Survey on neural networks in Medicine and Biology

Fri Aug 21 09:21:00 EDT 1992

                    The Scientific Program on

                    NEURAL NETWORKS IN MEDICINE

        in the Seventh World Congress of Medical Informatics
         (MEDINFO 92) - Palexpo Geneva, 6-10 September 1992

The explosive growth of artificial neural network systems (also
called connectionist or nuromorphic systems) in the last years
has followed several convincing demonstrations of its usefulness
in decision-making tasks, particularly in the classification and
recognition of patterns. Not surprisingly, the medical and
biological applications of such systems have followed suit and
are growing at a relentless pace. Connectionist systems have been
used successfully in computer-aided medical diagnosis,
intelligent biomedical instrumentation, classification of images
of cells and tissues, recognition of abnormal EKG and EEG
features, development of prosthetic devices, prediction of
protein structure, etc. Thus, this is an important area which
will be increasingly considered as an alternative to
implementation of intelligent systems in all areas of Medicine
and Biology.

This year's scientific program will include several activities
and papers on the subject of neural networks applications. They
are summarized below for the benefit of people interested in this
area.

POSTER SESSION Z-1.1, Sept. 7, 11:00-13:00

Diagnosis of children's ketonemia by neural network Artificial
Intelligence. A. Garliausakas, A. Garliauskiene (Lithuania)

Diagnosing functional disorders of the cervical spine using
backpropagation networks. Preliminary results.
W. Schoner, M. Berger, G. Holzmueller, A. Neiss, H. Ulmer
(Austria)

POSTER SESSION Z-1.1, Sept. 7, 14:00-16:00

The use of neural network in decision making of nursing diagnosis
Y. Chen, X. Cai, L. Chen, R. Guo (China)

SEMI-PLENARY SESSION 2-04 (Room PS-11) - Sept. 8, 9:30-10:30
Neural Networks and Their Applications in Biomedicine

Applications of connectionist systems in Biomedicine
Renato M.E. Sabbatini (Brazil)

A neural network approach to assess myocardial infarction
A. Palazos, V. Maojo, F. Martin, N. Ezquerra (Spain)

DEMONSTRATION 3-09 (Room S81) - Sept. 9, 16:00-17:30

HYPERNET - A decision support system for arterial hypertension
M. Ramos, M.T. Haashi, E. Czogala, O. Marson, H. Aszen,
O. Kohlmann Jr., M.S. Ancao, D. Sigulem (Brazil)

SESSION 9-01 (Room S-68) - Sept. 10, 10:30-11:00

Neural networks for classification of EEG Signals
D.C. Reddy, D.R. Korrai (India)

WORKSHOP 3-08 (Room W25) - Sept. 8, 18:00-22:00

Applications of connectionist systems in Biomedicine

Chair: Renato M.E. Sabbatini (Campinas State University, Brazil)

The workshop has the objective of reviewing and discussing the
value, aims, classes and results of artificial neural network
systems (ANS) applications in the biomedical area. Specific
techniques and results will be demonstrated (in many instances
using actual computers) in several important domains, such as
(i) ANS simulation environments, languages and hardware
specifically designed for biomedical applications, (ii) signal
and image processing tasks; (iii) development of computerised
decision-making systems in diagnosis, therapy, etc.; (iv)
integration with other Artificial Intelligence approaches; (v)
practical aspects in the evaluation, development and
implementation of ANS systems in Biomedicine; (vi) current
research and perspectives of advancement.

The Workshop will be conducted by several renowned specialists
in the growing field of ANS applications in Biomedicine. In
addition, the participants will have the opportunity to try some
hands-on demonstrations on interesting software products in this
area. All participants will receive an information package
containing a list of publications on the subject (papers, review,
books, technical reports, government studies, etc.), with
abstracts; available hardware and software resources (neural
network simulation environments, neurochips and neuroboards,
specific medical NN application software, biomedical instruments
embedding NNs, etc., either commercial or non-commercial); a list
of research groups, laboratories and individuals involved in the
area of ANS applications in Biological and  Health Sciences; with
addresses and research areas.

INVITATION

I would like to invite all persons active in this area of
research and development, to contribute with discussions, short
presentations and software demonstrations, to the workshop.

Those who are interested in participating, please send name,
mail and e-mail/fax address to me, together with a short
proposal about his/her potential intervention at the Workshop.

                                  Renato M.E. Sabbatini

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*  Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD        * INTERNET: SABBATINI at CCVAX.UNICAMP.BR *
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