Computer Based Medical Systems (Cbms 2002), 15th IEEE Symposium

Papers from a June 2002 symposium address recent advances in intelligent medical systems, medical systems, data management, data mining, signal processing, software systems and agents, multimedia and visualization, knowledge representation, image processing, Web-based systems and frameworks, and management of image databases. Specific topics include efficiency enhancement of rule-based expert systems, protecting medical data for analyses, mining a diabetes database with decision trees and association rules, and testing medical software. Other subjects are structured speech input for clinical data collection, 3D reconstruction of abdominal aortic aneurysms, and data mining problems in medicine. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)