This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine in Europe AIME 2009 held in Verona Italy in July 2009. The 24
revised long papers and 36 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were
carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on agent-based systems temporal data mining machine learning and knowledge discovery
text mining natural language processing and generation ontologies decision support systems
applications of AI-based image processing techniques protocols and guidelines as well as
workflow systems.
