Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolutionary computation : a brief overview / Stefano Cagnoni and Leonardo Vaneschi -- A review of medical applications of genetic and evolutionary computation / Stephen L. Smith -- Evolutionary deformable models for medical image segmentation / Chris McIntosh and Ghassan Hamarneh -- Feature selection for the classification of microcalcifications in digital mammograms using genetic algorithms, sequential search, and class separability / Santiago E. Conant-Pablos, Rolando R. Hern�andez-Cisneros and Hugo Terashima-Marin -- Hybrid detection of features within the retinal fundus using a genetic algorithm / Vitoantonio Bevilacqua ... [et al.] -- Genetic programming for exploring medical data using visual spaces / Julio J. Valdes, Alan J. Barton, and Robert Orchard -- An interactive search for rules in medical data using multiobjective evolutionary algorithms / Daniela Zaharie, Diana Lungeanu, and Flavia Zamfirache -- Analysis of mammography reports using maximum variation sampling / Robert M. Patton, Barbara G. Beckerman, and Thomas E. Potok -- Towards an alternative to magnetic resonance imaging for vocal tract shape measurement using the principles of evolution / David M. Howard, Andy M. Tyrrell, and Crispin Cooper -- The objective assessment of visuo-spatial ability using implicit context representation cartesian genetic programming / Michael A. Lones and Stephen L. Smith -- How genetic algorithms can improve pacemaker efficiency / Laurent Dumas and Linda El Alaoui -- The future for genetic and evolutionary computation in medicine : opportunities, challenges and rewards.