Computational Intelligence in Healthcare 4: Advanced Methodologies

✍ Scribed by Isabelle Bichindaritz, Lakhmi C. Jain (auth.), Isabelle Bichindaritz, Sachin Vaidya, Ashlesha Jain, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 454
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a continuation of the volumes providing various per-spectives on computational intelligence in healthcare [1-3]. This book is aimed to provide a sample of the state of art in the prac-tical applications of computational intelligence paradigms in health-care. It includes nineteen chapters on using various computational intelligent paradigms in healthcare such as intelligent agents and case-based reasoning. A number of applications and case studies are presented. This book is targeted towards scientists, application engineers, pro-fessors, health professionals, professors and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Advances in Computational Intelligence in Healthcare....Pages 3-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Clinical Semantics....Pages 11-24
Agent Technology and Healthcare: Possibilities, Challenges and Examples of Application....Pages 25-48
Mobile Agents in Healthcare, a Distributed Intelligence Approach....Pages 49-80
A Joint Bayesian Framework for MR Brain Scan Tissue and Structure Segmentation Based on Distributed Markovian Agents....Pages 81-101
The i-Walker: An Intelligent Pedestrian Mobility Aid....Pages 103-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences: Foundations and Research Directions....Pages 127-157
Intelligent Signal Analysis Using Case-Based Reasoning for Decision Support in Stress Management....Pages 159-189
Case-Based Reasoning in a Travel Medicine Application....Pages 191-210
Providing Case-Based Retrieval as a Decision Support Strategy in Time Dependent Medical Domains....Pages 211-228
Meta-learning for Image Processing Based on Case-Based Reasoning....Pages 229-264
Explaining Medical Model Exceptions....Pages 265-287
Computational Intelligence Techniques for Classification in Microarray Analysis....Pages 289-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
The Evolution of Healthcare Applications in the Web 2.0 Era....Pages 315-328
Intelligent Adaptive Monitoring for Cardiac Surveillance....Pages 329-346
Computational Intelligence in Cognitive Healthcare Information Systems....Pages 347-369
An Advanced Probabilistic Framework for Assisting Screening Mammogram Interpretation....Pages 371-395
Pattern Classification Techniques for Lung Cancer Diagnosis by an Electronic Nose....Pages 397-423
A Portable Wireless Solution for Back Pain Telemonitoring: A 3D-Based, Virtual Reality Approach....Pages 425-461
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Biomedical Engineering; Health Informatics