Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making, AIMDM'99 Aalborg, Denmark, June 20–24, 1999 Proceedings

From Clinical Guidelines to Decision Support....Pages 3-12
Artificial Intelligence for Building Learning Health Care Organizations....Pages 13-29
Timing Is Everything: Temporal Reasoning and Temporal Data Maintenance in Medicine....Pages 30-46
Machine Learning for Data Mining in Medicine....Pages 47-62
Guidelines-Based Workflow Systems....Pages 65-75
Enhancing Clinical Practice Guideline Compliance by Involving Physicians in the Decision Process....Pages 76-85
Application of Therapeutic Protocols: A Tool to Manage Medical Knowledge....Pages 86-90
From Description to Decision: Towards a Decision Support Training System for MR Radiology of the Brain....Pages 93-102
Internet-Based Decision-Support Server for Acute Abdominal Pain....Pages 103-112
Multi-modal Reasoning in Diabetic Patient Management....Pages 113-123
Experiences with Case-Based Reasoning Methods and Prototypes for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems....Pages 124-132
Exploting Social Reasoning of Open Multi-agent Systems to Enahnce Cooperation in Hospitals....Pages 133-137
Influence Diagrams for Neonatal Jaundice Management....Pages 138-142
Electronic Drug Prescribing and Administration - Bedside Medical Decision Making....Pages 143-147
Neonatal Ventilation Tutor (VIE-NVT), a Teaching Program for the Mechanical Ventilation of Newborn Infants....Pages 148-152
A Life-Cycle Based Authorisation Expert Database System....Pages 153-157
A Decision-Support System for the Identification, Staging, and Functional Evaluation of Liver Diseases ( HEPASCORE )....Pages 158-162
A Model-Based Approach for Learning to Identify Cardiac Arrhythmias....Pages 165-174
A Model-Based System for Pacemaker Reprogramming....Pages 175-184
Integrating Deep Biomedical Models into Medical Decision Support Systems: An Interval Constraint Approach....Pages 185-194
A Decision Theoretic Approach to Empirical Treatment of Bacteraemia Originating from the Urinary Tract....Pages 197-206
An ECG Ischemic Detection System Based on Self-Organizing Maps and a Sigmoid Function Pre-processing Stage....Pages 207-216
Neural Network Recognition of Otoneurological Vertigo Diseases with Comparison of Some Other Classification Methods....Pages 217-226
A Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Classifiers for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease in Stress-ECG....Pages 227-231
The Case-Based Neural Network Model and Its Use in Medical Expert Systems....Pages 232-236
A Medical Ontology Library That Integrates the UMLS Metathesaurus™....Pages 239-248
The Use of the UMLS Knowledge Sources for the Design of a Domain Specific Ontology: A Practical Experience in Blood Transfusion....Pages 249-253
Representing Knowledge Levels in Clinical Guidelines....Pages 254-258
Intelligent Analysis of Clinical Time Series by Combining Structural Filtering and Temporal Abstractions....Pages 261-270
Knowledge-Based Event Detection in Complex Time Series Data....Pages 271-280
Abstracting Steady Qualitative Descriptions over Time from Noisy, High-Frequency Data....Pages 281-290
Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical Therapy Planning....Pages 291-300
Visualizing Temporal Clinical Data on the WWW....Pages 301-311
Machine Learning in Stepwise Diagnostic Process....Pages 315-325
Refinement of Neuro-psychological Tests for Dementia Screening in a Cross Cultural Population Using Machine Learning....Pages 326-335
The Analysis of Head Injury Data Using Decision Tree Techniques....Pages 336-345
Machine Learning for Survival Analysis: A Case Study on Recurrence of Prostate Cancer....Pages 346-355
ICU Patient State Characterization Using Machine Learning in a Time Series Framework....Pages 356-360
Diagnostic Rules of Increased Reliability for Critical Medical Applications....Pages 361-365
Machine Learning Inspired Approaches to Combine Standard Medical Measures at an Intensive Care Unit?....Pages 366-371
A Screening Technique for Prostate Cancer by Hair Chemical Analysis and Artificial Intelligence....Pages 372-376
A Conversational Model for Health Promotion on the World Wide Web....Pages 379-388
Types of Knowledge Required to Personalise Smoking Cessation Letters....Pages 389-399
Small Is Beautiful — Compact Semantics for Medical Language Processing....Pages 400-410
Speech Driven Natural Language Understanding for Hands-Busy Recording of Clinical Information....Pages 411-415
Automatic Acquisition of Morphological Knowledge for Medical Language Processing....Pages 416-420
A Multi-agent System for MRI Brain Segmentation....Pages 423-432
Modelling Blood Vessels of the Eye with Parametric L-Systems Using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 433-442
Animating Medical and Safety Knowledge....Pages 443-447
Active Shape Models for Customised Prosthesis Design....Pages 448-452