Contributors to Nineteen Years History of Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association

Abstract

Biomedical Fuzzy System Association (BMFSA) was established in May of 1985 and the first annual meeting was held in February of 1989. Many presidents of BMFSA, many chairmen and program chiefs of annual meetings, chief editors of journals and many earnest members contributed to progress of BMFSA and development of the soft computing sciences. Unfortunately it is said that BMFSA is coming to "the corner" in its history. From the view point of looking back the past history and forecasting the coming future, I tried to survey the activities of many contributors to nineteen years history of BMFSA, through the journals and the paper books of national annual meetings. The analyzed result are summarized into eleven categories : 1. Fuzzy theory, 2. Neural network, 3. G. A. and Chaos theory, 4. Self-Organizing Maps, 5. Medical diagnosis, 6. Health checkup, 7. Control, 8. Pattern recognition and Medical image processing, 9. Psychology and Sensation sciences, 10. Sociology and Economics, and 11. Oriental medicine.