The EKG CHALLENGER revisited

Author

Ananthraman, S.K. ; Reisman, S.S. ; Friedman, K.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

9-12 Nov 1989

Firstpage

1959

Abstract

A method of construction and implementation of an intelligent electrocardiogram tutoring package, EKG CHALLENGER, meant for use in medical schools to teach medical students, how to diagnose electrocardiograms, is presented. A rule-based expert system written in Prolog is a key feature of EKG CHALLENGER. It has the capability to diagnose 43 cardiac arrhythmias, which cover the entire spectrum of cardiac ailments encountered under emergency medical conditions. The expert system is used to verify the diagnosis of the user. It can also be used as a stand-alone unit, either as a learning tool or as for performing a preliminary diagnosis

Keywords

computer aided instruction; electrocardiography; expert systems; medical diagnostic computing; patient diagnosis; EKG CHALLENGER; Prolog; cardiac ailments; cardiac arrhythmias diagnosis; emergency medical conditions; intelligent electrocardiogram tutoring package; learning tool; medical schools; medical students; preliminary diagnosis; rule-based expert system; stand-alone unit; Computational modeling; Computer displays; Databases; Diagnostic expert systems; Educational institutions; Heart; Medical diagnostic imaging; Packaging; Physiology; Strips;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96544

Filename

96544