title: Fuzzy set theory in medicine.
abstract: Indeed, the complexity of biological systems may force us to alter in radical ways our traditional approaches to the analysis of such systems. Thus, we may have to accept as unavoidable a substantial degree of fuzziness in the description of the behavior of biological systems as well as in their characterization. This fuzziness, distasteful though it may be, is the price we have to pay for the ineffectiveness of precise mathematical techniques in dealing with systems comprising a very large number of interacting elements or involving a large number of variables in their decision trees.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Steimann
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D008962:Models, Theoretical