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A component-based architecture for automation of protocol-directed therapy.- Coordinating taxonomies: Key to re-usable concept representations.- Generating personalised patient information using the medical record.- Analysis of medical jargon: The RECIT system.- Medical knowledge representation for medical report analysis.- Modelling medical concepts as time-objects.- Modeling medical reasoning with the Event Calculus: an application to the management of mechanical ventilation.- A general framework for building patient monitoring systems.- Semi-qualitative models and simulation for biomedical applications.- Generating explanations of pathophysiological system behaviors from qualitative simulation of compartmental models.- An information-based bayesian approach to history taking.- Medical decision making using Ignorant Influence Diagrams.- Dynamic propagation in causal probabilistic networks with instantiated variables.- Alerts as starting point for hospital infection surveillance and control.- Cooperative software agents for patient management.- High level control strategies for diabetes therapy.- Therapy planning using qualitative trend descriptions.- Adaptation and abstraction in a case-based antibiotics therapy adviser.- Field evaluations of a knowledge-based system for peripheral blood interpretation.- Functional evaluation of SETH: An expert system in clinical toxicology.- Evaluating a neural network decision-support tool for the diagnosis of breast cancer.- Knowledge-based systems for lymph node pathology: A comparison of two approaches.- Mapping laboratory medicine onto the select and test model to facilitate knowledge-based report generation in laboratory medicine.- Machine learning techniques applied to the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain.- Reflections on building medical decision support systems and corresponding implementation in diagnostics shell D3.- Decision models for cost-effectiveness analysis: a means for knowledge sharing and quality control in health care multidisciplinary tasks.- Model-based application: The Galen structured clinical user interface.- A knowledge-based modelling of hospital information systems components.- Use of a conceptual semi-automatic ICD-9 encoding system in an hospital environment.- Quality assurance and increased efficiency in medical projects with neural networks by using a structured development method for feedforward neural networks (SENN).- A prototype neural network decision-support tool for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.- Integration of neural networks and rule based systems in the interpretation of liver biopsy images.- A cooperative and adaptive approach to medical image segmentation.- COBRA: Integration of knowledge-bases with case-databases in the domain of congenital malformation.- Case-based medical multi-expertise: an example in psychiatry.- TIME-NESIS: A data model in managing time granularity of natural-language clinical information.- Induction of expert system rules from databases based on rough set theory and resampling methods.- Sequential knowledge acquisition: Combining models and cases.- Medical fuzzy expert systems and reasoning about beliefs.- Diagnosis of human acid-base balance states via combined pattern recognition for Markov chains.- Intelligence formation problems in children at an early age applying new computer technologies under conditions of rehabilitation center.- Telecardiology.- Modelling a sharable medical concept system: Ontological foundation in GALEN.- A graph-based approach to the structural analysis of proliferative breast lesions..- A workstation for clinical decision support in a local area network for cardiology.- Knowledge-based education tool to improve quality in diabetes care.- NEPHARM: A pharmacokinetic database for adjusting drug dosage to impaired renal function.- A hybrid architecture for knowledge-based systems.- Representing medical context using rule-based object-oriented programming techniques.- Integration of Neural Networks and knowledge-based systems in medicine.- Generated critic in the knowledge based neurology trainer.- An approach to analysis of qualitative data with insufficient number of quantization levels.- Inductively learned rule for breast cancer domain with improved interobserver reproducibility.- Development and evaluation of a knowledge-based system to support ventilator therapy management.- A neural support to the prognostic evaluation of Cardiac Surgery.- DECISion-support system for radiological diagnostic.- A preliminary investigation into the analysis of electromyographic activity using a system of multiple neural networks.- Knowledge-based system to predict the effect of pregnancy on progression of diabetic retinopathy.- A software to evaluate multislices radiotherapic treatment planning.- TKR-tool: An expert system for Total Knee Replacement management.