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From: berger@cs.uchicago.edu (Jeff Berger)
Subject: Re: CBR and Medical Applications
In-Reply-To: Eduardo Afonso Oliveira's message of Fri, 18 Nov 1994 11:17:04 GMT
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In article <1994Nov18.111704.28557@news.uminho.pt> Eduardo Afonso
Oliveira <meseao@di.uminho.pt> writes: 

   I am Eduardo Oliveira and my current research is on medical 
   applications of AI and CBR in particular.
   Anyone working in these areas please contact me to exchange of 
   information.
   Does anyone know of any papers published  about those issues ?
   Eduardo

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I've responded privately to this post, but I thought other newsgroup
readers might also be interested in information about the mailing list
CBR-MED. 
-Jeff
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			      CBR-MED

A physician diagnosing the illness of a new patient is reminded of a
past patient and checks to see if the former diagnosis is relevant. A
dosimetrist who is designing a radiotherapy plan for a cancer patient
refers to a therapy atlas of past patients for plan suggestions. These
are examples of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), a form of problem solving
in which the problem solver reuses a past case to solve a new problem.
CBR is both a model of human cognition and a paradigm for computer-
based problem solvers.

The CBR-MED mailing list provides a forum for the discussion of CBR
methods in Medicine. The list brings together medical practitioners,
medical educators, health informaticians, and CBR researchers in
service of two goals:

1) To support the delivery of medical care by fostering the
development of CBR software that performs health care related tasks.

2) To spur the development of CBR methods by focusing the efforts of
researchers on the challenges (large databases, knowledge
representation problems, etc.) provided by medical and health
informatics problems.

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To subscribe to CBR-MED, send a message that looks like this:

To: listproc@cs.uchicago.edu
Subject: <blank line>
subscribe CBR-MED <your first name> <your last name>

If your name is Joan Smith, your subscription request would look like
this: 

To: listproc@cs.uchicago.edu
Subject:
subscribe CBR-MED Joan Smith


There is a Frequently Asked Questions file for CBR-MED. Here are the
questions it supplies answers to:
[1] WHAT IS CASE-BASED REASONING?
[2] WHAT IS CASE-BASED LEARNING?
[3] WHY CASE-BASED REASONING AND MEDICINE?
[4] WHY CBR-MED?
[5] WHAT ARE SOME REFERENCES TO CBR?
[6] WHAT ABOUT REFERENCES TO CBR IN MEDICINE?
[7] WHAT IS A CBR SHELL?
[8] ARE CBR SHELLS AVAILABLE?
[9] WHAT PUBLIC DOMAIN (FREE) CBR SHELLS ARE AVAILABLE?
[10] WHAT COMMERCIAL CBR SHELLS ARE AVAILABLE?
[11] ARE THERE OTHER NET RESOURCES RELATING TO CBR AND MEDICINE?
You can get the current copy of the FAQ by sending the following
message:

To: LISTPROC@cs.uchicago.edu
Subject:
GET CBR-MED FAQ



Please let us know if you have any problems with the list.

			Jeff Berger
			Kurt Fenstermacher
			Charles Kahn
			OWNER-CBR-MED@cs.uchicago.edu

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