NEURAL NETWORKS IN BIOMEDICINE
Proceedings of the Advanced School of the Italian Biomedical Physics Association
Como, Italy 15 - 19 November 1993

edited by F Masulli, P G Morasso (Univ. Genoa) & A Schenone (Nat’l Inst. of Cancer Res.)

Methods based on neural networks are assuming an increasing role in biomedical research. This book presents an introduction to the application of neural networks and related areas of artificial intelligence to biological structure analysis, biomedical images understanding, electrophysiologic signal analysis and other stimulating issues of biomedicine.

This book, which will include the latest advances and developments in the field, will be of value to researchers in neural networks and biomedicine.

"... this book combines a number of interesting subjects, and it is a nice book for applications of NNs in biomedicine and so it is valuable to any library and to graduates."

Contents:

• Medical Knowledge Transmission (F Martini & V Tagliasco)
• Biological Codes and Their Deciphering (C Brigati)
• Internal Knowledge Analysis in a Feed-Forward Neural Network (G Bologna & C Pellegrini)
• Models of Self-Organized Topographic Maps (P Morasso & V Sanguineti)
• Are Neural Networks Necessarily Passive Receivers of Input? ( D Parisi)
• Bayesian Classification by Feed-Forward Connectionist Systems (F Masulli)
• Digital Imaging in Medicine: Physical Principles and Postprocessing (A Torresin)
• Computer Vision and Medical Images (G Coppini)
• Autoassociative Neural Networks for Image Compression (A Basso)
• Central Nervous System Signal via Parametric Identification and Neural Networks (D Liberati)
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition and Classification in the Analysis of Electrophysiologic Signals (F De Carli)
• Discontinuous Models for the Study of Gene-Expression: Gene Networks and Artificial Neural Networks (A Bignone)
• and other papers

Readership: Researchers on neural networks and biomedicine.