Future of the MI Institution is described, the advances in the reliability of international telecommunications and the value placed on computerization in businesses and society. Today, computing is everywhere for school and universally present. Most countries use IT to improve their socioeconomic status.

Time Frequency Signal Analysis and Processing (TFSAP) have been proposed in order to analyse the signal in both the time and the frequency domains. Electroencephalography (EEG) as a timevarying frequency signal is an interesting field in which Time Frequency Distribution (TFD) could be used in order to visualize the simultaneous distributions of signal energy in different physiological and path...

Survival analysis is one of the main areas of focus in medical research in recent years. Survival analysis involves the concept of 'Time to event'. The event may be mortality, onset of disease, response to treatment etc. Purpose of this paper is to provide overview of frequentist and Bayesian Approaches to Survival Analysis. The paper starts with the overview of the basic concepts of survival a...

Purpose: There are many benefits for emotion recognition and classification in human-computer interaction, social communications, gaming industries, and entertainment. Therefore, physiological responses of emotions have been receiving a significant attention. However, the assumption of nonlinear characteristics of physiological signals is usually disregarded. Basic methods: In the current study...

BACKGROUND The "applied" nature distinguishes applied sciences from theoretical sciences. To emphasize this distinction, we begin with a general, meta-level overview of the scientific endeavor. We introduce the knowledge spectrum and four interconnected modalities of knowledge. In addition to the traditional differentiation between implicit and explicit knowledge we outline the concepts of gene...

Medical Informatics (MI) is a specific discipline arising from the increasing intersection of computer science and medicine. It is closely related to bioinformatics however the biological domain experts in MI are health care providers rather than biological scientists. The core focus of MI is the processing of clinical information as opposed to purely scientific data the domain of bioinformatic...

OBJECTIVE To reflect about medical informatics as a discipline. To suggest significant future research directions with the purpose of stimulating further discussion. METHODS Exploring and discussing important developments in medical informatics from the past and in the present by way of examples. Reflecting on the role of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association, in influencing...

Paulo Marcondes Carvalho-Junior, MD, MSc , Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD 1 Professor and Chairman, Medical Informatics, Marilia Medical School of, São Paulo, Brazil, and Doctoral Student, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, State University of Campinas. 2 Professor and Chairman, Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, State University of Campi...

The terrorist attacks of September 2001 and the subsequent deliberate dissemination of anthrax have stimulated public awareness of the need in both the public health and clinical health care systems to quickly detect and respond to altered patterns of disease in communities across the nation. Debate over the capacity of the existing systems to fully respond to these demands has created a sense ...