Arrhythmias diagnostic expert system in Veterans General Hospital, Taipei

Author

Chen, Chung-Yin ; Chen, San-Ron ; Kao, Tsai ; Yu, Beverly C.

Author_Institution

Veterans Gen. Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1988

fDate

25-28 Sep 1988

Firstpage

517

Lastpage

520

Abstract

A rule-based expert system which is capable of performing arrhythmia diagnosis (ARDIAG) has been constructed. The system is composed of an IBM PC/AT, an A/D converter, and an expert system building tool, Exsys. ARDIAG has the characteristics of a cardiologist, simulating the inference process. It is reliable, portable, and easy to communicate with. Using ARDIAG, diagnosis of arrhythmia can be done in 2 min. ARDIAG´s diagnoses for 367 ECGs are compared with those of two experienced cardiologists and shown to agree 87.4% of the cases. The sensitivity and specificity for the common arrhythmias are relatively high

Keywords

electrocardiography; expert systems; medical diagnostic computing; 2 min; A/D converter; ARDIAG; ECG; Exsys; IBM PC/AT; Taipei; Veterans General Hospital; arrhythmia diagnosis expert system; expert system building tool; inference process; rule-based expert system; Automation; Buildings; Cardiology; Diagnostic expert systems; Electrocardiography; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical expert systems; Rhythm; Sensitivity and specificity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 1988. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1949-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1988.72673

Filename

72673