AIME 05

10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05)
23 - 27 July 2005     Aberdeen, Scotland

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Scientific Programme

Monday 25th July

Monday 09:00-9:30

Opening Ceremony
Chair: Jim Hunter

Monday 09:30-11:00

Temporal Representation and Reasoning
Chair: Elpida Keravnou

9:30-9:55
A New Approach to the Abstraction of Monitoring Data in Intensive Care
Samir Sharshar, Laurent Allart, Marie-Christine Chambrin
9:55-10:20
Learning Rules with Complex Temporal Patterns in Biomedical Domains
Lucia Sacchi, Riccardo Bellazzi, Cristiana Larizza, Riccardo Porreca, Paolo Magni
10:20-10:45
Discriminating Exanthematic Diseases from Temporal Patterns of Patient Symptoms
Silvana Badaloni, Marco Falda
10:45-10:50
Probabilistic Abstraction of Multiple Longitudinal Electronic Medical Records
Michael Ramati, Yuval Shahar
10:50-10:55
Using a Bayesian-network Model for the Analysis of Clinical Time-series Data
Stefan Visscher, Peter Lucas, Karin Schurink, Marc Bonten
10:55-11:00
Data-driven Analysis of Blood Glucose Management Effectiveness
Barry Nannings, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Robert-Jan Bosman

Break

Monday 11:30-12:55

Temporal Reasoning and Decision Support Systems
Chair: Yuval Shahar

11:30-11:55
Extending Temporal Databases to Deal with Telic/Atelic Medical Data
Paolo Terenziani, Richard Snodgrass, Alessio Bottrighi, Mauro Torchio, Gianpaolo Molino
11:55-12:20
Dichotomization of ICU Length of Stay Based on Model Calibration
Marion Verduijn, Niels Peek, Frans Voorbraak, Evert de Jonge, Bas de Mol
12:20-12:45
AtherEx: an Expert System for Atherosclerosis Risk Assessment
Petr Berka, Vladimir Las, Marie Tomeckova
12:45-12.50
Smooth Integration of Decision Support into an Existing Electronic Patient Record
Silvana Quaglini, Silvia Panzarasa, Anna Cavallini, Giuseppe Micieli, Corrado Pernice, Mario Stefanelli
12:50-12:55
REPS: A Rehabilitation Expert System for Post-Stroke Patients
Douglas Dankel, María Kristmundsdóttir

Lunch

Monday 14:25-16:05

Clinical Guidelines and Protocols 1
Chair: Silvana Quaglini

14:25-14:50
Testing Asbru Guidelines and Protocols forNeonatal Intensive Care
Christian Fuchsberger, Jim Hunter, Paul McCue
14:50-15:15
EORCA : A Collaborative Activities Representation for Building Guidelines from Field Observations
Liliane Pellegrin, Nathalie Bonnardel, Francois Antonini, Jacques Albanese, Claude Martin, Herve Chaudet
15:15-15:20
Design Patterns for Modelling Medical Guidelines
Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Mar Marcos, Cristina Polo, Kitty Rosenbrand, Joyce van Croonenborg, Jolanda Wittenberg
15:20-15:25
Improving Clinical Guideline Implementation through Prototypical Design Patterns
Monika Moser, Silvia Miksch
15:25-15:30
Automatic Derivation of a Decision Tree to Represent Guideline-based Therapeutic Strategies for the Management of Chronic Diseases
Brigitte Seroussi, Jacques Bouaud, Jean-Jacques Vieillot
15:30-15:35
Exploiting Decision Theory for Supporting Therapy Selection in Computerized Clinical Guidelines
Stefania Montani, Paolo Terenziani, Alessio Bottrighi
15:35-15:40
Helping Physicians to Organize Guidelines within Conceptual Hierarchies
Diego Sona, Paolo Avesani, Robert Moskovitch
15:40-15:45
MHB - A Many-Headed Bridge between Informal and Formal Guideline Representations
Andreas Seyfang, Silvia Miksch, Cristina Polo Conde, Jolanda Wittenberg, Mar Marcos, Kitty Rosenbrand
15:45-15:50

Clinical Guidelines Adaptation: Managing Authoring and Versioning Issues
Paolo Terenziani, Stefania Montani, Alessio Bottrighi, Gianpaolo Molino, Mauro Torchio
15:50-15:55
Open-Source Publishing of Medical Knowledge for Creation of Computer-Interpretable Guidelines
Mor Peleg, Rory Steele, Richard Thomson, Vivek Patkar, Tony Rose, John Fox
15:55-16:00
A History-based Algebra for Quality-checking Medical Guidelines
Arjen Hommersom, Peter Lucas, Patrick van Bommel, Theo van der Weide
16.00-16:05
The Spock System: Developing a Runtime Application Engine for Hybrid-Asbru Guidelines
Ohad Young, Yuval Shahar

Break

Monday 16:20-18:00

Clinical Guidelines and Protocols 2
Chair: Paolo Terenziani

16:20-16:45
AI Planning Technology as a Component of Computerised Clinical Practice Guidelines
Kirsty Bradbrook, Graham Winstanley, David Glasspool, John Fox, Richard Griffiths
16:45-17:10
Gaining Process Information from Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction
Katharina Kaiser, Cem Akkaya, Silvia Miksch

