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Towards an Integration of Workflows and Clinical Guidelines: A Case Study
The integration of workflows and guidelines modeling healthcare processes is a hot topic of research in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and is likely to provide a major advance in the IT support to health...
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A Constraint-Based Approach for the Conciliation of Clinical Guidelines
The medical domain often arises new challenges to Artificial Intelligence. An emerging challenge is the support for the treatment of patients affected by multiple pathologies (comorbid patients). In the medica...
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META-GLARE: A Meta-Engine for Executing Computer Interpretable Guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) play an important role in medical practice, and computerized support to CPGs is now one of the most central areas of research in Artificial Intelligence in medicine. In rece...
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Answer Set Programming for Temporal Conformance Analysis of Clinical Guidelines Execution
Analyzing conformance of execution traces with clinical guidelines is not a trivial task, because guidelines are developed for physicians who should always interpret them according to their general knowledge; ...
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A Mixed-Initiative Approach to the Conciliation of Clinical Guidelines for Comorbid Patients
The treatment of patients affected by multiple pathologies (comorbid patients) is one of the main challenges for the modern healthcare. Clinical practice guidelines provide evidence-based information about int...
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META-GLARE: A Meta-System for Defining Your Own CIG System: Architecture and Acquisition
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) play an important role in medical practice, and computerized support to CPGs is now one of the most central areas of research in Artificial Intelligence in medicine. In rece...
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Flexible and Efficient Retrieval of Haemodialysis Time Series
The problem of retrieving time series similar to a specified query pattern has been recently addressed within the Case Based Reasoning (CBR) literature. Providing a flexible and efficient way of dealing with s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Telic/Atelic Distinction in Temporal Databases
Prior research in philosophy, linguistics, artificial intelligence and other areas suggests the need to differentiate between temporal facts with goal-related semantics (i.e., telic) from those that are intrin...
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Variable Granularity Space Filling Curve for Indexing Multidimensional Data
Efficiently accessing multidimensional data is a challenge for building modern database applications that involve many folds of data such as temporal, spatial, data warehousing, bio-informatics, etc. This prob...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of the GLARE and GPROVE Approaches to Clinical Guidelines
Clinical guidelines (GLs) play an important role in medical practice, and computerized support to GLs is now one of the most central areas of research in Artificial Intelligence in medicine. In recent years, m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Data Interpretation and Case Base Exploration through Temporal Abstractions
Interpreting time series of measurements and exploring a repository of cases with time series data looking for similarities, are non-trivial, but very important tasks.
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Clinical Guidelines Adaptation: Managing Authoring and Versioning Issues
One of the biggest issues in guideline dissemination nowadays is the need of adapting guidelines themselves to the application contexts, and to keep them up to date. In this paper, we propose a computer-based ...
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Extending Temporal Databases to Deal with Telic/Atelic Medical Data
In the area of Medical Informatics, there is an increasing realization that temporal information plays a crucial role, so that suitable database models and query languages are needed to store and support it. I...
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Exploiting Decision Theory for Supporting Therapy Selection in Computerized Clinical Guidelines
Supporting therapy selection is a fundamental task for a system for the computerized management of clinical guidelines (GL). The goal is particularly critical when no alternative is really better than the othe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recognizing and Discovering Complex Events in Sequences
Finding complex patterns in long temporal or spatial sequences from real world applications is gaining increasing interest in data mining. However, standard data mining techniques, taken in isolation, seem to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extending Temporal Relational Databases to Deal with Imprecise and Qualitative Temporal Information
In several application domains, there is a need for historical databases supporting also imprecise and qualitative temporal information. We propose a formal theory for handling imprecise and qualitative tempor...