The detection of treatment conflicts between multiple treatment protocols that are co-incident is a difficult and open problem that is particularly exacerbated regarding the treatment of multiple medical conditions co-occurring in aged patients. For example, a clinical protocol for prostate cancer treatment requires the administration of androgen-suppressing medication, which may negatively int...

This paper presents an environment for collecting clinical data using structured speech input. The system uses nomenclature terms and data consistency rules to limit speech input to a discrete set of phrases which can be configured to support a wide range of studies. This information is stored in an eventoriented data model as strongly typed observations for subsequent distribution and data ana...

The use of computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools is growing significantly in recent years. These tools help reduce waiting lists, minimise patient risks and, at the same time, optimise the cost health resources. In this paper, we present a CDS application that predicts the probability of having unst able angina based on clinical data. Due to the characteristics of the variables (...

While already having at their disposal an array of advanced and task-specific tools for the gathering, dispersal and exploitation of highly structured information, the Belgian Federal Police (BFP) are now shifting attention to novel technologies for exploiting vast amounts of unstructured information sources, from which further knowledge could be obtained for analysis purposes. The aim of the I...