This book contains 26 papers describing research in the do- main of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. The papers are grouped around the following themes: Methodology, knowledge representation, clinical applications, modelling, uncertain- ty management, knowledge acquisition, and the user perspec- tive. The book gives an overview of the current state of AI in medicine research in Europe. It presents several techni- ques and methods that are likely to play an important role in future applications. In the section on clinical applica- tions not only existing systems are described, but results of evaluation studies are presented as well.
The knowledge-based management of medical acts in NUCLEUS -- Knowledge Acquisition, Representation & Learning -- Knowledge Representation and Modelling in HYBRIKON -- Knowledge Organisation in Medical KBS Construetion -- A Framework for Modular Knowledge Bases in the Domain of Hypertension Diseases -- KAVAS-2: Knowledge Acquisition, Visualisation and Assessment System -- KAVAS's Framework for quality assessment of medical knowledge -- KAVAS's Conditioning of the Induction Algorithm -- Clinical decision-support in the field of TETANUS serology using an associative storage model implemented in LISP -- Model based learning support to knowledge acquisition: A clinical case study -- MODELS FOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND MEDICAL REASONING IN A C.A.I SYSTEM -- Case Based Reasoning in Clinical Evaluation -- Object-oriented mentality: the most suited paradigm for medical knowledge-based systems -- Applications Based on Neural Nets -- Classification of protein patterns using neural networks: pixel based versus feature based approach -- Evaluation of an epiderniological data set as an example of the application of neural networks to the analysis of large medical data sets -- A Neural Network Modular System for Object Classification in Brain MR Images -- A Neural Network Identifies Faces with Morphological Syndromes -- Grading of Gliomas in Stereotactic Biopsies with Neural Networks -- Self Organizing Maps for the Evaluation of High Resolution ECG -- AUTHOR INDEX
Why and How Will Knowledge Based Systems Become an Established Technology within Health Care? -- Signal and Image Processing Applications -- Future Prospects in ECG Signal Interpretation -- Industrial Perspectives for Research and Development in Knowledge Processing and Decision Support -- Legal Issues Incurred from KBS Use -- Legal Issues in Cognition, Knowledge Processing and Decision Making Techniques in the Health Sector -- Human Intelligence and Computer Intelligence -- Cooperation Between Human Brain and Computer -- Part 3. The EPISTOL Reports -- Munich Workshop -- The Role of Knowledge Based Systems in Clinical Practice -- How Will KBS Techniques Be Incorporated into Commercial Products? -- Trends in Knowledge Based Research that Will Enable its Use in Routine Applications -- Distributed Knowledge Based Systems and Telematics in a Changing Health Care Environment -- Brussels Seminar -- The Brussels Seminar -- Appendices -- Munich Workshop: Participants and Contributors -- Brussels Seminar: Participants and Contributors -- Author Index
A comprehensive treatise on the hot working of aluminum and its alloys, Hot Deformation and Processing of Aluminum Alloys details the possible microstructural developments that can occur with hot deformation of various alloys, as well as the kind of mechanical properties that can be anticipated. The authors take great care to explain and differentiate hot working in the context of other elevated temperature phenomena, such as creep, superplasticity, cold working, and annealing. They also pay particular attention to the fundamental mechanisms of aluminum plasticity at hot working temperatures. Using extensive analysis derived from polarized light optical microscopy (POM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD) scanning electron-microscopy with electron backscatter imaging (SEM-EBSD), and orientation imaging microscopy (OIM), the authors examine those microstructures that evolve in torsion, compression, extrusion, and rolling. Further microstructural analysis leads to detailed explanations of dynamic recovery (DRV), static recovery (SRV), discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (dDRX), discontinuous static recrystallization (dSRX), grain defining dynamic recovery (gDRV) (formerly geometric dynamic recrystallization, or gDRX), and continuous dynamic recrystallization involving both a single phase (cDRX/1-phase) and multiple phases (cDRX/2-phase). A companion to other works that focus on modeling, manufacturing involving plastic and superplastic deformation, and control of texture and phase transformations, this book provides thorough explanations of microstructural development to lay the foundation for further study of the mechanisms of thermomechanical processes and their application.
