Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME '95, Pavia, Italy, June 25 - 28, 1995. Proceedings

A component-based architecture for automation of protocol-directed therapy. - Coordinating taxonomies: Key to re-usable concept representations. - Generating personalised patient information using the medical record. - Analysis of medical jargon: The RECIT system. - Medical knowledge representation for medical report analysis. - Modelling medical concepts as time-objects. - Modeling medical reasoning with the Event Calculus: an application to the management of mechanical ventilation. - A general framework for building patient monitoring systems. - Semi-qualitative models and simulation for biomedical applications. - Generating explanations of pathophysiological system behaviors from qualitative simulation of compartmental models. - An information-based bayesian approach to history taking. - Medical decision making using Ignorant Influence Diagrams. - Dynamic propagation in causal probabilistic networks with instantiated variables. - Alerts as starting point for hospital infection surveillance and control. - Cooperative software agents for patient management. - High level control strategies for diabetes therapy. - Therapy planning using qualitative trend descriptions. - Adaptation and abstraction in a case-based antibiotics therapy adviser. - Field evaluations of a knowledge-based system for peripheral blood interpretation. - Functional evaluation of SETH: An expert system in clinical toxicology. - Evaluating a neural network decision-support tool for the diagnosis of breast cancer. - Knowledge-based systems for lymph node pathology: A comparison of two approaches. - Mapping laboratory medicine onto the select and test model to facilitate knowledge-based report generation in laboratory medicine. - Machine learning techniques applied to the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. - Reflections on building medical decision support systems and corresponding implementation in diagnostics shell D3. - Decision models for cost-effectiveness analysis: a means for knowledge sharing and quality control in health care multidisciplinary tasks. - Model-based application: The Galen structured clinical user interface. - A knowledge-based modelling of hospital information systems components. - Use of a conceptual semi-automatic ICD-9 encoding system in an hospital environment. - Quality assurance and increased efficiency in medical projects with neural networks by using a structured development method for feedforward neural networks (SENN). - A prototype neural network decision-support tool for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. - Integration of neural networks and rule based systems in the interpretation of liver biopsy images. - A cooperative and adaptive approach to medical image segmentation. - COBRA: Integration of knowledge-bases with case-databases in the domain of congenital malformation. - Case-based medical multi-expertise: an example in psychiatry. - TIME-NESIS: A data model in managing time granularity of natural-language clinical information. - Induction of expert system rules from databases based on rough set theory and resampling methods. - Sequential knowledge acquisition: Combining models and cases. - Medical fuzzy expert systems and reasoning about beliefs. - Diagnosis of human acid-base balance states via combined pattern recognition for Markov chains. - Intelligence formation problems in children at an early age applying new computer technologies under conditions of rehabilitation center. - Telecardiology. - Modelling a sharable medical concept system: Ontological foundation in GALEN. - A graph-based approach to the structural analysis of proliferative breast lesions. - A workstation for clinical decision support in a local area network for cardiology. - Knowledge-based education tool to improve quality in diabetes care. - NEPHARM: A pharmacokinetic database for adjusting drug dosage to impaired renal function. - A hybrid architecture for knowledge-based systems. - Representing medical context using rule-based object-oriented programming techniques. - Integration of Neural Networks and knowledge-based systems in medicine. - Generated critic in the knowledge based neurology trainer. - An approach to analysis of qualitative data with insufficient number of quantization levels. - Inductively learned rule for breast cancer domain with improved interobserver reproducibility. - Development and evaluation of a knowledge-based system to support ventilator therapy management. - A neural support to the prognostic evaluation of Cardiac Surgery. - DECISion-support system for radiological diagnostic. - A preliminary investigation into the analysis of electromyographic activity using a system of multiple neural networks. - Knowledge-based system to predict the effect of pregnancy on progression of diabetic retinopathy. - A software to evaluate multislices radiotherapic treatment planning. - TKR-tool: An expert system for Total Knee Replacement management.