Aime 87: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Marseilles, August 31st - September 3rd 1987 Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540184027 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 255 str.

John Fox; Marius Fieschi; Rolf Engelbrecht

Opis

This book contains the proceedings of the second major European Conference on Artifical Intelligence in Medicine, Marseilles 1987. It contains some 20 research papers submitted from active research groups throughout Europe, which were accepted for the Conference after careful refereeing.The colliction covers a wide range of current topics in knowledge engineering to theoretical work in qualitative reasoning, management of uncertainty and general methodology etc.

Spis treści

Methodology.- “Intermed”: A Medical Language Interface.- Inference Engineering through Prototyping in Prolog.- The Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support Systems: A Discussion of the Methodology used in the ACORN Project.- Matching Patients: An Approach for Decision Support in Liver Transplantation.- Clinical Applications (1).- An Expert System for Diagnosis and Therapy Planning in Patients with Peripheral Vascular Disease.- An Expert System for the Classification of Dizziness and Vertigo.- The Senex System: A Microcomputer-Based Expert System Built by Oncologists for Breast Cancer Management.- Qualitative Reasoning.- The Use of QSIM for Qualitative Simulation of Physiological Systems.- Qualitative Description of Electrophysiologic Measurements: towards automatic data interpretation.- A Qualitative Spatial Representation for Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Knowledge Acquisition and Representation.- Knowledge Acquisition in Expert System Assisted Diagnosis: A Machine Learning Approach.- Knowledge Representation for Cooperative Medical Systems.- A Representation of Time for Medical Expert Systems.- Management of Uncertainty.- TOULMED, an Inference Engine Which Deals With Imprecise and Uncertain Aspects of Medical Knowledge.- Coherent Handling of Uncertainty Via Localized Computation in an Expert System for Therapeutic Decision.- MUNIM — On the Case for Probabilities in Medical Expert Systems — a Practical Exercise.- Rule Based Expert Systems in Gynecology: Statistical Versus Heuristic Approach.- Knowledge Engineering Tools.- A Radiological Expert System for the PC — Design and Implementation Issues.- A PC-Based Shell for Clinical Information Systems With Reasoning Capabilities.- The Kernel Mechanism for Handling Assumptions and Justifications and its Application to the Biotechnologies.- General Session.- Man-Machine Interaction in Check.- The Oxford System of Medicine: A Prototype Information System for Primary Care.- Clinical Applications (2).- Evaluating the Performance of Anemia.- Computer Aided Diagnosis and Treatment of Brachial Plexus Injuries.- Representation of Embryonic Development and its Anomalies.- A Micro Computer Based Decision Support for Lipid Disorder.