12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'09)

Monday 08:30-09:30 Registration

Monday 09:30-10:00

Opening Ceremony
Chair: Ameen Abu-Hanna

Monday 10:00-11:00

Invited Talk

Catherine Garbay. Computer Vision: a Plea for a Constructivist View

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Chair: Carlo Combi

Break

Monday 11:30-13:15

Temporal Reasoning and Temporal Data Mining
Chair: Silvia Miksch

11:30-11:55

Stefano Concaro, Lucia Sacchi, Carlo Cerra, Pietro Fratino and Riccardo Bellazzi. Mining Healthcare Data with Temporal Association Rules: Improvements and Assessment For a Practical Use

11:55-12:20

Corrado Loglisci and Donato Malerba. A Temporal Data Mining Approach for Discovering Knowledge on the Changes of the Patient's Physiology

12:20-12:45

Jose M. Juarez, Manuel Campos, Jose Palma, Francisco Palacios and Roque Marin. Severity Evaluation Support for Burns Unit Patients based on Temporal Episodic Knowledge Retrieval

12:45-13.10

Feng Gao, Yaji Sripada, James Hunter and Francois Portet. Using Temporal Constraints to Integrate Signal Analysis and Domain Knowledge in Medical Event Detection

13:10-13:15

Paloma Chausa, César Cáceres, Lucia Sacchi, Agathe León, Felipe García, Riccardo Bellazzi and Enrique J. Gómez. Temporal data mining of HIV registries: results from a 25 years follow-up

Lunch

Monday 14:45-16:00

Therapy Planning, Scheduling and Guideline-based Care I
Chair: Mor Peleg

14:45-15:10

Marco Beccuti, Alessio Bottrighi, Giuliana Franceschinis, Stefania Montani and Paolo Terenziani. Modeling clinical guidelines through Petri Nets

14:50-14:55

Samina Abidi and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi. Towards the Merging of Multiple Clinical Protocols and Guidelines via Ontology-Driven Modeling

14:55-15:00

Gersende Georg, Hugo Hernault, Marc Cavazza, Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka. Analysing Clinical Guidelines’ Content with Deontic and Rhetorical Structures

15:00-15:05

Alessio Bottrighi, Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Gianpaolo Molino, Marco Montali, Stefania Montani, Sergio Storari, Paolo Terenziani and Mauro Torchio. A Hybrid Approach to Clinical Guideline and to Basic Medical Knowledge Conformance

Case Based Reasoning
Chair: Blaz Zupan

15:10-15:35

Alexander Schlaefer and Sonja Dieterich. Feasibility of case-based beam generation for robotic radiosurgery

15:35-16:00

David McSherry. Conversational Case-Based Reasoning in Medical Classification and Diagnosis

Break

Monday 16:20-18:25

Medical Imaging
Chair: Catherine Garbay

16:20-16:45

Juan C. Caicedo, Angel Cruz and Fabio Gonzalez. Histopathology Image Classification using Bag of Features and Kernel Functions

16:45-17:10

Matjaz Kukar and Luka Sajn. Improving probabilistic interpretation of medical diagnoses with multi-resolution image parameterization: a case study

17:10-17:35

Aliaksei Kerhet, Cormac Small, Harvey Quon, Terence Riauka, Russell Greiner, Alexander McEwan, and Wilson Roa. Segmentation of Lung Tumours in Positron Emission Tomography Scans: a Machine Learning Approach

17:35-17:40

Karim Benzeroual, Mohammed Haouach, Christiane Guinot and Gilles Venturini. A system for the acquisition, interactive exploration and annotation of stereoscopic images

Knowledge-based and Decision-support Systems
Chair: Allan Tucker

17:40-17:45

Rogier Barendse, Jonathan Lipton, Maarten van Ettinger, Stefan Nelwan and Niek van der Putten. Implementing a Clinical Decision Support System for glucose control for the Intensive Cardiac Care

17:45-17:50

Steen Andreassen, Alina Zalounina, Knud Pedersen, John Gade, Mical Paul and Leonard Leibovici. Steps on the road to clinical application of decision support - example TREAT

17:50-17:55

17:55-18:00

Luca Chittaro and Roberto Ranon, Elio Carchietti, Agostino Zampa, Emanuele Biasutti, Luca De Marco, Augusto Senerchia. A knowledge-based system to support emergency medical services for disabled patients

18:00-18:05

Weiqin Chen and Dag Skjelvik. A Mobile Clinical Decision Support System for Clubfoot Treatment

