Medical cybernetics is a branch ofcybernetics which has been heavily affected by the development of thecomputer,^[1] which applies the concepts of cybernetics tomedical research and practice. At the intersection ofsystems biology,systems medicine and clinical applications it covers an emerging working program for the application ofsystems- andcommunication theory,connectionism anddecision theory on biomedical research and health related questions.

Medical cybernetics searches for quantitative descriptions of biological dynamics.^[2] It investigates intercausal networks inhuman biology,medical decision making andinformation processing structures in theliving organism.

Approaches of medical cybernetics include:

• 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.^[3][4][5] Its aim is to arrive at deeper insights into the organizational principles of life and its perturbations.^[2][6][7] Based on cybernetic models, improved diagnostical strategies^[8][9][10] and methods for personalised therapy of chronic diseases have been developed.^{[11][12][8][13][14][15]} With focus on medical application this field is also referred to assystems medicine.^[16]
• Medical information andcommunication theory: Motivated by the awareness of information being an essential principle of life, the application of communication theory to biomedicine aims at a mathematical description of signalling processes and information storage in different physiological layers.^[2] This attempt also includes theories on the information theory of the genetic code.^{[17][18][19][20][21]}
• Connectionism: Connectionistic models describe information processing in neural networks – thus forming a bridge between biological and technological research.^[2]
• Medical decision theory (MDT): The Goal of MDT is to gather evidence based foundations for decision making in the clinical setting.^[2]

• List of biomedical cybernetics software
• List of medical cybernetics schools, Colleges and Universities

• V.V. Parin (1959), "Introduction to medical Cybernetics" inNASA Technical Translation no.F-459-F-462, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959.
• C.A. Muses (1965). "Aspects of some crucial problems in biological and medical cybernetics". In:Progress in biocybernetics, 1965.

• Institute for Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Medical University Vienna, Austria
• Medical Cybernetics in the Open Encyclopedia Project
• Portal Server Medizinische Kybernetik | Medical Cybernetics
• UCLA Biocybernetics Laboratory, Los Angeles, Ca, USA

• Biomedical cybernetics

• CS1 German-language sources (de)
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