V.I. Pokrovsky, N.A. Malyshev, I.D. Drynov, G.I. Drynov, V.P. Sergiyev. Systemic and Epidemiological Basics of Infectious Disease Diagnostics. Thoughts on Disease Diagnostics. Moscow, 2001, 264 p.

The monograph materials give understanding of the up-to-date approaches to diagnostics of human infectious diseases based on use of the general theory of systems, the theory of probabilities, and the theory of image recognition. The work sets forth the key principles of formation and practical use of the advising diagnostics systems being a promising area of the information and analysis software technologies to provide for the doctor's efforts aimed at identification of a reliable diagnosis and the optimum variant of therapeutic tactics of patient treatment.

The monograph can be interesting for a wide circle of physicians, infectious disease doctors, epidemiologists, and medical students dealing the problems of optimizing infectious disease diagnostic process and paying attention to development and use of computer diagnostics systems.

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