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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Expert systems (Computer science)
Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems)
Medicine -- Decision making -- Data processing.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
R859
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7
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D52
Book number
H664
1997
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Homer R. Warner, Dean K. Sorenson, Omar Bouhaddou.