Temporal Reasoning

On-Line Extraction of Successive Temporal Sequences from ICU High-Frequency Data for Decision Support Information

Sylvie Charbonnier

Quality Assessment of Hemodialysis Services through Temporal Data Mining

Riccardo Bellazzi, Cristiana Larizza, Paolo Magni, and Roberto Bellazzi

Idan: A Distributed Temporal-Abstraction Mediator for Medical Databases

David Boaz and Yuval Shahar

Prognosis of Approaching Infectious Diseases

Rainer Schmidt and Lothar Gierl

Modeling Multimedia and Temporal Aspects of Semistructured Clinical Data

Carlo Combi, Barbara Oliboni, and Rosalba Rossato

NEONATE: Decision Support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - A Preliminary Report

Jim Hunter, Gary Ewing, Yvonne Freer, Robert Logie, Paul McCue, and Neil McIntosh

Abstracting the Patient Therapeutic History through a Heuristic-Based Qualitative Handling of Temporal Indeterminacy

Jacques Bouaud, Brigitte Séroussi, and Baptiste Touzet

Ontology, Terminology

How to Represent Medical Ontologies in View of a Semantic Web?

Christine Golbreich, Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gibaud, and Anita Burgun

Using Description Logics for Managing Medical Terminologies

Ronald Cornet and Ameen Abu-Hanna

Ontology for Task-Based Clinical Guidelines and the Theory of Granular Partitions

Anand Kumar and Barry Smith

Speech Interfaces for Point-of-Care Guideline Systems

Martin Beveridge, John Fox, and David Milward

Text Categorization prior to Indexing for the CISMEF Health Catalogue

Alexandrina Rogozan, Aurelie Neveol, and Stefan J. Darmoni

Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body

Barry Smith, Igor Papakin, and Katherine Munn

Image Processing, Simulation

Multi-agent Approach for Image Processing: A Case Study for MRI Human Brain Scans Interpretation

Nathalie Richard, Michel Dojat, and Catherine Garbay

Qualitative Simulation of Shock States in a Virtual Patient

Altion Simo and Marc Cavazza

3D Segmentation of MR Brain Images into White Matter, Gray Matter and Cerebro-Spinal Fluid by Means of Evidence Theory

Anne-Sophie Capelle, Olivier Colot, and Christine Fernandez-Maloigne

A Knowledge-Based System for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Sebastian Oehm, Thomas Siessmeier, Hans-Georg Buchholz, Peter Bartenstein, and Thomas Uthmann

Guidelines, Clinical Protocols

DEGEL: A Hybrid, Multiple-Ontology Framework for Specification and Retrieval of Clinical Guidelines

Yuval Shahar, Ohad Young, Erez Shalom, Alon Mayaffit, Robert Moskovitch, Alon Hessing, and Maya Galperin

Experiences in the Formalisation and Verification of Medical Protocols

Mar Marcos, Michael Balser, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, and Christoph Duelli

Enhancing Conventional Web Content with Intelligent Knowledge Processing

Rory Steele and John Fox

Linking Clinical Guidelines with Formal Representations

Peter Votruba, Silvia Miksch, and Robert Kosara

Computerised Advice on Drug Dosage Decisions in Childhood Leukaemia: A Method and a Safety Strategy

Chris Hurt, John Fox, Jonathan Bury, and Vaskar Saha

The NewGuide Project: Guidelines, Information Sharing and Learning from Exceptions

Paolo Ciccarese, Ezio Caffi, Lorenzo Boiocchi, Assaf Halevy, Silvana Quaglini, Anand Kumar, and Mario Stefanelli

Managing Theoretical Single-Disease Guideline Recommendations for Actual Multiple-Disease Patients

Gersende Georg, Brigitte Séroussi, and Jacques Bouaud

Informal and Formal Medical Guidelines: Bridging the Gap

Marije Geldof, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Mar Marcos, and Peter Votruba

Terminology, Natural Language

Thetorical Coding of Health Promotion Dialogues

Floriana Grasso

Learning Derived Words from Medical Corpora

Pierre Zweigenbaum and Natalia Grabar

Learning-Free Text Categorization

Patrick Ruch, Robert Baud, and Antoine Geissbühler

Knowledge-Based Query Expansion over a Medical Terminology Oriented Ontology on the Web

