ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the applications of fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems technology in medicine and biology from a historical perspective. In addition to the presentation of the first bibliography of the early years, an analysis of past evolution and the current development of the field and its perspectives is presented. Fuzzy logic has provided a basis for representing uncertain and imprecise knowledge and formed a basis for human reasoning representation in medical and biomedical engineering applications. The tremendous advances in the theory of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic have resulted in the flourishing applications of these techniques in medicine and biomedical engineering. Indeed, fuzzy logic techniques have been successfully used in a number of applications including medicine and bio-medical engineering. The domain of neural networks is as much a section of the fields of theoretical biology, neurology, and behavioural science, as it is a domain of automata theory and of engineering in general.
