DAY 1: MONDAY, 2 July

9.00 – Opening

9.25 - DATA MINING

Prototype Selection and Feature Subset Selection by Estimation of  Distribution Algorithms. A case study in the survival of cirrhotic patients  treated with TIPS 

      B. Sierra, E. Lazkano, I. Inza,  M. Merino,  P. Larrañaga and  J. Quiroga

Detection of Infectious Outbreaks in Hospitals through Incremental Clustering

      Timothy Langford, Christophe Giraud-Carrier and John Magee

Minig Data from a Knowledge Management Perspective: an Application to Outcome Prediction in Patients with Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma

      Riccardo Bellazzi, Ivano Azzini, Gianna Toffolo, Stefano Bacchetti and Mario Lise

10.40 – Coffee Break

 

11.10 - MACHINE LEARNING

Credal Classification for Dementia Screening

      Marco Zaffalon, Keith Wesnes and Orlando Petrini

Evaluation of Prognostic Factors and Prediction of Chronic Wound Healing Rate by Machine Learning Tools

      Marko Robnik-Šikonja, David Cukjati and Igor Kononenko

Making Reliable Diagnoses with Machine Learning: A Case Study

      Matjaž Kukar

12.25 – Lunch

14.30 – MACHINE LEARNING and DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

A Classification-Tree Hybrid Method for Studying Prognostic Models in Intensive Care

      Ameen Abu-Hanna and Nicolette de Keizer

Integrating Different Methodologies for Insulin Therapy Support in Type 1 Diabetic Patients

      Stefania Montani, Paolo Magni, Abdul V. Roudsari, Ewart R. Carson and Riccardo Bellazzi

15.20 – POSTER SESSION (ML and DSS)

MACHINE LEARNING

Discovering Association in Clinical Data: Application to Search for Prognostic Factors in Hodgkin's Disease

      N. Durand, B. Crémilleux and M. Henry-Amar

Visualisation of Multidimensional Data for Medical Decision Support}

      A. Rosemary Tate, Joshua Underwood, Christophe Ladroue, Rosemary Luckin, and John R. Griffiths

A Clustering-Based Constructive Induction Method and its Application to Rheumatoid Arthritis

      José A. Sanandrés, Víctor Maojo, José Crespo and Agustín Gómez

Improving Identification of Difficult Small Classes by Balancing Class Distribution

      Jorma Laurikkala

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Diagnosing Patient State in Intensive Care Patients Using the Intelligent Ventilator (INVENT) System

      Stephen E. Rees, Charlotte Allerød, Søren  Kjærgaard, Egon Toft, Per Thorgaard and Steen Adreassen

A User Interface for Executing Asbru Plans

      Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch

Improving HISYS1 with a Decision-Support System

      David Riañ and Susana Prado

Diagnosis of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Hemodyalyzed Patients Through Support Vector Machines Technique

      Paola Baiard, Valter Piazza and Cristina Mazzoleni

A Visual Tool for a User-Friendly Artificial Neural Network Based Decision Support System in Medicine

      Mauro Giacomini, Raffaella Michelini, Francesca Deantoni and Carmelina Ruggiero

Modeling of Ventricular Repolarisation Time Series by Multi-Layer Perceptrons

      Rajai El Dajan,  Maryvonne Miquel,  Marie-Claire Forlini and Paul Rubel

16.10 – Coffee Break

16.40 - BAYESIAN NETWORKS

Expert Knowledge and its Role in Learning Bayesian Networks in Medicine: an Appraisal

      Peter Lucas

Improving the Diagnostic Performance of MUNIN by remodelling of the diseases

      Steen Andreassen, Marko Suojanen, Björn Falck and Kristian G. Olesen

Extended Bayesian Regression Models: a Symbiotic Application of Belief Networks and Multilayer Perceptrons for the Classification of Ovarian Tumors

      Peter Antal, Geert Fannes, Bart De Moor, Joos Vandewalle, Y. Moreau and Dirk Timmerman