Linda Fatima Soualmia, Catherine Barry, and Stefan J. Darmoni

Linking Rules to Terminologies and Applications in Medical Planning

Sanjay Modgil

Machine Learning

Classification of Ovarian Tumors Using Bayesian Least Squares Support Vector Machines

Chuan Lu, Tony Van-Gestel, Johan A.K. Suykens, Sabine Van-Huffel, Dirk Timmerman, and Ignace Vergote

Attribute Interactions in Medical Data Analysis

Aleks Jakulin, Ivan Bratko, Dragica Smrke, Janez Demšar, and Blaž Zupan

Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Methods to Support Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Federica Ciocchetta, Rossana Dell'Anna, Francesca Demichelis, Amar Paul Dhillon, Alberto Quaglia, and Andrea Sboner

Analysis of Gene Expression Data by the Logic Minimization Approach

Dragan Gamberger and Nada Lavrac

A Journey trough Clinical Applications of Multimethod Decision Trees

Petra Povalej, Mitja Lenic, Milojka Motan Štiglic, Maja Skerbinjek Kavalar, Jernej Završnik, and Peter Kokol

Probabilistic Networks, Bayesian Models

Detailing Test Characteristics for Probabilistic Networks

Danielle Sent and Linda C. van der Gaag

Bayesian Learning of the Gas Exchange Properties of the Lung for Prediction of Arterial Oxygen Saturation

David Murley, Stephen Rees, Bodil Rasmussen, and Steen Andreassen

Hierarchical Dirichlet Learning - Filling in the Thin Spots in a Database

Steen Andreassen, Brian Kristensen, Alina Zalounina, Leonard Leibovici, Uwe Frank, and Henrik C. Schønheyder

A Bayesian Neural Network Approach for Sleep Apnea Classification

Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Ana del Rocio Fraga-Iglesias, and Vicente Moret-Bonillo

Probabilistic Networks as Probabilistic Forecasters

Linda C. van der Gaag and Silja Renooij

Finding and Explaining Optimal Treatments

Concha Bielza, Juan A. Fernández del Pozo, and Peter Lucas

Case Based Reasoning, Decision Support

Acquisition of Adaptation Knowledge for Breast Cancer Treatment Decision Support

Jean Lieber, Mathieu d'Aquin, Pierre Bey, Amedeo Napoli, Maria Rios, and Catherine Sauvagnac

Case Based Reasoning for Medical Decision-Support in a Safety Critical Environment

Isabelle Bichindaritz, Carol Moinpour, Emin Kansu, Gary Donaldson, Nigel Bush, and Keith M. Sullivan

Constraint Reasoning in Deep Biomedical Models

Jorge Cruz and Pedro Barahona

Interactive Decision Support for Medical Planning

David W. Glasspool, John Fox, Fortunato D. Castillo, and Victoria E.L. Monaghan

Compliance with the Hyperlipidaemia Consensus: Clinicians versus the Computer

Wouter P. van Rijsinge, Linda C. van der Gaag, Frank Visseren, and Yolanda van der Graaf

WoundCare: A Palm Pilot-Based Expert System for the Treatment of Pressure Ulcers

Douglas D. Dankel, Mark Connor, and Zulma Chardon

VIE-DIAS: A Support Program for Telemedical Glycaemic Control

Christian Popow, Werner Horn, Birgit Rami, and Edith Schober

Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery

Drifting Concepts as Hidden Factors in Clinical Studies

Matjaž Kukar

Multi-relational Data Mining in Medical Databases

Amaury Habrard, Marc Bernard, and François Jacquenet

Invited Talks

Is It Time to Trade "Wet-Work" for Network?

Zoltan Szallasz

Robots as Models of the Brain: What Can We Learn from Modelling Rat Navigation and Infant Imitation Games?

Philippe Gaussier, Pierre Andry, Jean Paul Banquet, Mathias Quoy, Jacqueline Nadel, and Arnaud Revel

Author Index