Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME '95, Pavia, Italy, June 25 - 28, 1995. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (934))

This volume presents the proceedings of the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME '95, held in Pavia, Italy in June 1995. The volume contains 32 full refereed selected papers contributed by researchers and professionals coming from computer science departments, medical informatics departments, and hospitals; in addition there are the keynote address and 28 poster presentations. The volume is organized in topical sections on medical records, temporal reasoning and simulation, probabilistic models, patient management and therapy planning, evaluation of knowledge-based systems, diagnostic support systems, models for clinical information systems, and neural networks and image interpretation. A component-based architecture for automation of protocol-directed therapy....Pages 1-13 Coordinating taxonomies: Key to re-usable concept representations....Pages 15-28 Generating personalised patient information using the medical record....Pages 29-41 Analysis of medical jargon: The RECIT system....Pages 42-52 Medical knowledge representation for medical report analysis....Pages 53-64 Modelling medical concepts as time-objects....Pages 65-78 Modeling medical reasoning with the Event Calculus: an application to the management of mechanical ventilation....Pages 79-90 A general framework for building patient monitoring systems....Pages 91-102 Semi-qualitative models and simulation for biomedical applications....Pages 103-114 Generating explanations of pathophysiological system behaviors from qualitative simulation of compartmental models....Pages 115-126 An information-based bayesian approach to history taking....Pages 127-138 Medical decision making using Ignorant Influence Diagrams....Pages 139-150 Dynamic propagation in causal probabilistic networks with instantiated variables....Pages 151-162 Alerts as starting point for hospital infection surveillance and control....Pages 163-172 Cooperative software agents for patient management....Pages 173-184 High level control strategies for diabetes therapy....Pages 185-196 Therapy planning using qualitative trend descriptions....Pages 197-208 Adaptation and abstraction in a case-based antibiotics therapy adviser....Pages 209-217 Field evaluations of a knowledge-based system for peripheral blood interpretation....Pages 219-230 Functional evaluation of SETH: An expert system in clinical toxicology....Pages 231-238 Evaluating a neural network decision-support tool for the diagnosis of breast cancer....Pages 239-250 Knowledge-based systems for lymph node pathology: A comparison of two approaches....Pages 251-261 Mapping laboratory medicine onto the select and test model to facilitate knowledge-based report generation in laboratory medicine....Pages 263-275 Machine learning techniques applied to the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain....Pages 276-281 Reflections on building medical decision support systems and corresponding implementation in diagnostics shell D3....Pages 282-292 Decision models for cost-effectiveness analysis: a means for knowledge sharing and quality control in health care multidisciplinary tasks....Pages 293-306 Model-based application: The Galen structured clinical user interface....Pages 307-318 A knowledge-based modelling of hospital information systems components....Pages 319-330 Use of a conceptual semi-automatic ICD-9 encoding system in an hospital environment....Pages 331-339 Quality assurance and increased efficiency in medical projects with neural networks by using a structured development method for feedforward neural networks (SENN)....Pages 341-354 A prototype neural network decision-support tool for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction....Pages 355-366 Integration of neural networks and rule based systems in the interpretation of liver biopsy images....Pages 367-378 A cooperative and adaptive approach to medical image segmentation....Pages 379-390 COBRA: Integration of knowledge-bases with case-databases in the domain of congenital malformation....Pages 391-394 Case-based medical multi-expertise: an example in psychiatry....Pages 395-396 TIME-NESIS: A data model in managing time granularity of natural-language clinical information....Pages 397-398 Induction of expert system rules from databases based on rough set theory and resampling methods....Pages 399-400 Sequential knowledge acquisition: Combining models and cases....Pages 401-402 Medical fuzzy expert systems and reasoning about beliefs....Pages 403-404 Diagnosis of human acid-base balance states via combined pattern recognition for Markov chains....Pages 405-406 Intelligence formation problems in children at an early age applying new computer technologies under conditions of rehabilitation center....Pages 407-408 Telecardiology....Pages 409-410 Modelling a sharable medical concept system: Ontological foundation in GALEN....Pages 411-412 A graph-based approach to the structural analysis of proliferative breast lesions.....Pages 413-414 A workstation for clinical decision support in a local area network for cardiology....Pages 415-416 Knowledge-based education tool to improve quality in diabetes care....Pages 417-418 NEPHARM: A pharmacokinetic database for adjusting drug dosage to impaired renal function....Pages 419-420 A hybrid architecture for knowledge-based systems....Pages 421-422 Representing medical context using rule-based object-oriented programming techniques....Pages 423-424 Integration of Neural Networks and knowledge-based systems in medicine....Pages 425-426 Generated critic in the knowledge based neurology trainer....Pages 427-428 An approach to analysis of qualitative data with insufficient number of quantization levels....Pages 429-430 Inductively learned rule for breast cancer domain with improved interobserver reproducibility....Pages 431-432 Development and evaluation of a knowledge-based system to support ventilator therapy management....Pages 433-434 A neural support to the prognostic evaluation of Cardiac Surgery....Pages 435-436 DECISion-support system for radiological diagnostic....Pages 437-438 A preliminary investigation into the analysis of electromyographic activity using a system of multiple neural networks....Pages 439-440 Knowledge-based system to predict the effect of pregnancy on progression of diabetic retinopathy....Pages 441-442 A software to evaluate multislices radiotherapic treatment planning....Pages 443-443 TKR-tool: An expert system for Total Knee Replacement management....Pages 444-446 Keynote Address: A Component-based Architecture For Automation Of Protocol-directed Therapy / Mark A. Musen, Samson W. Tu, Amar K. Das And Yuval Shahar -- Coordinating Taxonomies: Key To Re-usable Concept Representations / A.l. Rector -- Generating Personalised Patient Information Using The Medical Record / K. Binsted, A. Cawsey And R. Jones -- Analysis Of Medical Jargon: The Recit System / A.-m. Rassinoux, C. Juge, P.-a. Michel, R.h. Baud, D. Lemaitre, F.-c. Jean, P. Degoulet And J.-r. Scherrer -- Medical Knowledge Representation For Medical Report Analysis / J.f. Smart And M. Roux -- Modelling Medical Concepts As Time-objects / E.t. Keravnou -- Modeling Medical Reasoning With The Event Calculus: An Application To The Management Of Mechanical Ventilation / L. Chittaro, M. Del Rosso And M. Dojat -- A General Framework For Building Patient Monitoring Systems / C. Larizza, G. Bernuzzi And M. Stefanelli. Pedro Barahona, Mario Stefanelli, Jeremy Wyatt, Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.