DocumentCode
1330375
Title
Goals and functions of the human body: an MFM model for fault diagnosis
Author
Larsson, Jan Eric ; Hayes-Roth, Barbara ; Gaba, David M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Lund Inst. of Technol., Sweden
Volume
27
Issue
6
fYear
1997
fDate
11/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
758
Lastpage
765
Abstract
Describes the use of explicit models of goals and functions for monitoring and diagnosis of intensive-care patients. The method is based on multilevel flow models (MFM) and used in the Guardian system. It provides this system with alarm analysis, fault diagnosis, and automatic generation of explanations. Advantages include a relatively easy knowledge engineering effort and good properties for use in a system with hard real time deadlines. The results of some experiments are also reported
Keywords
biomedical equipment; knowledge acquisition; patient care; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; physiological models; Guardian system; alarm analysis; diagnosis; fault diagnosis; human body; intensive-care patients; monitoring; multilevel flow models; real time deadlines; Biological system modeling; Blood; Fault diagnosis; Humans; Knowledge engineering; Lungs; Magnetic force microscopy; Medical treatment; Patient monitoring; Space technology;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1083-4427
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/3468.634639
Filename
634639
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