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Computers in Medical Activity

  • Presents latest research in utilization of computer systems in the various fields of medical activity
  • Devoted to computer applications in both medical education and scientific research and prophylaxis, diagnostics, therapy, convalescence and hospital administration

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AINSC, volume 65)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Prophylasis

    1. The Estimation of Reliability in the Preventive Examination of Allergic Diseases with Knowledge Discovery Methods

      • Bartosz Jędrzejec, Ewa Czarnobilska, Grzegorz Porębski, Krystyna Obtułowicz, Edward Nawarecki
      Pages 1-10
  3. Diagnosis

    1. Medical Diagnosis with Type-2 Fuzzy Decision Trees

      • Łukasz Bartczuk, Danuta Rutkowska
      Pages 11-21
    2. Ranked Modeling of Causal Sequences of Diseases for the Purpose of Early Diagnosis

      • Leon Bobrowski, Tomasz Łukaszuk, Hanna Wasyluk
      Pages 23-31
    3. Rough Set Theory in the Classification of Diagnoses

      • Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson
      Pages 41-51
    4. MaZda – The Software Package for Textural Analysis of Biomedical Images

      • Piotr M. Szczypiński, Michał Strzelecki, Andrzej Materka, Artur Klepaczko
      Pages 73-84
    5. Gilbert-Multiplier-Based Parallel 1-D and 2-D Analog FIR Filters for Medical Diagnostics

      • Rafał Długosz, Vincent Gaudet, Ryszard Wojtyna
      Pages 85-99
    6. Biomedical Image Segmentation Based on Aggregated Morphological Spectra

      • Juliusz L. Kulikowski, Małgorzata Przytulska, Diana Wierzbicka
      Pages 101-112
  4. Prognosis

    1. Application of Artificial Neural Network to Predict Survival Time for Patients with Bladder Cancer

      • Marta Kolasa, Ryszard Wojtyna, Rafał Długosz, Wojciech Jóźwicki
      Pages 113-122
    2. Artificial Inteligence Methods in the Problems of Drug Side-Effects

      • Joanna Stempczyńska, Edward Kącki
      Pages 123-127
  5. Medical Equipment

    1. Programming Symbian Smartphones for the Blind and Visually Impaired

      • Pawel Strumillo, Piotr Skulimowski, Maciej Polanczyk
      Pages 129-136
    2. Laser Beam Properties

      • H. Małecki, W. Gryglewicz-Kacerka, J. Kacerka
      Pages 167-171
  6. General Problems and Healthcare Organization

    1. Computer Aiding and Virtual Integration of the Medical Activities

      • Zbigniew Kierzkowski, Piotr Tarlowski
      Pages 173-188
    2. Expert Systems in the Medical Insurance Industry

      • Liliana Byczkowska-Lipińska, Mariusz Szydło, Piotr Lipiński
      Pages 189-199

About this book

Papers selected to the present monograph are only a small piece of subjects being investigated in Poland in the range of medical computer science. Their summaries and preliminary results were presented during the international conference „Computers in Medical Activity" organized by the College of Computer Science in Lodz with the collaboration of the Polish Society of Medical Computer Science in Poland in 2007.

The subject matter of the monograph is mainly steered on employing the computer systems in the diagnostics then the equipment of the medical activity and the general problems connected with the organization the medical care.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence, College of Computer Science, Lódz, Poland

    Edward Kącki, Marek Rudnicki, Joanna Stempczyńska

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