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Medical diagnosis is based on a variety of tasks: accumulation of patient data, application of patient-independent knowledge, generation and evaluation of diagnostic hypotheses, and the integration of patient-dependent and -independent findings. UnPatient supports the application and the integration of patient-independent findings. It provides a knowledge representation mechanism which can be applied to any medical problem domain used for diagnosis. The medical knowledge can be accessed by symptoms as well as by diseases. Finally, it supports the integration of static knowledge and procedural heuristics for effective diagnostic support.
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Stary, C., Fasching, K. (1991). UnPatient: A Knowledge Base for Medical Diagnostic Expert Systems. In: Adlassnig, KP., Grabner, G., Bengtsson, S., Hansen, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93503-9_51
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