Title :
An architecture for medical knowledge-based assistance systems
Author :
Kindler, H. ; Fischer, B. ; Densow, D. ; Fliedner, T.M.
Author_Institution :
FAW-AI Lab., Ulm Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Medical problems can be hierarchically decomposed into subproblems. In general, the problems are solved by humans. For some very seldom occurring subproblems e.g. developing a patient management plan for the acute radiation syndrome, or for routine problems, e.g. report generation in laboratory medicine for 95% of the cases, knowledge-bases could perform the task more efficiently than humans. An architecture for medical knowledge-based assistance systems is presented allowing for the co-operation of physicians and knowledge-bases to efficiently solve medical problems. The collaboration is obtained by applying a cognitive problem-solving model implemented on a blackboard control architecture. The architecture has been prototypically implemented and partially evaluated for the medical management of the acute radiation syndrome and in laboratory medicine
Keywords :
biological effects of radiation; blackboard architecture; cognitive systems; cooperative systems; knowledge representation; laboratories; medical administrative data processing; medical expert systems; patient care; planning (artificial intelligence); problem solving; acute radiation syndrome; blackboard control architecture; cognitive problem-solving model; laboratory medicine; medical knowledge-based assistance system architecture; medical management; medical problems; medical subproblems; patient management plan; physicians-knowledge base interaction; report generation; routine problems; Collaboration; Humans; Knowledge based systems; Laboratories; Law; Legal factors; Medical control systems; Medical expert systems; Problem-solving; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering of Computer-Based Systems,1996. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium and Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Friedrichshafen
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7355-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECBS.1996.494572
