Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME '95 Pavia, Italy, June 25–28, 1995 Proceedings

A component-based architecture for automation of protocol-directed therapy....Pages 1-13
Coordinating taxonomies: Key to re-usable concept representations....Pages 15-28
Generating personalised patient information using the medical record....Pages 29-41
Analysis of medical jargon: The RECIT system....Pages 42-52
Medical knowledge representation for medical report analysis....Pages 53-64
Modelling medical concepts as time-objects....Pages 65-78
Modeling medical reasoning with the Event Calculus: an application to the management of mechanical ventilation....Pages 79-90
A general framework for building patient monitoring systems....Pages 91-102
Semi-qualitative models and simulation for biomedical applications....Pages 103-114
Generating explanations of pathophysiological system behaviors from qualitative simulation of compartmental models....Pages 115-126
An information-based bayesian approach to history taking....Pages 127-138
Medical decision making using Ignorant Influence Diagrams....Pages 139-150
Dynamic propagation in causal probabilistic networks with instantiated variables....Pages 151-162
Alerts as starting point for hospital infection surveillance and control....Pages 163-172
Cooperative software agents for patient management....Pages 173-184
High level control strategies for diabetes therapy....Pages 185-196
Therapy planning using qualitative trend descriptions....Pages 197-208
Adaptation and abstraction in a case-based antibiotics therapy adviser....Pages 209-217
Field evaluations of a knowledge-based system for peripheral blood interpretation....Pages 219-230
Functional evaluation of SETH: An expert system in clinical toxicology....Pages 231-238
Evaluating a neural network decision-support tool for the diagnosis of breast cancer....Pages 239-250
Knowledge-based systems for lymph node pathology: A comparison of two approaches....Pages 251-261
Mapping laboratory medicine onto the select and test model to facilitate knowledge-based report generation in laboratory medicine....Pages 263-275
Machine learning techniques applied to the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain....Pages 276-281
Reflections on building medical decision support systems and corresponding implementation in diagnostics shell D3....Pages 282-292
Decision models for cost-effectiveness analysis: a means for knowledge sharing and quality control in health care multidisciplinary tasks....Pages 293-306
Model-based application: The Galen structured clinical user interface....Pages 307-318
A knowledge-based modelling of hospital information systems components....Pages 319-330
Use of a conceptual semi-automatic ICD-9 encoding system in an hospital environment....Pages 331-339
Quality assurance and increased efficiency in medical projects with neural networks by using a structured development method for feedforward neural networks (SENN)....Pages 341-354
A prototype neural network decision-support tool for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction....Pages 355-366
Integration of neural networks and rule based systems in the interpretation of liver biopsy images....Pages 367-378
A cooperative and adaptive approach to medical image segmentation....Pages 379-390
COBRA: Integration of knowledge-bases with case-databases in the domain of congenital malformation....Pages 391-394
Case-based medical multi-expertise: an example in psychiatry....Pages 395-396
TIME-NESIS: A data model in managing time granularity of natural-language clinical information....Pages 397-398
Induction of expert system rules from databases based on rough set theory and resampling methods....Pages 399-400
Sequential knowledge acquisition: Combining models and cases....Pages 401-402
Medical fuzzy expert systems and reasoning about beliefs....Pages 403-404
Diagnosis of human acid-base balance states via combined pattern recognition for Markov chains....Pages 405-406
Intelligence formation problems in children at an early age applying new computer technologies under conditions of rehabilitation center....Pages 407-408
Telecardiology....Pages 409-410
Modelling a sharable medical concept system: Ontological foundation in GALEN....Pages 411-412
A graph-based approach to the structural analysis of proliferative breast lesions.....Pages 413-414
A workstation for clinical decision support in a local area network for cardiology....Pages 415-416
Knowledge-based education tool to improve quality in diabetes care....Pages 417-418
NEPHARM: A pharmacokinetic database for adjusting drug dosage to impaired renal function....Pages 419-420
A hybrid architecture for knowledge-based systems....Pages 421-422
Representing medical context using rule-based object-oriented programming techniques....Pages 423-424
Integration of Neural Networks and knowledge-based systems in medicine....Pages 425-426
Generated critic in the knowledge based neurology trainer....Pages 427-428
An approach to analysis of qualitative data with insufficient number of quantization levels....Pages 429-430
Inductively learned rule for breast cancer domain with improved interobserver reproducibility....Pages 431-432
Development and evaluation of a knowledge-based system to support ventilator therapy management....Pages 433-434
A neural support to the prognostic evaluation of Cardiac Surgery....Pages 435-436
DECISion-support system for radiological diagnostic....Pages 437-438
A preliminary investigation into the analysis of electromyographic activity using a system of multiple neural networks....Pages 439-440
Knowledge-based system to predict the effect of pregnancy on progression of diabetic retinopathy....Pages 441-442
A software to evaluate multislices radiotherapic treatment planning....Pages 443-443
TKR-tool: An expert system for Total Knee Replacement management....Pages 444-446