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Prof. dr. Ameen Abu-Hanna
Department of Medical Informatics
Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam
Meibergdreef 15
1105 AZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
email: a.abu-hanna at amc.uva.nl
tel: +31-20-566 5959
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Ameen Abu-Hanna is full professor of Medical Informatics and head of the department of Medical Informatics at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam. He is Principal Investigator in the research area Methodology in Medical Informatics with interest in: artificial intelligence; machine learning, datamining and statistics; prognostic modeling and evaluation; temporal patterns; subgroup discovery; decision support systems; and terminology systems, and their application in medicine and health care. He is associate editor of Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) and a former president of the European Society of AI in Medicine. He has served for four years as the vice-chair on the educational board of the undergraduate and Masters programs of Medical Informatics where he was responsible for revising the informatics part of the curriculum. Ameen Abu-Hanna earned a BSc (Cum Laude) in computer engineering, an MSc in computer science (both from the Technion in Haifa) and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam.

Teaching responsibilities
Medical Informatics Curriculum at the AMC, University of Amsterdam

Coordinator and lecturer: Artificial Intelligence course (BSc)
Coordinator and lecturer: Advances in Representation and Reasoning in Medicine (MSc)
Coordinator: Scientific Research Projects (MSc). See Guidelines and open project proposals.
Contributing lecturer in the BSc courses: Software Engineering, Medical Knowledge Technology, Computer-Based Patient Record.
International

Lecturer in the International Summer School Health Informatics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Lecturer Data Mining and Prognosis in Medicine in Braunschweig, Germany.
Lecturer Role of Machine Learning in Medicine in Murcia, Spain.

Overview of research activities

Selected national research activities

Committee member ZonMW TOP Grants .
Chairman of the biennial BAZIS award for the best Medical Informatics PhD dissertation in The Netherlands and Flanders.
Member of the judging-committee for the "Future Award" of the Dutch Society for Healthcare Informatics for the best Medical Informatics Masters thesis in The Netherlands and Flanders.
Co-editor of the Dutch Yearbook on Medical Informatics

2005 special issue on Regional Networks
2006 special issue on Evaluation of IT Systems in Health Care
2007 special issue on Selfmanagement
2008 special issue on Simulation Models in Health Care
2009 special issue on Decision Support and Privacy
2010 special issue on 40 years of the Dutch association of Healthcare Informatics

Editorship of international Journals and Lecture Notes volumes

Editor of special issue of Int Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 1999.
Editor of special issue of Int Journal Methods of Information in Medicine, 2001.
Editor of special issue of Int Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2004.
Editor of Springer's Lecture Notes on AI, Volume 4594- AIME 07 proceedings 2007.
Editor of special issue of Int Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2009.
Editor of Springer's Lecture Notes on AI Volume 5651- AIME 09 proceedings 2009.

Organization of international events

Organizer and chair workshop Model-based Diagnosis, Lille, France, 1996.
Co-organizer and chair workshop Prognostic Models in Medicine, Hammamet, Tunis, 1998.
Co-organizer and chair workshop Prognostic Methods in Medicine, Alborg, Denmark, 1999.
Co-organizer and chair workshop Bayesian Models in Medicine, Cascais, Portugal, 2001.
Co-organizer and chair European Science Foundation Workshop on Fundamentals of Medical Informatics, Elsbeeth, The Netherlands 2002.
Organizer Symposium Decision Support in Medicine, Amsterdam, 2003.
Co-organizer and chair workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, Protaras, Cyprus, 2003.
Organization and teaching the Tutorial Evaluation of Prognostic Models in Medicine during MEDINFO, San Francisco, US, 2004.
Local organizer of the Artificial Intelligence Conference (AIME 2007), Amsterdam.
Organizer doctoral consortium during AIME 2009, Verona, Italy, 2009.
Organizer Poster Session during MEDINFO 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.
Organizer tutorial on Essentials of Data mining in Clinical Applications: Development, Evaluation, and Use during MEDINFO 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.
Organizer special session on Apllications of AI/IT systems in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled Slovenia.

Invited/Keynote speaker in international meetings

Research directions in Medical Informatics, Belfast, 1998.
Terminology systems and AI in Medicine, Stanford University, 2002.
Role of Informatics in Medicine, Charles University, Czech Republic, 2003.
Keynote speaker at Knowledge-Based services for the Public Sector-Medical Applications, Petersberg, 2004.
Keynote Speaker: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, Stanford, 2004.
Research topics in medical temporal data mining, Murcia, 2005.
Invited panel member on Server Oriented Architectures in the IDAMAP workshop, Verona, 2006.
Invited speaker, Prognostic Models in the Intensive Care, Murcia 2007.
Keynote speaker, Medical Informatics Methods and Tools for Risk Management in Health Care. Workshop on Risk Management in Health Care, Univerity of Pavia, 2007.
Invited panel member on Temporal Datamining, AMIA, San Francisco, USA, 2009.
Invited panel member on Automatic Data Analysis in Biomedicine: Applications and Challenges, MEDINFO, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.
Invited speaker, Prognostic models and decision support systems: where we are and where we ought to go. University of Haifa 2011.
Invited speaker, Prognostic methods in the ICU: the role of pattern and subgroup discovery. 10th International Conference on Complexity in Acute Illness, Bonn, Germany, 2011.

