Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine

Methods.- The Use of the KADS Methodology in Designing an Intelligent Teaching System for Diagnosis in Physiotherapy.- Machine Learning as a Tool for Knowledge Acquisition.- Tools for Modeling Time-oriented Concepts: Applications for Retrieval of Liver Transplantation Data.- Belief Network Representations of Temporal Knowledge for Medical Expert Systems.- Decisions Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning.- Knowledge Representation and Data Model to Support Medical Knowledge Base Transportability.- Reliable and Reusable Tools for Medical Knowledge Based Systems.- The MEDES Subshell: Towards an Open Architecture for Decision Support Systems.- Applications: Management of the chronically ill.- Evaluating Expert Critiques. Issues for the Development of Computer-Based Critiquing in Primary Care.- Knowledge Acquisition for a Decision Support System for Anti-epileptic Drug Surveillance.- DIACONS - Diabetes Consultant: Goals and Status.- CARTES - A Prototype Decision Support System in Oncology.- Applications: Management of the critically ill.- Information Management and Decision Support for the Critically Ill.- On Knowledge Based Systems in CCU's: Monitoring and Patients Follow-up.- ARCA - An Integrated System for Cardiac Pathologies Diagnosis and Treatment.- PC-based Multistep Infusion Regimens and On-line Control of Four Infusion Devices.- A System for Interactive Knowledge-Based Simulation With Application in Management of the Critically Ill.- Decision Support In Patient Monitoring By Interactive Information System Including Knowledge-Based Components.- Computerized Monitoring And Decision Support During Anaesthesia.- SIMPLEXYS Real Time Expert Systems in Patient Monitoring.- Evaluation.- The Evaluation of Medical Decision Support and Expert Systems: Reflections on the Literature.- Evaluating Medical Expert Systems: What To Test, And How ?.- The Role of Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine: Epistemological and Evaluation issues.- Validity of Systems Application: User confidence in case application.- Evaluation of Knowledge Based Systems from the User Perspective.- Authors Index.- List of Participants.