Data Mining and Decision Support Systems -- Knowledge Discovery Using Medical Data Mining -- Analysis of Stationary Periods of Heart Rate via Symbolic Dynamics -- Microcalcification Detection Using a Kernel Bayes Classifier -- The Use of Classification Trees for Analysis of Kidney Images in Computer Assisted Microscopy -- A Neuro-fuzzy Based Alarm System for Septic Shock Patients with a Comparison to Medical Scores -- Determination of Functional Relationships for Continuous Variables by Using a Multivariable Fractional Polynomial Approach -- Medical Informatics and Modeling -- Nonlinear Oscillation Models for Spike Separation -- Modeling Glucose-Insulin Behavior in Ill Patients (DM Type2) -- ECG Acquisition and Management System for Knowledge Discovery in Database: Data Modeling, Design, and Implementation -- The Conceptual Basis of WITH, a Collaborative Writer System of Clinical Trials -- Problems of the Model Choice in Classes of Mendelian Inheritance Models -- Computational Modeling of the Cardiovascular System After Fontan Procedure -- Time-Series Analysis -- Short-and Long-Term Statistical Properties of Heartbeat Time-Series in Healthy and Pathological Subjects -- An Index of Organization of the Right Atrium During Atrial Fibrillation: Effects of Internal Cardioversion -- Morphological Analysis of ECG Holter Recordings by Support Vector Machines -- Monitoring of Sleep Apnea in Children Using Pulse Transit Time -- Linear and Nonlinear Evaluation of Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Invariant and Subject-Dependent Features of Otoacoustic Emissions -- Medical Imaging -- Short Term Evaluation of Brain Activities in fMRI Data by Spatiotemporal Independent Component Analysis -- Implementation of an IT System for the Support of a Hospital Infection Surveillance System -- An Artificial Neural Network for 3D Localization of Brainstem Functional Lesions -- Dependent Rendering: Visualizing Multiple Properties of an Object -- Automatic Detection of Microaneurysms in Color Fundus Images of the Human Retina by Means of the Bounding Box Closing.