Expert Systems and Decision Support in Medicine: 33rd Annual Meeting of the GMDS EFMI Special Topic Meeting Peter L. Reichertz Memorial Conference Hannover, September 26–29, 1988 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages N2-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Decision Support in Medicine....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Medical Practice — Decision Making: A Logical Model....Pages 23-30
New Decision Support Concepts for the Pharmacy Application in the HELP System....Pages 31-37
ROPES- A Rule-Based Outpatient Expert System....Pages 38-43
DIACONS — A Consultation System to Assist in the Management of Diabetes....Pages 44-49
Using Default Reasoning to Find Interactions of Drugs....Pages 50-54
Decision Support for Cardiac Care Unit Admission — Evaluation of Methodological Approaches in Relation to Clinical Applicability....Pages 55-59
MESSE: a Medical Expert System of Special Examinations....Pages 60-64
Decision Supportsystem in Oncology....Pages 65-68
A Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Lung Cancer....Pages 69-73
Medical Diagnosis by Negotiation Amongst Experts....Pages 74-77
Aiding Medical Inferences by the Relational Rules Acquired from Medical Experts; Consultation System for Use in a Gynecologic Out-Patient Clinic....Pages 78-82
Principles of Developing Expert Systems of Traditional Chinese Medicine....Pages 85-93
Computer Simulation System on Diagnosing and Treating Hypertension by Traditional Chinese Medicine Associated with Modern Medicine....Pages 94-97
An Expert System for Diagnosing and Treating Ectopic Pregnancy with Combined Traditional Chinese and Western Medicines....Pages 98-101
Statistical reasoning and learning in knowledge-bases represented as causal networks....Pages 105-112
The use of the diagnostic paradigm in modelling medical decision making....Pages 113-119
The Computer-Aided Differential Diagnosis of Diseases of the Urinary Tract in Children....Pages 120-125
Qualitative Modelling in Vascular Surgery....Pages 126-130
Statistical Approach to the Acute Abdomen Diagnosis in Children....Pages 131-135
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
A Probabilistic Approach to Health Care Delivery in Tropical Africa....Pages 136-141
A New Approach to the Solution of Decision Making Problems in Medical Expert Systems....Pages 142-145
Computer-Assisted Construction of Conceptual Frameworks for Health Systems Research....Pages 146-151
A Strategy for Identifying Clusters of Similar Response....Pages 155-161
Error Rate Estimation in Discriminant Analysis in the Presence of Variable Selection....Pages 162-168
Assessment of the Diagnostic Importance of BAL-Fluid Values with ROC-Curves....Pages 169-174
Scoring systems and computer-aided prognosis in patients with bleeding oesophageal or gastric varices....Pages 175-181
On the Use of Statistical Expert Systems for Supporting Quality Assurance in Analysis of Clinical Trials....Pages 182-187
An Expert System for Interpretation and Diagnosis of ECG Signals....Pages 191-195
An Expert System for Genetic Counseling....Pages 196-201
MECOS-2: An Artificial Intelligence Tool System for Developing Medical Expert Systems in Various Subjects....Pages 202-208
Diagnostic Expert Systems in Neurology — A Comparison between a Rule Based Prototype and a Database Oriented Approach....Pages 209-212
Prediction of MSOF Evolution by Means of Nine Vital Systems Trajectories....Pages 213-217
An Expert System for Cardiopulmonary Diseases in Primary Health Care....Pages 218-221
Knowledge-Based Decision Support for Laryngeal Tumour Diseases: Design and Structure of the Esther System....Pages 225-234
An Expert System for Diagnosis and Therapy Planning in Patients with Ovarian Cancer....Pages 235-239
Electrolyte and Haemostasis Test Interpretation by Expert Systems on Microcomputer in Medical Laboratory....Pages 240-248
Representation of Neuroanatomical Knowledge by PROLOG....Pages 249-255
Knowledge-Based Decision Support for Monitoring in Anesthesia: Problems, Design and User Interaction....Pages 256-263
Shock Trauma Manual Computer Consultation Expert System....Pages 264-269
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
An Expert System for Medical Evacuations....Pages 270-274
A Computer Oriented Diagnosis of Acute Renal Failure in the Critically Ill Patient....Pages 275-278
Decision Support in Medical Management of Personnel Resources: Duty Roster in an Anaesthesiologic Department....Pages 279-282
Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Experience With Knowledge Based Methods....Pages 283-287
A Commonly Used Expert System of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)....Pages 288-291
On the Assessment of Medical Expert Systems....Pages 292-297
PBASE: A P rolog BASE d query language....Pages 301-307
Case Description and Case Retrieval on Time Oriented Patient Data....Pages 308-313
ARTEL: An Expert System in Hypertension for the General Practitioner....Pages 314-321
Computer Assisted Generation of Heuristic Rules in the Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias....Pages 322-327
A Background Knowledge Base to assist coding of medical documents....Pages 328-333
Des: A Domain Independent Expert System Running on a Microcomputer: Diagnostic of Thyroid Disorders....Pages 334-337
Extraction of Knowledge from a Database....Pages 338-342
