Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Methods and Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Medical Systems


Publishing date
15 Mar 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
26 Oct 2012

1Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, P.O. Box 28911, Avenida de la Universidad 30, Leganés, Spain

2Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Technological Institute of Orizaba, Oriente 9 No. 82 Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba, VER, Mexico

3Bioinformatics at Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics UPM-INIA, P.O. Box 28223, Science and Technology Park of UPM, Montegancedo Campus, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

4University of São Paulo, Instituto de Medicina Física e Reabilitação (IMREA), São Paulo, Brazil


Methods and Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Medical Systems

Description

During recent years, the development of medical systems (as part of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs)) has been one of the main research fields in biomedical informatics area. Different systems have been proposed to improve the quality of medical practice in several different areas such as pharmacy management, electronic health records, diagnosis systems, telemedicine, and medical imaging among others.

Several approaches and models have been developed since earliest 60's. Also several methods and techniques from the fields of artificial intelligence, decision theory and statistics have been introduced into models of the medical management of patients (diagnosis, treatment, and followup); in some of these models, assessment of the expected prognosis constitutes an integral part. Typically, recent prognostic methods rely on explicit (patho) physiological models, which may be combined with traditional models of life expectancy.

The main goals of this special issue is the publication of new algorithms and mathematical methods, decision theories, techniques and models based on probabilistic and quantitative approaches to solve existing or new issues. This special issue also aims to publish original research articles and reviews about the described field in some type of medical systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Medical diagnosis systems
  • Medical dosing systems
  • Medical knowledge models and techniques
  • Diagnosis and prognosis systems
  • Mathematical predictive methods for medical diagnosis
  • Statistics in diagnostic medicine
  • Advanced soft computing diagnosis and prognosis models and methods
  • Prognostic and diagnostic models in medical guidelines and protocols
  • Evaluation of prognostic and diagnostic models
  • Surveys about some of the aforementioned topics

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 184257
  • - Editorial

Methods and Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Medical Systems

Angel García-Crespo | Giner Alor-Hernandez | ... | Alejandro Rodríguez-González
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 264246
  • - Research Article

Evaluation of the Diagnostic Power of Thermography in Breast Cancer Using Bayesian Network Classifiers

Cruz-Ramírez Nicandro | Mezura-Montes Efrén | ... | Barrientos-Martínez Rocío Erandi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 618025
  • - Research Article

Design and Customization of Telemedicine Systems

Claudia I. Martínez-Alcalá | Mirna Muñoz | Josep Monguet-Fierro
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 598196
  • - Research Article

Mobile Personal Health System for Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

Luis J. Mena | Vanessa G. Felix | ... | Gladys E. Maestre
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 651091
  • - Research Article

Statistical Evaluation of a Fully Automated Mammographic Breast Density Algorithm

Mohamed Abdolell | Kaitlyn Tsuruda | ... | Judy Caines
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 796387
  • - Research Article

Development of an Expert System as a Diagnostic Support of Cervical Cancer in Atypical Glandular Cells, Based on Fuzzy Logics and Image Interpretation

Karem R. Domínguez Hernández | Alberto A. Aguilar Lasserre | ... | Blanca E. González Sánchez
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 373401
  • - Research Article

Detection of Structural Changes in Tachogram Series for the Diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation Events

Francesca Ieva | Anna Maria Paganoni | Paolo Zanini
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 617604
  • - Research Article

Normality Index of Ventricular Contraction Based on a Statistical Model from FADS

Luis Jiménez-Ángeles | Raquel Valdés-Cristerna | ... | Verónica Medina-Bañuelos
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 213794
  • - Research Article

Study of the Effect of Breast Tissue Density on Detection of Masses in Mammograms

A. García-Manso | C. J. García-Orellana | ... | M. Macías-Macías
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 240182
  • - Research Article

An Intelligent System Approach for Asthma Prediction in Symptomatic Preschool Children

E. Chatzimichail | E. Paraskakis | ... | A. Rigas

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