Medical cybernetics 723506 207695580 2008-04-23T20:52:54Z Mdd 113850 Wikification '''Medical Cybernetics''' is a field of applied [[cybernetics]] which utilizes the concepts of cybernetics to medical research and practice. It covers an emerging working program for the application of systems- and communications-theory, connectionism and decision theory on biomedical research and health related questions. == Overview == Medical Cybernetics searches for quantitative descriptions of biological dynamics primarily in the intact, but beyond also in the diseased organism in order to gain new insights into the principles of life and its perturbations and to gather evidence based foundations for clinical decision making<ref> * J.W. Dietrich (2004), [http://www.medical-cybernetics.de/definition.html ''Medical Cybernetics - A Definition''], Medizinische Kybernetik, 2004. </ref>. It investigates [[intercausal networks]] in [[human biology]], [[medical decision making]] and [[information processing]] [[structure]]s in the [[living organism]]. Topics in Medical cybernetics: * [[Systems Theory]] in medical sciences: The scope of systems theory in the medical sciences is searching for and modelling of physiological dynamics in the intact and diseased organism to gain deeper insights into the organizational principles of life and its perturbations. * Medical information and [[Communication Theory]]: Motivated by the awareness of information as an essential principle of life the application of communication theory to biomedicine aims to mathematically describe signalling processes and information storage in different physiological layers. * [[Connectionism]]: Connectionistic models describe information processing in neural networks - thus forming a bridge between biological and technological research. * Medical Decision Theory (MDT): The Goal of MDT is to gather evidence based foundations for decision making in the clinical setting. == See also == {{multicol}} ;Related fields * [[Biological cybernetics]], * [[Complex systems]] * [[Cybernetics]] * [[Systems theory]] * [[Prosthetics]] {{multicol-break}} ;Related scientists * [[William Ross Ashby]] * [[Claude Bernard]] * [[Valentin Braitenberg]] * [[Walter Cannon]] * [[Stephen Grossberg]] * [[Humberto Maturana]] * [[Warren McCulloch]] {{multicol-break}} ;Related scientists * [[Walter Pitts]] * [[Arturo Rosenblueth]] * [[Robert Trappl]] * [[Francisco Varela]] * [[Frederic Vester]] * [[Kevin Warwick]] * [[Paul Watzlawick]] {{multicol-end}} == References == <references/> == Further reading == * V.V. Parin (1959), "Introduction to medical Cybernetics" in ''NASA Technical Translation'' no.F-459-F-462, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959. == External links == * [http://www.ai.meduniwien.ac.at/ Institute for Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Medical University Vienna, Austria] * [http://open-site.org/Science/Mathematics/Applied/Cybernetics/K3_-_Applied_Cybernetics/Medical/ Medical Cybernetics in the Open Encyclopedia Project] * [http://www.medizinische-kybernetik.de/ Portal Server Medizinische Kybernetik | Medical Cybernetics] * [http://biocyb.cs.ucla.edu/ UCLA Biocybernetics Laboratory, Los Angeles, Ca, USA] {{Cybernetics}} [[Category:Cybernetics]] [[de:Medizinische Kybernetik]]