18:05-18:10

Azizi Ab Aziz, Michel Klein and Jan Treur. An Ambient Intelligent Agent for Relapse and Recurrence Monitoring in Unipolar Depression

18:10-18:15

Davide Capozzi and Giordano Lanzola. An advanced platform for managing complications of chronic diseases

18:15-18:20

P. Mihova, J. Vinarova, I. Pendzhurov. One telemedical software solution in Bulgaria

18:20-18:25

Kaya Kuru, Sertan Girgin and Kemal Arda. A Novel Multilingual Report Generation System for Medical Applications

18:30 AIME Board Meeting

Tuesday 09:00-10:00

Invited Talk

Carol Friedman. Discovering Novel Adverse Drug Events Using Natural Language Processing and Mining of the Electronic Health Record

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Chair: Yuval Shahar

Tuesday 10:00-11:00

Ontologies, Terminologies and Natural Language I
Chair: Michel Dojat

10:00-10:25

 Vit Novacek, Tudor Groza and Siegfried Handschuh. CORAAL -- Towards Deep Exploitation of Textual Resources in Life Sciences

10:25-10:30

David Riaño, Francis Real, Fabio Campana, Sara Ercolani and Roberta Annicchiarico. An Ontology for the Care of the Elder at Home

10:30-10:35

Silvana Quaglini, Silvia Panzarasa, Tiziana Giorgiani, Chiara Zucchella, Michelangelo Bartolo, Elena Sinforiani and Giorgio Sandrini. Ontology-based personalization and modulation of computerized cognitive exercises

10:35-10:40

Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Silvana Quaglini and Mario Stefanelli. HomeNL: Homecare Assistance in Natural Language. An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Hypertensive Patients Management.

10:40-10:45

Laura Moss, Derek Sleeman, Malcolm Booth, Malcolm Daniel, Lyndsay Donaldson, Charlotte Gilhooly, Martin Hughes, Malcolm Sim and John Kinsella. Explaining Anomalous Responses to Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit

10:45-10:50

Stéfan J. Darmoni,  Suzanne Pereira,  Saoussen Sakji, Tayeb Merabti, Elise Prieur, Michel Joubert, and Benoit Thirion. Multiple terminologies in a health portal: automatic indexing and information retrieval

10:50-10:55

Jeffery Painter and Natalie Flowers. CodeSlinger: An Interactive Biomedical Ontology Browser

Break

Tuesday 11:30-13:05

Data Mining, Machine Learning, Classification and Prediction I
Chair: Steen Andreassen

11:30-11:55

Lan Umek, Blaz Zupan, Marko Toplak, Annie Morin, Jean-Hugues Chauchat, Gregor Makovec and Dragica Smrke. Subgroup Discovery in Data Sets with Multi--Dimensional Responses: A Method and a Case Study in Traumatology

11:55-12:20

Joo Heon Shin, Dave Smith, Roman Swiniarski, Edward Dudek, Andrew White, Kevin Staley and Krzysztof Cios. Analysis of EEG Epileptic Signals with Rough Sets and Support Vector Machines

12:20-12:45

Mohamed ROUANE HACENE, Yannick TOUSSAINT and Petko VALTCHEV. Mining safety Signals in Spontaneous Reports Database using Concept Analysis

12:45-12:50

David Perez-Rey and Víctor Maojo. An Ontology-based Method to link Database Integration and Data Mining within Biomedical Distributed KDD

12:50-12:55

Beatriz López, VICTOR BARRERA NÚÑEZ, JOAQUIM MELÉNDEZ FRIGOLA, CARLES POUS SABADÍ, JOAN BRUNET and JUDITH SANZ. Subgroup Discovery for Weight Learning in Breast Cancer Diagnosis

12:55-13:00

Paola Salle, Sandra Bringay and Maguelonne Teisseire. Mining Discriminant Sequential Patterns for Aging Brain

13:00-13:05

Ajay Kumar Tanwani and Muddassar Farooq. The Role of Biomedical Dataset in Classification

Lunch

Tuesday 14:45-16:00

Probabilistic Modeling and Reasoning
Chair: Werner Horn

14:45-15:10

Marina Velikova, Maurice Samulski, Peter Lucas and Nico Karssemeijer. Causal Probabilistic Modelling for Two-View Mammographic Analysis

15:10-15:15

Nivea Ferreira and Peter Lucas. Modelling Screening Mammography Images: a Probabilistic Relational Approach

15:15-15:20

Marianne Mueller, Romer Rosales, Harald Steck, Sriram Krishnan, Bharat Rao and Stefan Kramer. Data-Efficient Information-Theoretic Test Selection

