Title :
Clinical decision making based on expert knowledge relational rules: an information-theoretical approach
Author_Institution :
Med. Comput. Lab., Med. Center of Postgraduate Educ., Warsaw
Abstract :
A method for relational evaluation of clinical manifestations and diagnostic tests, aimed at putting them in order according to their clinical significance as assessed on the basis of expert knowledge, has been proposed. The knowledge, acquired by means of the ELSA method, has been processed and used to aid clinical decision-making in gynecology and obstetrics. The problem setting and the issue of medical knowledge representation are discussed. An example diagnostic problem is considered
Keywords :
expert systems; medical diagnostic computing; ELSA method; clinical decision-making; clinical manifestations; clinical significance; diagnostic tests; expert knowledge relational rules; gynecology; information-theoretical approach; medical expert system; medical knowledge representation; obstetrics; Abortion; DH-HEMTs; Decision making; Decision support systems; Hemorrhaging; Laboratories; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical tests; Probability distribution; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96465
