chapter 1 Introduction / chapter 2 Systems Modeling and Control Applied to Medicine / chapter 3 Intelligent Control Systems in Anesthesia / chapter 4 Control Methods and Intelligent Systems in the Quality Control of Megavoltage Treatment Machines / chapter 5 Neural, Fuzzy, and Neurofuzzy Systems for Medical Applications / chapter 6 The Soft Computing Technique of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Decision Making in Radiotherapy / chapter 7 Artificial Neural Networks in Radiation Therapy / chapter 8 Neural Networks for Estimating Probability Distributions for Survival Analysis / chapter 9 Some Applications of Intelligent Systems in Cancer Treatment: A Review / chapter 10 Fuzzy Systems and Deformable Models / chapter 11 Texture Analysis and Classification Techniques for Cancer Diagnosis