Title :
Design problems encountered in the development of a medical expert system
Author_Institution :
Deakin Univ., Burwood, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
The author describes design problems encountered in the development of DOC (diagnosis of cardiac defects), a medical expert system developed as a training tool for pediatric cardiologists at the Royal Children´s Hospital in Melbourne. The major objective of DOC is to assist trainees in the diagnosis of congenital heart defects in neonates. The author outlines the specifications and guidelines for the system, describes the design problems which were confronted, and describes the features of the system design which were developed to solve those difficulties
Keywords :
cardiology; computer aided instruction; expert systems; medical diagnostic computing; training; DOC; Melbourne; Royal Children´s Hospital; congenital heart defects diagnosis; medical expert system; pediatric cardiologists; system design; training tool; Australia; Birth disorders; Cardiology; Guidelines; Heart; Hospitals; Management information systems; Management training; Medical expert systems; Pediatrics;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, 1993. Proceedings., First New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dunedin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4260-2
DOI :
10.1109/ANNES.1993.323035
