Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15th 1999. Authors are requested to state their preference for oral presentation or poster. Abstracts and papers will appear as separate workshop notes. The fee includes light refreshments and lunch. 1999 Prognostic models are increasingly used in medicine to predict the natural course of diseases, or the expected outcome after treatment.
Prognosis forms an integral part of systems for treatment selection and treatment planning.
In evaluating quality of care, prognostic models are used for predicting outcome, such as mortality, which is compared with the actual measured outcome. Furthermore, prognostic models may play an important role in guiding diagnostic problem solving, e.g. by only requesting information concerning tests, of which the outcome affects knowledge of the prognosis. This workshop aims at bringing together various theoretical and practical approaches to computational prognosis that comprise the state of the art in this field. The fee includes light refreshments and lunch.