Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

"An introductory chapter describes the historical and technical foundations of the work .... subsequent chapters describe five 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; the Digitalis Therapy Advisor, which aids the physician in prescribing the right dose of the drug digitalis and also explains its actions; and ABEL, a program that uses multi-level pathophysiologic models for diagnosis of acid-base and electrolyte disorders."AAAS Selected Symposia Series, Volume 51. Available from MIT.