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Representing biomedical knowledge is an essential task in biomedical informatics intelligent systems. Case-based reasoning (CBR) holds the promise to represent contextual knowledge in a way that was not possible before with traditional knowledge-based methods. One main issue in biomedical CBR is dealing with the rate of generation of new knowledge in biomedical fields, which often makes the content of a case base partially obsolete. This article proposes to make use of the concept of prototypical case to ensure that a CBR system would keep up-to-date with current research advances in the biomedical field. Prototypical cases have served various purposes in biomedical CBR systems, among which to organize and structure the memory, to guide the retrieval as well as the reuse of cases, and to serve as bootstrapping a CBR system memory when real cases are not available in sufficient quantity and/or quality. This paper presents knowledge maintenance as another role that these prototypical cases can play in biomedical CBR systems.
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Bichindaritz, I. (2007). Prototypical Cases for Knowledge Maintenance in Biomedical CBR. In: Weber, R.O., Richter, M.M. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4626. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74141-1_34
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