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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen

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Werner Horn Yuval Shahar Greger Lindberg Steen Andreassen Jeremy Wyatt (Eds.)

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making, AIMDM’99 Aalborg, Denmark, June 20-24, 1999 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Werner Horn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Yuval Shahar Stanford University, Department of Medicine and Computer Science 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA E-mail: [email protected] Greger Lindberg Huddinge University Hospital, Department of Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Sweden E-mail: [email protected] Steen Andreassen Aalborg University, Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark Jeremy Wyatt University College London, School of Public Policy 29/30 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EZ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Artificial intelligence in medicine : proceedings / Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making, AIMDM ’99, Aalborg, Denmark, June 20 - 24, 1999. Werner Horn . . . (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 1999 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1620 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-66162-X

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Preface

The European Societies for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) and Medical Decision Making (ESMDM) were both established in 1986. A major activity of both these societies has been a series of international conferences, held biennially over the last 13 years. In the year 1999 the two societies organized a joint conference for the first time. It took place from June 20–24th, 1999 in Aalborg, Denmark. This “Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Med