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From Description to Decision: Towards a Decision Support Training System for MR Radiology of the Brain

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMDM 1999)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 1620))

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We have developed a system that aims to help trainees learn a systematic method of describing MR brain images by means of a structured image description language (IDL). The training system makes use of an archive of cases previously described by an expert neuroradiologist. The system utilises a visualisation method - an Overview Plot - which allows the trainee to access individual cases in the database as well as view the overall distribution of cases within a disease and the relative distribution of different diseases. This paper describes the evolution of the image description training system towards a decision support training system, based on the diagnostic notion of a “small world”. The decision support training system will employ components from the image description training system, so as to provide a uniform interface for training and support.

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  1. School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Sussex

    Benedict du Boulay & Lisa Cuthbert

  2. Department of Medical Statistics, De Montfort University, Leicester

    Briony Teather, Nathan Jeffrey & Derek Teather

  3. Institute of Neurology, London

    George du Boulay

  4. School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

    Mike Sharples

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Werner Horn

  2. Department of Medicine and Computer Science, Stanford University, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5479, USA

    Yuval Shahar

  3. Department of Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden

    Greger Lindberg

  4. Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D, DK-9000, Aalborg, Denmark

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du Boulay, B. et al. (1999). From Description to Decision: Towards a Decision Support Training System for MR Radiology of the Brain. In: Horn, W., Shahar, Y., Lindberg, G., Andreassen, S., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIMDM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48720-4_8

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