrated that using edge-enhancing filters, particularly the Sobel operator, leads to a marked improvement in segmentation accuracy. For lung segmentation, the model achieved an accuracy of 99.26%, a Dice coefficient of 98.88%, and a Jaccard index of 97.54%. Heart segmentation results included 99.47% accuracy and 94.14% Jaccard index, while clavicle segmentation reached 99.79% accuracy and 89.57% Jaccard index. These results consistently outperform the baseline U-net model without edge enhancement.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The integration of contour detection methods with the U-net model significantly improves the segmentation quality of complex anatomical regions in chest X-rays. Among the tested filters, the Sobel operator proved to be the most effective in enhancing boundary information and reducing segmentation artifacts. This approach offers a promising direction for more accurate and robust computer-aided diagnosis systems in radiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1522730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040918/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144017804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikolaos Kondylidis, Ilaria Tiddi, Annette Ten Teije
{"title":"A framework for establishing shared, task-oriented understanding in hybrid open multi-agent systems.","authors":"Nikolaos Kondylidis, Ilaria Tiddi, Annette Ten Teije","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1440582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1440582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Open Multi-Agent Systems (OMAS), the open nature of such systems precludes that all communication protocols are hardwired in advance. It is therefore essential that agents can incrementally learn to understand each other. Ideally, this is done with a minimal number of a priori assumptions, in order not to compromise the open nature of the system. This challenge becomes even harder for hybrid (human-artificial agent) populations. In such a hybrid setting, the challenge of learning to communicate is exacerbated by the requirement to do this in a minimal number of interactions with the humans involved. The difficulty arises from the conflict between making a minimal number of assumptions while also minimizing the number of interactions required. This study provides a fine-grained analysis of the process of establishing a shared task-oriented understanding for OMAS, with a particular focus on hybrid populations, i.e., containing both human and artificial agents. We present a framework that describes this process of reaching a shared task-oriented understanding. Our framework defines components that reflect decisions the agent designer needs to make, and we show how these components are affected when the agent population includes humans, i.e., when moving to a hybrid setting. The contribution of this paper is not to define yet another method for agents that learn to communicate. Instead, our goal is to provide a framework to assist researchers in designing agents that need to interact with humans in unforeseen scenarios. We validate our framework by showing that it provides a uniform way to analyze a diverse set of existing approaches from the literature for establishing shared understanding between agents. Our analysis reveals limitations of these existing approaches if they were to be applied in hybrid populations, and suggests how these can be resolved.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1440582"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12041212/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denise E Hilling, Imane Ihaddouchen, Stefan Buijsman, Reggie Townsend, Diederik Gommers, Michel E van Genderen
{"title":"The imperative of diversity and equity for the adoption of responsible AI in healthcare.","authors":"Denise E Hilling, Imane Ihaddouchen, Stefan Buijsman, Reggie Townsend, Diederik Gommers, Michel E van Genderen","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1577529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1577529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare holds transformative potential but faces critical challenges in ethical accountability and systemic inequities. Biases in AI models, such as lower diagnosis rates for Black women or gender stereotyping in Large Language Models, highlight the urgent need to address historical and structural inequalities in data and development processes. Disparities in clinical trials and datasets, often skewed toward high-income, English-speaking regions, amplify these issues. Moreover, the underrepresentation of marginalized groups among AI developers and researchers exacerbates these challenges. To ensure equitable AI, diverse data collection, federated data-sharing frameworks, and bias-correction techniques are essential. Structural initiatives, such as fairness audits, transparent AI model development processes, and early registration of clinical AI models, alongside inclusive global collaborations like TRAIN-Europe and CHAI, can drive responsible AI adoption. Prioritizing diversity in datasets and among developers and researchers, as well as implementing transparent governance will foster AI systems that uphold ethical principles and deliver equitable healthcare outcomes globally.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1577529"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040885/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144064892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Niklas Bussmann, Paolo Giudici, Alessandra Tanda, Ellen Pei-Yi Yu
