(DBWORLD) NEW BOOK on decision support

Bostjan Brumen (Bostjan.Brumen@uni-mb.si)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:33:51 -0500 (CDT)

Computer Science
Subject: (DBWORLD) Call for Participation: CBMS'97

What follows is the complete information regarding CBMS'97 which will
take place in Maribor, Slovenia - Europe. All information is also
available on http://www.uni-mb.si/~CBMS97

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL IN MARIBOR THIS JUNE!!
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REGISTRATION
Please return the enclosed Registration Form by post, fax or mail to
Congress Secretariat. The registration is considered effective only
at the time of acceptance of payment.

Registration Fees in US$:
Before June 1st After June 1st On Site
Participant $ 350 $ 400 $ 500
IEEE Members $ 200 $ 300 $ 350
Accompanying Person $ 75 $ 100 $ 125

Payments acceptable in US$ to:
Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor d.d.
SWIFT: KBMASI2X
Account: 7383-623-VA-4430/0

For Participants from Slovenia:
Organizacijski odbor CBMS 97 pri NKBM:
Ziro Racun: 51800-740-031-31999

The registration fee for participants covers all Congress activities, a =

copy of the Proceedings (printed by IEEE) and other materials, coffee/
tea during the Congress, admission to the commercial exhibitions, the
Opening Ceremony, the Get Together Party and the Closing Ceremony.

The registration fee for Accompanying persons covers the Opening =

Ceremony, admission to the commercial exhibitions, the Get Together
Party and the Closing Ceremony.

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P R O G R A M C B M S ' 9 7 =

Tuesday, June 10, Afternoon

14:30 - 17:35 =

TUTORIAL
Intelligent data analysis and synthesis of medical knowledge bases
N. Lavrac and I. Kononenko

19:00 - 22:00 =

Get Together Party - Knight Hall, Town Castle

Wednesday, June 11, Morning

10:00 - 12:30
Opening Ceremony - Casina Hall, The National Theatre

12:30 - 14:00
Reception - Casina Hall, The National Theatre

Wednesday, June 11, Afternoon

14:15 - 16:00
Knowledge Based Systems; Chair: A N. Lavrac

Decision-support in acute abdominal pain using an expert system for
different knowledge bases
H. P. Eich, C. Ohmann, K. Lang =

Klinik fuer Allgemein- und Unfallchirurgie, Funktionsbereich
Theoretische Chirurgie =

Germany
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Decision Support System for Telemedicine based on Multiple Expertise
T. Vagan =

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of
Jyvaskyla, Finland
S. Puuronen
Department of Computer Sciences and Information Systems, University of
Jyvaskyla, Finland
M. Kovalainen =

Information Technology Research Institute, University of Jyvaskyla
Finland
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Several Experiments Using Artificial Intelligence Methods to Analyze
Clinical Research Data: The POSCH AI Project
J. M. Long =

University of Minnesota, USA
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Implementation Problems of Decision Support System for Nosocomial
Infection
M. Rems, Z. Kramar =

General Hospital Jesenice, Surgery Unit, Slovenia
M. Bohanec
Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
B. Urh =

INFONET - Engineering of Medical Informatics, Kranj, Slovenia

14:15 - 15:50 =

Image Processing and Analysis A; Chair: A. Sarvazyan

TOSHIBA =

Automated Computer-Assisted Detection of Follicles in Ultrasound Images
of Ovary
B. Potocnik, D. Zazula =

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of
Maribor, Slovenia
=

Computer aided ultrasound laboratory
R. Zajac
Department of Urology, Medical Faculty Hospital, Slovakia
V. Cerny =

Institute of Physics MFFUK, Slovakia
=

Studies on Vision Enhancing with Optoelectronical Devices
G. Edelmayer, P. Mayer, W. Zagler =

IAEE, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
=

Diagnosis Optimization of some Vertebral Diseases and Injuries
G. Gruntovsky, V. Kolesnichenko, R. Slobodsky =

Orthopedical and Traumatology Research Institute, Vertebrology Clinic,
Radioelectronic Technical University, Ukraine
=

Follicle Recognition in Ultrasonic Images Using the Cellular Automata
B. Viher, D. Zazula =

University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Slovenia
A. Dobnikar
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
Slovenia

16:15 - 17:35 =

Information Systems A; Chair: J. Gyorkos
=

Interfacing Anesthesiology Operating Room Data with Statistics Software
Packages
M. G. E. Peterson, P. G. Williams-Russo =

Hospital for Special Surgery, USA
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SAAS: Automatic System for Auto-Supervision in an Emergency Room
J. A. Borges, M. Gonzalez, J. Navarro, N. J. Rodriguez =

Center for Computing Research and Development =

Unversity of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus, Puerto Rico
=

The project "Patient en Dossier"
A. Mehuys =

Datasoft Managment N.V. , Belgium
=

Mobile Transaction Management in Distributed Medical Databases
S. Morton, O. Bukhres =

