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TKR-tool: An expert system for Total Knee Replacement management

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 1995)

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TKR-tool is an expert system for Total Knee Replacement that gives advice and assists patient management at every stage of the TKR process from preoperatory and postoperatory evaluation to patient follow-up. The system uses temporal reasoning to manage the patient's history. Expert system advise includes patient category and scoring according to different studies, accurate parameters for TKR surgery success, postoperatory evaluation and prostheses risk failure.

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  1. Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma Dpt., Hospital General de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, E-15701, A Coruña, Spain

    J. Heras

  2. Dept. Computación, Fac. Informática, Universidade de A Coruña, E-15071, A Coruña, Spain

    R. P. Otero

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Pedro Barahona Mario Stefanelli Jeremy Wyatt

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Heras, J., Otero, R.P. (1995). TKR-tool: An expert system for Total Knee Replacement management. In: Barahona, P., Stefanelli, M., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60025-6_180

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