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Second International ICSC Symposium
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
METHODS & APPLICATIONS (CIMA'2001)
June 19-22 2001
Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom
Despite continuous progress, advances in biomedical computing, especially in the area of diagnosis and therapy, remain moderate. This is not surprising since in biomedicine, most of the many challenges computer scientists have ever faced, meet: vagueness and uncertainty stemming from a lack of understanding, idiosyncratic differences, and imprecise measurement; system dynamics with time constants ranging from seconds to years; and the integration of information as different as patient narrative, medical imagery, and online sampling are but the most obvious problems of the field. And yet, as an area of research biomedicine is highly attractive for computer scientists of all disciplines, not out of economical interest, but out of scientific ambition and the desire to help.
"What can we do?" is therefore still a valid question in the field.
The Symposium on advanced computing in Biomedicine will provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussions on the theory and applications of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Probabilistic Reasoning, Distributed Reasoning, Evolutionary Algorithms, Chaos Theory, Belief Networks, Machine learning Methods, Artificial Life, Cellular Automata, Adaptive Agents on issues in all areas of Medicine and Biology.