Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

• Main Authors: Combi, Carlo. (Author), Keravnou-Papailiou, Elpida. (Author), Shahar, Yuval. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer vision.; Biomedical engineering.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet).; Database Management.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Biomedical Engineering.; Models and Principles.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6543-1

The effective and efficient use of information systems in health care organizations and services is a vital element of the quality of life worldwide. The modeling of time has attracted interest from a number of research communities, each addressing aspects from its specific sphere of interests. The...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Role of Time in Medicine
• Part I Fundamentals
• Temporal Modeling and Temporal Reasoning
• Temporal Databases
• Temporal Reasoning and Maintenance in Medicine
• Temporal Clinical Databases
• Abstraction of Time-Oriented Clinical Data
• Part III Time in Clinical Tasks
• Time in Clinical Diagnosis
• Automated Support to Clinical Guidelines and Care Plans
• Part IV The Display of Time-Oriented Clinical Information
• Displaying Time-Oriented Clinical Data and Knowledge
• Index.