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Fig. 7. CBR Health Sciences evolution of the number of papers per year

The number of papers by year has seen a rapid increase after 2003 - corre-
sponding to the first Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences (see Figure 6).

Domains. The 117 papers cover 41 domains all together. Although the do-
mains of application all belong to the Health Sciences, some domains are more
represented than the other ones. The most represented domain is medicine with
26 papers as a whole, which corresponds to either survey papers, or general
frameworks and concepts applicable to any health sciences domains. Close sec-
ond comes oncology (24 papers), then further come stress medicine (13 papers),
transplantation (8 papers), diabetology (7 papers), fungi detection (6 papers),
breast cancer (6 papers), nephrology (6 papers), genomics (5 papers), and infec-
tious diseases (4 papers). All the other domains count less than 4 papers. Figure
8 shows the distribution of these domains. It is interesting to note in particular
that cancer, being a very prominent disease, is studied by several CBR in the
Health Sciences teams in the world.

Purpose. Among the 24 purposes listed for these papers, 30 papers propose
treatments / therapies, 23 papers refer globally to decision support, 21 papers