Medical Data Analysis

1. Hybrid Pattern Recognition Algorithms with the Statistical Model Applied to the Computer-Aided Medical Diagnosis

   • Marek Kurzynski, Edward Puchala, Jerzy Sas

   Pages 133-139

2. Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Application of Wavelet Transform to the Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms

   • María J. Lado, Arturo J. Méndez, Pablo G. Tahoces, Miguel Souto, Juan J. Vidal

   Pages 140-145

3. A Methodology for Constructing Expert Systems for Medical Diagnosis

   • L. M. Laita, G. González-Páez, E. Roanes-Lozano, V. Maojo, L. de Ledesma, L. Laita

   Pages 146-152

4. An Expert System for Microbiological Data Validation and Surveillance

   • E. Lamma, P. Mello, A. Nanetti, G. Poli, F. Riguzzi, S. Storari

   Pages 153-160

5. Hierarchical Clustering of Female Urinary Incontinence Data Having Noise and Outliers

   • Jorma Laurikkala, Martti Juhola

   Pages 161-167

6. ACMD: A Practical Tool for Automatic Neural Net Based Learning

   • Roland Linder, Siegfried J. Pöppl

   Pages 168-173

7. Development of a Mammographic Analysis System Using Computer Vision Techniques

   • J. Martí, P. Planiol, J. Freixenet, J. Español, E. Golobardes

   Pages 174-180

8. Improvement of a Mammographic CAD System for Mass Detection

   • Arturo J. Méndez, Pablo G. Tahoces, Celia Varela, María J. Lado, Miguel Souto, Juan J. Vidal

   Pages 181-185

9. Classification of Gene Expression Data in an Ontology

   • Herman Midelfart, Astrid Lægreid, Jan Komorowski

   Pages 186-194

10. Feature Selection Algorithms Applied to Parkinson’s Disease

    • M. Navío, J. J. Aguilera, M. J. del Jesus, R. González, F. Herrera, C. Iríbar

    Pages 195-200

11. A New Model for AIDS Survival Analysis

    • Jesus Orbe, Eva Ferreira, Vicente Núñez-Antón

    Pages 201-206

12. A Frequent Patterns Tree Approach for Rule Generation with Categorical Septic Shock Patient Data

    • Jürgen Paetz, Rüdiger Brause

    Pages 207-213

13. Analysis of Medical Diagnostic Images via the Implementation and Access to a Safe DICOMPACS with a Web Interface: Analysis of Contrast-enhanced CT Imaging of Oral and Oropharyngeal Carcinomas

    • Javier Pereira, Alejandro Lamelo, Jose Manuel Vázquez-Naya, Mario Fernández, Julían Dorado, Antonio Santos et al.

    Pages 213-218

14. Classification of HEp-2 Cells Using Fluorescent Image Analysis and Data Mining

    • Petra Perner

    Pages 219-224

15. Multitask Pattern Recognition Algorithm for the Medical Decision Support System

    • Edward Puchala, Marek Kurzynski

    Pages 225-230

16. The Analysis of Hospital Episodes

    • David Riaño, Susana Prado

    Pages 231-237

17. Electroshock Effects Identification Using Classification Based on Rules

    • Jorge Rodas, Karina Gibert, J. Emilio Rojo

    Pages 238-244

18. Advanced Visualization of 3D data of Intravascular Ultrasound images

    • D. Rotger, C. Cañero, P. Radeva, J. Mauri, E. Fernandez, A. Tovar et al.

    Pages 245-250

19. Investigations on Stability and Overoptimism of Classification Trees by Using Cross-Validation

    • Willi Sauerbrei

    Pages 251-257

20. A Case-Based Approach for the Classification of Medical Time Series

    • Alexander Schlaefer, Kay Schröter, Lutz Fritsche

    Pages 258-263

The 2nd International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2001) was the continuation of the successful ISMDA 2000, a conference held in Fra- furt, Germany, in September 2000. The ISMDA conferences were conceived to integrate interdisciplinary research from scienti?c ?elds such as statistics, s- nal processing, medical informatics, data mining, and biometrics for biomedical data analysis. A number of academic and professional people from those ?elds, including computer scientists, statisticians, physicians, engineers, and others, - alized that new approaches were needed to apply successfully all the traditional techniques, methods, and tools of data analysis to medicine. ISMDA 2001, as its predecessor, aimed to provide an international forum for sharing and exchanging original research ideas and practical development ex- riences. This year we broadened the scope of the conference, to included methods for image analysis and bioinformatics. Both are exciting scienti?c research ?elds and it was clear to the scienti?c committee that they had to be included in the areas of interest. Medicine has been one of the most di?cult application areas for computing. The number and importance of the di?erent issues involved suggests why many data analysis researchers ?nd the medical domain such a challenging ?eld. New interactive approaches are needed to solve these problems.

• Analysis
• Bayesian network
• case-based reasoning
• classification
• cognition
• computer
• computer vision
• data analysis
• decision support system
• fuzzy
• image analysis
• medical image analysis
• modeling
• pattern recognition

• Polytechnical University of Madrid Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Medical Informatics Group, Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), Spain

  Jose Crespo, Victor Maojo

• Health Bioinformatics Unit, Institute of Health Carlos III, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain

  Fernando Martin

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