Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Book

	Keynote Address: A Component-Based Architecture for Automation of Protocol-Directed Therapy	3
	Coordinating Taxonomies: Key to Re-Usable Concept Representations	17
	Generating Personalised Patient Information Using the Medical Record	29
	Analysis of Medical Jargon: The RECIT System	42
	Medical Knowledge Representation for Medical Report Analysis	53
	Modelling Medical Concepts as Time-Objects	67
	Modeling Medical Reasoning with the Event Calculus: An Application to the Management of Mechanical Ventilation	79
	A General Framework for Building Patient Monitoring Systems	91
	Semi-Qualitative Models and Simulation for Biomedical Applications	103
	Generating Explanations of Pathophysiological Systems Behaviors from Qualitative Simulation of Compartmental Models	115
	An Information-Based Bayesian Approach to History Taking	129
	Medical Decision Making Using Ignorant Influence Diagrams	139
	Dynamic Propagation in Causal Probabilistic Networks with Instantiated Variables	151
	Alerts as Starting Point for Hospital Infection Surveillance and Control
	Cooperative Software Agents for Patient Management	173
	High Level Control Strategies for Diabetes Therapy	185
	Therapy Planning Using Qualitative Trend Descriptions	197
	Adaptation and Abstraction in a Case-Based Antibiotics Therapy Adviser	209
	Field Evaluations of a Knowledge-Based System for Peripheral Blood Interpretation	221
	Functional Evaluation of SETH: An Expert System In Clinical Toxicology	231
	Evaluating a Neural Network Decision-Support Tool for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer	239
	Knowledge-Based Systems for Lymph Node Pathology: A Comparison of Two Approaches	251
	Mapping Laboratory Medicine onto the Select and Test Model to Facilitate Knowledge-Based Report Generation in Laboratory Medicine	265
	Machine Learning Techniques Applied to the Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain	276
	Reflections on Building Medical Decision Support Systems and Corresponding Implementation in Diagnostics Shell D3	282
	Decision Models for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Means for Knowledge Sharing and Quality Control in Health Care Multidisciplinary Tasks	295
	Model-Based Application: The Galen Structured Clinical User Interface	307
	A Knowledge-Based Modeling of Hospital Information Systems Components	319
	Use of a Conceptual Semi-Automatic ICD-9 Encoding System in a Hospital Environment	331
	Quality Assurance and Increased Efficiency in Medical Projects with Neural Networks by Using a Structured Development Method for Feedforward Neural Networks (SENN)	343
	A Prototype Neural Network Decision-Support Tool for the Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction	355
	Integration of Neural Networks and Rule Based Systems in the Interpretation of Liver Biopsy Images	367
	A Cooperative and Adaptive Approach to Medical Image Segmentation	379
	COBRA: Integration of Knowledge-Bases with Case-Databases in the Domain of Congenital Malformation	393
	Case-Based Medical Multi-Expertise: An Example in Psychiatry	395
	TIME-NESIS: A Data Model in Managing Time Granularity of Natural-Language Clinical Information	397
	Induction of Expert System Rules from Clinical Databases Based on Rough Set Theory and Resampling Methods	399
	Sequential Knowledge Acquisition: Combining Models and Cases	401
	Medical Fuzzy Expert Systems and Reasoning about Beliefs	403
	Diagnosis of Human Acid-Base Balance States via Combined Pattern Recognition of Markov Chains	405
	Intelligence Formation Problems in Children at an Early Age Applying New Computer Technologies under Conditions of Rehabilitation Center	407
	Telecardiology	409
	Modelling a Sharable Medical Concept System: Ontological Foundation in GALEN	411
	A Graph-Based Approach to the Structural Analysis of Proliferative Breast Lesions	413
	A Workstation for Clinical Decision Support in a Local Area Network for Cardiology	415
	Knowledge-Based Education Tool to Improve Quality in Diabetes Care	417
	NEPHARM: A Pharmacokinetic Database for Adjusting Drug Dosage to Impaired Renal Function	419
	A Hybrid Architecture for Knowledge-Based Systems	421
	Representing Medical Context Using Rule-Based Object-Oriented Programming Techniques	423
	Integration of Neural Networks and Knowledge-Based Systems in Medicine	425
	Generated Critic in the Knowledge Based Neurology Trainer	427
	An Approach to Analysis of Qualitative Data with Insufficient Number of Quantization Levels	429
	Inductively Learned Rule for Breast Cancer Domain with Improved Interobserver Reproducibility	431
	Development and Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based System to Support Ventilator Therapy Management	433
	A Neural Support to the Prognostic Evaluation of Cardiac Surgery	435
	DECISion-Support System for Radiological Diagnostic	437
	A Preliminary Investigation into the Analysis of Electromyographic Activity Using a System of Multiple Neural Networks	439
	Knowledge-Based System to Predict the Effect of Pregnancy on Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy	441
	A Software to Evaluate Multislices Radiotherapic Treatment Planning	443
	TKR-tool: An Expert System for Total Knee Replacement Management	444
	Author Index	447