Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Expert Systems

Expert systems constitute a research area which is currently expanding. This book is based largely on work undertaken for my doctoral thesis and attempts to set out in readily understood language the different methods of knowledge representation used in different systems. How­ ever, since the field...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fieschi, M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1990, 1990
Edition:1st ed. 1990
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • One Expert Systems in Medicine
  • 1. Medical reasoning and artificial intelligence: general presentation of the problem
  • 2. Representation and use of the knowledge
  • Two Study of an Expert System
  • 3. The SPHINX system
  • 4. Examples of applications
  • 5. The SPHINX system environment
  • Three Validation
  • 6. Validation of the expert systems
  • 7. A crucial problem: validation of the knowledge base
  • 8. Validation of a SPHINX knowledge base: some supplementary elements
  • Appendix 1 Representation and use of knowledge: symbolic logic
  • Appendix 2 Representation and use of knowledge: fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
  • Appendix 3 LISP coding of the MYCIN rules
  • Appendix 4 Bayes’ theorem and credibility factors
  • Appendix 5 Other medical systems which employ artificial intelligence methods
  • References