title: Case-based reasoning in the health sciences: What's next?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper presents current work in case-based reasoning (CBR) in the health sciences, describes current trends and issues, and projects future directions for work in this field.
  
  
  METHODS
  It represents the contributions of researchers at two workshops on case-based reasoning in the health sciences. These workshops were held at the Fifth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-03) and the Seventh European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR-04).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Current research in CBR in the health sciences is marked by its richness. Highlighted trends include work in bioinformatics, support to the elderly and people with disabilities, formalization of CBR in biomedicine, and feature and case mining.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CBR systems are being better designed to account for the complexity of biomedicine, to integrate into clinical settings and to communicate and interact with diverse systems and methods.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402, USA. ibichind@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bichindaritz
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marling
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D018511:Systems Integration