ITIS-ITAB '99 - Conference Programme

DAY 1 - 12th April 1999

SESSION 1 - Chairman: Andy Marsh (GR)

ITIS-ITAB'99 Opening Remarks. Andy Marsh (GR) & Swamy Laxminarayan (USA)

Characteristics of users of medical innovations. Mary Moore (USA)

Biomedical Information Technology: From Digital Dawn to NGI. Swamy Laxminarayan (USA)

ITIS-ITAB FORUM Session 1: Integration of Technologies. Forum Chairman: Tuomo Kauranne (SF)

Euromed - The final Chapter or a new beginning. Andy Marsh (GR)

SESSION 2 - Chairman: Swamy Laxminarayan (USA)

ITIS-ITAB FORUM Session 2: Standardization Issues. Forum Chair: Gudrun Zahlmann (DE)

DAY 2 - 13th April 1999

SESSION 3 - Chair: Mary Moore (USA)

Some methodological issues in telemedicine: systems, modelling and evaluation. Ewart Carson (UK)

Evaluation of telemedical services. Gudrun Zahlmann (DE)

Business aspects of Trusted services in Europe. Robbert Fisher (LE)

SESSION 4 - Chairman: Ewart Carson (UK)

3D Heartview: Introducing 3-dimensional angiographical modelling. Nikos Papazis (GR)

WWW-based service for automated interpretation of diagnostic images: the AIDI-Heart project. Lars Edenbrandt (SE)

Decision trees - A CIM tool in nursing education. Peter Kokol (SI)

Integrating DICOM medical images into Virtual Medical Worlds. Tuomo Kauranne

SESSION 5 - Chairman: Robbert Fisher (LE)

The Global Health Network in the 21st century: "Telehealth, homecare, genetics, counter-bioterrorism, security and privacy of information, do we need it and are we ready for it?". Luis Kun (USA)

Hybrid signals processing technologies for next generation of wireless telemedicine systems. Robert Istepanian (UK)

Decision support systems for medical diagnosis. Mimmo Conforti (IT)

Remote brain image segmentation. Olavi Kelle (SF)

Establishing a Virtual Medical Worlds Community. Ad Emmen (NL)

SESSION 6 - Chairman: Luis Kun (USA)

HealthLine: Integrated information provision to telemedicine networks. Yiannis Samiotakis (GR)

Using Web technoogies and meta-computing to visualise a simplified simulation model of tumour growth in vitro. Andy Marsh (GR)

ITIS-ITAB FORUM Session 3: The establishment of an International Telemedical Information Society. Forum Chairman: Andy Marsh (GR)

ITAB-ITIS 2000. Swamy Laxminarayan (USA)

Closing Remarks. Andy Marsh (GR)