1. Esprit INCO-Copernicus CEC DG III project n° 977069 EMGnet Kick Off meeting INRIA Rhône-Alpes December 17-19 1998

2. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Outline of the talk Who we are ? Where do we start from ? Where are we going ? Agenda of the meeting

3. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Who we are ? 15 partners from 2 research communities –Medical –Information technology 10 countries

4. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Where do we start from ? Research network –ESTEEM (AIM European project) Bilateral collaborations –ICCTI / INRIA-RA + UJF –IIT-BAS / INRIA-RA + UJF

5. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 ESTEEM (92-95) European Standardized Telematic Tools to Evaluate EMG knowledge based systems and Methods European AIM project Standardization of EMG practice Signal analysis Computer Aided diagnosis Case tool

6. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 ICCTI / INRIA-RA + UJF (98-99) Sharing resources for EMG diagnosis Constraint Programming for EMG diagnosis Use of Web based tools to record medical cases

7. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 IIT-BAS / INRIA-RA + UJF (96-97) Definition of the EMGnet proposal to establish contacts with new partners from Eastern and Central Europe to merge interest and competence of the different partners

8. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Where are we going ? European Research Network for Intelligent Support of EMG Studies

9. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Where are we going ? European Research Network for Intelligent Support of EMG Studies –merge of the existing collaborations ESTEEM, ICCTI/INRIA+UJF, IIT-BAS/INRIA+UJF

10. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Where are we going ? European Research Network for Intelligent Support of EMG Studies –knowledge based tools for : computer aided diagnosis recording and exchanging of medical cases –distribution of the tools through computer networks

11. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Where are we going ? European Research Network for Intelligent Support of EMG Studies –establishing common knowledge and practice in EMG diagnosis –continuation of the EMG standardization process

12. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Framework of the EMGnet Program INCO COPERNICUS Technical area: Research and Technology Development Research topic: Information Technologies Activity: Research Network

13. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Type of the support: Accompanying measures Includes: –workshops and seminars –conferences –partnering events Objectives: –dissemination of the project results –demonstration of the results

14. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 EMGnet WORKPLAN

15. Inria Rhône-AlpesKick off meeting - December 98 Agenda of the meeting Saturday 19 Dec.Friday 18 Dec.Thursday 17 Dec. 2x2 tutorial on the case tool Case tool Modelling of EMG reasoning Concensus exercices Advanced IT methods Presentation of partners Presentation of ESTEEM EMGnet IT objectives Discussion Medical IT WEB tools Agenda for next 6 months Final conclusion