The Effects of Disregarding Test Characteristics in Probabilistic Networks

      Linda C. van der Gaag, C.L.M. Witteman, S. Renooij and M. Egmont-Petersen

18.20 - End of day 1

 


DAY 2: TUESDAY, 3 July

9.00 – KEYNOTE LECTURE

Mediated Agent Interaction                  

      Enrico Coiera

10.00 - TEMPORAL REASONING

NasoNet, joining Bayesian Networks and Time to Model Nasopharingeal Cancer Spread}

      Severino F. Galán , Francisco Aguado, Francisco J. Diéz and José Mira

Using Time-Oriented Data Abstraction Methods to Optimize Oxygen Supply for Neonates}

      Andreas Seyfang, Silvia Miksch, Werner Horn, Michael S. Urschitz, Christian Popow and Christian F. Poets

10.50 - Coffee Break

11.20 - NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Generating Symbolic and Natural Language Partial Solutions for Inclusion in Medical Plans

      S. Modgil and P. Hammond

Using Part-Of-Speech and Word-Sense Disambiguation for Boosting String-Edit Distance Spelling Correction

      Patrick Ruch ,Robert Baud, and Antoine Geissbühler, Christian Lovis, Anne-Marie Rassinoux and Alain Rivi\`{e}re

Semantic Interpretation of Medical Language - Quantitative Analysis and Qualitative Yield

      Martin Romacker and Udo Hahn

12.35 - Lunch

14.30 - KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING 1

Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning Under Uncertainty in Medical Decision Making

      John Fox, David Glasspool, and Jonathan Bury

Comparison of Rule-based and Bayesian Network Approaches in Medical Diagnostic Systems

      Agnieszka Oniśko, Peter Lucas, Marek J. Druzdzel

15.20 – POSTER SESSION (ML, BN, TR and NLP)

MACHINE LEARNING

Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning in Analysis of the CHD Patient Database}

      Tomislav Šmuc, Dragan Gamberger and Goran Krstačić

Coronary Heart Disease Patient Models Based on Inductive Machine Learning

      Goran Krstačić, Dragan Gamberger and Tomislav Šmuc

Prediction of Protein Secondary Structures of All Types Using New Hypersphere Machine Learning Method

      Markku Siermala

BAYESIAN NETWORKS

Knowledge Acquisition and Automated Generation of Bayesian Networks for a Medical Dialogue and Advisory System}

      Joachim Horn, Thomas Birkhölzer, Oliver Hogl, Marco Pellegrino, Ruxandra Lupas Scheiterer, Kai-Uwe Schmidt and Volker Tresp

Educational tool for Diabetic Patients Based on Causal Probabilistic Networks

      M. Elena Hernando, Enrique J. Gómez and F. del Pozo

TEMPORAL REASONING

Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical Abstractions: A User Interface based on Novel Metaphors

      Luca Chittaro and Carlo Combi

Using Temporal Probabilistic Knowledge for Medical Decision Making

      Nicolette de Bruijn, Peter Lucas, Karin Schurink, Marc Bonten and Andy Hoepelman

Temporal Issues in the Intelligent Interpretation of the Sleep Apnea Syndrome

      M. Cabrero-Canosa, M. Castro-Pereiro, M. Graña-Ramos,  E. Hernandez-Pereira and V. Moret-Bonillo

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Medical Knowledge Acquisition from the Electronic Encyclopedia of China

      Cungen Cao

16.10 - Coffee

16.40 - KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING 2

Parts, Locations and Holes - Formal Reasoning about Anatomical Structures

      Stefan Schulz and Udo Hahn

Abductive Inference of Genetic Networks

      Blaž Zupan, Ivan Bratko, Janez Demšar,  J. Robert Beck, Adam Kuspa and Gad Shaulsky

