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Integrating closed form representations and qualitative reasoning for cancer treatment

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Medical Informatics Europe 1991

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 45))

Abstract

The present work describes the last version of a consultation system for the development of cancer therapies, NEWCHEM, in which pharmaco-cell kinetic modeling and molecular knowledge about neoplastic processes allow to propose new protocols for adjutant combination chemotherapy. It focuses on the integration of the two kinds of knowledge involved, that is closed form representation for pharmaco-cell kinetics and declarative representation for the basic principles of molecular knowledge relating to cell growth.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering of Palermo University, Italy

    S. Gaglio

  2. Department of Communications, Computer and System Sciences of Genoa University, Italy

    M. Giacomini & C. Ruggiero

  3. Institute of Biophysics of Genoa University, 16145, Genoa, Italy

    C. Nicolini

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  1. Department of Medical Computer Sciences, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Wien, Austria

    Klaus-Peter Adlassnig  & Georg Grabner  & 

  2. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Akademiska Hospital, P. O. Box 552, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Stellan Bengtsson

  3. National Institute of Public Health, Geitmyrsveien 75, 0462, Oslo, Norway

    Rolf Hansen

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Gaglio, S., Giacomini, M., Nicolini, C., Ruggiero, C. (1991). Integrating closed form representations and qualitative reasoning for cancer treatment. In: Adlassnig, KP., Grabner, G., Bengtsson, S., Hansen, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93503-9_81

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