23rd - 26th March 1997
World Trade Center - Grenoble, France
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WELCOME TO AIME'97
The AIME'97 Conference is organized by the European Society for Artificia=
l
Intelligence in Medicine, and is the sixth in the Society's series of
international biennial conferences.
The AIME'97 team, consisting of the Organizing Committee and the Programm=
e
Committee, has endeavoured to provide unique educational and sharing
opportunities in respect to the international state-of-the-art of
Artificial Intelligenge in Medicine (AIM) from a research and application
perspective.
Each day of the conference will include an invited lecture in an area of
interest for participants. At the end of the Conference, the programme wi=
ll
offer a round table discussion focusing on current strategic issues for t=
he
AIM Community.
The Scientific Programme includes 56 presentations (33 papers and 23
posters) covering the following broad subject categories:
- Protocols & Guidelines
- Knowledge Acquisition & Learning
- Decision-Support Theories
- Diagnostic Problem Solving
- Probabilistic Models & Fuzzy Logic
- Temporal Reasoning & Planning
- Natural Language & Terminology
- Image & Signal Processing
- Hybrid & Cooperative Systems
and other areas relevant to AIM.
As already announced the authors of the best papers will be invited to
submit revised and extended versions of their papers to be considered for
publication in a special issue of the AIM journal. These invitations will
be sent after the Conference.
Special attention has been given to the presentation of posters, which ha=
ve
been allocated two plenary sessions, with time for oral presentation. Ali=
ve
demonstrations will also be made possible. Finally, a set of tutorials ar=
e
organized as the first activity at the Conference on March 23rd. The
Programme Committee thanks all the contributors to the Conference for
making it possible to present such a scientifically outstanding programme.
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Elpida Keravnou (Nicosia, Cyprus)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Catherine Garbay (Grenoble, France)
Robert Baud (Geneva, Switzerland, co-Chair)
TUTORIALS Chair
Jeremy Wyatt (London, United Kingdom)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Steen Andreassen (Aalborg, Denmark)
Pedro Barahona (Lisboa, Portugal)
Robert Baud (Geneva, Switzerland)
Jan van Bemmel (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Enrico Coiera (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Carlo Combi (Milano, Italy)
Luca Console (Torino, Italy)
Michel Dojat (Cr=E9teil, France)
Rolf Engelbrecht (Munich, Germany)
John Fox (London, United Kingdom)
Catherine Garbay (Grenoble, France)
Werner Horn (Vienna, Austria)
Jim Hunter (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Nada Lavrac (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Stelios Orphanoudakis (Heraklion, Greece)
Alan Rector (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Costas Spyropoulos (Athens, Greece)
Mario Stefanelli (Pavia, Italy)
Mario Veloso (Lisboa, Portugal)
John Washbrook (London, United Kingdom)
Jeremy Wyatt (London, United Kingdom)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jean-Dominique Monet
Georges Weil
Nicole Brochier
Paulette Souillard
Catherine Plottier
Jacques Chevallier
Pierre Kermen
SECRETARIAT
SELECTOUR-CONGRES
BP 53, F-38041 GRENOBLE CEDEX 09, FRANCE
Tel: + 33 476 44 86 26 - Fax: + 33 476 51 45 46
Email: dcongres@imaginet.fr
WWW: http://www-timc.imag.fr/aime97
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TUTORIALS - Sunday, March 23rd
1. Natural Language Processing
Instructors: Anne-Marie Rassinoux (PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
U.S.A) and Robert Baud (PhD, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland)
2. Protocols, guidelines and clinical decision support systems: a practic=
al
introduction based on the PROforma methodology
Instructors: John Fox and Nicky Johns (Imperial Cancer Research Fund,
London, U.K.)
3. Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Systems
Instructors : Charles P. Friedman (Director of the Center for Biomedical
Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.) and Jeremy Wyatt
(Senior research fellow at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institu=
te
for Health Sciences, Oxford University and consultant in medical
informatics, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, U.K.).
4. Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of Diagnostic Decision
Support Systems (with QMR as a primary example)
Instructors : Randolph A. Miller (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A. ; Randolp=
h
A. Miller is the author of QMR)
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PROGRAMME
MONDAY, March 24th
09. 00 OPENING CEREMONY
PROTOCOLS & GUIDELINES
Chair: Mario Veloso (Portugal)
09. 25 Protocols for medical procedures and therapies: a provisional
description of the PROforma language and tools
J. Fox, N. Johns and A. Rahmanzadeh (United Kingdom)
09. 50 Supporting tools for guideline development and dissemination
S. Quaglini, R. Saracco, M. Stefanelli, and C. Fassino (Italy)
10. 15 A task-specific ontology for the application and critiquing of
time-oriented clinical guidelines
Y. Shahar, S. Miksch and P. Johnson (U.S.A.)
10. 40 COFFEE BREAK
KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION & LEARNING
Chair: Nada Lavrac (Slovenia)
11. 10 Detecting very early stages of dementia from normal aging with
machine learning methods
W.R. Shankle, S. Mani, M. Pazzani, P. Smyth (U.S.A.)
