Computers and Mathematical Models in Medicine: Medical Sessions of the First Conference on Mathematics at the Service of Man Barcelona, July 11–16, 1977 (Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, 9)

The papers gathered in this volume were presented at the medical sessions of the First Conference on Mathematics at the Service of Man held in Barcelona, Spain, July 11-16, 1977. Papers presented at the medical sessions were more numerous than those pre­ sented in any other single area of specialization covered in the conference. Because pf this, the Publications Committee resolved that papers presented at medical sessions be published separately from the proceedings of the conference. The proceedings of the conference have been published by the Esco1a Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura de 1a Universitat Po1itecnica of Barcelona. The papers contained in this volume were selected on the basis of current interest and willingness of the authors to publish. They are organized not accord­ ing to the sequence in which they were presented at the conference, but, to the extent that this was possible, in topic areas. As its name indicates, the principal purpose of the conference was to under­ score the fact that mathematics is a science whose applications are relevant to many aspects of human activity. In the opinion of the editors of this volume, the conference met its objective with success, both in terms of the broad variety of topics covered as well as by the number of nations that were represented at the conference in spite of the special circumstances prevailing in Spain at that time. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Opening Remarks....Pages 1-4 Use of Fast Haar Transform and Shannon’s Theory of Information in ECG Diagnosis according to Lester Method....Pages 5-23 Mathematical Methods Applied to Image Processing in Medicine....Pages 24-97 Mathematical Models in Oncology: State of the Art....Pages 98-120 Tactical Aspects in the Use of Linear Discriminant Analysis....Pages 121-133 On Drug-Receptor Reaction Constants for Partial Agonists. Interaction with two Receptor Subtypes....Pages 134-139 The Incidence of Infectious Diseases under the Influence of Seasonal Fluctuations — Periodic Modes....Pages 140-156 Applications of Growth Curve Analysis to Biomedical Problems....Pages 157-173 A Matrix Theoretical Theorem and its Application in Medical Diagnosis....Pages 174-178 Addendum....Pages 179-179 Medical Diagnosis with Non-Parametric Allocation Rules....Pages 180-188 Analysis of Errors in Problems of Physiopathological Discrimination among Subjects....Pages 189-204 Classification of Successive Observations within a Bayesian Linear Model....Pages 205-213 Diagnostic Classification of Medical History Data....Pages 214-231 Computer Aid for the Screening Test of Pancreatic Diseases....Pages 232-238 Models of Different Parts of a Medical Information System....Pages 239-247 Optimal Scheduling for Cancer Radiotherapy....Pages 248-261 The Recognition of Modern Trends in Oncology by Means of Bibliometric Analysis....Pages 262-272 Structural Analysis of General Practices in Lower Saxony....Pages 273-284 A Simulation Model of a Regional Health System for Planners....Pages 285-299 An Analysis of the Logistics of Supplying and Processing Sterilized Items in Hospitals....Pages 300-312 Back Matter....Pages 313-315 This work contains papers from the First Conference on Mathematics at the Service of Man, which focused on computers and mathematical models uses and effects in the medical field