DISEASE MARKERS, VOL. 11,283-284 (1993) ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND EXPERT SYSTEMS IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE 24-26 August, 1994 Plymouth, England Organised by Plymouth Postgraduate Medical Schools and Centre for Intelligent Systems, University of Plymouth Honorary Conference Chairman: Professor Bruce McA. Sayers WHO and Imperial College, London In co-operation with The Institute of Physical Sciences in Medicine The Royal Society of Medicine Conference Co-Chairman: Dr. Emmanuel Ifeachor Centre for Intelligent Systems, University of Plymouth In the last few years there has been an explosion of interest in a number of intelligent systems techniques, notably in Neural Networks and Expert Systems. Medicine and healthcare have emerged as fertile areas for the application of these techniques because they require expertise (which is not always available), often involve non-trivial pattern recognition tasks, and because of difficulties with conventional methods. The aims of the conference are to bring together research engineers, medical informaticians, scientists, and medical experts, to discuss actual and potential applica- tions of neural networks and expert systems in medicine and healthcare, and to identify their benefits, limitations, current and future roles. The organisers invite papers from prospective authors in academia, industry, govern- ment and private organisations world wide in all areas of medicine and healthcare including, but not limited to biosignal processing, medical image processing, cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, neurology, radiology, occupational medicine, drugs and administration of medicine, patient management, therapy, prevention of diseases, care and rehabilitation, public health, and data security. Papers should come under one of the following general headings: • Neural Networks & Expert Systems Techniques • Neural Networks & Expert Systems Applications • Integration of Neural Networks & Expert Systems into Clinical Environment • Software/Hardware Tools & Environments © 1993 ASFRA B.Y. 284 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND EXPERT SYSTEMS Practical papers are strongly encouraged, especially those that demonstrate signifi- cant potential improvements in medicine or healthcare, or cover topics such as the use of consensus expertise; limitations of neural networks or expert systems, safety and legal issues; hybrid neural networks-expert systems, integration with other techniques, e.g. genetic algorithms and multimedia; decision support tools; uncertainty handling with fuzzy logic; clinical verification, validation and assessment, integration of neural networks and expert systems into clinical information systems and environments, user interface, intelligent databases; computer aided tutoring; novel software tools and techniques. TUTORIAL COURSE on Expert Systems and Neural Networks 23 August 1994 Plymouth, England The tutorial will provide a practical introduction to the principles and techniques of neural networks and expert systems. It will be presented by respected experts in the fields, and should be of particular interest to clinicians, academics and industrialists who are considering the application of intelligent systems techniques to their problems or who want a good appreciation of the principles involved. 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