17:10-17:35
Ontology-Driven Extraction of Linguistic Patterns for Modelling Clinical Guidelines
Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Mar Marcos, Cristina Polo-Conde

17:35-18:00
Formalising Medical Quality Indicators to Improve Guidelines
Marjolein van Gendt, Annette ten Teije, Radu Serban, Frank van Harmelen


Tuesday 26th July

Tuesday 09:00-10:00

Invited Talk:
Ontology Mapping: A Way out of the Medical Tower of Babel?
Frank van Harmelen 

Chair: Silvia Miksch

Tuesday 10:00-11:00

Ontology and Terminology
Chair: Werner Horn

10:00-10:25
Oncology Ontology in the NCI Thesaurus
Anand Kumar, Barry Smith
10:25-10:30
Ontology-mediated Distributed Breast Cancer Decision Support
Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Dupplaw, Bo Hu, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
10:30-10:35
Multimedia Data Management To Assist Tissue Microarrays Design
Julie Bourbeillon, Catherine Garbay, Joelle Simony-Lafontaine, Francoise Giroud
10:35-10:40
Building Medical Ontologies Based on Terminology Extraction from Texts: Methodological Propositions
Audrey Baneyx, Jean Charlet, Marie-Christine Jaulent
10:40-10:45
Translating Biomedical Terms by Inferring Transducers
Vincent Claveau, Pierre Zweigenbaum

10:45-10:50

Using Lexical and Logical Methods for the Alignment of Medical Terminologies
Michel Klein, Zharko Aleksovski
10:50-10:55
Latent Argumentative Pruning for Compact MEDLINE Indexing
Patrick Ruch, Johann Marty, Robert Baud, Antoine Geissbühler, Imad Tbahriti, Anne-Lise Veuthey
10:55-11:00
A Benchmark Evaluation of the French MeSH Indexers
Aurélie Névéol, Vincent Mary, Arnaud Gaudinat, Célia Boyer, Alexandrina Rogozan, Stéfan Darmoni

Break

Tuesday 11:30-12:55

Case-Based Reasoning, Signal Interpretation, Visual Mining
Chair: Catherine Garbay

11:30-11:55
Interactive Knowledge Validation in CBR for Decision Support in Medicine
Monica Ou, Geoff West, Mihai Lazarescu, Chris Clay
11:55-12:20
Adaptation and Medical Case-Based Reasoning, Focusing on Endocrine Therapy Support
Rainer Schmidt, Olga Vorobieva
12:20-12:45
Electrocardiographic Imaging: towards Automated Interpretation of Activation Maps
Liliana Ironi, Stefania Tentoni
12:45-12:50
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Diagnose and Classify Mental Diseases using Neural Networks
Alberto Faro, Daniela Giordano, Manuela Pennisi, Giacomo Scarciofalo, Concetto Spampinato, Francesco Tramontana
12:50-12:55
Towards Information Visualization and Clustering techniques for MRI data sets
Umberto Castellani, Carlo Combi, Pasquina Marzola, Vittorio Murino, Andrea Sbarbati, Marco Zampieri

Lunch

Tuesday 14:25-16:05

Ontology and Machine Learning
Chair: Blaz Zupan

14:25-14:50
Populating an Allergens Ontology using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques
Alexandros Valarakos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Dimitra Alexopoulou, Elsa Papadimitriou, Constantine Spyropoulos
14:50-15:15
Ontology of Time and Situoids in Medical Conceptual Modeling
Heinrich Herre, Barbara Heller
15:15-15:40
The Use of Verbal Classification in Determining the Course of Medical Treatment by Medicinal Herbs
Leonas Ustinovichius, Robert Balcevich, Dmitry Kochin, Ieva Sliesoraityte
15:40-15:45
Web Mining Techniques for Automatic Discovery of Medical Knowledge
David Sanchez, Antonio Moreno
15.45-15:50
Resource Modeling and Analysis of Regional Public Health Care Data by Means of Knowledge Technologies
Nada Lavrac, Marko Bohanec, Aleksander Pur, Bojan Cestnik, Mitja Jermol, Tanja Urbancic, Marko Debeljak, Tadeja Kopac
15:50-15.55
An Evolutionary Divide and Conquer method for Long-Term Dietary Menu Planning
Balazs Gaal, Istvan Vassanyi, Gyorgy Kozmann
15:55-16:00
Human/Computer Interaction to Learn Scenarios from ICU Multivariate Time Series
Thomas Guyet, Catherine Garbay, Michel Dojat
16:00-16:05
Mining Clinical Data: Selecting Decision Support Algorithm for the MET-AP System
Jerzy Blaszczynski, Ken Farion, Wojtek Michalowski, Szymon Wilk, Steven Rubin, Dawid Weiss

