Neural networks in healthcare potential and challenges /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Begg, Rezaul., Kamruzzaman, Joarder., Sarkar, Ruhul.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
• Subjects: Neural networks (Computer science); Medicine > Research > Data processing.; Medical informatics.; Neural Networks (Computer); Medical Informatics Applications.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Healthcare costs around the globe are on the rise, creating a strong need for new ways of assisting the requirements of the healthcare system. Besides applications in other areas, neural networks have naturally found many promising applications in the health and medicine areas. This book presents in...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of artificial neural networks and their applications in healthcare / Joarder Kamruzzaman, Rezaul K. Begg, Ruhul Sarker
• A survey on various applications of artificial neural networks in selected fields of healthcare / Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn, Jörg M. Jäger
• The role of neural networks in computerised classification of the electrocardiogram / Chris D. Nugent ... [et al.]
• Neural networks in ECG classification: what is next in adaptive systems? / G. Camps-Valls, J.F. Guerrero-Martínez
• A concept learning-based patient-adaptable abnormal ECG beat detector for long-term monitoring of heart patients / Peng Li ... [et al.]
• A recurrent probabilistic neural network for EMG pattern recognition / Toshio Tsuji, Nan Bu, Osamu Fukuda
• Myoelectric teleoperation of a dual-arm manipulator using neural networks / Toshio Tsuji, Kouji Tsujimura, Yoshiyuki Tanak
• Artificial neural networks in EEG analysis / Markad V. Kamath ... [et al.]
• The use of artificial neural networks for the objective determination of hearing threshold, using the auditory brainstem response / Robert T. Davey ... [et al.]
• Movement pattern recognition using neural networks / Rezaul Begg, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Ruhul Sarker
• Neural and kernel methods for therapeutic drug monitoring / G. Camps-Valls, J. D. Martín-Guerrero
• Computational fluid dynamics and neural network for modelling and simulations of medical devices / Yos S. Morsi, Subrat Das
• Analysis of temporal patterns of physiological parameters / Balázs Benyó.