Journal Board Editorship/Membership

Associate editor of Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Board member of Methods of Information in Medicine.

Journal/CSI Publications with Impact Factor

Minne L, de Jonge E, Abu-Hanna A.
Assessing and Combining Repeated Prognosis of Physicians and Temporal Models in the Intensive Care. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2012.
Minne L, Eslami S, de Keizer NF, de Jonge E, de Rooij SE, Abu-Hanna A.
Statistical Process Control for monitoring standardized mortality ratios of a classification tree model. Methods of Information in Medicine 2012.
Schultz MJ, Harmsen RE, Korevaar JC, Abu-Hanna A, van Braam Houckgeest F, van der Sluijs JP, Spronk PE.
Adoption and Implementation of the Original Strict Glycemic Control Guideline is Feasible and Safe in Adult Critically Ill Patients. Minerva Anestesiol. 2012.
Meynaar IA, Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, van der Voort P, de Lange DW, de Keizer NF.
Blood glucose amplitude variability as predictor for mortality in surgical and medical ICU patients A multicenter cohort study. Journal of Critical Care, 2012.
Wlodzimirow K, Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, Nieuwoudt M, Chamuleau RAFM.
Systematic review: acute liver failure - one disease, more than 40 definitions. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2012.
Scheffer AC, Scholte op Reimer WJ, van Dijk N, van Munster BC, Abu-Hanna A, Levi M, de Rooij SE.
The effect of a mobile safety alarm on going outside, feeling safe, fear of falling and quality of life in community living older persons. A randomized trial. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2012.
Minne L, Eslami S, de Keizer NF, Jonge E, de Rooij SE, Abu-Hanna A.
Effect of changes over time in the performance of a customized SAPS-II model on quality of care assessment. Intensive Care Medicine, 2012 Jan;38(1):40-6.
Askari M, Wierenga PC, Eslami S, Medlock SK, de Rooij SE, Abu-Hanna A.
Studies Pertaining to the ACOVE Quality Criteria: A Systematic review. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2012 Feb;24(1):80-7.
Eslami S, de Keizer NF, Dongelmans DA, de Jonge E, Schultz MJ, Abu–Hanna A.
Effects of two levels of computerized decision support on glucose regulation in intensive care. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2012 Jan;81(1):53-60.
Wlodzimirow KA, Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, Nieuwoudt M, Chamuleau RAFM.
A systematic review on prognostic indicators of acute on chronic liver failure and their predictive value for mortality. Liver International, 2012.
Minne L, Eslami S Kuiper R, Abu-Hanna A, Dongelmans DA.
Five years of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in the Intensive Care did not change vancomycin prescription behaviour: perceived needs for decision support. Minerva Anestesiologica 2012.
Brinkman S, Abu-Hanna A, van der Veen A, de Jonge E, de Keizer NF.
A comparison of the performance of a model based on administrative data and a model based on clinical data: Effect of severity of illness on SMRs of ICUs. Critical Care Medicine, 2012 Feb;40(2):373-8.
Minne L, Eslami S, de Keizer NF, Jonge E, de Rooij SE, Abu-Hanna A.
Statistical Process Control for validating a classification tree model for predicting mortality - a novel approach towards temporal validation. Journal Biomedical Informatics, 2012 Feb;45(1):37-44.
Wlodzimirow K, Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, Nieuwoudt M, Chamuleau RAFM.
Acute liver failure – What is it? Hepatology, 2011.
Askari M, Wierenga PC, Eslami S, Medlock SK, de Rooij SE, Abu-Hanna A.
Assessing Quality of Care of Elderly patients using the ACOVE quality indicator set: A Systematic Review. PLoS ONE,2011;6(12):e28631.
Buurman B, Hoogerduijn JG, de Haan RJ, Abu-Hanna A, Lagaay AM, Verhaar HJ, Schuurmans MJ, Levi M, de Rooij SE.
Geriatric conditions in acutely hospitalized older patients: prevalence and one-year health outcomes. PLOS ONE 6(11), 2011, p.e26951.
Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, Schultz MJ, de Jonge E, de Keizer NF.
Evaluation of consulting and critiquing decision support systems: Effect on adherence to a lower tidal volume mechanical ventilation strategy. Journal of Critical Care, 2011.
Eslami S, de Keizer N, de Jonge E, Dongelmans D, Schultz MJ, Abu-Hanna A.
Lessons learned from implementing and Evaluating Computerized Decision Support Systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6747 (AIME), 2011.