Break

Tuesday 16:20-18:00

Computer Vision and Imaging
Chair: Michel Dojat

16:20-16:45
Automatic Landmarking of Cephalograms by Cellular Neural Networks
Daniela Giordano, Rosalia Leonardi, Francesco Maiorana, Gabriele Cristaldi, Maria Luisa Distefano
16:45-17:10
Anatomical Sketch Understanding: Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Structure
Peter Haddawy, Matthew Dailey, Ploen Kaewruen, Natapope Sarakhette
17:10-17:35
Morphometry of the Hippocampus Based on a Deformable Model and Support Vector Machines
Jeong-Sik Kim, Yong-Guk Kim, Soo-Mi Choi, Myoung-Hee Kim
17:35-18:00
Automatic Segmentation of Whole-Body Bone Scintigrams as a Preprocessing Step for Computer Assisted Diagnostics
Luka Sajn, Matjaz Kukar, Igor Kononenko, Metka Milcinski


Wednesday 27th July

Wednesday 09:00-10:00

Invited Talk:
Human Computer Interaction in Context-Aware Wearable Systems
Paul Lukowicz

Chair: Jim Hunter

Wednesday 10:00-11:00

Knowledge Management
Chair: Costas Spyropoulos

10:00-10:25
Multi-Agent Patient Representation in Primary Care
Chris Reed, Brian Boswell, Ron Neville
10:25-10:50
Clinical Reasoning Learning with Simulated Patients
Froduald Kabanza, Guy Bisson
10:50-10:55
Implicit Learning System for Teaching the Art of Acute Cardiac Infarction Diagnosis
Dmitry Kochin, Leonas Ustinovichius, Victoria Sliesoraitiene
10:55-11:00
Which Kind of Knowledge is Suitable for Redesigning Hospital Logistic Processes?
Laura Maruster, René J. Jorna

Break

Wednesday 11:30-12:55

Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 1
Chair: Nada Lavrac

11:30-11.55
A Data Pre-processing Method to Increase Efficiency and Accuracy in Data Mining
Amir R. Razavi, Hans Gill, Hans Åhlfeldt, Nosrat Shahsavar
11:55-12:20
Rule Discovery in Epidemiologic Surveillance Data Using EpiXCS: An Evolutionary Computation Approach
John H. Holmes

12:20-12:45
Subgroup Mining for Interactive Knowledge Refinement
Martin Atzmueller, Joachim Baumeister, Achim Hemsing, Ernst-Jürgen Richter, Frank Puppe
12:45-12:50
Evidence Accumulation for Identifying Discriminatory Signatures in Biomedical Spectra
Adenike Bamgbade, Ray Somorjai, Brion Dolenko, Erinija Pranckeviciene, Alexander Nikulin, Richard Baumgartner
12:50-12:55
On Understanding and Assessing Feature Selection Bias
Sarunas Raudys, Richard Baumgartner, Ray Somorjai

Lunch

Wednesday 14:25-16:05

Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2
Chair: Riccardo Bellazzi

14:25-14:50
A Model-Based Approach to Visualizing Classification Decisions for Patient Diagnosis
Keith Marsolo, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Michael Twa, Mark Bullimore
14:50-15:15
Learning Rules from Multisource Data for Cardiac Monitoring
Elisa Fromont, René Quiniou, Marie-Odile Cordier
15:15-15:40
Effective Confidence Region Prediction Using Probability Forecasters
David G. Lindsay, Sian Cox
15:40-16:05
Signature Recognition Methods for Identifying Influenza Sequences
Jitimon Keinduangjun, Punpiti Piamsa-nga, Yong Poovorawan

Break

Wednesday 16:20-17:40

Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 3
Chair: Ameen Abu-Hanna

16:20-16:45
Conquering the Curse of Dimensionality in Gene Expression Cancer Diagnosis: Tough Problem, Simple Models
Minca Mramor, Gregor Leban, Janez Demšar, Blaž Zupan
16:45-17:10
An Algorithm to Learn Causal Relations between Genes from Steady State Data: Simulation and Its Application to Melanoma Dataset
Xin Zhang, Chitta Baral, Seungchan Kim
17:10-17:35
Relation Mining over a Corpus of Scientific Literature
Fabio Rinaldi, Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess, Christos Andronis, Andreas Persidis, Ourania Konstanti

Wednesday 17:40-18:00

Closing ceremony



Instructions for Speakers

A PC with data projection facilities and internet access is available at the speakers' podium. We are assuming that all presenters will want to display slides:

  • in Microsoft Powerpoint or Adobe Acrobat format;
  • loaded from a memory stick or CD or floppy disc.
Presenters should let Jim Hunter know if this is not the case.

It will also be possible for presenters to project from their own laptops and access to the Internet via Wireless LAN (including Remote Desktop and SSH) will be available. (But have "Plan B" available just in case!)

Instructions for Poster Presenters

Posters should not exceed 90 cm wide by 240 cm tall. Fixings will be provided.
Posters can be mounted from Saturday 23rd and should remain up until the end of the conference.
Poster spaces will be allocated in advance; please consult the plan on arrival.

Demonstrations

Space (with a table and mains power) will be available for a limited number of demonstrations. Please contact Jim Hunter in advance to reserve space. Internet access via Wireless LAN will be available thoughout the poster and demonstration area.


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