Medical Informatics Europe 1991

This volume presents papers from the Tenth International Congress on Medical Informatics, MIE 91. Prevalent topics are medical information and communication systems, knowledge-based systems, fuzzy set theory, fractals, neural networks, parallel computation, and bioinformatics.

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This volume presents papers from the Tenth InternationalCongress on MedicalInformatics, MIE 91. The contributionsdescribe original research in all areas of Medical Informa-tics. The scientific topics presented range from informationand communication systems, knowledge-based systems, signaland image processing, health care, biometry and biomathema-tics,research and epidemiology, classification and coding,and nursing, up to computer-assisted education, medical cur-ricula, and even robotics in medicine. They are interdisci-plinary in nature and may therefore be of interest to a va-riety of professionals: medical informaticians and healthinformation scientists, medical computing specialists, pu-blic health and hospital administrators, physicians, nurses,other allied health personnel, and consultants in the vario-us health fields. A highly prevalent topic in the volume athand is medical information and communication systems, hos-pital, medical, clinical, ward, nursing, health,and execu-tive information systems. hospital and data communicationnetworks and PACS, drug information systems (database, in-teraction, monitoring) and related issues such as standardi-zation of information exchange. The volume's subject index,for example, contains atotal of 40 cross-references to theabove-mentioned keywords. Moreover, a "hot" topic isknowledge-based systems with 62 cross-references in the sub-ject index. This topic was not only discussed in several Me-dical Expert Systems' sessions but is also part of sessionssuch as biosignal and image processing, computer-assistedinstruction, and information systems anddecision support.Some areas of knowledge-based systems are discussed in de-tail. This concerns for example, knowledge representation,knowledgeacquisition and learning, knowledge models, andevaluation issues. Several contributions report on clinicalapplications of knowledge-based systems andthus demonstratetheir achieved practical usefulness.

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Paper Presentations.- Poster Presentations.- Demonstrations.- Author Index.