Introduction -- Computational intelligence techniques in medical decision making: the data mining perspective -- Internet-based decision support for evidence-based medicine -- Integrating kernel methods into a knowledge-based approach to evidence-based medicine -- Case-based reasoning prognosis for temporal courses -- Pattern recognition in intensive care online monitoring -- Artificial neural network models for timely assessment of trauma complication risk -- Artificial neural networks in medical diagnosis -- The application of neural networks in the classification of the electrocardiogram -- Neural network predictions of significant coronary artery stenosis in women -- A modular neural network system for the analysis of nuclei in histopathological sections -- Septic shock diagnosis by neural networks and rule based systems -- Monitoring depth of anesthesia -- Combining evolutionary and fuzzy techniques in medical diagnosis -- Genetic algorithms for feature selection in computer-aided diagnosis.