Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Book

	On-Line Extraction of Successive Temporal Sequences from ICU High-Frequency Data for Decision Support Information	1
	Quality Assessment of Hemodialysis Services through Temporal Data Mining	11
	Idan: A Distributed Temporal-Abstraction Mediator for Medical Databases	21
	Prognosis of Approaching Infectious Diseases	31
	Modeling Multimedia and Temporal Aspects of Semistructured Clinical Data	36
	NEONATE: Decision Support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - A Preliminary Report	41
	Abstracting the Patient Therapeutic History through a Heuristic-Based Qualitative Handling of Temporal Indeterminacy	46
	How to Represent Medical Ontologies in View of a Semantic Web?	51
	Using Description Logics for Managing Medical Terminologies	61
	Ontology for Task-Based Clinical Guidelines and the Theory of Granular Partitions	71
	Speech Interfaces for Point-of-Care Guideline Systems	76
	Text Categorization prior to Indexing for the CISMEF Health Catalogue	81
	Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body	86
	Multi-agent Approach for Image Processing: A Case Study for MRI Human Brain Scans Interpretation	91
	Qualitative Simulation of Shock States in a Virtual Patient	101
	3D Segmentation of MR Brain Images into White Matter, Gray Matter and Cerebro-Spinal Fluid by Means of Evidence Theory	112
	A Knowledge-Based System for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease	117
	DEGEL: A Hybrid, Multiple-Ontology Framework for Specification and Retrieval of Clinical Guidelines	122
	Experiences in the Formalisation and Verification of Medical Protocols	132
	Enhancing Conventional Web Content with Intelligent Knowledge Processing	142
	Linking Clinical Guidelines with Formal Representations	152
	Computerised Advice on Drug Dosage Decisions in Childhood Leukaemia: A Method and a Safety Strategy	158
	The NewGuide Project: Guidelines, Information Sharing and Learning from Exceptions	163
	Managing Theoretical Single-Disease Guideline Recommendations for Actual Multiple-Disease Patients	168
	Informal and Formal Medical Guidelines: Bridging the Gap	173
	Rhetorical Coding of Health Promotion Dialogues	179
	Learning Derived Words from Medical Corpora	189
	Learning-Free Text Categorization	199
	Knowledge-Based Query Expansion over a Medical Terminology Oriented Ontology on the Web	209
	Linking Rules to Terminologies and Applications in Medical Planning	214
	Classification of Ovarian Tumors Using Bayesian Least Squares Support Vector Machines	219
	Attribute Interactions in Medical Data Analysis	229
	Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Methods to Support Early Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma	239
	Analysis of Gene Expression Data by the Logic Minimization Approach	244
	A Journey trough Clinical Applications of Multimethod Decision Trees	249
	Detailing Test Characteristics for Probabilistic Networks	254
	Bayesian Learning of the Gas Exchange Properties of the Lung for Prediction of Arterial Oxygen Saturation	264
	Hierarchical Dirichlet Learning - Filling in the Thin Spots in a Database	274
	A Bayesian Neural Network Approach for Sleep Apnea Classification	284
	Probabilistic Networks as Probabilistic Forecasters	294
	Finding and Explaining Optimal Treatments	299
	Acquisition of Adaptation Knowledge for Breast Cancer Treatment Decision Support	304
	Case Based Reasoning for Medical Decision-Support in a Safety Critical Environment	314
	Constraint Reasoning in Deep Biomedical Models	324
	Interactive Decision Support for Medical Planning	335
	Compliance with the Hyperlipidaemia Consensus: Clinicians versus the Computer	340
	WoundCare: A Palm Pilot-Based Expert System for the Treatment of Pressure Ulcers	345
	VIE-DIAB: A Support Program for Telemedical Glycaemic Control	350
	Drifting Concepts as Hidden Factors in Clinical Studies	355
	Multi-relational Data Mining in Medical Databases	365
	Is It Time to Trade "Wet-Work" for Network?	375
	Robots as Models of the Brain: What Can We Learn from Modelling Rat Navigation and Infant Imitation Games?	377
	Author Index	387