Techniques in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics - Proceedings of a December 3-4, 2001 Conference (Hardcover)

Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '2001), June 25-28, 2001, Las Vegas, NV Recent advances in computer technology have provided the tools and the environment to study, analyze, and better understand complex systems. This technological development has enabled researchers to collect and analyze massive amounts of data to a scale previously not possible. The impact of this technology is now being felt in the medical field and in the biological sciences. In recent years, research in interdisciplinary areas such as bioinformatics and computer assisted medical decision-making has dramatically intensified. This volume gives an overview of current work in such areas as soft computing in medicine and biological sciences; algorithms in proteomics and structural genomics; clinical procedures and hospital information systems and analysis; image processing in medicine; knowledge discovery and data mining. It includes review articles on prediction of hepatitis C, medical decision support systems for breast cancer diagnosis, quantifying child quality of life during serious illness, and discriminant analysis for data mining in medicine.