Many machines used in the modern hospital settings offer real time physiological monitoring. Haemodialysis machines combine a therapeutic treatment system integrated with sophistic...
Derek H. Sleeman, Nick Fluck, Elias Gyftodimos, La...
With increasing popularity of using ontologies, many industrial and clinical applications have employed ontologies as their conceptual backbone. Ontologies try to capture knowledge...
Abstract. Most test-selection algorithms currently in use with probabilistic networks select variables myopically, that is, test variables are selected sequentially, on a one-by-on...
In diagnostic decision-support systems, a test-selection facility serves to select tests that are expected to yield the largest decrease in the uncertainty about a patient’s diag...
Software applications that work with biomedical data have significant knowledge-management requirements. Formal knowledge models and knowledge-based methods can be very useful in m...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...
This paper presents the cognitive model of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) developed for the Maryland Virtual Patient simulation and mentoring environment. GERD represents a...
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale,...
Abstract. The practice of medicine is becoming increasingly evidencebased and clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are necessary for advancing evidence-based medicine (EBM). We hypo...
One of the hardest tasks in any healthcare application is the management of knowledge. Organisational information as well as medical concepts should be represented in an appropriat...