Minne L, de Jonge E, Abu-Hanna A.
Repeated Prognosis in the Intensive Care: How well do physicians and temporal models perform? Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6747 (AIME), 2011.
Medlock S, Ravelli ACJ, Tamminga P, Mol BW, Abu-Hanna A.
Prediction of mortality in very premature infants: a systematic review of prediction models. PLOS ONE 6(9), 2011, p.e23441.
Medlock S, Eslami S, Askari M, Dongelmans DA, Abu-Hanna A.
Improved communication in post-ICU care by improving writing of ICU discharge letters: a longitudinal before-after study. BMJ Quality & Safety, 20(11), 2011, p.967‑973.
Minne L, Ludikhuize J, de Jonge E, de Rooij S, Abu-Hanna, A.
Prognostic Models for Predicting Mortality in elderly ICU Patients. A systematic review. Intensive Care Medicine, 37(8), 2011, p.1258‑1268.
Schaaf JM, Mol BWJ, Abu-Hanna A, Ravelli ACJ.
Trends in preterm birth: Singleton and multiple pregnancies in The Netherlands, 2000-2007. BJOG-International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 118(10), 2011, p.1196‑1204.
Medlock S, Opondo D, Eslami S, Askari M, Wierenga P, de Rooij SE, Abu-Hanna A.
LERM (Logical Elements Rule Method): A method for assessing and formalizing clinical rules for decision support. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80(4), 2011, p.286‑295.
Ravelli ACJ, Jager KJ, de Groot MH, Erwich JJHM, Rijninks‑van Driel GC, Tromp M, Eskes M, Abu‑Hanna A, Mol BWJ.
Travel Time From Home to Hospital and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Women at Term in the Netherlands (editorial comment). OBSTETRICAL & GYNECOLOGICAL SURVEY 66(7), 2011, p.396‑398.
Eslami S, Taherzadeh Z, Schultz, MJ, Abu-Hanna A.
Glucose variability measures and their effect on mortality - A systematic review. Intensive Care Medicine, 37(4), 2011, p.583‑593.
Minne L, Ludikhuize J, de Rooij S, Abu-Hanna, A.
Characterizing Predictive Models of Mortality for Older Adults and Their Validation for Use in Clinical Practice. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 59(6), 2011, p.1110‑1115.
Ravelli ACJ, Jager KJ, de Groot MH, Erwich JJHM, Rijninks-van Driel GC, Tromp M, Eskes M, Abu-Hanna A, Mol BWJ.
Travel time from home to hospital and adverse perinatal outcomes in women at term in the Netherlands. BJOG-International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2011 Mar;118(4):457-65.
Harmsen R, Spronk P, Schultz M, Abu-Hanna A.
May frequency of blood glucose measurement be blurring the association between MAG and mortality? Crit Care Med. 2011 Jan;39(1):224.
Brinkman S, Bakhshi-Raiez F, Abu-Hanna A, de Jonge E, Bosman RJ, Peelen L, de Keizer NF.
External validation of APACHE IV in Dutch intensive care units and comparison with APACHE II and SAPS II. Journal of Critical Care, 26(1), 2011, p.105.e11‑105.e18.
Abu-Hanna A, Nannings B, Dongelmans D, Hasman A.
PRIM versus CART in Subgroup Discovery: when Patience is Harmful. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2010.
Kuijsten H, Brinkman S, Meynaar I, Spronk P, van der Spoel J, Bosman R, de Keizer N, Abu-Hanna A, de Lange D.
Hospital mortality is associated with admission time to ICUs. Intensive Care Med. 2010.
Toma T, Bosman RJ, Siebes A, Peek N, Abu-Hanna A.
Learning Predictive Models that use Pattern Discovery - A Bootstrap Evaluative Approach Applied in Organ Functioning Sequences. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2010.
Eslami S and Abu-Hanna A.
Acceptance of drug-drug interaction alerts and alert system design. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2010.
Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, de Keizer NF, Bosman RJ, Spronk P, Schultz MJ.
Implementing Glucose Control in Intensive Care - A Multicenter trial Using Statistical Process Control. Intensive Care Med. 2010.
Peelen L, de Keizer NF, Jonge ED, Bosman R, Abu-Hanna A, Peek N.
Using hierarchical dynamic Bayesian networks to investigate dynamics of organ failure in patients in the Intensive Care Unit. J Biomed Inform. 2010.
Eslami S, de Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A, de Jonge E, Schultz MJ.
Effect of a clinical decision support system on adherence to a lower tidal volume mechanical ventilation strategy. J Crit Care. 2009 Dec;24(4):523-529.
Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, de Jonge E, de Keizer NF.
Tight glycemic control and computerized decision-support systems: a systematic review. Intensive Care Med. 2009 Sep;35(9):1505-1517.