Interface of Inference Models with Concept and Medical Record Models

      Alan Rector, Peter D. Johnson,  Samson Tu ,  Chris Wroe and Jeremy Rogers

17.55 - End of day 2


DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, 4 July

9.00 – KEYNOTE LECTURE

On Articulation and Localisation - Some Sociotechnical Issues of Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Knowledge Based Systems

      Jos Aarts

10.00 - COMPUTER IMAGING

Systematic Construction of Texture Features for Hashimoto's Lymphocytis Thyroiditis Recognition from Sonographic Images

      Radim Šára, Daniel Smutek, Petr Sucharda and Štepán Svačina

Dynamic Adaptation of Cooperative Agents for MRI Brain Scans Segmentation

      Nathalie Richard, Michel Dojat and Catherine Garbay

10.50 - Coffee Break

11.20 - COMPUTER IMAGING and CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS

Numeric and Symbolic Knowledge Representation of Cortex Anatomy Using Web Technologies

      Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gibaud and Xavier Morandi

Management of Hospital Teams for Organ Transplants using Multi-Agent Systems

      Antonio Moreno,  Aïda Valls  and Jaime Bocio

An AI-based Approach to Support Communication in Health Care Organizations

      Diego Marchetti, Giordano Lanzola and Mario Stefanelli

12.35 - Lunch

14.15 - CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS and EVALUATION OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

TAME - Time Resourcing in Academic Medical Environments

      Hans Schlenker, Hans-Joachim Goltz and Joerg-Wilhelm Oestmann

Using ONCODOC as a computer-based eligibility screening system to improve accrual onto breast cancer clinical trials

      Brigitte Séroussi, Jacques Bouaud, Éric-Charles Antoine, Laurent Zelek and Marc Spielmann

15.05 – POSTER SESSION

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

Integrating Ripple Down Rules with Ontologies in an Oncology Domain

      Rodrigo Martinez-Béjar, Francisca Ibañez-Cruz, Paul Compton, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis and Manuel De las Heras-Gonzáles

Towards a Simple Ontology Definition Language (SOntoDL) for a Semantic Web of Evidence-based Medical Information

      Rolf Grütter, and Claus Eikemeier

Knowledge Acquisition System to Support Low Vision Consultation

      Cláudia Antunes and J.P. Martins

COMPUTER IMAGING

Depth-Four Threshold Circuits for Computer-Assisted X-ray Diagnosis

      A. Albrecht, E. Hein, K. Steinhöfel, M. Taupitz and C.K. Wong

CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS

A Conceptual Framework to Model Chronic and Long-term Diseases

      Ana Maria Monteiro and Jacques Wainer

Modelling of Radiological Examinations with POKMAT, a Process Oriented Knowledge Management Tool

      K. Faber, D. Krechel, D.Reidenbach, A. von Wangenheim and P. R. Wille

A Multi-Agent System for Organ Transplant Co-ordination

      A. Aldea, B. López, A. Moreno,  D. Riaño and A. Valls

A Platform Integrating Knowledge and Data Management  for EMG Studies

      Julien Balter, Annick Labarre-Vila, Danielle Ziébelin  and Catherine Garbay

EVALUATION OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Challenges in Evaluating Complex Decision Support Systems: Lessons from Design-a-Trial

      Henry W.W. Potts,  Jeremy C. Wyatt and Douglas G. Altman

On the Evaluation of Probabilistic Networks

      Linda C. van der Gaag and Silja Renooij

Evaluation of a Case-based Antibiotics Therapy Adviser

      Rainer Schmidt, Dagmar Steffen and Lothar Gierl

15.55- Coffee

16.25 - EVALUATION OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Using Critiquing for Improving Medical Protocols: Harder than it Seems

      Mar Marcos, Geert Berger, Frank van Harmelen, Annette ten Teije, Hugo Roomans and Silvia Miksch

Evaluating the Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Stroke Outcomes

      Silvana Quaglini, Carla Rognoni, Anna Cavallini and Giuseppe Micieli

17.15 – PANNEL DISCUSSION and CLOSE

18.15 – End of day 3 and Conference