This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2001, held in Cascais, Portugal in July 2001. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 30 posters and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. Among the topics addressed in their context on medical information processing are knowledge management, machine learning, data mining, decision support systems, temporal reasoning, case-based reasoning, planning and scheduling, natural language processing, computer vision, image and signal interpretation, intelligent agents, telemedicine, careflow systems, and cognitive modeling.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Silvana Quaglini University of Pavia Department of Computer Science Via Ferrata, 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy E-mail:
[email protected] Pedro Barahona Departamento de Inform´atica Faculdade de Ciˆencias e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2825-114 Caparica, Portugal E-mail:
[email protected] Steen Andreassen Aalborg University Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis Fredrik Bajersvej 7D, 9220 Alborg Øst, Denmark E-mail:
[email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Artificial intelligence in medicine : proceedings / 8th Conference on AI in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2001, Cascais, Portugal, July 1 - 4, 2001. Silvana Quaglini ... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2001 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2101 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-42294-3 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, I.4, J.3, H.4, H.3 ISBN 3-540-42294-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by PTP Berlin, Stefan Sossna Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10839485 06/3142 543210
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