Bellazzi R, Abu-Hanna A.
Data mining technologies for Blood Glucose and Diabetes Management. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 2009.
Combi, C, Shahar Y, Abu-Hanna, A.
Editoral, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2009 LNAI 5651 , pp. V-VII.
Patel VL, Shortliffe EH, Stefanelli M, Szolovits P, Berthold MR, Bellazzi R, Abu-Hanna A.
The coming of age of artificial intelligence in medicine. Artif Intell Med. 2009 May ;46(1):5-17.
Bellazzi R, Abu-Hanna A.
Artificial intelligence in medicine AIME'07. Artif Intell Med. 2009 May ;46(1):1-3.
Nannings B, Bosman RJ, Abu-Hanna A.
A subgroup discovery approach for scrutinizing blood glucose management guidelines by the identification of hyperglycemia determinants in ICU patients. Methods Inf Med. 2008;47(6):480-8.
Minne L, Abu-Hanna A, de Jonge E.
Evaluation of SOFA-based models for predicting mortality in the ICU: A systematic review. Critical Care 2008, 12:R161.
Eslami S, de Keizer NF, de Jonge E, Schultz MJ, Abu-Hanna A.
A systematic review on quality indicators for tight glycaemic control in critically ill patients: need for an unambiguous indicator reference subset. Critical Care 2008, 12:R139
Buurman BM, van Munster, BC, Korevaar JC, Abu-Hanna, A, Levi M, De Rooij SE.
Prognostication in acutely admitted older patients by nurses and physicians (2008) Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23 (11), pp. 1883-1889.
Schultz MJ, Spronk PE, Abu-Hanna A, Afessa B, Gajic O.
Evidence-lost to tight glycemic control? (2008) Critical Care, 12 (5), art. no. 430.
Toma T, Abu-Hanna A, Bosman RJ.
Discovery and integration of univariate patterns from daily individual organ-failure scores for intensive care mortality prediction. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2008, 43 (1), pp. 47-60.
Nannings B , Abu-Hanna A , de Jonge E.
Applying PRIM (Patient Rule Induction Method) and logistic regression for selecting high-risk subgroups in very elderly ICU patients. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2008, 77 (4), pp. 272-279.
Eslami S, de Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A.
The impact of computerized physician medication order entry in hospitalized patients-A systematic review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2008, 77 (6), pp. 365-376.
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A.
Auditing Description-Logic-based Medical Terminological Systems by Detecting Equivalent Concept Definitions. Int.J of Medical Informatics, 77 [5] , 336-345. 2008.
de Rooij S, Abu-Hanna A, Levi M, and de Jonge E.
Identication of high- risk subgroups in very elderly intensive care unit patients. Crit Care. 2007 Mar 8;11(2):R33
Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, and de Keizer NF.
Evaluation of Outpatient Computerized Physician Order Entry systems - A systematic review. Journal Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) 2007;14(4):400-406.
Toma T, Abu-Hanna A, Bosman R-J.
Discovery and integration of organ-failure episodes in mortality prediction. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2007, Volume 4594 p. 97-106.
Prins A and Abu-Hanna A.
Requirements analysis of information services on a primary care physician's website. Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) 2007;46(6):629-635.
Toma T, Abu-Hanna A, and Bosman RJ.
Discovery and inclusion of SOFA score episodes in mortality prediction. j biomed inform 2007;40(6):649-660.
Nannings B, Abu-Hanna A.
Decision Support Telemedicine Systems: Conceptual Model and Reusable Templates. Telemedicine and e-Health Volume 12, Issue 6, 2006 Pages 644-654.
Cornet R, de Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A.
A Framework for Characterizing Terminological Systems. Methods Inf Med 2006;45(3):253-266. PDF
Eslami S, Abu-Hanna A, de Keizer NF, de Jonge E.
Errors associated with applying decision support by suggesting default doses for aminoglycosides. Drug Safety. 2006;29(9):803-9.
Nannings B, Abu-Hanna A.
Characterizing Decision Support Telemedicine Systems. Methods of Information in Medicine, Methods Inf Med 2006; 45: 523-7.
de Rooij SE, Govers A, Korevaar JC, Abu-Hanna A, Levi M, de Jonge E.
Short-term and long-term mortality in very elderly patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med. 2006 Jul;32(7):1039-44.
Abu-Hanna A, Cornet R, Keizer NF, Crubezy M, Tu S.
