Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

by Peter Szolovits (Editor)

Overview

This book introduces the field of artificial intelligence in medicine, a new research area that combines sophisticated representational and computing techniques with the insights of expert physicians to produce tools for improving health care. An introductory chapter describes the historical and technical foundations of the work and provides an overview of the current state of the art and research directions. The authors then describe four prototype computer programs that tackle difficult clinical problems in a manner similar to that of an expert physician. The programs presented are internist, a diagnostic aid that combines a large database of disease/manifestation associations with techniques for problem formulation; expert and the Glaucoma Program which use physiological models for the diagnosis and treatment of eye disease; mycin, a rule-based program for diagnosis and therapy selection for infectious diseases; and the Digitalis Therapy Advisor, which aids the physician in prescribing the right dose of the drug digitalis and also explains its actions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367022211
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Pages:	243
Product dimensions:	5.62(w) x 8.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Artificial Intelligence and Medicine — Representation of Expert Knowledge for Consultation: The CASNET and EXPERT Projects — Consultation, Knowledge Acquisition, and Instruction: A Case Study — The Development of Clinical Expertise in the Computer — Heuristic Methods for Imposing Structure on III-Structured Problems: The Structuring of Medical Diagnostics — Modeling Knowledge of the Patient in Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders