[news.announce.conferences] European Conference on AI in Medicine

Herve.Lambert@PS3.CS.CMU.EDU (Herve Lambert) (06/23/87)

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				EUROPEAN CONFERENCE on
				ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
				   in   MEDICINE
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		   	 Marseilles (France), Aug 31st - Sept 3rd


Organized by: AIME, European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

In  cooperation  with:	IIRIAM,  International  Institute  of  Robotics and
			Artificial Intelligence of Marseilles.

			IRCF, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, UK

			GSF-MEDIS, Gesellschaft fur Strahlen und 
			umweltforschung mbH Munchen
	
			Laboratoire d'Informatique Medicale de la Faculte de
			Medecine de Marseille.


				PROGRAM
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			WORKSHOP and TUTORIALS
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Monday, August 31st:

Tutorial 1:
9.00 - 13.00 	Acquisition of Knowledge from Medical databases
Gio C.M.  Wiederhold, M.  Walker, R.L. Blum, Stanford University (USA)

Tutorial 2:
14.00 - 18.00 	Methods and Techniques used in Expert Systems
Jan L. Talmon, Henny P.A. Boshuizen, University of Limburg (NL)

Tutorial 3:
14.00 - 18.00 	Knowledge representation
Steen Andreassen, University of Aalborg (DK), Mike Wellman, MIT (USA)

Workshop:
9.00 - 13.00 	From Mycin to Oncocin
Larry Fagan, Stanford University (USA)

				CONFERENCE
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Tuesday, September 1st, 1987

9.00 - 9.30 	Opening Session
9.30  - 10.30 	Invited Keynote speaker:  J.H.  Van Bemmel, Free University of
		Amsterdam
10.30 - 11.00 	Break


Session 1: Methodology

11.00 - 11.30	"INTERMED": a medical language interface.
		Mery C., Normier B., Orgonowski A. (F)

11.30 - 12.00 	Inference engineering through prototyping in Prolog
		Van Thilo J., Mulders A. (B)

12.00 - 12.30  	The  evaluation  of  clinical  decision  support  systems:  a
		discussion of the methodology used in the ACORN project.
		Wyatt J. (UK)
12.30 - 13.00 	Matching  patients:  an  approach to decision support in Liver
		transplantation.
		Tusch G., Bernauer J., Reichertz P.L. (FRG)

13.00 - 14.00 	Lunch


Session 2: Clinical Applications (1)

14.30 - 15.00 	An  expert  system  for  diagnosis  and  therapy  planning  in
		patients with peripheral vascular disease.
		Talmon  J.L.,  Schijven  R.A.J.,  Kitslaar  P.J.E.H.M., 
		Penders R. (NL)

15.00 - 15.30  	An  expert  system  for the  classification  of Dizziness  and
		Vertigo.
		Schmid R.,  Zanocco P.,  Buizza A.,  Magenes G.,  Manfrin M.,
 		Mira E. (I)

15.30 - 16.00 	The SENEX system, a microcomputer-based expert system built by
		oncologists for breast cancer management.
		Renaud-Salis J.L.,  Bonichon F.,  Durand M.,  Avril A., 
		Lagarde C. (F).

16.00 - 16.30	Break


Session 3: Qualitative Reasoning

16.30 - 17.00  	The use of  QSIM for Qualitative  simulation of  physiological
		systems.
		Nicolosi E., Leaning M. (UK)

17.00 - 17.30	Qualitative description of electrophysiologic measurements:
		toward automatic data interpretation.
		Irler W.J., Antolini R., Kirchner M., Stringa L. (I)

17.30 - 18.00   A   qualitative   spatial   representation  for  cardiac
		Electrophysiology.
		Gotts N. (UK)

18.45		Cocktail at the city hall of Marseilles.

Wednesday September 2nd 1987{

Session 4: Knowledge acquisition and representation

9.00 - 9.30	Knowledge acquisition in expert system assisted diagnosis:
		a machine learning approach
		Funk M., Appel R.D., Roch Ch., Hochstrasse D., Pellegrini Ch.,
		Muller A.F., (CH)