Protege as a vehicle for Developing Medical Terminological Systems. Int Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2005; 62:639-63. PDF
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A.
Description logic-based methods for auditing frame-based medical terminological systems, (2005) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 34 3, Pages 201-217. PDF
de Rooij SEJA, Abu-Hanna A, Levi M, de Jonge E.
Factors that predict outcome of intensive care treatment in very elderly patients: a review. Crit Care. 2005 Aug;9(4):R307-14. PDF
Jaspers MW, Fockens P, Ravesloot JH, Limburg M, Abu-Hanna A.
Fifteen years medical information sciences: the Amsterdam curriculum. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 73 (2004) pp. 465-477.
Lucas PJF, van der Gaag L, Abu-Hanna A.
Bayesian Networks in Biomedicine and Health-Care. Special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (P. J. F Lucas, L van der Gaag and A. Abu-Hanna, editors), 30:201-214, 2004. PDF
Vriend JWJ, Colkesen BE, Van der Velde ET, Abu-Hanna A, Mulder BJM.
Clinical registries: what makes it a success... or failure? Source: European Heart Journal 25: 622-623 Suppl. S, AUG-SEP 2004.
Abu-Hanna A, Keizer NF.
Integrating Classification Trees with Local Logistic Regression in Intensive Care Prognosis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2003 Sep-Oct;29(1-2):5-23. Selected for the Year Book Medical Informatics 2005. PDF
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A.
Using Description Logics for Managing Medical Terminologies. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (AIME) 2780:61-70, 2003.
Nannings B, Abu-Hanna A, Bosman, RJ.
Data-driven analysis of blood glucose management effectiveness. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (AIME) 3581, Pages 53-57, 2005.
Toma T, Abu-Hanna A, Bosman RJ.
Predicting mortality in the intensive care using episodes, (2005) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3561 PART I, Pages 447-458.
Abu-Hanna A, Lucas PJF.
Prognostic Models in Medicine AI and Statistical Approaches, (Abu-Hanna A. and Lucas PJF, eds.). Special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine 2001, 40:1--5. PDF
de Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A.
Framework for understanding Terminological Systems (II): Experience with Conceptual and Formal Representation of Structure. Methods of Information in Medicine, 39:22-29, 2000. Selected for Yearbook on Medical Informatics 2001. PDF
Abu-Hanna A, de Keizer NF.
A Classification-Tree Hybrid Method for Studying Prognostic Models in Intensive Care. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2001 (AIME), 99--108.
de Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A, Zwetsloot JHM.
Understanding Terminological Systems (I): terminology and typology, Methods of information in Medicine 39:16-21, 2000. PDF
Lucas PJF, Abu-Hanna A.
Prognostic Methods in Medicine. Special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine on Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medicine (P. J. F Lucas and A. Abu-Hanna, editors), 15:105-119, 1999. PDF
Abu-Hanna A.
Book Review "Machine Learning" Tom M. Mitchell. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 1999, Pages 201-204. PDF
de Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A, Cornet R, et al.
Analysis and design of an ontology for intensive care diagnoses. Method Inform Med 38: (2) 102-112 JUN 1999. PDF
van Heijst G, Falasconi S, Abu-Hanna A, Schreiber ATh, Stefanelli M.
A case study in ontology library construction. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 7:227--255, 1995. PDF
Abu-Hanna A, Jansweijer WNH, Benjamins VR, Wielinga BJ.
Functional models in perspective: Their characteristics and integration in multiple model-based diagnosis. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 8(2):219--237, 1994.
Abu-Hanna A, Jansweijer WNH.
Modeling application domain knowledge using explicit conceptualization. IEEE-Expert, 9(5):53--64, December 1994. PDF
Abu-Hanna A, Benjamins VR, Jansweijer WNH.
Device understanding and modeling for diagnosis. IEEE-Expert, 6(2):26--32, April 1991. PDF
Abu-Hanna A, Gold YI.
Adaptive, multilevel diagnosis and modeling of dynamic systems. International Journal on Expert Systems, Research and Applications, 3(1):1--30, 1990.
Abu-Hanna A, Gold YI.
Dynamic system representation in model based diagnosis. Computational Intelligence, 1988. Elsevier Publishers. pp. 125-133.