11. 35 Acquiring and validating background knowledge for machine learnin=
g
using function decomposition
B. Zupan and S. Dzeroski (Slovenia)
12. 00 Automated revision of expert rules for treating acute abdominal
pain in children
S. Dzeroski, G. Potamias, V. Moustakis and G. Charissis
(Slovenia-Greece)
12. 25 Evaluation of automatic and manual knowledge acquisition for
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diagnosis
A. Ultsch, T.O. Kleine, D. Korus, S. Farsch, G. Guimaraes, W.
Pietzuch and J. Simon (Germany)
13. 00 LUNCH
14. 30 INVITED TALK
Chair: Steen Andreassen (Denmark)
"Robots as Surgical Assistants: Where we are, where we are tending, and h=
ow
to get there."
Professor Russel H. Taylor (U.S.A.)
15. 30 POSTER SESSION I
Chair: Steen Andreassen (Denmark)
Protocols & Guidelines
* User-adapted multimedia explanations in clinical guidelines
consultation system
B. De Carolis, G. Rumolo and V. Cavallo (Italy)
* Algorithm and care pathway: clinical guidelines and healthcare pr=
ocesses
C. Gordon, P. Johnson, C. Waite and M. Veloso (United Kingdom-Por=
tugal)
Knowledge Acquisition & Learning
* Knowledge acquisition by the domain expert using the tool HEMATOO=
L
J.P. Du Plessis and C.J. Tolmie (South Africa)
* Application of inductive logic programming for learning ECG wavef=
orms
G. Kokai, Z. Alexin and T. Gyimothy (Hungary)
* Knowledge discovery from a breast cancer database
S. Mani, M. Pazzani and J. West (U.S.A.)
* An adaptive two-tier menu approach to support on-line entry of di=
agnoses
S.K. Mudali, J.R. Warren and S.E. Spenceley (Australia)
* Machine learning applied to diagnosis of sport injuries
I. Zelic, I. Kononenko, N. Lavrac and V. Vuga (Slovenia)
Decision-Support Theories
* A new approach to feature extraction
M. Scherf (Germany)
Diagnostic Problem Solving
* The clinical spectrum of decision-support in oncology with a case
report of a real world system
A. Geissbuhler, R.A. Miller and W.W. Stead (U.S.A.)
* A case-based reasoning method for computer-assisted diagnosis in
histopathology
M-C. Jaulent, C. Le Bozec, E. Zapletal and P. Degoulet (France)
* Advances in heuristic shell design: combining rule syntax power
with graphical knowledge acquisition
B. Puppe, F. Puppe and S. Bamberger (Germany)
* The validation of an expert system for diagnosis of acute
myocardial infraction
A. Rabelo Jr, A.R. Rocha, A. Souza, A. Araujo, A. Ximenes, C.
Andrade, D. Onnis, I. Olivaes, K. Oliveira, N. Lobo, N. Ferreira, S. Lope=
s
and V. Werneck (Brasil)
16. 15 COFFEE BREAK
DECISION-SUPPORT THEORIES
Chair: Werner Horn (Austria)
16. 45 A theoretical framework for decision trees in uncertain domains:
application to medical data sets
B. Cremilleux and C. Robert (France)
17. 10 Developing a decision-theoretic network for a congenital heart di=
sease
N. Peek and J. Ottenkamp (The Netherlands)
17. 35 A theory of medical diagnosis as hypothesis refinement
P. Lucas (The Netherlands)
19. 00 WELCOME COCKTAIL
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TUESDAY, March 25th
DIAGNOSTIC PROBLEM SOLVING
Chair : Mario Stefanelli (Italy)
09. 00 A heuristic approach to the multiple diagnoses problem
R.A. Miller (U.S.A.)
09. 25 Intelligent assistance for coronary heart disease diagnosis: a
comparison study
G. Bologna, A. Rida and C. Pellegrini (Switzerland)
09. 50 Diagnosis and monitoring of ulnar nerve lesions
J. Rahmel, C. Blum, P. Hahn and B. Krapohl (Germany)
10. 15 Hypothesist: a development environment for intelligent diagnostic
systems
D. McSherry (United Kingdom)
10. 40 COFFEE BREAK
PROBABILISTIC MODELS & FUZZY LOGIC
Chair:John Fox (United Kingdom)
11. 10 A causal-functional model applied to EMG diagnosis
J. Cruz and P. Barahona (Portugal)
11. 35 Learning Bayesian networks by genetic algorithms. A case study in
the prediction of survival in malignant skin melanoma
P. Larranaga, B. Sierra, M.J. Gallego, M.J. Michelena and J.M.
Picaza (Spain)
12. 00 A neuro-fuzzy-classifier for a knowledge-based glaucoma monitor
G. Zahlmann, M. Scherf and A. Wegner (Germany)
12. 25 A method for diagnosing in large medical expert systems based on
causal probabilistic networks
M. Suojanen, K.G. Olesen, and S. Andreassen (Denmark)
13. 00 LUNCH
14. 30 INVITED TALK
Chair: Costas Spyropoulos (Greece)
"Intelligent Image Management in an Integrated Telemedicine Services Netw=
ork."
