Educational applications of a knowledge-based expert system for medical decision making in hepatology.
Ital J Gastroenterol
; 22(2): 97-104, 1990 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-2131940
ABSTRACT
An expert system for medical decision making in hepatology has been developed with the aim of assisting medical education. The knowledge representation is based on different slots respectively concerned with structural and protypical description, and system control. Reasoning is performed at two levels considering in sequence syndromes and diseases. Explanations are available at any time during the reasoning process. Educational facilities are provided by using the help sections of the system, which include definitions and descriptions of finding in both health and disease, as well as summaries defining essential clinical and pathophysiological features of all diagnostic hypotheses. The system provides the following educational functions support to medical decision making, differential diagnosis, knowledge-base consultation, system description and clinical simulation. A good correspondence was found between the conclusions and suggestions provided by the system and those of the attending physicians. The program, which was written in PROLOG and developed under MS-DOS Operating System, runs on IBM-compatible personal computers equipped with hard-disk and mouse.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Tomada de Decisões Assistida por Computador
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Sistemas Inteligentes
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Educação Médica
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Gastroenterologia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ital J Gastroenterol
Ano de publicação:
1990
Tipo de documento:
Article