Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine: Methods, Applications and Evaluation

This proceedings volume contains 25 papers describing the state of the art in artificial intelligence in medicine research in Europe. Methodological issues regarding the construction and evaluation of medical decision aids are discussed as well as several applications for critical and chronic care.

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Methods.- The Use of the KADS Methodology in Designing an Intelligent Teaching System for Diagnosis in Physiotherapy.- Machine Learning as a Tool for Knowledge Acquisition.- Tools for Modeling Time-oriented Concepts: Applications for Retrieval of Liver Transplantation Data.- Belief Network Representations of Temporal Knowledge for Medical Expert Systems.- Decisions Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning.- Knowledge Representation and Data Model to Support Medical Knowledge Base Transportability.- Reliable and Reusable Tools for Medical Knowledge Based Systems.- The MEDES Subshell: Towards an Open Architecture for Decision Support Systems.- Applications: Management of the chronically ill.- Evaluating Expert Critiques. Issues for the Development of Computer-Based Critiquing in Primary Care.- Knowledge Acquisition for a Decision Support System for Anti-epileptic Drug Surveillance.- DIACONS Diabetes Consultant: Goals and Status.- CARTES A Prototype Decision Support System in Oncology.- Applications: Management of the critically ill.- Information Management and Decision Support for the Critically Ill.- On Knowledge Based Systems in CCU's: Monitoring and Patients Follow-up.- ARCA An Integrated System for Cardiac Pathologies Diagnosis and Treatment.- PC-based Multistep Infusion Regimens and On-line Control of Four Infusion Devices.- A System for Interactive Knowledge-Based Simulation With Application in Management of the Critically Ill.- Decision Support In Patient Monitoring By Interactive Information System Including Knowledge-Based Components.- Computerized Monitoring And Decision Support During Anaesthesia.- SIMPLEXYS Real Time Expert Systems in Patient Monitoring.- Evaluation.- The Evaluation of Medical Decision Support and Expert Systems:Reflections on the Literature.- Evaluating Medical Expert Systems: What To Test, And How ?.- The Role of Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine: Epistemological and Evaluation issues.- Validity of Systems Application: User confidence in case application.- Evaluation of Knowledge Based Systems from the User Perspective.- Authors Index.- List of Participants.