Professor Stelios Orphanoudakis (Crete)
15. 30 POSTER SESSION II
Chair: Costas Spyropoulos (Greece)
Probabilistic Models & Fuzzy Logic
* Dynamic decision making in stochastic partially observable medica=
l
domains: ischemic heart disease example
M. Hauskrecht (U.S.A)
* Self-learning fuzzy logic control in medicine
D.G. Mason, D.A. Linkens and N.D. Edwards (United Kingdom)
Temporal Reasoning & Planning
* Medical planning environment
D. Ziebelin and A. Vila (France)
Natural Language & Terminology
* Multilingual decision-support for the diagnosis of acute abdomina=
l
pain: A European Concerted Action (COPERNICUS 555)
Ohmann, H.P. Eich, E. Kein and the COPERNICUS Abdominal Pain Study Group
(Germany)
* Medical concept systems, lexicons and natural language generation
J.C. Wagner, C. Lovis, R.H. Baud and J-R. Scherrer (Switzerland)
Image & Signal Processing
* Rule-based labeling of CT head image
D. Cosic and S. Loncaric (Croatia)
* Characterisation of tumorous tissue in rat brain by in vitro
magnetic resonance spectroscopy and artificial neural networks
T. Derr, T. Els, M.L. Gyngell and D. Leibfritz (Germany)
* An application of machine learning in the diagnosis of ischaemic
heart disease
M. Kukar, C. Groselj, I. Koronenko, and J.J. Fettich (Slovenia)
Hybrid & Cooperative Systems
* Case-based reasoning and statistics for discovering and forecasti=
ng
of epidemics
M. Bull, G. Kundt and L. Gierl (Germany)
* Knowledge refinement of an expert system using a
symbolic-connectionist approach
D. Lorenzo, J. Santos, S. Gomez, J. Heras and R.P. Otero (Spain)
* Integrated decision support: the DIADOQ computer-based patient re=
cord
W. Moser and T. Diedrich (Germany)
* Extending a symbolic problem solver to handle incomplete and
uncertain information
W.M. Post (The Netherlands)
16. 15 COFFEE BREAK
TEMPORAL REASONING & PLANNING
Chair: Pedro Barahona (Portugal)
16. 45 Planning and scheduling patient tests in hospital laboratories
C.D. Spyropoulos, S. Kokkotos and C. Marinagi (Greece)
17. 10 Temporal abstractions for diabetic patients management
C. Larizza, R. Bellazzi and A. Riva (Italy)
17. 35 Temporal scenario recognition for intelligent patient monitoring
N. Ramaux, D. Fontaine and M. Dojat (France)
19. 00 CONFERENCE DINNER
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WEDNESDAY, March 25th
NATURAL LANGUAGE & TERMINOLOGY
Chair:Rolph Engelbrecht (Germany)
09. 00 Strengthening argumentation in medical explanations by text plan
revision
F. de Rosis, F. Grasso and D.C. Berry (Italy)
09. 25 An ontological analysis of surgical deeds
A. Rossi Mori, A. Gangemi, G. Steve, F. Consorti and E. Galeazzi =
(Italy)
09. 50 Building medical dictionaries for patient encoding system, a meth=
odology
C. Lovis, R Baud, A.M.Rassinoux, P.A.Michel and J.R.Scherrer
(Switzerland)
10. 15 A semantics-based communication system for dysphasic subjects
P. Vaillant (France)
10. 40 COFFEE BREAK
IMAGE & SIGNAL PROCESSING
Chair: Michel Dojat (France)
11. 10 Distributed plan construction and execution for medical image
interpretation"
N. Bianchi, P. Bottoni, C. Garbay, P. Mussio and C. Spinu (Italy-=
France)
11. 35 Improved identification of the human shoulder kinematics with
muscle biological filters
J-P Draye, G. Cheron, D. Pavisic and G. Libert (Belgium)
12. 00 A society of goal-oriented agents for the analysis of living cell=
s
A. Boucher, A. Doisy, X. Ronot and C. Garbay (France)
12. 25 Methodology for the design of digital brain atlases
B. Gibaud, S. Garlatti, C. Barillot and E. Faure (France)
13. 00 LUNCH
14. 00 INVITED TALK
Chair: Enrico Coiera (United Kingdom)
Artificial Intelligence Technologies : Conditions for Further Impact
Professor Jean-Raoul Scherrer (Switzerland)
HYBID & COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS
Chair: Enrico Coiera (United Kingdom)
15. 00 Meta-level learning in a hybrid knowledge-based architecture
E. Christodoulou and E.T. Keravnou (Cyprus)
15. 25 A framework for building cooperating agents
G. Lanzola, M. Campagnoli, S. Falasconi and M. Stefanelli (Italy)
15. 50 Adding knowledge to information retrieval systems in the world wi=
de web
G. Mann, M. Schubert and V. Schaeffler (Germany)
16. 15 Learning from data through the integration of qualitative models
and fuzzy systems
R. Bellazzi, L. Ironi, R. Guglielmann, and M. Stefanelli (Italy)
16. 40 COFFEE BREAK
17. 00 PANEL SESSION
18. 00 CLOSING CEREMONY
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CONFERENCE VENUE
The SIXTH CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE EUROPE will b=
e
held at World Trade Center, a building located in the center of the city =
of
Grenoble, close to the railway station and shuttle station from Lyon and
Grenoble airports and from walking distance from the major hotels and
restaurants. Cloakroom, telephone and FAX facilities are available on the
meeting site.