Other Selected peer-reviewed publications

Ravelli AC, Steegers EA, Rijninks-van Driel GC, Abu-Hanna A, Eskes M, Verhoeff AP, Buitendijk SE, Stronks K, van der Post JA. Differences in perinatal mortality between districts of Amsterdam. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011;155:A3130.
Ravelli AC, Rijninks-van Driel GC, Erwich JJ, Mol BW, Brouwers HA, Abu Hanna A, Eskes M. Differences between Dutch provinces in perinatal mortality and travel time to hospital. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011;155:A2689.
Abu-Hanna A, Eslami S, Schultz M, de Jonge E, Keizer N. The importance of feedback usage analysis and statistical control charts. MEDINFO 2010.
Saeid Eslami, Nicolette de Keizer, Marcus Schultz, Evert de Jonge, Ameen Abu-Hanna. Pharmacotherapy and Patient Safety in Intensive Care Impact of Guideline-Based Decision Support. Jaarboek VMBI 2009, p 15-19.
Peek N, Goud R, and Abu-Hanna A. Application of statistical process control methods to monitor guideline adherence: a case study. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 ;581-5.
Richard Westerhof, Raynold Bruessing, Marjan Huisman, Sophia de Rooij, Ameen Abu-Hanna. Procesanalyse rondom valpreventie – de rol van ICT. Jaarboek VMBI 2008, ISSN 1388 4883, p 28-33 (In Dutch).
Toma T, Abu-Hanna A, Bosman R-J. Discovery and Integration of Organ-Failure Episodes in Mortality Prediction. BNAIC 2007.
Toma T, Abu-Hanna A, Bosman R-J. Temporal Patterns: discovery and use in predictive models. Case study in the Intensive Care. Proceedings BENELEARN 2007.
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A Two Description-Logic-Based Methods for Auditing Medical Ontologies In: Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC) Namur, Belgium, October 5-6 2006, 367-368.
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A Two Description-Logic-Based Methods for Auditing Medical Ontologies In: Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC) Namur, Belgium, October 5-6 2006, 367-368.
Toma, T., Abu-Hanna, A., Bosman, RJ. In: Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC) Namur, Belgium, October 5-6 2006, 427-428.
Rooij, S.E.J.A. de, Abu-Hanna, A., Levi, M. en Jonge, E. de. Opname van oudere patienten op de Intensive Care Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2005 Oct 1;149(40):2215-20. Review. (In Dutch)
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A Two DL-based Methods for Auditing Medical Terminological Systems In: Proceedings of the 2005 AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington DC:166-70. (Distinguished paper award).
Abu-Hanna A, Cornet R, De Keizer N The Specification of a Frame-based Medical Terminological System in Protege In: Fieschi M, Coiera E, Li J, editors. Medinfo; 2004; San Francisco: IOS Press; 2004. p. 317-21
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A. Using Non-Primitive Concept Definitions for Improving DL-based Knowledge Bases In: Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2004), Whistler, BC, Canada, June 6-8, 2004:138-147.
S.E.J.A. De Rooij, E. de Jonge, A. Abu-Hanna, M.M. Levi. Survival of Very Elderly Critically Ill Patients: A Prognostic Model. J Nutrition, Health and Aging. (First prize for oral communication), 2003.
Abu-Hanna A, Cornet R. On the Correspondence between Protege and Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Terminological Systems Published in: Proceedings of the 6th Protege Workshop, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2003.
S.E.J.A. De Rooij, E. de Jonge, A. Abu-Hanna. De Overleving van Zeer Oude Patienten op de Intensive Care: De Ontwikkeling van een Prognostich Model. Geriatriedagen (february 2003), internisten dagen (May 2003). (In Dutch)
A. Abu-Hanna, J. Hunter. Intelligent data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, and Knowledge Based Information Management in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. Working notes IDAMAP and KBIM-AIC 2003, pages 1-2.
Abu-Hanna A. Prognosis-based Decision Support in Medicine. A Devide and Concquer Approach. In: Bohanec M, Kavsek B, Lavrac N, Mladenic D, editors. ECML/PKDD Workshop Proceedings on Integration and Collaboration Aspects of Data Mining, Decision Support and Meta Learning (2002): 1-12.
Peelen LM, Peek N, Abu-Hanna A. Acquiring and using temporal knowledge in medicine: an application in chronic pulmonary disease. In: C. Dousson, F Hoppner, and R. Quinou, Knowledge Discovery from temporal and spatial data. Workshop in conjunction with ECAI 2002, Lyon (2002): 44-50.
Peelen LM, Peek N, Abu-Hanna A. Case-based prognosis in temporal domains: a case study in chronic pulmonary disease. In : P. Lucas, L. Asker, and S. Miksch, Intelligent data analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-02). Workshop in conjunction with ECAI 2002, Lyon (2002): 49-54.
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A. Evaluation of a frame-based Ontology. A formalization-oriented Approach In: G. Surján , R. Engelbrecht and P. McNair, eds. Proceedings of MIE2002, Budapest (2002), Studies in Health Technology & Information; 2002;90:488-93.
