Fuzzy Logic in Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barro, Senen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Marin, Roque (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 83
• Subjects: Health informatics.; Artificial intelligence.; Health Informatics.; Artificial Intelligence.

The book covers recent developments in theory, methodologies and applications of fuzzy logic in medicine. A representative and diverse range of original and innovative topics are selected, giving an overall perspective of the current state and future trends in the field. Medical image processing, mo...

Table of Contents:

• A Call for a Stronger Role for Fuzzy Logic in Medicine
• Fuzzy Information Granulation of Medical Images. Blood Vessel Extraction from 3-D MRA Images
• Breast Cancer Classification Using Fuzzy Central Moments
• Awareness Monitoring and Decision-Making for General Anaesthesia
• Depth of Anesthesia Control with Fuzzy Logic
• Intelligent Alarms for Anaesthesia Monitoring Based on a Fuzzy Logic Approach
• Fuzzy Clustering in Medicine: Applications to Electrophysiological Signal Processing
• Fuzzy Logic in a Decision Support System in the Domain of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment
• A Model-based Temporal Abductive Diagnosis Model for an Intensive Coronary Care Unit
• A Fuzzy Model for Pattern Recognition in the Evolution of Patients
• Mass Assignment Methods for Medical Classification Diagnosis
• Acquisition of Fuzzy Association Rules from Medical Data.