AIME 91 Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Maastricht, June 24–27, 1991

This book contains 26 papers describing research in the do-main of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. The papers aregrouped around the following themes: Methodology, knowledgerepresentation, clinical applications, modelling, uncertain-ty management, knowledge acquisition, and the user perspec-tive. The book gives an overview of the current state of AIin medicine research in Europe. It presents several techni-ques and methods that are likely to play an important rolein future applications. In the section on clinical applica-tions not only existing systems are described, but resultsof evaluation studies are presented as well.