Computers and Control in Clinical Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Control System Concepts and Approaches in Clinical Medicine

   • E. R. Carson, D. G. Cramp, L. Finkelstein, D. Ingram

   Pages 1-26

3. The Role of Biodynamic Models in Computer-Aided Diagnosis

   • Torgny L. Groth

   Pages 27-46

4. Clinical Decision Making in Relation to Laboratory Investigation: The Role of the Computer

   • D. G. Cramp, D. N. Baron

   Pages 47-58

5. Clinical Decision Making Using Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Data

   • B. Whiting, A. W. Kelman

   Pages 59-93

6. Closed Loop Control

   • H. J. Chizeck, P. G. Katona

   Pages 95-151

7. Detection of Trends in Monitored Variables

   • J. A. Blom, J. A. F. de Ruyter, N. Saranummi, J. E. W. Beneken

   Pages 153-174

8. Parsimonious Systems Description: A Necessary First Step in the Development of Predictive Indicators

   • E. O. Attinger

   Pages 175-211

9. A Review of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Medical Education

   • D. Ingram, C. J. Dickinson

   Pages 213-243

10. The Patient/Clinician Relationship, Computing and the Wider Health Care System

    • D. G. Cramp, E. R. Carson

    Pages 245-255

11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-263

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This book is a collection of invited contributions, each reflec­ ting an area of medicine in which computing techniques have been successfully applied; but why the title? From a control system point of view the aim of clinical medicine is to recognise the deviation of a patient from the space of normality, and to propel and steer the patient along a trajectory back to that space. Acquiring and main­ taining the knowledge and skills of this process is the function of medicine. The first chapter expands on this view. Subsequent chapters written by experts in their respective areas cover a fair range of application. All give considerable insight as to the ways in which the control system approach, facilitated by computational tools, can be of value when applied to clinical problems. The idea for this book arose naturally out of a symposium held at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England, on "Control System Concepts and Approaches in Clinical Medicine" in April, 1982, spon­ sored by the Institute of Measurement and Control and co-sponsored by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Society of Medicine. It is not, however, a "proceedings" of this meeting but rather a collection of essays that reflect developing areas in which many have particular interest. We think the volume is timely and hope that the work described will be an encouragement for others.

• algorithms
• artificial intelligence
• computer
• expert system
• patterns
• simulation

• The City University, London, England

  Ewart R. Carson

• Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, England

  Derek G. Cramp

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