Machine learning in medicine Machine Learning in Medicine covers the state of the art techniques of machine learning and their applications in the medical field. It presents several Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems which have played an important role in the diagnosis of several diseases in the past decade e.g. cancer detection resulting in the development of several successful systems. This book will help to advance scientific research within the broad field of machine learning in the medical field. The book focuses on major trends and challenges in this area and it presents work aimed at identifying new techniques and their use in biomedical analysis including extensive references at the end of each chapter