The Medical tag relates to coding solutions in the field of medicine. For example; medical imaging, pattern recognition as applied to diseases, visual diagnostics, etc.
What is medicine?
Medicine is the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. This can include many disciplines covering the spectrum from clinical patient care and administration to scientific research, medical technology and large scale data analysis.
Stack Overflow is concerned primarily with computer programming. Thus for any question relating to programming within the field of medicine, it is appropriate to use the tag medical. However, please follow the guidance to ensure that you are asking a question appropriate to Stack Overflow. At the bottom there is a list of related Stack Exchange sites which may be more appropriate for your question.
As this is a broad field that includes many disciplines, it is important to use other tags appropriately. Always include the tag of the programming language, platform, framework or API that you are using, as well as any other particular technologies.
Related tags
bioinformatics, image-processing
Related Stack Exchange Sites
- Sciences: Medical Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology & neuroscience
- Software: Software Engineering, Web Applications
- Technology: Signal Processing, Data science, Bioinformatics
