Title :
EMERGE-A Data-Driven Medical Decision Making Aid
Author :
Hudson, Donna L. ; Estrin, Thelma
Author_Institution :
School of Medicine, University of California, Fresno-Central San Joaquin Valley Medical Education Program, Fresno, CA 93703.
Abstract :
EMERGE is an expert system designed as a medical decision making aid. It is machine-independent, and is implemented in standard Pascal. It has modest memory requirements, and can operate on a microcomputer. EMERGE is rule-based, and its initial application is the analysis of chest pain in the emergency room. The knowledge base is maintained separately from the consultation program. Thus the application area can be changed without any modification to the software. This paper describes the control structures and rule searching procedures used in EMERGE.
Keywords :
Application software; Computer science; Decision making; Expert systems; Knowledge based systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical expert systems; Microcomputers; Pattern recognition; Societies; Artificial intelligence; decision support; emergency room procedures; expert system; medical decision making; microcomputer applications; rule-based system;
Journal_Title :
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPAMI.1984.4767479
