Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2001 Cascais, Portugal, July 1–4, 2001, Proceedings

Mediated Agent Interaction....Pages 1-15
On Articulation and Localization - Some Sociotechnical Issues of Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Knowledge Based Systems....Pages 16-19
Prototype Selection and Feature Subset Selection by Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. A Case Study in the Survival of Cirrhotic Patients Treated with TIPS....Pages 20-29
Detection of Infectious Outbreaks in Hospitals through Incremental Clustering....Pages 30-39
Mining Data from a Knowledge Management Perspective: An Application to Outcome Prediction in Patients with Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma....Pages 40-49
Discovering Associations in Clinical Data: Application to Search for Prognostic Factors in Hodgkin’s Disease....Pages 50-54
Visualisation of Multidimensional Data for Medical Decision Support....Pages 55-58
A clustering-based constructive induction method and its application to rheumatoid arthritis ....Pages 59-62
Improving Identification of Difficult Small Classes by Balancing Class Distribution....Pages 63-66
Credal Classification for Dementia Screening....Pages 67-76
Evaluation of Prognostic Factors and Prediction of Chronic Wound Healing Rate by Machine Learning Tools....Pages 77-87
Making Reliable Diagnoses with Machine Learning: A Case Study....Pages 88-98
A Classification-Tree Hybrid Method for Studying Prognostic Models in Intensive Care....Pages 99-108
Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning in Analysis of the CHD Patient Database....Pages 109-112
Coronary Heart Disease Patient Models Based on Inductive Machine Learning....Pages 113-116
Prediction of Protein Secondary Structures of All Types Using New Hypersphere Machine Learning Method....Pages 117-120
Integrating Different Methodologies for Insulin Therapy Support in Type 1 Diabetic Patients....Pages 121-130
Diagnosing Patient State in Intensive Care Patients Using the Intelligent Ventilator (INVENT) System....Pages 131-135
A User Interface for Executing Asbru Plans....Pages 136-139
Improving HISYS1 with a Decision Support System....Pages 140-143
Diagnosis of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Hemodialyzed Patients through Support Vector Machines Technique....Pages 144-147
A Visual Tool for a User-Friendly Artificial Neural Network Based Decision Support System in Medicine....Pages 148-151
Modeling of Ventricular Repolarisation Time Series by Multi-Layer Perceptrons....Pages 152-155
Expert Knowledge and Its Role in Learning Bayesian Networks in Medicine: An Appraisal....Pages 156-166
Improving the Diagnostic Performance of MUNIN by Remodelling of the Diseases....Pages 167-176
Extended Bayesian Regression Models: A Symbiotic Application of Belief Networks and Multilayer Perceptrons for the Classification of Ovarian Tumors....Pages 177-187
The Effects of Disregarding Test Characteristics in Probabilistic Networks....Pages 188-198
Knowledge Acquisition and Automated Generation of Bayesian Networks for a Medical Dialogue and Advisory System....Pages 199-202
Educational Tool for Diabetic Patients Based on Causal Probabilistic Networks....Pages 203-206
NasoNet, Joining Bayesian Networks, and Time to Model Nasopharyngeal Cancer Spread....Pages 207-216
Using time-oriented data abstraction methods to optimize oxygen supply for neonates....Pages 217-226
Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical Abstractions: A User Interface Based on Novel Metaphors....Pages 227-230
Using Temporal Probabilistic Knowledge for Medical Decision Making....Pages 231-234
Temporal Issues in the Intelligent Interpretation of the Sleep Apnea Syndrome....Pages 235-238
Generating Symbolic and Natural Language Partial Solutions for Inclusion in Medical Plans....Pages 239-248
Using Part-of-Speech and Word-Sense Disambiguation for Boosting String-Edit Distance Spelling Correction....Pages 249-257
Semantic Interpretation of Medical Language - Quantitative Analysis and Qualitative Yield....Pages 258-267
Medical Knowledge Acquisition from the Electronic Encyclopedia of China....Pages 268-271
Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning Under Uncertainty in Medical Decision Making....Pages 272-282
Comparison of Rule-Based and Bayesian Network Approaches in Medical Diagnostic Systems....Pages 283-292
Parts, Locations, and Holes — Formal Reasoning about Anatomical Structures....Pages 293-303
Abductive Inference of Genetic Networks....Pages 304-313
Interface of Inference Models with Concept and Medical Record Models....Pages 314-323
Integrating Ripple Down Rules with Ontologies in an Oncology Domain....Pages 324-327
Towards a Simple Ontology Definition Language (SOntoDL) for a Semantic Web of Evidence-Based Medical Information....Pages 328-331
Knowledge Acquisition System to Support Low Vision Consultation....Pages 332-338
Systematic Construction of Texture Features for Hashimoto’s Lymphocytic Thyroiditis Recognition from Sonographic Images....Pages 339-348
Dynamic Adaptation of Cooperative Agents for MRI Brain Scans Segmentation....Pages 349-358
Numeric and Symbolic Knowledge Representation of Cortex Anatomy Using Web Technologies....Pages 359-368
Depth-Four Threshold Circuits for Computer-Assisted X-ray Diagnosis....Pages 369-372
Management of Hospital Teams for Organ Transplants Using Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 374-383
An AI-Based Approach to Support Communication in Health Care Organizations....Pages 384-394
TAME Time Resourcing in Academic Medical Environments....Pages 395-404
A Conceptual Framework to Model Chronic and Long-Term Diseases....Pages 405-408
Modelling of Radiological Examinations with POKMAT, a Process Oriented Knowledge Management Tool....Pages 409-412
A Multi-Agent System for Organ Transplant Co-ordination....Pages 413-416
A Platform Integrating Knowledge and Data Management for EMG Studies....Pages 417-420
Using ONCODOC as a Computer-Based Eligibility Screening System to Improve Accrual onto Breast Cancer Clinical Trials....Pages 421-430
Using Critiquing for Improving Medical Protocols: Harder than It Seems....Pages 431-442
Evaluating the Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Stroke Outcomes....Pages 442-452
Challenges in Evaluating Complex Decision Support Systems: Lessons from Design-a-Trial....Pages 453-456
On the Evaluation of Probabilistic Networks....Pages 457-461
Evaluation of a Case-Based Antibiotics Therapy Adviser....Pages 462-466