We are drowning in information, but starved of knowledge.
– John Naisbitt, Megatrends
The turn of the millennium has been described as the dawn of a new scientific revolution, which will have as great an impact on society as the industrial and computer revolutions before.
Artificial neural networks are learning machines inspired by the operation of the human brain, and they consist of many artificial neurons connected in parallel. These networks work via non-linear mapping techniques between the inputs and outputs of a model indicative of the operation of a real system.
Hsinchun Chen, Sherrilynne S. Fuller, Carol Friedman, William Hersh
Năm xuất bản:
2005
PREFACE
The field of medical informatics has grown rapidly over the past decade due to the advances in biomedical computing, the abundance of biomedical and genomic data, the ubiquity of the Internet, and the general acceptance of computing in various aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice.
On April 15, 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (IHGSC) - an association of laboratories from around the world which had jointly undertaken the Human Genome Project formally announced the completion of the colossal task they had set out to accomplish:
Krzysztof Zieliński, Mariusz Duplaga, David Ingram
Năm xuất bản:
2006
INTRODUCTION
The main concept behind this book is to present the transformation of healthcare services in the Information Society age. These changes are catalysed by conducting professional and social activities with the use of the Internet and mobile tools.
This book developed out of a course in laboratory informatics for residents in training in pathology and for fellows in the clinical laboratory sciences given over a period of years. The topics covered and the approach taken were strongly influenced by real-life experience.
Just as banks cannot practice modern banking without financial software, and airlines cannot manage modern travel planning without shared databanks of flight schedules and reservations, it has become impossible to practice modern medicine, or to conduct modern biological research, without information technologies.
