Handbook of Optimization in Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Romeijn, H. Edwin. (Editor), Pardalos, Panos M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 26
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Medicine.; Mathematical optimization.; Biomedical engineering.; Applications of Mathematics.; Biophysics/Biomedical Physics.; Biomedical Engineering.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Optimization.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b100322

Handbook of Optimization in Medicine is devoted to examining the dramatic increase in the application of effective optimization techniques to the delivery of health care. The articles, written by experts from the areas of optimization (operations research), computer science, and medicine, focus on m...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1 Optimizing Organ Allocation and Acceptance
• 2 Can We Do Better? Optimization Models for Breast Cancer Screening
• 3 Optimization Models and Computational Approaches for Three-dimensional Conformal Radiation Treatment Planning
• 4 Continuous Optimization of Beamlet Intensities for Intensity Modulated Photon and Proton Radiotherapy
• 5 Multicriteria Optimization in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Planning.-6 Algorithms for Sequencing Multileaf Collimators
• 7 Image Registration and Segmentation Based on Energy Minimization
• 8 Optimization Techniques for Data Representations with Biomedical Applications
• 9 Algorithms for Genomics Analysis
• 10 Optimization and Data Mining in Epilepsy Research: A Review and Prospective
• 11 Mathematical Programming Approaches for the Analysis of Microarray Data
• 12 Classification and Disease Prediction via Mathematical Programming
• Index.