AIME 87: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Marseilles, August 31st – September 3rd 1987 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, 33)

The current scarcity of expert systems where the reasoning is based on Bayesian probability theory may be due to misconceptions about probabilities found in the literature. As argued by Cheeseman (1985), these misconceptions have led to the attitude: "The Bayesian approach doesn't work - so here is a new scheme". Several of these expert systems based on ad hoc "probability" concepts have been successful in a number of ways, demonstrating the necessity of being able to handle uncertainty in medical expert systems. They also demonstrate the need for a theoretically sound handling of uncertainty. In Andersen et al. (1986) it was postulated that knowledge organized in a causal network can be used for a unified approach to the main tasks of a medical expert system: diagnosis, planning of tests and explanations. The present paper explores this postulate in a causal probabilistic network. It also provides a practical demonstration that the problems supposedly associated with probabilistic networks are either non-existent or that practical solutions can be found. This paper reports on the methods implemented in MUNIN\* -an expert system for electromyography (EMG) (Andreassen et al. 1987). EMG is the diagnosis of muscle and nerve diseases through analysis of bioelectrical signals from muscle and nerve tissue. In Andreassen et al. Front Matter....Pages N2-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 “INTERMED”: A Medical Language Interface....Pages 3-8 Inference Engineering through Prototyping in Prolog....Pages 9-14 The evaluation of clinical decision support systems: a discussion of the methodology used in the ACORN project....Pages 15-24 Matching Patients: An Approach for Decision Support in Liver Transplantation....Pages 25-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 An Expert System for Diagnosis and Therapy Planning in Patients with Peripheral Vascular Disease....Pages 37-44 An Expert System for the Classification of Dizziness and Vertigo....Pages 45-53 The SENEX System : A Microcomputer-Based Expert System Built by Oncologists for Breast Cancer Management....Pages 54-70 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 The Use of QSIM for Qualitative Simulation of Physiological Systems....Pages 73-80 Qualitative Description of Electrophysiologic Measurements: towards automatic data interpretation....Pages 81-87 A Qualitative Spatial Representation for Cardiac Electrophysiology....Pages 88-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Knowledge acquisition in expert system assisted diagnosis : a machine learning approach....Pages 99-103 Knowledge Representation for Cooperative Medical Systems....Pages 104-111 A Representation of Time for Medical Expert Systems....Pages 112-119 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 TOULMED, an inference engine which deals with imprecise and uncertain aspects of medical knowledge....Pages 123-140 Coherent Handling of Uncertainty via Localized Computation in an Expert System for Therapeutic Decision....Pages 141-148 MUNIN — On the Case for Probabilities in Medical Expert Systems — a Practical Exercise....Pages 149-160 Rule Based Expert Systems in Gynecology: Statistical versus Heuristic Approach....Pages 161-165 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 A Radiological Expert System for the PC — Design and Implementation Issues....Pages 169-176 A PC-Based Shell for Clinical Information Systems with Reasoning Capabilities....Pages 177-191 The kernel mechanism for handling assumptions and justifications and its application to the biotechnologies....Pages 192-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Man-Machine Interaction in Check....Pages 205-212 The Oxford System of Medicine: A prototype information system for primary care....Pages 213-226 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Evaluating the Performance of Anemia....Pages 229-236 Computer Aided Diagnosis and Treatment of Brachial Plexus Injuries....Pages 237-246 Representation of Embryonic Development and Its Anomalies....Pages 247-250 Micro Computer Based Decision Support for Lipid Disorders....Pages 251-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-257 This book contains the proceedings of the second major European Conference on Artifical Intelligence in Medicine, Marseilles 1987. It contains some 20 research papers submitted from active research groups throughout Europe, which were accepted for the Conference after careful refereeing. The colliction covers a wide range of current topics in knowledge engineering to theoretical work in qualitative reasoning, management of uncertainty and general methodology etc J. Fox, M. Fieschi, R. Engelbrecht, Eds. ; European Conference On Artificial Intelligence In Medicine, Marseilles, August 31st-september 3rd 1987. Includes Bibliographies. Organized in Cooperation with IIRIAM, International Institute of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Marseille, France