Informatics
and life sciences are two disciplines that present a symbiotic
relationship. On the one hand, many strategies used in computing
systems, especially in artificial intelligence, are based in biological
principles; typical examples of these strategies are neural networks
and genetic algorithms. On the other hand, we can find these computing
strategies applied to biological and medical problems; for example in
clinical decision support systems that aid doctors in the difficult
task of medical diagnosis. This session is focused on the presentation
of systems based on soft computing techniques that, in some way, help
medical specialists (doctors, nurses, etc.) in their clinical tasks.