9.30 - 10.00 	Knowledge representation for cooperative medical systems
		Rector A.L. (UK)

10.00 - 10.30	A representation of time for medical expert systems
		Hamlet I., Hunter J. (UK)

10.30 - 11.00	Break


Session 5: Management of uncertainty

11.00 - 11.30	TOULMED an inference engine which deals with imprecise and 
		uncertain aspects of medical knowledge.
		Buisson J.C., Farreny H., Prade H., Turnin M.C., Tauber J.P.,
		Bayard F. (F)

11.30 - 12.00 	Coherent handling of uncertainty via localized computation in
		an expert system for therapeutic decision.
		Berzuini C., Barosi G., Polino G. (I)

12.00 - 12.30  	MUNIN, on the case for probabilities in medical expert systems
		a pratical exercise.
		Jensen F.V., Andersen S.K., Kjaerulff U., Andreassen S. (DK)

12.30 - 13.00	Rule based expert systems in gynecology: statistical versus
		heuristic approach
		Riss P.A., Koelbl H., Reinthaller A., Deutinger J. (Austria)

Afternoon: Social Program

Thursday September 3rd

Session 6: Knowledge Engineering tools.

9.00 - 9.30	A radiological expert system for the P.C., design and 
		Implementation issues.
		Horn W., Imhof H., Pfahringer B., Salamonowitz E., (Austria)

9.30  -  10.00  A  P.C  based  shell  for  clinical information systems with
		reasoning capabilities
		Wiener F., Groth T. (Israel, Sweden)

10.00 - 10.30   The   kernel  mechanism  for  handling  assumptions  and
		justifications and its applications to the biotechnologies
		Cherubini M.A., Cerri S.A., Sbarbati R. (I)

10.30 - 11.00	Break


Session 7: General Session

11.00 - 12.00	Invited Lecture
		Larry Fagan, Stanford University (USA)

12.00 - 12.30	Man-machine interaction in CHECK
		Console L., Fossa M., Torasso P., Molino G., Cravetto G (I)

12.30 - 13.00	The Oxford system of medicine
		Fox J., Glowinski A., O'Neil M. (UK)

13.00 - 14.30	Lunch


Session 8: Clinical Applications (2)

14.30 - 15.00	Evaluating the performance of AMEMIA
		Quaglini S., Stefanelli M., Barosi G., Berzuini A. (I)

15.00 - 15.30	Computer aided diagnosis and treatment of brachial plexus
		injuries.
		Jaspers R.B.M., Van der Helm F.C.T. (NL)

15.30 - 16.00	Representation of embryonic development and its anomalies.
		Goutal J.M., Philip N., Griffiths M., Ayme S. (F)

16.00 - 16.30	A microcomputer based decision support for lipid desorder.
		Fhaircheallaigh D.N., Sinnot M., Grimson J., O'Moore R. (Eire)

16.30 - 17.00 	Closing session


Program Committee:

J. Fox, London			Chairman
P. Adlassnig, Vienna
R. Engelbrecht, Munich		Tutorial
M. Fieschi, Marseille
F. Gremy, Montpellier (F)
T. Groth, Upsalla
A. Hasman, Maastricht
A.L., Rector, Manchester
P.L. reichertz, Hannover
P. Smets, Brussels
M. Stefanelli, Pavia

Organizing committee:
M. Fieschi			Chairman
V. Bernadac			Organization
P. Dujol			
B. Guisiano			Social events
M. Joubert			Local arrangements
D. Riouall			Liaison
M. Roux				
G. Soula			Exhibition


Additionnal Informations:
				Viviane Bernadac
				IIRIAM
				2 rue Henri Barbusse, CMCI
				13241 Marseille Cedex 1 - FRANCE
				tel: (33) 91 91 36 72
				telex: 440 860
				telefax: (33) 91 91 70 24
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