Title :
A family therapy expert system: a practical application of expert systems in the area of psychological diagnosis
Author_Institution :
SD-Scicon Consultancy, London, UK
Abstract :
A discussion is given on a psychiatric expert system that has been in use for over two and a half years at the Family Therapy Unit of Springfield Hospital in London. The article begins by describing briefly the kind of work that is conducted by the unit and the computing needs that this work involves. It then goes on to describe the system itself and closes by offering some comments about the possibilities for future development of the system and by making some concluding remarks
Keywords :
expert systems; medical diagnostic computing; psychology; Family Therapy Unit; computing needs; family therapy expert system; future development; practical application; psychiatric expert system; psychological diagnosis;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Decision Support Systems and Medicine, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
