Medical cybernetics

Overview

• 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 : The Goal of MDT is to gather evidence based foundations for decision making in the clinical setting.