This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2005, held in Aberdeen, UK in July 2005.
The 35 revised full papers and 34 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on temporal representation and reasoning, decision support systems, clinical guidelines and protocols, ontology and terminology, case-based reasoning, signal interpretation, visual mining, computer vision and imaging, knowledge management, machine learning, knowledge discovery, and data mining.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3581 Silvia Miksch Jim Hunter Elpida Keravnou (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2005 Aberdeen, UK, July 23-27, 2005 Proceedings 13 Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Silvia Miksch Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Favoritenstr. 9-11/E188, 1040 Vienna, Austria E-mail:
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