Neural Network provides significant benefits in medical research. Neural network in medicine is subject to increase, as the number of experts is limited while interpretation work at clinical laboratories is subject to mounting. Neural Network (NN) in medicine has attracted many researchers. A simple search by Machado (1996) in Medline for articles about computer-based NN between 1982 and 1994 r...

Over the past decades, data mining has proved to be a successful approach for extracting hidden knowledge from huge collections of structured digital data stored in databases. From the inception, data mining was done primarily on numerical set of data. Nowadays, large multimedia data sets such as audio, speech, text, web, image, video and combination of several types are becoming increasingly a...

Ultrawide band (UWB) microwave imaging is a promising method for the detection of early stage breast cancer, based on the large contrast in electrical parameters between malignant tumour tissue and the surrounding normal breast-tissue. In this paper, the detection and imaging of a malignant tumour are performed through a tomographic based microwave system and signal processing. Simulations of t...

Rectal manometry provide a useful method to objectively assess the physiology of defecation. We developed a probe with 10 embedded transducers for evaluating the dynamic rectal pressure profile. The innovation of the probe is to use small piezoresistive dice and reduce the packaging resulting in a very small assembly. The diameter of the probe is 9 mm with a length of 20 cm. The length could be...

The use of software in safety-critical medical applications permits sophisticated functionality that would otherwise not be achievable. However, it is very difficult to ensure that software in these systems is dependable. In particular all software development techniques have limitations, and none can provide any guarantee of overall software dependability. Given this shortcoming, the approach ...

This dissertation discusses visualization techniques of articular cartilage for both quantitative and qualitative assessment. Articular cartilage is a very thin structure covering the endings of human bones. Thus, even slight changes in its thickness and inner structure may indicate an occurrence or progress of degeneration. The early detection of these factors is crucial for diagnosis and trea...

Research in Machine Learning methods to-date remains centered on technological issues and is mostly application driven. This letter summarizes successful applications of machine learning methods that were presented at the Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Applications. The goals of the workshop were to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of machine learning methods ...

In biology and medicine, as well as in many other domains, imperfect knowledge cannot be avoided. It is difficult to construct automatic systems to provide classification or pattern recognition tools or help specialists make a decision. There exist two kinds of difficulties: (1) those related to the type of imperfection we have to consider (partial information, uncertainties, inaccuracies) and ...

Last years many efforts have been made for developing “smart” biomedical devices, which can change in high level the way of the healthcare provision for a large amount of population. For instance, people who suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes or neurological disorders, the elderly and some groups of people with special needs can easily check repeatedly many times per day their health...