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This paper describes the proceedings of the workshop on Biomedical Statistics and Computation of the Fourth Annual Symposium on the Interface. This was a two day symposium held at the University of California at Irvine on September 17 & 18, 1970. It was sponsored jointly by the ACM, ASA, and the California Mathematics Council. Dr. Tarter chaired this workshop. The thirty participants in this workshop represented all of the disciplines which combine to become Biocomputer Statistics. There were physicians both interested in and active in computer applications to medicine, directors of biomathematics and biostatistics programs, computer specialists, and mathematical and applied statisticians, as well as medical students. It should be noted that the three other workshops at the Interface Symposium were more concerned with computer hardware and software and thus attracted most of the pure computer specialists. This tended to weight this workshop with a large proportion of statisticians.

This paper proposes a family of new methods for the storage and reconstruction of binary patterns by means of block-projections. More flexibility and less ambiguity is thus achieved. A complete analysis is presented in terms of (i) storage requirements, (ii) computation, and (iii) unambiguity ratio. Furthermore, applications to general patterns are described.