Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2003, Protaras, Cyprus, October 18-22, 2003. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
On-Line Extraction of Successive Temporal Sequences from ICU High-Frequency Data for Decision Support Information....Pages 1-10
Quality Assessment of Hemodialysis Services through Temporal Data Mining....Pages 11-20
Idan: A Distributed Temporal-Abstraction Mediator for Medical Databases....Pages 21-30
Prognosis of Approaching Infectious Diseases....Pages 31-35
Modeling Multimedia and Temporal Aspects of Semistructured Clinical Data....Pages 36-40
NEONATE: Decision Support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit – A Preliminary Report....Pages 41-45
Abstracting the Patient Therapeutic History through a Heuristic-Based Qualitative Handling of Temporal Indeterminacy....Pages 46-50
How to Represent Medical Ontologies in View of a Semantic Web?....Pages 51-60
Using Description Logics for Managing Medical Terminologies....Pages 61-70
Ontology for Task-Based Clinical Guidelines and the Theory of Granular Partitions....Pages 71-75
Speech Interfaces for Point-of-Care Guideline Systems....Pages 76-80
Text Categorization prior to Indexing for the CISMEF Health Catalogue....Pages 81-85
Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body....Pages 86-90
Multi-agent Approach for Image Processing: A Case Study for MRI Human Brain Scans Interpretation....Pages 91-100
Qualitative Simulation of Shock States in a Virtual Patient....Pages 101-111
3D Segmentation of MR Brain Images into White Matter, Gray Matter and Cerebro-Spinal Fluid by Means of Evidence Theory....Pages 112-116
A Knowledge-Based System for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 117-121
DEGEL: A Hybrid, Multiple-Ontology Framework for Specification and Retrieval of Clinical Guidelines....Pages 122-131
Experiences in the Formalisation and Verification of Medical Protocols....Pages 132-141
Enhancing Conventional Web Content with Intelligent Knowledge Processing....Pages 142-151
Linking Clinical Guidelines with Formal Representations....Pages 152-157
Computerised Advice on Drug Dosage Decisions in Childhood Leukaemia: A Method and a Safety Strategy....Pages 158-162
The NewGuide Project: Guidelines, Information Sharing and Learning from Exceptions....Pages 163-167
Managing Theoretical Single-Disease Guideline Recommendations for Actual Multiple-Disease Patients....Pages 168-172
Informal and Formal Medical Guidelines: Bridging the Gap....Pages 173-178
Rhetorical Coding of Health Promotion Dialogues....Pages 179-188
Learning Derived Words from Medical Corpora....Pages 189-198
Learning-Free Text Categorization....Pages 199-208
Knowledge-Based Query Expansion over a Medical Terminology Oriented Ontology on the Web....Pages 209-213
Linking Rules to Terminologies and Applications in Medical Planning....Pages 214-218
Classification of Ovarian Tumors Using Bayesian Least Squares Support Vector Machines....Pages 219-228
Attribute Interactions in Medical Data Analysis....Pages 229-238
Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Methods to Support Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma....Pages 239-243
Analysis of Gene Expression Data by the Logic Minimization Approach....Pages 244-248
A Journey trough Clinical Applications of Multimethod Decision Trees....Pages 249-253
Detailing Test Characteristics for Probabilistic Networks....Pages 254-263
Bayesian Learning of the Gas Exchange Properties of the Lung for Prediction of Arterial Oxygen Saturation....Pages 264-273
Hierarchical Dirichlét Learning – Filling in the Thin Spots in a Database....Pages 274-283
A Bayesian Neural Network Approach for Sleep Apnea Classification....Pages 284-293
Probabilistic Networks as Probabilistic Forecasters....Pages 294-298
Finding and Explaining Optimal Treatments....Pages 299-303
Acquisition of Adaptation Knowledge for Breast Cancer Treatment Decision Support....Pages 304-313
Case Based Reasoning for Medical Decision-Support in a Safety Critical Environment....Pages 314-323
Constraint Reasoning in Deep Biomedical Models....Pages 324-334
Interactive Decision Support for Medical Planning....Pages 335-339
Compliance with the Hyperlipidaemia Consensus: Clinicians versus the Computer....Pages 340-344
WoundCare: A Palm Pilot-Based Expert System for the Treatment of Pressure Ulcers....Pages 345-349
VIE-DIAB: A Support Program for Telemedical Glycaemic Control....Pages 350-354
Drifting Concepts as Hidden Factors in Clinical Studies....Pages 355-364
Multi-relational Data Mining in Medical Databases....Pages 365-374
Is It Time to Trade “Wet-Work” for Network?....Pages 375-376
Robots as Models of the Brain: What Can We Learn from Modelling Rat Navigation and Infant Imitation Games?....Pages 377-385
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