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Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Medical diagnosis
Medical and information communication technology professionals are
working to develop robust classification techniques, especially in
healthcare data/image analysis, to ensure quick diagnoses and
treatments to patients. Without fast and immediate access to
healthcare databases and information, medical professionals'
success rates and treatment options become limited and fall to
disastrous levels. Advanced Classification Techniques for
Healthcare Analysis provides emerging insight into classification
techniques in delivering quality, accurate, and affordable
healthcare, while also discussing the impact health data has on
medical treatments. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics
such as early diagnosis, brain-computer interface, metaheuristic
algorithms, clustering techniques, learning schemes, and mobile
telemedicine, this book is ideal for medical professionals,
healthcare administrators, engineers, researchers, academicians,
and technology developers seeking current research on furthering
information and communication technology that improves patient
care.
There is a significant deficiency among contemporary medicine
practices reflected by experts making medical decisions for a large
proportion of the population for which no or minimal data exists.
Fortunately, our capacity to procure and apply such information is
rapidly rising. As medicine becomes more individualized, the
implementation of health IT and data interoperability become
essential components to delivering quality healthcare. Quality
Assurance in the Era of Individualized Medicine is a collection of
innovative research on the methods and utilization of digital
readouts to fashion an individualized therapy instead of a
mass-population-directed strategy. While highlighting topics
including assistive technologies, patient management, and clinical
practices, this book is ideally designed for health professionals,
doctors, nurses, hospital management, medical administrators, IT
specialists, data scientists, researchers, academicians, and
students.
Neurology: A Clinician's Approach teaches a symptom-oriented
approach to the 20 most common problems which face neurologists in
training. Emphasizing the primary importance of the patient
history, the reader is instructed which questions to ask in order
to elicit the chief complaint, how to ask these questions, and how
to interpret the answers. The neurologic examination is presented
as a flexible diagnostic tool rather than as a rigid exercise to be
performed by rote and without reference to the chief complaint.
Each chapter integrates evidence-based and experience-based
approaches to diagnostic testing and treatment.
Frequently-encountered conditions, uncommon 'zebras', and
non-neurologic mimics of nervous system dysfunction are all given
appropriate weight. Neurology: A Clinician's Approach is essential
reading for neurologists in training, including neurology residents
and medical students.
While doctors and physicians are more than capable of detecting
diseases of the brain, the most agile human mind cannot compete
with the processing power of modern technology. Utilizing
algorithmic systems in healthcare in this way may provide a way to
treat neurological diseases before they happen. Early Detection of
Neurological Disorders Using Machine Learning Systems provides
innovative insights into implementing smart systems to detect
neurological diseases at a faster rate than by normal means. The
topics included in this book are artificial intelligence, data
analysis, and biomedical informatics. It is designed for
clinicians, doctors, neurologists, physiotherapists,
neurorehabilitation specialists, scholars, academics, and students
interested in topics centered on biomedical engineering,
bio-electronics, medical electronics, physiology, neurosciences,
life sciences, and physics.
Modern practical medicine requires high tech in diagnostics and
therapy and in consequence in education. All disciplines use
computers to handle large data bases allowing individual therapy,
to interpret large data bases in form of neuronal signals, help
visualization of organs during surgery. This book contains chapters
on personalised therapy, advanced diagnostics in neurology, modern
techniques like robotic surgery (da Vinci robots), 3D-printing and
3D-bioprinting, augmented reality applied in medical diagnostics
and therapy. It is impossible without fast large scale data mining
in both: clinical data interpretation as well as in hospital
organization including hybrid surgery rooms and personal data flow.
The book is based on a course for medical students organized in the
editor's department. Every year, around 300 international
undergraduate medical students take the course.
Medical image technologies play a significant role in visualization
and interpretation methods in medical diagnosis and practice using
decision making, pattern classification, diagnosis, and learning.
Progressions in the field of medical imaging lead to
interdisciplinary discovery in microscopic image processing and
computer-assisted diagnosis systems, and aids physicians in the
diagnosis and early detection of diseases. Histopathological Image
Analysis in Medical Decision Making provides emerging research
exploring the theoretical and practical applications of image
technologies and feature extraction procedures within the medical
field. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as image
classification, digital image analysis, and prediction methods,
this book is ideally designed for medical professionals, system
engineers, medical students, researchers, and medical practitioners
seeking current research on problem-oriented processing techniques
in imaging technologies.
This volume presents several machine intelligence technologies,
developed over recent decades, and illustrates how they can be
combined in application. One application, the detection of dementia
from patterns in speech, is used throughout to illustrate these
combinations. This application is a classic stationary pattern
detection task, so readers may easily see how these combinations
can be applied to other similar tasks. The expositions of the
methods are supported by the basic theory they rest upon, and their
application is clearly illustrated. The book's goal is to allow
readers to select one or more of these methods to quickly apply to
their own tasks. Includes a variety of machine intelligent
technologies and illustrates how they can work together Shows
evolutionary feature subset selection combined with support vector
machines and multiple classifiers combined Includes a running case
study on intelligent processing relating to Alzheimer's / dementia
detection, in addition to several applications of the machine
hybrid algorithms
This book is a full colour, highly clinical multi-media atlas
focusing on the role diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy plays in
the management of patients with cancer. Conveniently split into
sections for each part of the GI tract, each section will follow a
consistent structure. With 400 high-quality images and in addition,
21 high-definition videos showing endoscopy from the experts, this
book is the perfect consultation and learning tool for all
gastroenterologists, endoscopists, GI surgeons and oncologists.
The second edition of the Pocket Guide is designed to work as a
clinical handbook and up-to-date reference for nurses when
interviewing patients of all age groups and cultural backgrounds,
taking health histories, promoting health, and performing physical
assessments. The content derives from and has been developed in
conjunction with Jensen's Nursing Health Assessment: A Best
Practice Approach and serves to both review the core content
provided in the textbook as well as help students apply their
foundational learning through reinforcement and streamlined
presentation. The content focuses on key questions in the area of
health promotion, reviewing important risk factors and outlining
essential teaching points for risk assessment and intervention. It
includes essential questions to review common and concerning signs
and symptoms for each health assessment topic. The chapters review
the key techniques of examination, outlining normal and unexpected
findings. Finally, tables of findings provide a quick reference by
which students can compare and contrast results to assist with
eventual nursing and medical diagnoses.
In recent years, advanced molecular techniques in diagnostic
microbiology have been revolutionizing the practice of clinical
microbiology in the hospital setting. Molecular diagnostic testing
in general and nucleic acid-based amplification methods in
particular have been heralded as diagnostic tools for the new
millennium. This third edition covers not only the most recent
updates and advances, but details newly invented omic techniques,
such as next generation sequencing. It is divided into two distinct
volumes, with Volume 1 describing the techniques, and Volume 2
addressing their applications in the field. In addition, both
volumes focus more so on the clinical relevance of the test results
generated by these techniques than previous editions.
A highly illustrated book providing concise yet comprehensive
information on fracture classification and management. The text has
been developed according to the requirements of orthopaedic
surgeons in training. The first section covers general principles
such as terminology and dealing with multiple trauma; following
sections take the reader systematically through regions of the body
and the various possible fractures, covering diagnosis, treatment
and healing in each case. Definitive information on the
ever-disputed issue of classification of musculoskeletal injuries
is provided throughout. An effective reference book for the clinic,
this book is also an indispensable tool for trainees in orthopaedic
and emergency medicine and orthopaedic nurses.
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