Chapter 1. Towards an intelligent biomedical engineering with nature-inspired artificial intelligence techniques -- Chapter 2. Coupling of optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence: an application for control of heroin addiction epidemic -- Chapter 3. Intelligent techniques inspired by nature and used in biomedical engineering -- Chapter 4. Performance of negative selection algorithms in patient detection and classification -- Chapter 5. Differential diagnosis of erythematous squamous diseases with feature selection and classification algorithms -- Chapter 6. A general medical diagnosis system formed by artificial neural networks and swarm intelligence techniques -- Chapter 7. Artificial intelligence applications on classification of heart sounds -- Chapter 8. A sample application for computer-based bacteria counting by using watershed transform -- Chapter 9. Diabetes diagnosis system based on support vector machines trained by vortex optimization algorithm -- Chapter 10. Artificial intelligence ethics in biomedical-engineering-oriented problems -- Chapter 11. Prediction of electroencephalogram time series via artificial neuro-fuzzy inference system trained by league championship algorithm -- Chapter 12. Determining headache diseases with genetic algorithm -- Chapter 13. Internet of things and nature-inspired intelligent techniques for the future of biomedical engineering -- Chapter 14. Deep learning and biomedical engineering -- Chapter 15. Intelligent biomedical engineering operations by cloud computing technologies.