Title :
Diagnostic reasoning guided by multiple taxonomies
Author :
Prabhakar, S.V.R.K. ; Murthy, I.S.N. ; Patnaik, L.M.
Author_Institution :
Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe a model that organizes disease category knowledge as multiple taxonomies and a diagnostic system based on such a model. A disease category can belong to more than one category and has a situational and a relational aspect. In the diagnosis of a disease, all the taxonomies are integrated using the knowledge associated with the categories. These ideas have been implemented for the infectious-diseases domain in a system called INTERX.<>
Keywords :
expert systems; medical diagnostic computing; INTERX; diagnostic reasoning; disease category knowledge organisation; infectious-diseases domain; model; multiple taxonomies;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.95254
