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AIME 1995: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine pp 65–78Cite as

Modelling medical concepts as time-objects

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Time is intrinsically related to medical problem-solving in general. Modelling time from the perspective of computer-based, competent, solution derivation of real-life medical problems is a challenging undertaking. Starting from the premise that temporal reasoning is an integral aspect of medical problem-solving, necessary requirements for medical temporal reasoning are listed, the notion of a time-object is proposed as an appropriate ontological primitive for modelling medical concepts, and generic models for patient data, disorders, and actions based on time-objects are discussed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Kallipoleos 75, P.O.Box 537, CY-1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    E. T. Keravnou

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Keravnou, E.T. (1995). Modelling medical concepts as time-objects. In: Barahona, P., Stefanelli, M., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60025-6_126

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