| Mediated Agent Interaction | p. 1 |
| On Articulation and Localization - Some Sociotechnical Issues of Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Knowledge Based Systems | p. 16 |
| Prototype Selection and Feature Subset Selection by Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. A Case Study in the Survival of Cirrhotic Patients Treated with TIPS | p. 20 |
| Detection of Infectious Outbreaks in Hospitals through Incremental Clustering | p. 30 |
| Minig Data from a Knowledge Management Perspective: An Application to Outcome Prediction in Patients with Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma | p. 40 |
| Discovering Associations in Clinical Data: Application to Search for Prognostic Factors in Hodgkin's Disease | p. 50 |
| Visualisation of Multidimensional Data for Medical Decision Support | p. 55 |
| A Clustering-Based Constructive Induction Method and Its Application to Rheumatoid Arthritis | p. 59 |
| Improving Identification of Difficult Small Classes by Balancing Class Distribution | p. 63 |
| Credal Classification for Dementia Screening | p. 67 |
| Evaluation of Prognostic Factors and Prediction of Chronic Wound Healing Rate by Machine Learning Tools | p. 77 |
| Making Reliable Diagnoses with Machine Learning: A Case Study | p. 88 |
| A Classification-Tree Hybrid Method for Studying Prognostic Models in Intensive Care | p. 99 |
| Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning in Analysis of the CHD Patient Database | p. 109 |
| Coronary Heart Disease Patient Models Based on Inductive Machine Learning | p. 113 |
| Prediction of Protein Secondary Structures of All Types Using New Hypersphere Machine Learning Method | p. 117 |
| Integrating Different Methodologies for Insulin Therapy Support in Type 1 Diabetic Patients | p. 121 |
| Diagnosing Patient State in Intensive Care Patients Using the Intelligent Ventilator (INVENT) System | p. 131 |
| A User Interface for Executing Asbru Plans | p. 136 |
| Improving HISYS1 with a Decision-Support System | p. 140 |
| Diagnosis of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Hemodialyzed Patients through Support Vector Machines Technique | p. 144 |
| A Visual Tool for a User-Friendly Artificial Neural Network Based Decision Support System in Medicine | p. 148 |
| Modeling of Ventricular Repolarisation Time Series by Multi-layer Perceptrons | p. 152 |
| Expert Knowledge and Its Role in Learning Bayesian Networks in Medicine: An Appraisal | p. 156 |
| Improving the Diagnostic Performance of MUNIN by Remodelling of the Diseases | p. 167 |
| Extended Bayesian Regression Models: A Symbiotic Application of Belief Networks and Multilayer Perceptrons for the Classification of Ovarian Tumors | p. 177 |
| The Effects of Disregarding Test Characteristics in Probabilistic Networks | p. 188 |
| Knowledge Acquisition and Automated Generation of Bayesian Networks for a Medical Dialogue and Advisory System | p. 199 |
| Educational Tool for Diabetic Patients Based on Causal Probabilistic Networks | p. 203 |
| NasoNet, Joining Bayesian Networks, and Time to Model Nasopharyngeal Cancer Spread | p. 207 |
| Using Time-Oriented Data Abstraction Methods to Optimize Oxygen Supply for Neonates | p. 217 |
| Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical Abstractions: A User Interface Based on Novel Metaphors | p. 227 |
| Using Temporal Probabilistic Knowledge for Medical Decision Making | p. 231 |
| Temporal Issues in the Intelligent Interpretation of the Sleep Apnea Syndrome | p. 235 |
| Generating Symbolic and Natural Language Partial Solutions for Inclusion in Medical Plans | p. 239 |
| Using Part-of-Speech and Word-Sense Disambiguation for Boosting String-Edit Distance Spelling Correction | p. 249 |
| Semantic Interpretation of Medical Language - Quantitative Analysis and Qualitative Yield | p. 258 |
| Medical Knowledge Acquisition from the Electronic Encyclopedia of China | p. 268 |
| Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning under Uncertainty in Medical Decision Making | p. 272 |
| Comparison of Rule-Based and Bayesian Network Approaches in Medical Diagnostic Systems | p. 283 |
| Parts, Locations, and Holes - Formal Reasoning about Anatomical Structures | p. 293 |
| Abductive Inference of Genetic Networks | p. 304 |
| Interface of Inference Models with Concept and Medical Record Models | p. 314 |
| Integrating Ripple Down Rules with Ontologies in an Oncology Domain | p. 324 |
| Towards a Simple Ontology Definition Language (SOntoDL) for a Semantic Web of Evidence-Based Medical Information | p. 328 |
| Knowledge Acquisition System to Support Low Vision Consultation | p. 332 |
| Systematic Construction of Texture Features for Hashimoto's Lymphocytis Thyroiditis Recognition from Sonographic Images | p. 339 |
| Dynamic Adaptation of Cooperative Agents for MRI Brain Scans Segmentation | p. 349 |
| Numeric and Symbolic Knowledge Representation of Cortex Anatomy Using Web Technologies | p. 359 |
| Depth-Four Threshold Circuits for Computer-Assisted X-ray Diagnosis | p. 369 |
| Management of Hospital Teams for Organ Transplants Using Multi-agent Systems | p. 374 |
| An AI-Based Approach to Support Communication in Health Care Organizations | p. 384 |
| TAME (Time Resourcing in Academic Medical Environments) | p. 395 |
| A Conceptual Framework to Model Chronic and Long-Term Diseases | p. 405 |
| Modelling of Radiological Examinations with POKMAT, a Process Oriented Knowledge Management Tool | p. 409 |
| A Multi-agent System for Organ Transplant Co-ordination | p. 413 |
| A Platform Integrating Knowledge and Data Management for EMG Studies | p. 417 |
| Using ONCODOC as a Computer-Based Eligibility Screening System to Improve Accrual onto Breast Cancer Clinical Trials | p. 421 |
| Using Critiquing for Improving Medical Protocols: Harder than It Seems | p. 431 |
| Evaluating the Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Stroke Outcomes | p. 442 |
| Challenges in Evaluating Complex Decision Support Systems: Lessons from Design-a-Trial | p. 453 |
| On the Evaluation of Probabilistic Networks | p. 457 |
| Evaluation of a Case-Based Antibiotics Therapy Adviser | p. 462 |
| Author Index | p. 467 |
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