Data Mining, Machine Learning, Classification and Prediction II
Chair: Peter Lucas

15:25-15:50

Gema García-Sáez, Jose María Alonso, Javier Molero, Mercedes Rigla, Iñaki Martínez-Sarriegui, Alberto de Leiva, Enrique Javier Gómez and María Elena Hernando. Mealtime blood glucose classifier based on Fuzzy Logic for the DIABTel telemedicine system

15:50-15:55

Fedor Zhdanov, Vladimir Vovk, Brian Burford, Dmitry Devetyarov, Ilia Nouretdinov and Alex Gammerman. Online prediction of ovarian cancer

15:55-16:00

Steven Ganzert, Stefan Kramer, Knut Möller, Daniel Steinmann and Josef Guttmann. Prediction of Mechanical Lung Parameters Using Gaussian Process Models

Break

Tuesday 16:20-16:40

Gene and protein data
Chair: Riccardo Bellazzi

16:20-16:25

Adelaide Freitas, Gladys Castillo and Ana Luísa São Marcos. Effect of Background Correction on Cancer Classification with Gene Expression Data

16:25-16:30

Francesca Mulas, Tomaz Curk, Riccardo Bellazzi and Blaz Zupan. On quality of different annotation sources for gene expression analysis

16:30-16:35

Angelo Nuzzo, Alberto Riva, Mario Stefanelli and Riccardo Bellazzi. An Architecture for Automated Reasoning Systems for Genome-wide Studies

16:35-16:40

Italo Zoppis, Erica Gianazza, Clizia Chinello, Veronica Mainini, Carmen Galbusera, Carlo Ferrarese, Gloria Galimberti, Alessandro Sorbi, Barbara Borroni, Fulvio Magni and Giancarlo Mauri. A mutual information approach to data integration for Alzheimer’s disease patients

Wednesday 8:45-11:00

Data Mining, Machine Learning, Classification and Prediction III
Chair: John Holmes

8:45-9:10

Phattanapon Rhienmora, Peter Haddawy, Siriwan Suebnukarn and Matthew Dailey. Providing Objective Feedback on Skill Assessment in a Dental Surgical Training Simulator

9:10-9:35

Daniel Voigt, Michael Döllinger, Anxiong Yang, Ulrich Eysholdt and Jörg Lohscheller. Voice Pathology Classification by Using Features from High-speed Videos

9:35-10:00

Yunli Wang, Hongyu Liu, Liqiang Geng, Mattew Keays and Yonghua You. Automatic Detecting Documents Containing Personal Health Information

10:00-10:25

Rattapoom Waranusast, Peter Haddawy and Matthew Dailey. Segmentation of Text and Non-Text in On-line Handwritten Patient Record Based on Spatio-temporal Analysis

10:25-10:30

Andriy Batchinsky, Jose Salinas, John Jones, Corina Necsoiu and Leopoldo Cancio. Predicting the Need to Perform Life-Saving Interventions in Trauma Patients by Using New Vital Signs and Artificial Neural Networks

10:30-10:35

Alessandro Daducci, Umberto Castellani, Marco Cristani, Paolo Farace, Pasquina Marzola, Andrea Sbarbati and Vittorio Murino. Learning approach to analyze tumour heterogeneity in DCE-MRI data during anti-cancer treatment

10:35-11:00

Nicoletta Dessì and Barbara Pes. A Framework for Multi-Class Learning in Micro-array Data Analysis

Break

Wednesday 11:30-13:00

Ontologies, Terminologies and Natural Language II
Chair: Silvana Quaglini

11:30-11:55

Stéphane Meystre. Detecting Intuitive Mentions of Diseases in Narrative Clinical Text

11:55-12:20

Kaarel Kaljurand, Fabio Rinaldi, Thomas Kappeler and Gerold Schneider. Using existing biomedical resources to detect and ground terms in biomedical literature

Therapy Planning, Scheduling and Guideline-based Care II
Chair:Jim Hunter

12:25-12:50

Ivan Vermeulen, Sander Bohte, Peter Bosman, Sylvia Elkhuizen, Piet Bakker and Han La Poutré. Optimization of Online Patient Scheduling with Urgencies and Preferences

12:50-12:55

Elizabeth Black, David Glasspool, Adela Grando, Vivek Patkar and John Fox. Goal-based decisions for dynamic planning

12:55-13:00

Dobrila Petrovic, Mohammad Morshed and Sanja Petrovic. Genetic Algorithm Based Scheduling of Radiotherapy Treatments for Cancer Patients

Closing ceremony & buffet with biological meals