Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou Knihy

Focusing on the design of information systems for medical applications, the book explores key topics such as fundamentals of system design, temporal reasoning, and maintenance in healthcare. It delves into the importance of time in clinical tasks and how to effectively display time-oriented clinical information, making it a comprehensive resource for understanding the integration of temporal aspects in medical information systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME'97, held in Grenoble, France, in March 1997. The volume presents 33 revised full papers selected from a total of 82 submissions; also included are three invited presentations and 25 posters. The papers are organized in topical sections on protocols and guidelines, knowledge acquisition and learning, decision-support theories, diagnostic problem solving, probabilistic models and fuzzy logic, temporal reasoning and planning, natural language and terminology, image and signal processing, and hybrid and cooperative systems.