Related Fields
Biomedical Engineering - ECG, devices
- MI higher level of abstraction
Electrical Engineering - hardware
- computer science - algorithms, closer to mathematics, MI specific to health domain
Medical Computer Science - subdivision of computer science
- MI more practical, includes users
- evaluation is critical to MI
Cognitive Science - AI and psychology
- MI not concerned with studying human brain
Information Theory - physics of communication
Information (library) Science - manage paper/elec info
- MI is close to this
- but MI not limited to info. storage and retrieval
Software Industry - producing products
- MI stresses evaulation
- MI not dependent on selling products