Abstract
The article presents a fast portable system to provide health professionals with solutions for pre-operative surgical planning and decision making in real time. The system employs an effective computational environment for solving partial and ordinary differential equations based on neural networks. This approach is implemented partially on a specialized hardware board to exploit the fact that neural networks constitute massively parallel systems. The system also contains a powerful and convenient graphical user interface. There are tools to visualize and/or animate 2-D and 3-D data, and a customized interactive environment where particular biomedical problems can be easily processed and formulat