Knowledge Based Systems In Medicine Methods Applications And Evaluation

This book contains 25 papers describing methods, applications and evaluationmethodologies in the domain of artificial intelligence in medicine. The section on methods covers knowledge acquisition methods and various modelling techniques relevant for building medical decision aids. The application section describes several systems for the management of the chronically and the critically ill. Several aspects of the evaluation ofmedical decision aids are discussed in 5 papers that comprise the final section of the book. The book contains relevant information for system developers as well as potential users of medical decision aids.