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna. Usability of Expressive Description Logics - A Case Study in UMLS In: Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, editor. Proceedings of the 2002 AMIA Annual Symposium, San Antonio (2002): 180-4.
Prins H, Cornet R, Van den Berg FM, Van der Togt R, Abu-Hanna A. Software Engineering in Medical Informatics: the academic hospital as learning environment In: G. Surján , R. Engelbrecht and P. McNair, eds. Proceedings of MIE2002, Budapest (2002), Studies in Health Technology & Information; 2002;90:627-31.
Nannings B, Abu-Hanna A, Limburg M. Telemedicine in Nederland. Informatie en Zorg 2002; 3:56-61. (In Dutch)
Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A, Blohm A. An Architecture for Reasoning with Terminological Systems In: Proceedings of the AMIA 2001 symposium, Washington;2001: 882.
Ameen Abu-Hanna and Nicolette de Keizer. A Method for the Evaluation of Prognostic Models in Intensive Care (abstract). BNAIC 2001. pp. 11-12.
Ameen Abu-Hanna. De Opleiding Medische Informatiekunde bij het AMC-Universiteit van Amsterdam. Informatie en Zorg 30(3):78-84, 2001. (In Dutch)
Ronald Cornet, Ameen Abu-Hanna. Op Terminologie Gebaseerde Diagnoseregistratie in het EPD; Intensive Care PDMS als Case Study. Proceedings Medische Informatica Conferentie (MIC), november 2001. (In Dutch)
Barry Nannings, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Nicolette de Keizer. Rol van Diagnose in Intensive Care Prognose. Proceedings Medische Informatica Conferentie (MIC), november 2001. (In Dutch)
Linda Peelen, Niels Peek, Reindert van Steenwijk, Ameen Abu-Hanna. Een Methode voor het Toepassen van Case-Based Reasoning bij Temporele Gegevens; Beslissingsondersteuning bij de Prognose van IPF Patienten. Proceedings Medische Informatica Conferentie (MIC), november 2001. (In Dutch)
Hilco Prins, Ronald Cornet, Frank van den Berg, Remko van der Togt, and Ameen Abu-Hanna. Software Engineering in de Studie Medische Informatiekunde: de kliniek als leeromgeving. Proceedings Medische Informatica Conferentie (MIC), november 2001. (In Dutch)
Hilco Prins, Hugo Roomans, and Ameen Abu-Hanna. Formaliseren van Meningitis Richtlijn in ASBRU. Proceedings Medische Informatica Conferentie (MIC), november 2001. (In Dutch)
De Keizer NF, Abu-Hanna A, Cornet R. Evaluation of DICE, a terminological system for intensive care In: Proceedings of MIE2000, Studies in Health Technology & Information; 2000;77:208-12.
De Keizer NF, Cornet R, Abu-Hanna A, Zwetsloot-Schonk JHM, Stoutenbeek CP. An Intensive Care diagnosis classification supporting the care process and quality assurance CD-ROM, MedInfo'98, Seoul 1998.
P. J. F. Lucas and A. Abu-Hanna. Prognostic Methods in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Analytic Approaches, Working notes of the AIMDM 1999 workshop on Prognostic models (A. Abu-Hanna and P. J. F Lucas, editors), 11-13, 1999.
A. Abu-Hanna. and S. S. Anand. A Solution to the Benelearn competition using metaclassification with Naïve Bayesian Classifier and Logistic Regression. Working notes of the Benelaux Machine Learning Competition, 1999. First prize winner for the best explanatory model. (First prize winner for the best explanatory model).
A. Abu-Hanna and P. J. F. Lucas. Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medicine. In Proceedings of Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, pages: 312-317, Nabeul-Hammamet, Tunis, 1998.
A. Abu-Hanna. Model-Based Systems and Engineering. In Proceedings of Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, pages: 321--325, Lille, France, 1996.
R. Benjamins, K. De Koning, and A. Abu-Hanna. Technology is not Enough: Applying Model-Based Diagnosis at Xerox. Een bespreking van het colloquium van Johan de Kleer. In NVKI-Nieuwsbrief (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kunstmatige Intelligentie), paginas: 89--90, 1996. (In Dutch)
A. Th. Schreiber, G. van Heijst, A. Abu-Hanna, and W. Post. Medische kennistechnologie: van theorie naar praktijk. In B. Franken, editor, em Informatietechnologie werkt in de zorg!, paginas: 85--91, Rijswijk, 15 maart 1994. Ministerie van WVC. VDB 94-062. (In Dutch)
W. N. H. Jansweijer, A. Abu-Hanna, and V. R. Benjamins. Configuration of diagnostic applications. In Proceedings of the Tooldiag '93: Conference on Fault Diagnosis, pages 531--540, Toulouse, France, 1993.
A. Abu-Hanna, W. N. H. Jansweijer, and V. R. Benjamins. Functional models in perspective: Their characteristics and integration in multiple model based diagnosis. In Amruth N. Kumar, editor, Reasoning about Function: Working notes, AAAI-'93 workshop, pages 1--8, Washington D. C., 1993.
A. Abu-Hanna, V. R. Benjamins, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Functional models in diagnostic reasoning. In Proceedings of The Eleventh International Workshop on Expert Systems and Their Applications, General Conference on Second Generation Expert Systems, pages 243--256, Avignon, May 1991. EC2.
