Table of Contents
Ontologies
Ontology-Based Retrospective and Prospective Diagnosis and Medical Knowledge Personalization Cristina Romero-Tris David Riaño Francis Real 1
A Semantic Web Approach to Integrate Phenotype Descriptions and Clinical Data María Taboada María Jesús Sobrido Verónica Colombo Belén Pilo 10
Ontology-Based Knowledge Modeling to Provide Decision Support for Comorbid Diseases Samina Raza Abidi 27
Patient Data, Records, and Guidelines
Inducing Decision Trees from Medical Decision Processes Pere Torres David Riaño Joan Albert López-Vallverdú 40
Critiquing Knowledge Representation in Medical Image Interpretation Using Structure Learning Niels Radstake Peter J.F. Lucas Marina Velikova Maurice Samulski 56
Linguistic and Temporal Processing for Discovering Hospital Acquired Infection from Patient Records Caroline Hagége Pierre Marchal Quentin Gicquel Stefan Darmoni Suzanne Pereira Marie-Hélène Metzger 70
A Markov Analysis of Patients Developing Sepsis Using Clusters Femida Gwadry-Sridhar Michael Bauer Benoit Lewden Ali Hamou 85
Towards the Interoperability of Computerised Guidelines and Electronic Health Records: An Experiment with openEHR Archetypes and a Chronic Heart Failure Guideline Mar Marcos Begoña Martínez-Salvador 101
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Identifying Treatment Activities for Modelling Computer-Interpretable Clinical Practice Guidelines Katharina Kaiser Andreas Seyfang Silvia Miksch 114
Updating a Protocol-Based Decision-Support System's Knowledge Base: A Breast Cancer Case Study Claudio Eccher Andreas Seyfang Antonella Ferro Silvia Miksch 126
Toward Probabilistic Analysis of Guidelines Arjen Hommersom 139
Author Index 153