Computer-Based Support for Clinical Guidelines and by Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, W. Tu Samson, Samson W. Tu

By Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, W. Tu Samson, Samson W. Tu

Lately, guidance and protocols have received help because the cars for selling top practices in scientific medication. they give the probabilities of lowering unwarranted perform diversifications, of containing expense whereas preserving caliber of care, and of defining criteria of deal with caliber insurance reasons. those delivers have resulted in an explosion of guide courses. but reviews have proven that dissemination and potent use of guidance in medical care continues to be an enormous bottleneck. a couple of researchers have constructed diverse applied sciences for providing automated guidance in medical care. those applied sciences variety from signals and reminders to knowledge-based platforms, information-retrieval platforms, and others. The initiatives to which directions were utilized comprise vintage scientific choice help, workflow administration, caliber coverage, and resource-requirement estimates. The study has spanned numerous groups (information retrieval, synthetic intelligence, scientific informatics, software program engineering, scientific medicine), yet regrettably, there was little cross-fertilization among the groups operating during this region. This book brings jointly researchers from diversified groups to ascertain state of the art methods to guide modeling and alertness improvement and to contemplate how varied groups can leverage every one other's strengths.

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In particular, several general schemas of adaptation knowledge are presented together with the needs involved in knowledge representation. Some of these acquired schemas are summarised below: • A first adaptation schema can be applied when data about the patient are missing. In such a situation, the so-called Wald pessimistic criterion [24, 4] can be applied: the decision (treatment) is chosen on the basis of its worst consequences (that must be avoided). • A second adaptation schema can be applied when an element of the treatment proposed by the protocol is contraindicated.

The PROTEGE system [16] has been chosen for this purpose, in particular because many useful and available tools have been integrated into its architecture. PROTEGE has been customised to become a knowledge editor for KASIMIR and has been connected to the KASIMIR reasoner. We present in the following the PROTEGE system in the framework of the KASIMIR system. 1 Using PROTEGE and KASIMIR for Knowledge Editing and Visualisation In this section, an overview of the connection of PROTEGE and KASIMIR is presented.

15] B. Nebel. Reasoning and Revision in Hybrid Representation Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 422. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990. [16] N. Noy, R. Fergerson, and M. Musen. The knowledge model of Protege-2000: Combining interoperability and flexibility. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW2000, October 2000. [17] N. F. Noy and M. A. Musen. PROMPTDlFF: A Fixed-Point Algorithm for Comparing Ontology Versions. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI/IAAI-02), pages 744-750, Menlo Pare, CA, USA, 2002.

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