Biocomputation and biomedical informatics: Case studies and applications

✍ Scribed by Athina Lazakidou, Athina Lazakidou

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Biocomputation and Biomedical Informatics: Case Studies and Applications provides a compendium of terms, definitions, and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms in this significant medical field of study. Featuring chapters authored by leading international experts, this unsurpassed collection provides a defining body of research indispensible to medical libraries, researchers, and institutions worldwide. Recent improvements in healthcare delivery due to innovative technological advancements have redefined fields of biomedical science now allowing for enhanced information management, resource allocation, and quality assurance.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 17
Macromolecular Crystallographic Computing......Page 20
Describing Methodology and Applications of an In Silico Protein Engineering Approach......Page 56
In Silico Biology: Making the Most of Parallel Computing......Page 74
Computer Aided Tissue Engineering from Modeling to Manufacturing......Page 94
Electronic Health Records in a Tele-Ophthalmologic Application with Oracle 10g......Page 108
High Performance Computing in Biomedicine......Page 125
Pervasive Healthcare Services and Technologies for Memory Loss Diseases Support......Page 138
Statistical Models in Bioinformatics......Page 147
Computational Analysis and Characterization of Marfan Syndrome Associated Human Proteins......Page 162
A Modified High Speed Hopfield Neural Model for Perfect Calculation of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy......Page 177
Advances in Biosensors for In Vitro Diagnostics......Page 197
Image Processing Tools for Biomedical Infrared Imaging......Page 206
Image Analysis for Exudate Detection in Retinal Images......Page 217
Computer Aided Risk Estimation of Breast Cancer: The “Hippocrates-mst” Project......Page 223
e-OpenDay: Open Virtual Environment for Biomedical Related Research, Business and Public Resources......Page 234
Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Research......Page 247
Explorative Data Analysis of In-Vitro Neuronal Network Behavior Based on an Unsupervised Learning Approach......Page 260
Ubiquitous Healthcare......Page 273
E-Health Project Implementation: Privacy and Security Measures and Policies......Page 300
Compilation of References......Page 306
About the Contributors......Page 339
Index......Page 349