DECISion-support system for radiological diagnostic

Abstract

A software package to develop, maintain and evaluate decision-support systems for radiological diagnostic was devised. The programs, designed as WINDOWS-Applications for PC — versions for other hardware platforms are planned — empower physicians to build and refine consultation systems without the necessity of intervention by software engineers. Applications created with these software tools for particular radiological domains support radiologists at their diagnostic work by offering a question-answer dialog to promote a systematic check of appearance or absence of findings, and by informing about the agreement and/or disagreement of that finding selection with possible diagnoses. Example images of findings and diseases are displayed by request. Consultations can be stored for documentation and/or prospective system verification and improvements. At present, two applications for the radiological fields High Resolution CT of the Lung and MR of the Traumatic Knee were originated.