Artificial Intelligence in Medicine : 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe AIME 2001 Cascais Portugal July 1–4 2001 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe AIME 2001 held in Cascais Portugal in July 2001. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 30 posters and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. Among the topics addressed in their context on medical information processing are knowledge management machine learning data mining decision support systems temporal reasoning case based reasoning planning and scheduling natural language processing computer vision image and signal interpretation intelligent agents telemedicine careflow systems and cognitive modeling