Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical Therapy Planning

In order to utilize elaborate tools and techniques (like verication) for use with clinical protocols, these must be represented in an appropriate way. Protocols are typically represented by means of formal languages (e.g., Asbru), which are very hard to understand for medical experts and lead to many problems in practical use. Therefore, a powerful user interface is needed. We identify the key problems the user-interface designer is faced with, and present a number of "classic" solutions and their shortcomings, which led to our own solution called AsbruView. Its two different views (Topological View and Temporal View) are presented.

Robert Kosara, Silvia Miksch, Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical Therapy Planning, Proceedings of the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM), pp. 291–300, 1999.

@inproceedings{Kosara:AIMDM:1999,
	year = 1999,
	title = {Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical Therapy Planning}, 
	author = {Robert Kosara and Silvia Miksch}, 
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM)}, 
	pages = {291–300}, 
	abstract = {In order to utilize elaborate tools and techniques (like verication) for use with clinical protocols, these must be represented in an appropriate way. Protocols are typically represented by means of formal languages (e.g., Asbru), which are very hard to understand for medical experts and lead to many problems in practical use. Therefore, a powerful user interface is needed. We identify the key problems the user-interface designer is faced with, and present a number of "classic" solutions and their shortcomings, which led to our own solution called AsbruView. Its two different views (Topological View and Temporal View) are presented.}, 
}