Department of Computer and Information Science, Purdue University, USA

16:15 - 17:35 =

Cardiovascular Technologies; Chair: J. Zavrsnik

Automated Recognition of Cardiac Structures in Echocontrast Perfusion
Studies
P. Merialdo =

Chimica e Informatika - Universita' degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
F. Bilotta, , E. G. Gigante =

Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
=

Diagnosing the Ischaemic Heart Disease with Machine Learning
M. Kukar, I. Kononenko =

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
Slovenia
C. Groselj, J. J. Fettich
University Medical Center Ljubljana, Nuclear Medicine Department,
Slovenia
=

Classification of Cutaneous Microcirculation Signals
E. Hitti, M. F. Lucas
Maitre de Conferences Ecole Centrale de Nantes / Universite de Nantes,
France
J. L. Saumet =

Laboratoire d=A2Exploration vasculaire, ANGERS Hospital, France
=

Multichannel ECG Measurement System
V. Avbelj, R. Trobec, B. Gersak
University of Ljubljana, IJS, Slovenia

19:30 - 22:00 =

Ballet: West Side Story - The National Theatre

9:00 - 10:20 =

Reception - Casina Hall, The National Theatre

Thursday, June 12, Morning

9:00 - 10:20 =

Information Systems B; Chair: R. Mittermayer
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Diagnostic System Stomsys
M. Malus, D. Groselj, I. Grabec, P. Muzic, =

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
=

EUROMED - The Creation of a Telemedical Information Society
A. Marsh =

National Technical University of Athens, Institute of Communications and
Computer Systems, Greece
=

A Computer Based Solution for Blood Transfusion Centres; The Case Study
of Greece
G. Panagopoulou, S. Sirmakessis, A. Tsakalidis, G. Tzimas =

University of Patras, Department of Computer Engineering and
Informatics, Greece
=

Semantic Interrogation for a Radiological Documentary Record
A. Tchounikine, Y. Amghar, A. Flory =

INSA, dept. Informatique, Bat 502, France
=

9:00 - 10:20 =

Image Processing and Analysis B; Chair: M. Lucas

Enhancement and Associative Restoration of Electronic Portal Images in
Radiotherapy
G. Krell, H. R. Tizhoosh, T. Lilienblum, B. Michaelis
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg =

Institute for Measurement and Electronics, Germany
C. J. Moore
North Western Medical Physics Department, Manchester, United Kindom
=

3D Correlation of the Talairach Atlas based on the Proportional Grid
System
S. Czanner, R. Boesecke =

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Komensky, Slovak
republic
R. Boesecke, H. Schoepp, J. Pross
Howmedica-Leibinger Gmbh, Freiburg, Germany
M. Roth, R. Haux
Institute for Medical Informatics, University Heidelberg,, Germany =

=

3D Reconstraction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Largely Spaced
Slices
A. J. M. Traina, A. H. M. de Almeida Prado, J. M. Bueno =

Computer Science Department, Mathematics Institute at Sao Carlos, Sao
Paulo University, Brazil
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Knowledge-Based Mechanical Imaging
A. P. Sarvazyan =

Artann Laboratories, USA
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Radial Basis Function-based Image Segmentation using a Receptive Field
D. Kovacevic, S. Loncaric =

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb,
Croatia
=

10:45 - 12:30 =

Knowledge Based Systems B; Chair: I. Rozman

Using an Artificial Neural Network to Define the Planning Target Volume
in Radiotherapy
N. Kaspari, G. Gademann, B. Michaelis =

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg =

Clinic for Raditherapy Institute for Measurement and Electronics,
Germany
=

Clinical Gait Analysis by Neural Networks
M. Koehle, D. Merkl =

Institut fuer Softwaretechnik, TU Wien, Austria
Josef Kastner
Institut fuer Orthopaedietechnik, Wien, Austria
=

Minimising the Energy of the Alanine Dipeptide by Simulated Annealing
R. Rodosek
Imperial College, IC-Parc, England
D. Zupanic =

Jozef Stefan Institute, Department for Intelligent Systems, Slovenia
=

A Neural Network-Based Integrated Image Processing Environment for
Object Recognition in Medicine Applications
I. Ciuca =

Research Institute for Informatics, Romania
J. A. Ware =

Glamorgan University, United Kindom
=

Intelligent Support for the Neuroimaging
B. Novak =

University of Maribor, FERI, Slovenia
G. Bunc
Department of Neurosurgery, Teachinig Hospital of Ljubljana=A2s Medical
School Maribor, Slovenia
=

10:45 - 12:30 =

Signal Processing; Chair: Z. Kacic
=

ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT OF POSTURAL STABILITY AND CONTROL
S. Badjou, G. Powers
Whitworth College, Department of Physics, Washington, U.S.A.
=

