Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems

Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems-1

Jeremy Gibbons Wendy MacCaull (Eds.) 2014 Third International Symposium, FHIES 2013 Information and communication technology (ICT) plays an increasingly enabling role in addressing the global challenges of healthcare, in both the developed and the developing world. The use of software in medical devices has caused growing concerns in relation to safety and efficacy.

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Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics

Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics-1

Matteo Comin Lukas Käll Elena Marchiori Alioune Ngom Jagath Rajapakse (Eds.) 2014 9th IAPR International Conference In the post-genomic era, a holistic understanding of biological systems and processes, in all their complexity, is critical in comprehending nature’s choreography of life. As a result, bioinformatics involving its two main disciplines, namely, the life sciences and the […]

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Information-Theoretic Evaluation for Computational Biomedical Ontologies

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Wyatt Travis Clark 2014 The development of effective methods for the prediction of ontological annotations is an important goal in computational biology, with protein function prediction and disease gene prioritization gaining wide recognition. While various algorithms have been proposed for these tasks, evaluating their performance is difficult due to problems caused both by the structure […]

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Breast Imaging

Breast Imaging

Hiroshi Fujita Takeshi Hara Chisako Muramatsu (Eds.) 2014 12th InternationalWorkshop This volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series comprises the scientific proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWDM 2014), which was held June 29-July 2, 2014, in Gifu City, Japan. This workshop was formerly called the International Workshop on Digital Mammography, IWDM for short. […]

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Biomedical Image Registration

LNCS 8545 - Biomedical Image Registration

Sébastien Ourselin Marc Modat (Eds.) 2014 6th InternationalWorkshop WBIR 2014 was the sixth international Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration. It was held at University College London, UK, July 7–8, 2014. This scientific event aims to bring together leading researchers in the area of biomedical image registration to present and discuss recent developments in the field. The previous workshops were […]

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Biomedical Simulation – 6th International Symposium

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Fernando Bello Stéphane Cotin (Eds.) 2014 This book contains the written contributions to the 6th International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS), which was held in Strasbourg, France, during October 16–17, 2014. The 27 articles cover the key scientific areas of this constantly evolving field: soft tissue and fluid modeling, physics-based registration, surgical planning, validation, augmented reality, training systems, and strategies for […]

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Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions- 9th International Workshop

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Cristian A. Linte ZivYaniv Pascal Fallavollita Purang Abolmaesumi David R. Holmes III (Eds.) 2014 Welcome to the 9th edition of the Augmented Reality for Computer-Assisted Interventions (AE CAI) workshop. We are pleased to present the proceedings of this exciting workshop held in conjunction with MICCAI 2014 on September 14, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The event was jointly organized […]

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