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- Brings together recent advances in different areas: optimization and mathematical modeling, computer science, and medicine
- International group of experts in operations research, computer science, and medicine
Part of the book series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA, volume 26)
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About this book
Handbook of Optimization in Medicine is devoted to examining the dramatic increase in the application of effective optimization techniques to the delivery of health care. The articles, written by experts from the areas of operations research, computer science, and medicine, focus on models and algorithms that have led to more efficient and sophisticated treatments of patients.
Topics covered include: optimization in medical imaging, classification and data mining with medical applications, treatment of epilepsy and other brain disorders, treatment of head-and-neck, prostate, and other cancers using conventional conformal and intensity-modulated radiation therapy as well as proton therapy, treatment selection for breast cancer based on new classification schemes, optimization for the genome project, optimal timing of organ transplants.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Optimization in Medicine
Editors: H. Edwin Romeijn, Panos M. Pardalos
Series Title: Springer Optimization and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b100322
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09769-5Published: 22 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3532-8Published: 08 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09770-1Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1931-6828
Series E-ISSN: 1931-6836
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 442
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Optimization, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Applications of Mathematics