Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body

Medical science conceives the human body as a system comprised of many subsystems at a variety of levels. At the highest level are bodily systems proper, such as the endocrine system, which are central to our understanding of human anatomy, and play a key role in diagnosis and in dynamic modeling as well as in medical pedagogy and computer visualization. But there is no explicit definition of what a bodily system is; such informality is acceptable in documentation created for human beings, but falls short of what is needed for computer representations. Our analysis is intended as a first step towards filling this gap.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AIME
• Authors: Barry Smith, Igor Papakin, Katherine Munn
• Keywords: AIME 2003, Artificial Intelligence, Human Anatomy, Human Body, Medical Science