Resumen
The article discusses the benefits of problem-solving environments and advanced visualization on the complexity of biomedical computing. Computer simulation and visualization have significantly influenced and improved the field of biomedicine over the past two decades. The complexity of the scientific computing process has become a major hindrance to further use of advanced computing tools in biomedical research and patient treatment. Sources of this complexity include the number of equations and variables required to represent realistic functions, the size of the resulting systems and data sets and the diversity of the computational resources required to support significant understanding of biomedical phenomena and medical treatment. The future of biomedical computing depends on an integrated software environment that ideally combines software from multiple sources into a computational workbench and that allows multidisciplinary specialists to contribute specific tools to the workbench without having to be expert in all other fields.