Computational Intelligence Medicine and Biology Gebunden

This book contains an interesting and state-of the art collection of chapters presenting several examples of attempts to developing modern tools utilizing computational intelligence in different real life problems encountered by humans. Reasoning prediction modeling optimization decision making etc. need modern soft and intelligent algorithms methods and methodologies to solve in the efficient ways problems appearing in human activity. The contents of the book is divided into two parts. Part I consisting of four chapters is devoted to selected links of computational intelligence me dicine health care and biomechanics. Several problems are considered: estimation of healthcare system reliability classification of ultrasound thyroid images application of fuzzy logic to measure weight status and central fatness and deriving kinematics directly from video records. Part II also consisting of four chapters is devoted to selected links of computational intelligence and biology. The common denominator of three chapters is Physarum polycephalum one-cell organisms able to build complex networks for solving different computational tasks. One chapter focuses on a novel device the memristor that has possible uses both in the creation of hardware neural nets for artificial intelligence and as the connection between a hardware neural net and a living neuronal cell network in the treatment and monitoring of neurological disease. This book is intended for a wide audience of readers who are interested in various aspects of computational intelligence.