Artificial intelligence in medicine. 6th conference, AIME '97, Grenoble, France, March 23--26, 1997. Proceedings (Q1355992)

These are the proceedings of the sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME'97), held in Grenoble, France, March 1997. The volume contains 55 contributions and three keynote lectures. The topics of the latter are robots as surgical assistants, intelligent image management in an integrated telemedicine services network, and the future impact of AI technologies in the medical domain. The technical papers fall under nine major categories: protocols and guidelines (e.g., protocols for medical procedures and therapies, ontologies for time-oriented clinical guidelines, multimedia explanations and tool support), knowledge acquisition and machine learning (acquiring and revising diagnostic knowledge, therapy plans, medical background knowledge, etc.), decision support theories (e.g., decision trees, probabilistic networks, medical diagnosis as hypothesis refinement process), diagnostic problem solving (approaches to the multiple diagnoses problem, development environments and validation experiments of diagnostic expert systems, etc.), probabilistic networks and fuzzy logic (causal-functional models, causal probabilistic networks, learning of Bayesian networks by genetic algorithms, neuro-fuzzy classifiers, dynamic medical decision making in stochastic, partially observable domains, self-learning fuzzy logic control, etc.), temporal reasoning (temporal abstractions, temporal scenario recognition), planning and scheduling for patient management, natural language processing and medical terminologies (explanation-oriented text planning, medical ontology engineering, construction of medical dictionaries, multi-lingual decision support, medical concept languages and natural language generation), image and signal processing in medicine (with applications, e.g., related to human shoulder kinematics, the analysis of living cells, the design of digital brain atlases, the labeling of CT head images, the identification of tumorous tissue in rat brains), and various approaches to information systems (cooperating multi-agent architecture, knowledge-based information retrieval in the World Wide Web, computer-based patient records, etc.).