Neural Networks in Healthcare: Potential and Challenges

Healthcare costs around the globe are on the rise, creating a strong need for new ways of assisting the requirements of the healthcare system. Besides applications in other areas, neural networks have naturally found many promising applications in the health and medicine areas. Neural Networks in Healthcare: Potential and Challenges presents interesting and innovative developments from leading experts and scientists working in health, biomedicine, biomedical engineering, and computing areas. This book covers many important and state-of-the-art applications in the areas of medicine and healthcare, including: cardiology, electromyography, electroencephalography, gait and human movement, therapeutic drug monitoring for patient care, sleep apnea, and computational fluid dynamics areas. Neural Networks in Healthcare: Potential and Challenges is a useful source of information for researchers, professionals, lecturers, and students from a wide range of disciplines. Readers of this book will be able to use the ideas for further research efforts in this very important and highly multidisciplinary area.

Dr. Rezaul Begg received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. Eng degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, and his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Aberdeen, U.K. Currently, he is a Faculty member within the Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise & Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He researches in Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics and Machine Learning areas.

Joarder Kamruzzaman received B.Sc and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1986 & 1989 respectively, and a PhD in Information System Engineering from Muroran Institute of technology, Japan in 1993. Currently he is a faculty member in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. His research interest includes computational intelligence, computer networks and bioinformatics etc. He has published more than 70 refereed papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is currently serving as a program committee member of a number of international conferences.

Dr. Ruhul Sarker received his Ph.D. in 1991 from DalTech, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Operations Research at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, ADFA Campus, Canberra, Australia.