Keynote Lectures

From Clinical Guidelines to Decision Support

G. Molino

Artificial Intelligence for Building Learning Health Care Organizations

M. Stefanelli

Timing Is Everything: Temporal Reasoning and Temporal Data Maintenance in Medicine

Y. Shahar

Machine Learning for Data Mining in Medicine

N. Lavrac

Guidelines and Protocols

Guidelines-Based Workflow Systems

S. Quaglini

C. Mossa

C. Fassino

M. Stefanelli

A. Cavallini

G. Micieli

Enhancing Clinical PracticeGuideline Compliance by Involving Physicians in the Decision Process

B. Seroussi

J. Bouaud

E.-C. Antoine

Application of Therapeutic Protocols: A Tool to Manage Medical Knowledge

C. Sauvagnac

J. Stines

A. Lesur

P. Falzon

P. Bey

Decision Support Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Cooperative Systems

From Description to Decision: Towards a Decision Support Training System for MR Radiology of the Brain

B. du Boulay

B. Teather

G. du Boulay

N. Jeffrey

D. Teather

M. Sharples

L. Cuthbert

Internet-Based Decision-Support Server for Acute Abdominal Pain

H.P. Eich

C. Ohmann

Multi-modal Reasoning in Diabetic Patient Management

S. Montani

R. Bellazzi

L. Portinale

A. Riva

M. Stefanelli

Experiences with Case-Based Reasoning Methods and Prototypes for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems

R. Schmidt

B. Pollwein

L. Gierl

Exploiting Social Reasoning of Open Multi-agent Systems to Enhance Cooperation in Hospitals

S. Aknine

Influence Diagrams for Neonatal Jaundice Management

C. Bielza

S. Rios-Insua

M. Gomez

Electronic Drug Prescribing and Administration-Bedside Medical Decision Making

I.R. Clark

B.A. McCauley

I.M. Young

P.G. Nightingale

M. Peters

N.T. Richards

D. Adu

Neonatal Ventilation Tutor (VIE-NVT), a Teaching Program for the Mechanical Ventilation of Newborn Infants

W. Horn

C. Popow

C. Stocker

S. Miksch

A Life-Cycle Based Authorisation Expert Database System

Y.-L. O

A Decision-Support System for the Identification, Staging, and Functional Evaluation of Liver Diseases (HEPASCORE)

M. Torchio

S. Battista

F. Bar

C. Pollet

M. Marzuoli

M.C. Bucchi

R. Pagni

G. Molino

Model-Based Systems

A Model-Based Approach for Learning to Identify cardiac Arrhythmias

G. Carrault

M.-O. Cordier

R. Quiniou

M. Garreau

J.J. Bellanger

A. Bardou

An Model-Based System for Pacemaker Reprogramming

P. Lucas

A. Tholen

G. van Oort

Integrating Deep Biomedical Models into Medical Decision Support Systems: An Interval Constraint Approach

J. Cruz

P. Barahona

F. Benhamou

Neural Networks, Causal Probabilistic Networks

A Decision Theoretic Approach to Empirical Treatment of Bacteraemia Originating from the Urinary Tract

S. Andreassen

L. Leibovici

H.C. Schnheyder

B. Kristensen

C. Riekehr

A.G. Kjer

K.G. Olesen

An ECG Ischemic Detection System Based on Self-Organizing Maps and a Sigmoid Function Pre-processing Stage

E. A. Fernandez

J. Presedo

S. Barro

Neural Network Recognition of Otoneurological Vertigo Diseases with Comparison of Some Other Classification Methods

M. Juhola

J. Laurikkala

K. Viikki

Y. Auramo

E. Kentala

I. Pyykko

A Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Classifiers for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease in Stress-ECG

G. Dorffner

E. Leitgeb

H. Koller

The Case-Based Neural Network Model and Its Use in Medical Expert Systems

W. Goodridge

H. Peter

A. Abayomi

Knowledge Representation

A Medical Ontology Library That Integrates the UMLS MetathesaurusTM

D. M. Pisanelli

A. Gangemi

G. Steve

The Use of the UMLS Knowledge Sources for the Design of a Domain Specific Ontology: A Practical Experience in Blood Transfusion

S. Achour

M. Dojat

J.-M. Brethon

G. Blain

E. Lepage

Representing Knowledge Levels in Clinical Guidelines

P. Terenziani

P. Raviola

O. Bruschi

M. Torchio

M. Marzuoli

G. Molino

Temporal Reasoning

Intelligent Analysis of Clinical Time Series by Combining Structural Filtering and Temporal Abstractions

R. Bellazzi

C. Larizza

P. Magni

S. Montani

G. De Nicolao

Knowledge-Based Event Detection in Complex Time Series Data

J. Hunter

N. McIntosh

Abstracting Steady Qualitative Descriptions over Time from Noisy, High-Frequency Data

S. Miksch

A. Seyfang

W. Horn

C. Popow

Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical Therapy Planning

R. Kosara

S. Miksch

Visualizing Temporal Clinical Data on the WWW

C. Combi

L. Portoni

F. Pinciroli

Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Stepwise Diagnostic Process

M. Kukar

C. Groselj

Refinement of Neuro-psychological Tests for Dementia Screening in a Cross Cultural Population Using Machine Learning

S. Mani

M. B. Dick

M. J. Pazzani

E. L. Teng

D. Kempler

I. M. Taussig

The Analysis of Head Inquiry Data Using Decision Tree Techniques

A. McQuatt

P. J. D. Andrews

D. Sleeman

V. Corruble

P. A. Jones

Machine Learning for Survival Analysis: A Case Study on Recurrence of Prostate Cancer

B. Zupan

J. Demsar

M. W. Kattan

J. R. Beck

I. Bratko

ICU Patient State Characterization Using Machine Learning in a Time Series Framework

D. Calvelo

M.-C. Chambrin

D. Pomorski

P. Ravaux

Diagnostic Rules of Increased Reliability for Critical Medical Applications

D. Gamberger

N. Lavrac

C. Groselj

Machine Learning Inspired Approaches to Combine Standard Medical Measures at an Intensive Care Unit

B. Sierra

N. Serrano

P. Larranaga

E. J. Plasencia

I. Inza

J. J. Jimenez

J. M. De la Rosa

M. L. Mora

A Screening Technique for Prostate Cancer by Hair Chemical Analysis and Artificial Intelligence

P. Wu

K. L. Heng

S. W. Yang

Y. F. Chen

R. S. Mohan

P. H. C. Lim

Natural Language Processing

A Conversational Model for Health Promotion on the World Wide Web

A. Cawsey

F. Grasso

R. Jones

Types of Knowledge Required to Personalize Smoking Cessation Letters

E. Reiter

R. Robertson

L. Osman

Small Is Beautiful-Compact Semantics for Medical Language Processing

M. Romacker

S. Schulz

U. Hahn

Speech Driven Natural Language Understanding for Hands-Busy Recording of Clinical Information

D. J. Barker

S. C. Lynch

D. S. Simpson

W. A. Corbett

Automatic Acquisition of Morphological Knowledge for Medical Language Processing

P. Zweigenbaum

N. Grabar

Image Processing and Computer Aided Design

A Multi-agent System for MRI Brain Segmentation

L. Germond

M. Dojat

C. Taylor

C. Garbay

Modelling Blood Vessels of the Eye with Parametric L-Systems Using Evolutionary Algorithms

G. Kokai

Z. Toth

R. Vanyi

Animating Medical and Safety Knowledge

P. Hammond

P. Wells

S. Modgil

Active Shape Models for Customised Prosthesis Design

T. J. Hutton

P. Hammond

J. C. Davenport

Author Index