目次

Introduction. List of Contributors. SECTION I. Technical Aspects.Chapter 1. Hardware: history and general aspects (B. Richards). Chapter2. Software applications (F.R. Jelovsek). Chapter 3. Computercommunications (A.V. Stokes). SECTION II. Computers and MedicalEquipment. Chapter 4. Imaging and graphics: displaying anatomical,physiological and numerical information in obstetrics and gynecology(D.R. Mattison). Chapter 5. Computer-assisted fetal monitoring (M.Y.Divon and D.R. Boucher). Chapter 6. Computerised microscopy ingynaecology; expert systems (O.A.N. Husain). Chapter 7. Fetalactocardiogram (K. Maeda et al). Chapter 8. Obstetrical monitoring bylong-distance telemetry (K.J. Dalton). Chapter 9. Computers inultrasonic imaging (G. Kossoff). SECTION III. Computers for ClinicalData Collection. Chapter 10. Clinical data collection: generalprinciples (T. Chard). Chapter 11. Obstetric data collection (H.M.L.Jenkins). Chapter 12. The use of computers to obtain patient historiesin gynecology (R.J. Lilford). Chapter 13. Microcomputers in infertilityand endocrinology (W. Thompson and R.B. Beattie). Chapter 14.Nationwide analysis of malformation in perinatal deaths (K. Yamamoto etal). SECTION IV. Computers for Diagnosis (Expert Systems) & Treatment.Chapter 15. Expert systems in obstetrics and gynecology (A. Schreinerand T. Chard). Chapter 16. Computing and clinical genetics (R.M.Winter). Chapter 17. Decision analysis in obstetrics and gynecology(R.J. Lilford and J.G. Thornton). SECTION V. Computers inAdministration. Chapter 18. Office financial and administrativeapplications (F.R. Jelovsek). Chapter 19. The Korner minimum data set(S.L. Barron). Chapter 20. Cancer registry and recall systems (J.T.Casagrande et al). SECTION VI. Medico-Legal Aspects of Computing.Chapter 21. Liability exposure for the use of computers in obstetricsand gynecology (V.M. Brannigan and E.C. Mola). SECTION VII. Computersin Education. Chapter 22. On-line databases (K.J. Dalton). Chapter 23.Educational computing and medicine (D. Ingram). Chapter 24. Interactivecomputing in medical education (M.J. Ackerman). SECTION VIII. Futuresof Computers in Reproductive Medicine. Chapter 25. Future directions(F.R. Jelovsek et al).