Abstract

Medicine and health care require highly complex decision making to ensure that the trajectory a patient with a disease needs to take for diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and finally outcome is optimal in some sense. As a consequence, researchers have to draw methods from the entire field of AI. On the other hand, health care and medicine are built upon a rich body of knowledge, e.g. concerning the pathophysiology of diseases, molecular, genetic, cytological, and histological characterization of stages of a disease, described by temporal and spatial disease patterns. Such knowledge can also act as background knowledge to guide machine learning. This workshop aims at elucidating the relationship between what can be expected from AI methods when applied to health-care problems and the role knowledge of health care and clinical medicine can play in developing AI solutions to health-care and clinical problems.