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1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; About the Book; About the Series; Contents; About the Editor and Authors; Preface; 1 Artificial Intelligence and Medicine; Definitions; History; Flowcharts; Data Bases; Decision Theory; Additional Flexibility; Expertise and Common Sense; Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based Systems; The First Generation Programs; The State of the Art and Future Prospects; Depth of Knowledge; References; 2 Representation of Expert Knowledge for Consultation: The CASNET and EXPERT Projects; Abstract; Introduction; An Example of Expert Reasoning; The CASNET Project |
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BackgroundA Model-Based Approach; The CASNET Model; Diagnostic Interpretation and Treatment Recommendation in CASNET; The CASNET/Glaucoma Consultation System and its Development by the Ophthalmological Network (ONET); Evaluations of CASNET/Glaucoma; The EXPERT Project; Knowledge Acquisition in EXPERT; Knowledge Representation in EXPERT; Reasoning Procedures and the EXPERT Representation; The XP and EXPERT Programs; A Session with EXPERT using the Thyroid Model; Application of EXPERT in Rheumatology and Neuro-Ophthalmology; Discussion and Conclusions; References |
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3 Consultation, Knowledge Acquisition, and Instruction: A Case StudyAbstract; Introduction; Mycin; Suitability of the Domain; Previous Approaches to Medical Decision Making; Design Goals; System Design and Operation; The Rules and Judgmental Knowledge; Question Answering; Teiresias; Explanations; Knowledge Acquisition; Guidon; Domain Independence; Impact As a Medical Decision Making System; References; 4 The Development of Clinical Expertise in the Computer; Introduction; Birth and Infancy; The Medical Problem; Medical Expertise; Computational Capabilities; Collaboration; Childhood |
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The First EvaluationAdolescence; Assessing Reality; Medical Knowledge; The User Interface; The Implementation Methodology; The Adult Program; References; 5 Heuristic Methods for Imposing Structure on Ill-Structured Problems: The Structuring of Medical Diagnostics; Introduction; The Task Domain of Medical Diagnosis; The Role of ""Differential Diagnoses"" in Structuring Clinical Decisions; On Modeling the ""Art"" of Diagnostic Reasoning; Context-Dependent Strategies for Clinical Decision Making; On the Structure of Ill Structured Problems; The General Model of Ill Structured Problem Solving |
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The Structuring of Medical DiagnosticsThe Degenerate Cases; The Evocation of Binary Choice (True/False) Tasks; The Direct Evocation of Differential Diagnostic Tasks; The INTERNIST/CADUCEUS Perspective; INTERNIST-I: Example of the Model of Diagnostic Reasoning; The INTERNIST-I View of Medical Knowledge; The Problem-Formation Method of INTERNIST-I, ; Example of INTERNIST-I Case Analysis; Critique: Key Elements of the INTERNIST-I Logic; Towards a More Highly Structured Knowledge Base; The Causal Network; The Taxonomy of Disease; Task Structuring with Both Pathological and Nosological Descriptors |
| Notes |
Heuristic Operators for Combining Independent Tasks |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429708459 |
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0429708459 |
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