Computer-Assisted Medical Decision Making

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Rule-Based Systems

   1. Production Rules as a Representation for a Knowledge-Based Consultation Program

      • Randall Davis, Bruce Buchanan, Edward Shortliffe

      Pages 3-37

   2. Problems in the Design of Knowledge Bases for Medical Consultation

      • Casimir A. Kulikowski

      Pages 38-48

   3. A Production Rule System for Neurological Localization

      • James A. Reggia

      Pages 49-62

   4. Rule-Based Drug Prescribing Review: An Operational System

      • Stuart M. Speedie, Francis B. Palumbo, David A. Knapp, Robert Beardsley

      Pages 63-72

   5. A Heuristic Approach to Risk Analysis in Computer-Assisted Medical Management

      • Perry L. Miller

      Pages 73-81

3. Cognitive Models

   1. Clinical Problem Solving: A Behavioral Analysis

      • Jerome P. Kassirer, G. Anthony Gorry

      Pages 85-107

   2. Towards the Simulation of Clinical Cognition: Taking a Present Illness by Computer

      • Stephen G. Pauker, G. Anthony Gorry, Jerome P. Kassirer, William B. Schwartz

      Pages 108-138

   3. INTERNIST-I, An Experimental Computer-Based Diagnostic Consultant for General Internal Medicine

      • Randolph A. Miller, Harry E. Pople Jr., Jack D. Myers

      Pages 139-158

   4. Diagnostic Expert Systems Based on a Set Covering Model

      • James A. Reggia, Dana S. Nau, Pearl Y. Wang

      Pages 159-185

4. Related Issues

   1. The Evaluation of Clinical Predictions: A Method and Initial Application

      • Alan R. Shapiro

      Pages 189-201

   2. Constructing an EXPERT Knowledge Base for Thyroid Consultation Using Generalized Artificial Intelligence Techniques

      • Casimir A. Kulikowski, Jack H. Ostroff

      Pages 202-213

   3. Towards an Intelligent Textbook of Neurology

      • James A. Reggia, Thaddeus P. Pula, Thomas R. Price, Barry T. Perricone

      Pages 214-238

   4. Knowledge Structure Definition for an Expert System in Primary Medical Care

      • Werner Horn, Walter Buchstaller, Robert Trappl

      Pages 239-244

   5. Studying Hypotheses on a Time-Oriented Clinical Database: An Overview of the RX Project

      • Robert L. Blum, Gio C. M. Wiederhold

      Pages 245-253

   6. Explaining and Justifying Expert Consulting Programs

      • William R. Swartout

      Pages 254-271

   7. Causal Understanding of Patient Illness in Medical Diagnosis

      • Ramesh S. Patil, Peter Szolovits, William B. Schwartz

      Pages 272-292

5. Back Matter

   Pages 293-296

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Computer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways. Imaging techniques provide noninvasive tools which alter the diag­ nostic process. Sophisticated monitoring equipment presents new levels of detail for both patient management and research. In most of these high technology applications, the computer is embedded in the device; its presence is transparent to the user. There is also a growing number of applications in which the health care provider directly interacts with a computer. In many cases, these appli­ cations are limited to administrative functions, e.g., office practice man­ agement, location of hospital patients, appointments, and scheduling. Nevertheless, there also are instances of patient care functions such as results reporting, decision support, surveillance, and reminders. This series, Computers and Medicine, will focus upon the direct use of information systems as it relates to the medical community. After twenty-five years of experimentation and experience, there are many tested applications which can be implemented economically using the current generation of computers. Moreover, the falling cost of computers suggests that there will be even more extensive use in the near future. Yet there is a gap between current practice and the state-of-the-art.

• Hospital
• Notarztinformationssystem
• Radiologieinformationssystem
• artificial intelligence
• calculus
• care
• computer
• database
• diagnosis
• expert system
• management
• medicine
• patients
• scheduling
• simulation

• Department of Neurology, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, USA

  James A. Reggia, Stanley Tuhrim

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