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Some Issues in the Control of Interactive Differential Diagnosis

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AIME 89

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 38))

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Abstract

A medical knowledge-based shell prototype is being developed in Prolog within the Interactive Medical Diagnosis (IMD) project. In contrast with DYSMOR, an early rule-based system for diagnosis of genetic dysmorphic syndromes, the IMD shell allows the structuring of medical knowledge with similarities to that obtained with frame-based systems. This paper summarises this knowledge representation, and presents generic control issues integrated with it.

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  1. Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825, Monte da Caparica, Portugal

    Pedro Barahona, Ricardo Amador & Francisco Menezes

  2. Hospital Egas Moniz, Serviço de Neurologia, R. da Junqueira, 126, 1300, Lisboa, Portugal

    Mário Veloso

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Old Aberdeen, AB9 2UB, UK

    Jim Hunter

  2. Hill Centre, The London Hospital Medical College, University of London, Turner Street, E1 2AD, London, UK

    John Cookson

  3. Department of Clinical Physiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Brompton Hospital, Fulham Road, SW3 6HP, London, UK

    Jeremy Wyatt

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Barahona, P., Veloso, M., Amador, R., Menezes, F. (1989). Some Issues in the Control of Interactive Differential Diagnosis. In: Hunter, J., Cookson, J., Wyatt, J. (eds) AIME 89. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93437-7_8

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