This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2009, held in Verona, Italy in July 2009.
The 24 revised long papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-based systems, temporal data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery, text mining, natural language processing and generation, ontologies, decision support systems, applications of AI-based image processing techniques, protocols and guidelines, as well as workflow systems.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by R. Goebel, J. Siekmann, and W. Wahlster
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Carlo Combi Yuval Shahar Ameen Abu-Hanna (Eds.)
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2009 Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Carlo Combi University of Verona, Department of Computer Science Ca’ Vignal 2, strada le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy E-mail:
[email protected] Yuval Shahar Ben Gurion University of the Negev Department of Information Systems Engineering P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel E-mail:
[email protected] Ameen Abu-Hanna University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center Department of Medical Informatics Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail:
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930527
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, I.4, J.3, H.2.8, H.4, H.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) was established in 1986 following a very successful workshop held in Pavia, Italy, the year before. The principal aims of AIME are to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and to provide a forum at biennial conferences for discussing any progress made. For this reason the main activity of the society was the organization of a series of biennial conferences, held in Marseilles,