A. Abu-Hanna, V. R. Benjamins, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Integrating multiple model types in model based diagnosis. In D. E. Grierson, G. Rzevski, and R. A. Adey, editors, Proceedings of Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VII, pages 693--708, Southampton Boston, 1992. Computational Mechanics Publications.
A. Abu-Hanna, V. R. Benjamins, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Integrating multiple model types in model based diagnosis. In G. Friedrich and F. Lackinger, editors, Proceedings of ECAI-workshop on Model Based Reasoning, pages 22--27, Vienna, 1992. Vienna University.
A. Abu-Hanna, V. R. Benjamins, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Integrating multiple model types in model based diagnosis. In E. Scarl, editor, em Proceedings of DX-92 The Third International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis., pages 179--184, Rosario, Washington, 1992. Boeing Computer Services.
A. Abu-Hanna, W. N. H. Jansweijer, and V. R. Benjamins. Modelgebaseerde diagnose op basis van meervoudige apparaatmodellen. In H. de Swaan Arons, H. Koppelaar, and E. J. H. Kerckhoffs, editors, em Proceedings NAIC-92, pages 323--334, Delft, 1992. Delftse Universitaire Pers. (In Dutch)
V. R. Benjamins, A. Abu-Hanna, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Dynamic method selection in diagnostic reasoning. In J. C. Rault, editor, Proceedings of the 12th Int. conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Natural Language, pages 153--164, Avignon, 1992. EC2.
V. R. Benjamins, A. Abu-Hanna, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Criteria for dynamic method selection in diagnostic reasoning. In W. W. Koczkodaj, P. E. Lauer, and A. A. Toptsis, editors, Proceedings ICCI'92 4th International Conference on Computing and Information, pages 198--201, Sudbury, 1992. ICCI Press. Also in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press pages 224--227.
V. R. Benjamins, A. Abu-Hanna, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Suitability criteria for model based diagnostic methods. In G. Friedrich and F. Lackinger, editors, Proceedings of the ECAI-workshop on Model Based Reasoning, pages 45--50, Vienna, 1992. Vienna University.
V. R. Benjamins, W. N. H. Jansweijer, and A. Abu-Hanna. Criteria voor het dynamisch selecteren van probleemoplossingsmethoden in diagnose. In H. de Swaan Arons, H. Koppelaar, and E. J. H. Kerckhoffs, editors, em Proceedings NAIC-92, pages 335--344, Delft, 1992. Delftse Universitaire Pers. (In Dutch)
V. R. Benjamins, W. N. H. Jansweijer, and A. Abu-Hanna. Integrating problem solving methods into KADS. In C. Bauer and W. Karbach, editors, Interpretation Models for KADS - Proceedings 2nd KADS User Meeting (KUM'92), pages 365--382, Munich, 1992. GMD Studie 212, Sankt Augustin: Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD).
A. Abu-Hanna, V. R. Benjamins, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Integrating functional models in model based diagnosis. SPQR - Workshop on Multiple Models, 1991.
A. Abu-Hanna, V. R. Benjamins, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Integrating functional models in model based diagnosis. In Workshop notes from the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-91), Model-Based Reasoning, Anaheim, California, 1991.
V. R. Benjamins, A. Abu-Hanna, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Models in model based diagnosis: classification and construction. In Brian Mayoh, editor, Proceedings Scandinavian Conference on AI, pages 54--61. University of Roskilde, Denmark, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1991.
V. R. Benjamins, A. Abu-Hanna, and W. N. H. Jansweijer. Integratie van functionele modellen in model-gebaseerde diagnose. In J. Treur, editor, Proceedings NAIC '91, pages 127--134. SIG, Amsterdam, 1991. (In Dutch)
A. Abu-Hanna and V. R. Benjamins. Knowledge classification of models in model based diagnosis. The Tenth International Workshop on Expert Systems and Their Applications, General Conference on Second Generation Expert Systems, Avignon, pages 97--110, 1990.
V. R. Benjamins, W. N. H. Jansweijer, and A. Abu-Hanna. Abstrakte modellen voor model-gebaseerde diagnose. Proceedings NAIC '90-conference, pages 199--208, 1990. (In Dutch)
A. Abu-Hanna and V. R. Benjamins. The nature of models in model based diagnosis. Proceedings of the Sixth Israeli Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, pages 245--256, 1989.
A. Abu-Hanna. Modeling and diagnosis of behaviorally complex devices. In Proceedings of Model Based Diagnosis International Workshop, Paris, 1989.
V. R. Benjamins and A. Abu-Hanna. Typen kennis en diagnostische sub-taken in model-gebaseerde diagnose. Proceedings AI-toepassingen-89, pages 69--76, 1989. (In Dutch)
A. Abu-Hanna and Y.I. Gold. An Integrated Deep-Shallow Expert System for Multi-level Diagnosis of Dynamic Systems, pages 75--94. Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton Boston, 1988.
A. Abu-Hanna and Y.I. Gold. Dynamic system representation in model based diagnosis. Computational Intelligence, 1988.