A Statistical Brain-mapping System for the Evaluation of Communication
Disorders
V. Gonzalez-Velez, V. Medina, H. Gonzalez-Velez =

Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, Mexico
T. Flores
National Institute for Human Communication, Mexico
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Inter-Patient Analysis of Tomographic Data
C. Busch =

Computer Graphic Center, Germany
=

Detection of Human Reflex Response in EMG Signals: a Time-Frequency
Approach
H. Laurent, C. Doncarli, M. Guglielmi =

Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
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Low-Pass Filter Effects in the Measurement of Surface EMG
A. Gygi =

Switch, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
=

9:00 - 10:20
Student Paper Contest; Chair: H. Steinberger

10:45 - 12:30
Posters A; Chair: M. Ojstersek

19:30 - 22:30
Vinag's Night Party - Vinag's Cellar

Friday, June 13, Morning

9:00 - 10:00
Invited lecture presented by L. Zadeh

10:10 - 11:30
Knowledge Based Systems C; Chair: Z. Brezocnik

Relating Clinical and Neuropsyhological Assessment of Spasticity by
Machine Learning
B. Zupan, M. Bohanec =

Dept. Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
D. S. Stokic, M. M. Priebe, A. M. Sherwood, Houston, TX, USA
=

Diagnosis of Sport Injuries with Machine Learning: Explanation of
Induced Decisions
I. Zelic
INFONET, Kranj, Slovenia =

V. Vuga
University Medical Centre, Center for Sport Slovenia, Slovenia =

I. Kononenko =

Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia
N. Lavrac =

J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
=

Using Machine Learning for Outcome Prediction of Patients with Severe
Head Injury
I. A. Pilih
Department of Trauma Surgery, Celje General Hosital, Slovenia
T. S. Prevec =

University Institute of Clinical Neurophysiology, Ljubljana Medical
Centre, Slovenia
D. Mladenic, N. Lavrac =

Department of Intelligent Systems, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
=

Knowledge-Based Assessment of Radiographic Diagnostic Systems
A. Babic
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia,
Department of Medical Informatics, Linkoping University, Sweden
M. Petelin
Center for Dental Research, Institute Josef Stefan, Slovenia
T. Ivanusa =

Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

10:10 - 11:30 =

Others and Medical Systems Reliability and Safety; Chair: M.G.E.
Peterson

On Safety-Critical Computer Control Systems
W. A. Halang
Fern University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Germany
M. Colnaric
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Maribor, Slovenia
=

Computer Supported Multimedia Environment for the Support of
Long-distance Collaboration in Medicine
J. Rugelj =

J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
=

The Design and Implementation of an Automatic Computer-Controlled
Infusion Pump
D. Pager =

Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii, USA
=

The Keys of Success of a Health Card Project the Lessons Learned from 9
Health Cards Projects
D. Dieng =

Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (CITA), Belgium
=

11:45 - 13:15 =

Software Development Processes, Methodologies and Tools and Prosthetic
Devices; Chair: D. Zazula
=

Technical Assistence for Severely Motor- and Multiple Impaired Children
C. Flachberger, P. Panek, W. L. Zagler =

TU Wien, Institut E359-B, Austria
=

Implantable Stimulator for Selective Stimulation of the Common Peroneal
Nerve
J. Rozman M. Trlep, J. Krajnik =

ITIS d.o.o., Center for Implantable Technology & Sensors, Slovenia
M. Trlep
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of
Maribor, Slovenia
J. Krajnik
Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
=

A Computer Based Vertical Force Monitoring and Analysis System for Gait
Evaluation
I. Lackovic, V. Bilas, A. Santic =

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb,
Croatia
=

LEMMA: A Language for an Easy Medical Models Analysis
L. Baresi, M. Pezze =

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
M. Di Paola, A. Gargiulo
IV Semiotica Chirurgica, Policlinico Umberto I, Universita=A2 "La
Sapienza", Italy
=

Integrating Clinical and Managerial Activities of Health Care Units
D. Luzi, F. L. Ricci =

Institute for Studies on Scientific Researsch and Dokukumentation,
National Research Council, Italy
Department of Mathematics, University "Ovidius", Constanta, Romania
=

A Distributed Database on the INTERNET of 3d Models of Human
Pathological Organs
M. Crudele =

Libero Istituto Universitario Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
G. J. Clapworthy, M. A. Krokos
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, De Montfort University,
United Kindom
G. Salcito
CITEC S.p.A., Rome, Italy
N. Vasilonikolidakis =

Department of Research and Development, Neuroware Ltd., Athens, Greece

11:45 - 13:15
POSTERS B; Chair: M. Colnaric

10:10 - 11:30 =

WORKSHOP =

Education in Medicine

Friday, June 13, Afternoon

19:00 - 21:00 =

Farewell Party - Betnava Mansion

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