A Computer — based Reference System for Medical Diagnosis....Pages 343-346
Knowledge Acquisition for Scheme-Based Medical Expert Systems: The Dysmorphic Syndrome Example....Pages 347-350
Evaluation and Measuring of Benefit of an Expert System for Differential Diagnosis in Rheumatology....Pages 351-354
Posch Experience Integrating Expert Systems and Clinical Data Analyses....Pages 355-358
Status of and research needs for Expert Systems in Medicine....Pages 361-366
Statistics, Modelling, Operational Research, Decision-Making and Expert Systems in the Public Health Control of Infectious Diseases....Pages 367-370
Expert System Knowledge Transfer....Pages 371-377
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Philosophical Considerations about the Illusions and Delusions of Informatics in Health and Medicine....Pages 378-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Konfidenzbereichsschätzungen Einer Rate und Wahl der Stichprobengrusse....Pages 387-392
Sensitivity of the Multi-Process Kalman Filter for Renal Transplant Monitoring....Pages 393-399
Erfahrungen mit Explorativen und Konfirmativen Auswertungen Einer Prospektiven Schwangerschaftsstudie....Pages 400-404
Methoden der Prävalenzschätzung von Krebserkrankungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland....Pages 405-411
Computersimulation der Kinetik von markierten Zellen im Darmepithel....Pages 412-415
Die Überwachung und Sicherung der Datenqualität bei multizentrischen klinischen Studien....Pages 416-420
Schiefe und Wölbung der Verteilung der Körpergewichte in Kunstpopulationen von Laboratoriumsratten....Pages 421-425
Gewinn und Gefahren dezentraler Dokumentationssysteme....Pages 429-434
Computerunterstützte Textstandardisierung in der medizinischen Basisdokumentation....Pages 435-442
Syntaktische Analyse Zytopathologischer Beurteilungstexte....Pages 443-448
A Knowledge-Based System for Interactive Medical Diagnosis Encoding....Pages 449-454
Wissensbasiertes Indexieren von Medizinischen Phrasen auf der Basis von SNOMED: Methodik und Realisation von EIDOS....Pages 455-461
Zur Evolution Eines Integrierten Krankenhausinformations- und Kommunikationssystems Unter Verwendung Leistungsfähiger Informationstechnischer Konzepte, Methoden und Werkzeuge....Pages 462-469
Dezentrale Dokumentation mit Chip-Karten am Beispiel einer Bluterambulanz....Pages 470-475
Krankheitsartenbezogene Patientenkategorien der Augenerkrankungen....Pages 476-480
Strukturkomponenten zur Plausibilitätsbeurteilung in Laborinformationssystemen....Pages 481-485
Ein Entity-Relationship-Modell zur Formalisierung der Datenstruktur im Medizinischen Laboratorium....Pages 486-489
Semi-Automatical Encoding of Medical Diagnosis by Non-Professionals....Pages 490-494
Entwicklung und Erfahrungen mit einem Therapieunterstützungs- und Dokumentationssystem für die Intensivmedizin....Pages 497-501
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Intensiv — ein wissensbasiertes System für die Intensivstation....Pages 502-508
Ein Departementelles Informationssystem zur Unterstutzung der Lebertransplantation....Pages 509-515
Bayes Classifiers in Medical Decision Support in Cardiosurgery Intensive Care Unit....Pages 516-519
Computer-Assisted Radiology: RIS/PACS Attempts at Definition and Questions of Interfacing....Pages 523-528
PC-unterstützte Morphometrie von Nervenbiopsien....Pages 529-534
Erhebung und Analyse von durchschnittlichen Datenvolumen am Beispiel verschiedener bildgebender Systeme....Pages 535-540
Eine Entwicklungsumgebung Fuer die Wissensbasierte Bildanalyse in APL2....Pages 541-547
Wissensbasiertes Software-System (Ramses) zur Diagnoseunterstützung in der Gewebecharakterisierenden Kernspintomographie....Pages 548-552
Graphische Darstellung der regionalen Organdurchblutung....Pages 553-556
DES: A Knowledge Based Expert System Shell as a Diagnostic Tool in Medicine....Pages 559-559
ExTra — Expert System for Diagnosis of Complications after Kidney Transplantation....Pages 560-560
A German Version of the HELP System....Pages 561-561
Knowledge Based System for Diagnosing Anemia....Pages 562-562
ADS: A System to Codify Semi-Automatically Medical Diagnoses....Pages 563-563
BMDP — 5V....Pages 564-564
3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Anatomic Objects....Pages 565-565
ESTHER, an Expert System for Therapy Support for Laryngeal Tumours....Pages 566-566
The Software-Package DEDUC for Cognitive Systems Analysis....Pages 567-567
EIDOS, an Expert System for Automated Indexing on the Basis of SNOMED....Pages 568-568
Problem of qualitative changes in the time course of chronic disease....Pages 569-569
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Pharmaco- and Cell Kinetic Simulation of Combination Therapy with Several Cytostatic Drugs....Pages 570-570
SCREECON: Clinical Expert Consultation System for the Therapeutical Management of Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease....Pages 571-571
Reporting on Test Results with Pro. M. D.....Pages 572-572
SMA Scholz — MEDIS — Drug Information System....Pages 573-573
PRIME-MED: A New Software Product for Support in Treatment, Progress Notes and Documentation Activities in Hospitals and Clinics....Pages 574-574
DIAMON — An Expert System to Assist in the Therapy of Diabetes....Pages 575-575
Computer Assisted Diagnosis....Pages 576-576
INTENSIV — a Knowledge Based System for Intensive Care Units....Pages 577-577
Back Matter....Pages 579-593