Medical cybernetics

Medical Cybernetics includes a befindliches in development work program for the application of systems theory, news theoretical, connectionist and decision- analytical concepts for biomedical research and clinical medicine.

The medical cybernetics deals with the study of human biological effect of microstructure, medical decision-making and information processing of physiological processes in living organisms.

Differentiation areas

• Medical Systems Theory: The objective of the Medical System theory is the identification and modeling of physiological dynamics in healthy and diseased organism to gain a deeper insight into the organizational principles of life and its problems.

• Medical Information and Communication Theory: Based on the awareness of information as an essential foundation of life attempts to describe mathematically the biomedical information theory, signal transmission and storage processes in various physiological levels.

• Connectionism: Connectionist models describe the information processing in neural networks, thus forming a bridge between biological research and technical application.

• Medical Decision Theory: The objective of the Medical Decision theory is to formulate evidence-based foundation for clinical decision-making.

Scientist

• William 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 research groups ( in German)

• Biological Cybernetics / Theoretical Biology, University of Bielefeld
• Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen