This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in July 2007.
The 28 revised full papers and 38 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 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 J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Riccardo Bellazzi Ameen Abu-Hanna Jim Hunter (Eds.)
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2007 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Riccardo Bellazzi University of Pavia Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia,Italy E-mail:
[email protected] Ameen Abu-Hanna Universiteit van Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, Department of Medical Informatics Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail:
[email protected] Jim Hunter University of Aberdeen King’s College, Department of Computing Science 273422 Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK E-mail:
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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, France (1987), London, UK (1989), Maastricht, The Netherlands (1991), Munich, Germany (1993), Pavia, Italy (1995), Grenoble, France (1997), Aalborg, Denmark (1999), Cascais, Portugal (200