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Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine: Methods, Applications and Evaluation

Proceedings of the Workshop “System Engineering in Medicine”, Maastricht, March 16–18, 1989

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Jan L. Talmon

    1. Department of Medical Informatics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. John Fox

    1. Advanced Computation Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics (LNMED, volume 47)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Use of the KADS Methodology in Designing an Intelligent Teaching System for Diagnosis in Physiotherapy

      • Joost Breuker, Radboud Winkels
      Pages 3-26

    3. Machine Learning as a Tool for Knowledge Acquisition

      • R. A. J. Schijven, J. L. Talmon
      Pages 27-35

    4. Tools for Modeling Time-oriented Concepts

      • Günter Tusch
      Pages 36-48

    5. Belief Network Representations of Temporal Knowledge for Medical Expert Systems

      • Carlo Berzuini, Silvana Quaglini, Riccardo Bellazzi
      Pages 49-67

    6. Decisions Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning

      • Steen Andreassen
      Pages 68-79

    7. Knowledge Representation and Data Model to Support Medical Knowledge Base Transportability

      • O. B. Wigertz, P. D. Clayton, G. Hripcsak, R. Linnarsson
      Pages 80-90

    8. Reliable and reusable tools for medical knowledge based systems

      • John Fox, Andrzej Glowinski, Mike O’Neil
      Pages 91-105

    9. The MEDES Subshell: Towards an Open Architecture for Decision Support Systems

      • Pieter F. de Vries Robbé, Pieter E. Zanstra, Wim P. A. Beckers
      Pages 106-114

  3. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Evaluating Expert Critiques

      • Johan van der Lei, R. Frans Westerman, Wilfried M. Boon
      Pages 117-128

    3. Knowledge Acquisition for a Decision Support System for Anti-epileptic Drug Surveillance

      • R. P. A. M. Smeets, J. L. Talmon, P. J. M. van der Lugt, R. A. J. Schijven
      Pages 129-139

    4. DIACONS — Diabetes Consultant: Goals and Status

      • Rolf Engelbrecht, Jutta Schneider, Klaus Piwernetz
      Pages 140-147

    5. CARTES — A Prototype Decision Support System in Oncology

      • Pentti Kolari, Jussi Yliaho, Kari Näriäinen, Simo Hyödynmaa, Antti Ojala, Jukka Rantanen et al.
      Pages 148-158

  4. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Information Management and Decision Support for the Critically Ill

      • K. Autio, A. Mäkivirta, T. Sukuvaara, A. Kari, E. Koski, S. Kalli et al.
      Pages 161-173

    3. On Knowledge Based Systems in CCU’s: Monitoring and Patients Follow-up

      • J. Mira, R. P. Otero, S. Barro, A. Barreiro, R. Ruiz, R. Marín et al.
      Pages 174-192

    4. ARCA — An Integrated System for Cardiac Pathologies Diagnosis and Treatment

      • Joäo Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira
      Pages 193-204

    5. PC-based Multistep Infusion Regimens and On-line Control of Four Infusion Devices

      • A. A. d’Hollander, F. Cantraine, E. Coussaert, L. Barvais
      Pages 205-213
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About this book

his volume of the series Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics contains the T proceedings of the Workshop on System Engineering in Medicine, which was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18 March 1989. This workshop was sponsored by the EC under the framework of the Medical and Health Research Programme. The aim of the workshop was to assess whether there was sufficient support in the Medical Informatics community in the EC to establish a concerted action. This proceedings contain papers of the presentations given at the workshop. These presentations were centred around three themes: • Methods and Tools • Applications in the domains of chronic care and critical care • Evaluation of decision support systems The papers were prepared after the workshop and therefore we were able to include the relevant parts of the discussions which were related to the presentations. As a result of the discussions during the workshop, a proposal was prepared for the establishment of a concerted action, specifically addressing the development of guidelines for the evaluation of medical decision aids. This proposal was granted early 1990 under the same Medical and Health Research programme of the EC. Over 40 institutes are participating in this concerted action. It have been the outstanding presentations and the open discussions at the workshop that have been the starting point of this concerted action. The papers in this proceedings formed a starting point for the discussions in the meetings of the concerted action.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Medical Informatics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Jan L. Talmon

  • Advanced Computation Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, UK

    John Fox

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine: Methods, Applications and Evaluation

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Workshop “System Engineering in Medicine”, Maastricht, March 16–18, 1989

  • Editors: Jan L. Talmon, John Fox

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08131-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-55011-2Published: 11 December 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-08131-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-7788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 332

  • Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Informatics

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