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In addition, there are certain physiological variables that cannot be measured noninvasively, but are critical indicators of a patient's state of health. One such example in cardiology is cardiac output - the mean flow rate of blood from the heart. In this thesis, we explore probabilistic networks as a method for integrating different types of clinical data into a single model, and as a vehicle for summarizing population statistics from medical databases. These networks can then be used to estimate unobservable variables of interest. We propose and test several networks of varying complexity on both a set of experimental porcine data, and a set of real ICU patient data. We find that continuous estimation of cardiac output is possible using probabilistic networks, and that the errors produced are comparable to those obtained from deterministic methods that employ the same in:Formation. 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