Medical cybernetics
Medical cybernetics comprises an emerging work program for the application of systems-theoretical, message-theoretical, connectionist and decision-analytical concepts for biomedical research and clinical medicine .
Medical cybernetics deals with the investigation of human biological effects, medical decision-making and physiological information processing processes in the living organism.
Differentiation areas
- Medical systems theory : The aim of medical systems theory is to identify and model physiological dynamics in healthy and diseased organisms in order to gain deeper insights into the organizational principles of life and its disorders.
- Medical information and communication theory : Based on the awareness of information as an essential basis of life, biomedical communication theory tries to mathematically describe signal transmission and storage processes on various physiological levels.
- Connectionism : Connectionist models describe the processing of information in neural networks and thus form a bridge between biological research and technical application.
- Medical Decision Theory : The aim of Medical Decision Theory is to formulate evidence-based foundations for clinical decision-making processes.
scientist
- W. Ross Ashby
- Claude Bernard
- Valentin Braitenberg
- Walter Cannon
- Stephen Grossberg
- Humberto Maturana
- Warren McCulloch
- Horst Mittelstaedt
- Walter Pitts
- Arturo Rosenblueth
- Francisco Varela
- Frederic Vester
- Paul Watzlawick
Institutes and scientific working groups (in German)
- Biological Cybernetics / Theoretical Biology, Bielefeld University
- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics , Tübingen
literature
- JW Dietrich: Medical cybernetics - a short definition. In: Medical Cybernetics | Medical cybernetics. http://www.medizinische-kybernetik.de/definition.html (June 13, 2004).
- F. Tretter: Systems Theory in a Clinical Context. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich / Berlin / Bremen / Miami / Riga / Viernheim / Vienna / Zagreb 2005, ISBN 3-89967-182-1 .
