AAAI 1996 Spring Symposium:
Title: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine:  Applications of Current
Technologies

Short description:

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) researchers have developed
several technologies over the course of the past three decades. Many of
these technologies were considerably ahead of their time and were not
successfully exploited. The electronic information delivery and additional
automation that they required has only recently begun to be implemented on
a large scale. In the perspective of these recent developments does the
earlier AIM technology have greater relevance or utility? What further
capabilites do current advances in AIM research provide? In addition to
addressing these questions, participants in the symposium will also be
asked to present state-of-the-art AIM systems and how they contribute to
the various tasks of modern health care delivery including: practice
guideline development and execution, quality assurance,
knowledge-discovery, and automated control.

On-line clinical data sets will be made available, on demand, to interested
participants.

Submission process

Potential participants are invited to submit abstracts no longer
than 2 pages (< 1200 words) by October 31, 1995.  The abstracts
should outline methodology and emphasize how the methodology has been applied.
The abstracts may be sent in ASCII or RTF formats to
<aim-96@medg.lcs.mit.edu>.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a working paper by
January 19, 1996.  They will also be asked to prepare either a poster or an
oral presentation.


Submissions will ONLY be accepted in electronic format.

Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Co-chair, AIM-96
Children's Hospital Informatics Program,
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A.
Phone: [+1] (617) 355-7333
Fax: [+1] (617) 730-0456

Calendar

Abstracts due:                  October 31, 1995
Notification of authors by:     November 30, 1995
Working papers due:             January 19, 1996
Spring Symposium:               March 25-27, 1996

Information

For further information, please contact the organizing committee at the address
above or (preferably) via e-mail at: <aim-96@medg.lcs.mit.edu>. Up to date
information regarding the symposium can be found on the Web at
http://www.medg.lcs.mit.edu/

Organizing Committee:

Progam Committee

Isaac Kohane, MD PhD (Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
Ramesh Patil, PhD (ISI)
Yuval Shahar, MD, PhD (Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford Medical School)
Peter Szolovits, PhD (Clinical Decision Making Group)
Serdar Uckun, MD, PhD (Rockwell International)