AIME 89: Second European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, London, August 29th–31st 1989. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Role of Clinical Judgment Analysis in the Development of Medical Expert Systems....Pages 3-13
The Development of a Knowledge System for Surveillance of Anti-Epileptic Medication....Pages 14-23
Medical Analysis of Automatically Induced Diagnostic Rules....Pages 24-36
Machine Learning as a Knowledge Acquisition Tool Application in the Domain of the Interpretation of Test Results....Pages 37-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
A Model-Based Diagnostic Expert System for Skeletal Dysplasias....Pages 47-56
KIDS: A Specialized Architecture for Medical Image Interpretation....Pages 57-61
A symbolic theory of decision-making applied to several medical tasks....Pages 62-71
Some Issues in the Control of Interactive Differential Diagnosis....Pages 72-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Attributed Conditional Rewriting Systems as a Tool for ECG Description and Interpretation....Pages 79-83
An Expert System for Automatic Phonomechanocardiographic Diagnosis....Pages 84-87
Implementing ESTROPID — An E xpert S ystem for Tropi cal D iseases....Pages 88-92
The Benefits of Expert Systems in Health Care. Practical Experiences from CATEG05-ES....Pages 93-97
An Explanation Driven Architecture for a Knowledge Based System in Post-Operative Care....Pages 98-107
Design of a Knowledge-Based Decision Support System for Anesthesia Using Simulators Supporting Knowledge Acquisition and Validation....Pages 108-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Connectionist models in medicine: an investigation of their potential....Pages 115-124
Therapy Planning by Combining Ai and Decision Theoretic Techniques....Pages 125-134
The Quantitative Management of Linguistic Terms in a Knowledge Engineering Tool: Application to Medical Reasoning....Pages 135-144
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A qualitative model of iron metabolism....Pages 147-156
Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Cardiac Electrophysiology....Pages 157-166
Implementation and Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based System for the Interpretation of Laboratory Data....Pages 167-176
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Simulating Generic Situations on Causal Models....Pages 177-186
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A PC-Based Decision Support/Patient Management System for Thyroid Disease....Pages 189-198
Sade — A Support Tool for the Diagnosis of Liver Diseases....Pages 199-203
A Consultation System for Transplantation Medicine....Pages 204-213
A Microcomputer-Based Expert System for the Explanation of Oliguria....Pages 214-218
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Design of a generic information system and its application to Primary Care....Pages 221-233
A Knowledge System Architecture for Diagnostic Reasoning....Pages 234-243
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The ALARM Monitoring System: A Case Study with two Probabilistic Inference Techniques for Belief Networks....Pages 247-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
An Analysis of Uncertainty in British General Practice: Implications of a Preliminary Survey....Pages 259-268
The Use of a Production System for Simulation Analysis of Tumour Cell Migration in vitro : Development of a Specialized Control Strategy....Pages 269-275
GAUSS: A Generalised Approach to Updating Scanner Strategies....Pages 276-285
Explanation Improvement to Enhance Acceptance of the Plexus System....Pages 286-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Diagnostic Decision Support Based on Generic Disease Descriptions and Detailed Anatomical Knowledge....Pages 299-308
MEDES as a tool for different reasoning strategies....Pages 309-314
Knowledge Acquisition Using Syntactic Time Patterns....Pages 315-324
A Concurrent Navigational System among Distributed Knowledge Sources....Pages 325-330