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT DESK
At the Registration Desk, SELECTOUR CONGRES will operate all travel
arrangements : Reservation, Modification, Ticketing, Shuttles and Taxis t=
o
airports, Car rental and all off-conference travel services.
Hours: Sunday 23rd 08.00 - 13.00 14.00 - 18.00
Monday 24 th 08.00 - 13.00 14.00 - 18.00
Tuesday 25th 08.00 - 13.00 14.00 - 18.00
Wednesday 26th 08.00 - 13.00 14.00 - 18.00
REGISTRATION
Please use the enclosed REGISTRATION FORM. Students should attach a lette=
r
of support from their supervisor or institution confirming student status.
The registration fees include:
- 3 days participation and Proceeding of the Conference
- coffee breaks and lunches (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
- Opening Welcome Cocktail (Monday 24th)
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL FEES
Morning
1- Natural Language Processing
3- Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Systems
Afternoon
2- Protocols, guidelines and clinical decision support systems
4- Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of Diagnostic Decision
Support Systems
Since there are two tutorial sessions in parallel, two tutorials at most
can be selected (one in the morning, and one in the afternoon).
SOCIAL EVENTS
A Welcome Cocktail for all participants will be held on Monday Evening,
March 24th, 19:00 hr, in the World Trade Center. The Conference Dinner
will be held on Tuesday, March 25th, 20:30 hr at the " Chateau de
Vizille ", a castle and a museum of the French Revolution, which is locat=
ed
about 30 km of Grenoble. A bus will leave from the conference site at 19:=
00
hr to allow a free visit of the museum.
ACCOMMODATION
Most hotels are within a walking distance of the World Trade Center
conference building. Please use the enclosed ACCOMMODATION FORM.
Average price per person, per night including breakfast :
De Luxe Hotel 4**** FFr. 650/750
First Class 3*** FFr. 350/580
Economy 2** FFr. 250/350
PAYMENT
Payment of the registration fee or of the accommodation deposit should be
made in French francs net of all bank charges and commissions. Please
indicate your name and address on any cheque or bank draft. More
instructions are given below.
CANCELLATION
The Secretariat of the AIME'97 Conference must be notified in writing of
any cancellation. A cancellation fee of FFr. 500, will be charged until 1=
5
March 1997. After this date there will be no refund of registration fees.
Nevertheless, any cancellation or change in participation schedule has to
be notified to the Registration Desk.
BANKING
Change and banking facilities are in the immediate viccinity of the
Conference site and open from 09:00 to 16:00 hr. International Credit
Cards, Traveller Cheques and Eurocheques are widely accepted and quite
practical.
POSTERS
The posters will be exposed during the whole duration of the Conference. =
3
minutes oral presentation will be given for each poster during a plenary
poster session. The poster exhibition room is open on Sunday 23 March 19=
97
for setting up and Wednesday 26 March 1997 for dismantling before 18:00 h=
r.
Posters can be visited daily from 08:30 to 18:00 hr.
Poster board : 1.85 m (h) x 0.89 m (l)
SLIDES
The slides have to be delivered to the SLIDE ROOM at the latest during th=
e
break preceding the session and at 08:30 hr for the first morning session.
The SLIDE ROOM is located behind the AUDITORIUM. Dual projection is
possible in all lecture rooms.
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DEADLINE FOR REDUCED FEES EXTENDED TO THE 28TH OF FEBRUARY
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* 1 Tutorial: FFr. 500
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