Intelligent Systems Modeling and Decision Support in Bioengineering
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Author(s): M. Mahfouf
Publisher: Artech House Books
ISBN: 158053998X
Format: hardback
342pp
Price: £84.00
Review Date: 15 September 2006
Review: Here Mahdi Mahfouf presents his research activities and results in two areas: intelligent systems and biomedicine. Here ‘intelligence’ refers to structures or algorithms that can mimic the way that the human brain works. In addition to those paradigms that rely explicitly on heuristics such as fuzzy logic-based systems such as neural networks, or the theory of evolution such as evolutionary computation, Mahfouf also includes equally intelligent structures that rely on performance measures whose solution(s) may be derived analytically using physical-based model formulations. Here biomedicine covers anaesthesia, general intensive care, and the effect of physical stress (workload) on humans. The research work covers three major interrelated facets: modelling and control of anaesthesia; modelling and decision support in the intensive care unit; and the identification of human physiological markers for physical stress (workload) via hybrid models.