Background and Legacy --;The Expert System --;The Model Used for this Text ... Iliad --;Limiting the Domain of the Model ... the Data Dictionary --;The Knowledge Engineering Process --;Evaluation of the Model --;Application of the Model --;Lessons Learned --;Knowledge and Engineering Tools --;Example Knowledge Bases --;Future Challenges. Appendices: Example Hierarchies of Top Level Diseases (final disgnoses) in Various Medical Specialities --;Suggested Prevalences for Various Diseases in Internal Medicine and Some Specialties- Using the Iliad KETool --;Some Example Fairly Domain-Specific Symptom Lists --;Data Relations (examples) --;Word Relations (examples). Bibliography. Index.
Presenting the core material for courses such as Medical Knowledge Engineering and Expert System Development, it allows non-experts to make diagnostic decisions with the precision and accuracy of medical experts thanks to the help of the computer.
Expert systems (Computer science)
Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems)
Medicine -- Decision making -- Data processing.
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Homer R. Warner, Dean K. Sorenson, Omar Bouhaddou.