| Biomedical
Applications of Computational Logic and Machine Learning Advanced seminar for professionals
Bled, Slovenia, 11 November 1997
Nada Lavrac
Compulog Net and J. Stefan Institute,
Center for Knowledge Transfer in Information Technologies, Ljubljana organised an advanced
seminar for professionals "Biomedical applications of computational logic and machine
learning''.
At the seminar methods from the areas
of computational logic and machine learning were presented, with emphasis on their
applications within different medical domains. The scope of the seminar was motivated by
the fact that in medicine efficient use of large amounts of available data and knowledge
is becoming a general problem, and new methods for data acquisition and analysis as well
as for knowledge engineering are required. Logic programming and machine learning have
already proved to be highly successful in assisting experts in knowledge-intensive
disciplines such as medicine and pharmacology.
The programme consisted of the
following lectures:
* John Fox (Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London): Intelligent agents which reason
about beliefs, decisions and plans: Formal foundations and practical applications in
medicine,
* Igor Mozetic (CAMTP, University of Maribor): Protein structure prediction,
* Peter Hammond (Eastmen Institute, London University): Reusing domain knowledge
and problem-solving models in medical applications of computing,
* Nada Lavrac (J. Stefan Institute): Intelligent data analysis and synthesis of
medical knowledge bases,
* Igor Kononenko (Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, University of
Ljubljana) and Ciril Groselj (Medical Center, University of Ljubljana): Controlling the
trade-off between the sensitivity and specificity in the diagnostics of the ishaemic heart
disease.
The seminar was mainly intended for
medical experts interested in new computer-assisted methods of problem-solving, as well as
omputer professionals wanting to introduce new methods into research and clinical
practice. The seminar attracted about 30 participants.
Thanks to Tanja Urbancic (Center
for Knowledge Transfer in IT, J. Stefan Institute) and David Pearce (Compulog Net) this
was not only a successful, but also a very pleasant event, held in the beautiful
environment of the Hotel Vila Bled, an ex-presidential vila at the banks of the Lake of
Bled. The only thing that the organizers missed to provide was beautiful weather. |