{"title":"Explainable machine learning to predict the cost of capital.","authors":"Niklas Bussmann, Paolo Giudici, Alessandra Tanda, Ellen Pei-Yi Yu","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1578190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1578190","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the impact of financial and non-financial factors on a firm's ex-ante cost of capital, which is the reflection of investors' perception on a firm's riskiness. Departing from previous literature, we apply the XGBoost algorithm and two explainable Artificial Intelligence methods, namely the Shapley value approach and Lorenz Model Selection to a sample of more than 1,400 listed companies worldwide. Results confirm the relevance of key financial indicators such as firm size, ROE, firm portfolio risk, but also individuate firm's non-financial features and country's institutional quality as relevant predictors for the cost of capital. These results suggest the importance of non-financial indicators and country institutional quality on the firm's ex-ante cost of equity that expresses investors' risk perception. Our findings pave the way for future investigations on the impact of ESG and country factors in predicting the cost of capital.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1578190"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12018374/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144037730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sukriti Bhattacharya, German Castignani, Leandro Masello, Barry Sheehan
{"title":"AI revolution in insurance: bridging research and reality.","authors":"Sukriti Bhattacharya, German Castignani, Leandro Masello, Barry Sheehan","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1568266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1568266","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper comprehensively reviews artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the insurance industry. We focus on the automotive, health, and property insurance domains. To conduct this study, we followed the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews. This rigorous methodology allowed us to examine recent academic research and industry practices thoroughly. This study also identifies several key challenges that must be addressed to mitigate operational and underwriting risks, including data quality issues that could lead to biased risk assessments, regulatory compliance requirements for risk governance, ethical considerations in automated decision-making, and the need for explainable AI systems to ensure transparent risk evaluation and pricing models. This review highlights important research gaps by comparing academic studies with real-world industry implementations. It also explores emerging areas where AI can improve efficiency and drive innovation in the insurance sector. The insights gained from this work provide valuable guidance for researchers, policymakers, and insurance industry practitioners.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1568266"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014612/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143989160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NLP-enhanced inflation measurement using BERT and web scraping.","authors":"Martin Berki, Vanesa Andicsova, Milos Oravec","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1520659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1520659","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this research note, we explore the integration of natural language processing (NLP) and web scraping techniques to develop a custom price index for measuring inflation. Using the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) as a benchmark, we created a database of consumer electronics product data through web scraping. Using the BERT model for classification, we achieved a high-performance classification of approximately 10,000 items into COICOP categories, with an accuracy of 94.56 %, macro precision of 79.41 %, and weighted precision of 94.07 % on validation data. Our custom index, particularly with weighted and median methodologies, demonstrated closer alignment with the official HICP while capturing more detailed price fluctuations within the market. Monthly inflation trends revealed variability that reflects price changes in the COICOP 091 category, contrasting with the relative stability of the official HICP. This work provides an alternative perspective on inflation measurement, highlighting the potential of computational approaches to enhance economic analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1520659"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014680/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A short report on deep learning synergy for decentralized smart grid cybersecurity.","authors":"Saurav Verma, Ashwini Rao","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1557960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1557960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1557960"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12014623/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143999368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean-Pierre R Falet, Steven Nobile, Aliya Szpindel, Berardino Barile, Amar Kumar, Joshua Durso-Finley, Tal Arbel, Douglas L Arnold
{"title":"The role of AI for MRI-analysis in multiple sclerosis-A brief overview.","authors":"Jean-Pierre R Falet, Steven Nobile, Aliya Szpindel, Berardino Barile, Amar Kumar, Joshua Durso-Finley, Tal Arbel, Douglas L Arnold","doi":"10.3389/frai.2025.1478068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1478068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has played a crucial role in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment optimization of multiple sclerosis (MS). It is an essential component of current diagnostic criteria for its ability to non-invasively visualize both lesional and non-lesional pathology. Nevertheless, modern day usage of MRI in the clinic is limited by lengthy protocols, error-prone procedures for identifying disease markers (e.g., lesions), and the limited predictive value of existing imaging biomarkers for key disability outcomes. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have underscored the potential for AI to not only improve, but also transform how MRI is being used in MS. In this short review, we explore the role of AI in MS applications that span the entire life-cycle of an MRI image, from data collection, to lesion segmentation, detection, and volumetry, and finally to downstream clinical and scientific tasks. We conclude with a discussion on promising future directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":33315,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence","volume":"8 ","pages":"1478068"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12011719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144031572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}