...tributors Introduction: Medical Artificial Intelligence Programs William ] Clancey and Edward H . Shortliffe Computer-Assisted Clinical Decision Making G. Anthony Garry Knowledge Engineering for Medical De...ation for a Knowledge-Based Consultation Program Randall Davis, Bruce G. Buchanan, and Edward H . Shortliffe Towards the Simulation of Clinical Cognition: Taking a Present Illness by Computer Stephen G. Pa... Pauker Computer-Based Medical Decision Making: From MYCIN {0 VM Lawrence M . Fagan, Edward H . Shortliffe, and Bruce G. Buchanan V vii 18 35 72 98 131 160 190 210 241...

...t System for Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Data janice S. Aikins, john C. Kunz, Edward H . Shortliffe, and Robert]. Fallat Developing Microprocessor-Based Expert Models for Instrument Interpretation...om M . Weiss, Casimir A. Kulikowski, and Robert S: Galen Anticipating the Second Decade Edward H. Shortliffe and William ]. Clancey References Name Index Subject Index 256 275 320 339 361 382 399 4...

...323 CONSULTATION SYSTEMS FOR PHYSICIANS; The Role of Artificial Intelligence Techniques Edward H. Shortliffe Departments of Medicine and Computer Science Heuristic Programming Project Stanford University Scho...give 1 This article is based on a longer paper to be published as a book chapter by Academic Press [Shortliffe 1980]. 2 Dr. ...Shortliffe is recipient of research career development award LM00048 from the National Library of Medicine. 1...

... aids have typically emphasized only the accumulation of patient data and the generation of advice [Shortliffe 1979]. On the other hand, an ability to explain decisions may be incorporated into computer--ba... use it? Experience has shown that reliability alone may not be enough to insure system acceptance [Shortliffe 1979]; the 3. DESIGN CRITERIA The design considerations for systems to be used by physicians c...

... variety of approaches to automated advice systems have been developed, and many perform admirably (Shortliffe 1979). Thus the capturing of knowledge and data, plus a system for using them in a coherent and...

...e from earlier work applying AI to chemistry in the DENDRAL program (Lindsay et al., 1980) and from Shortliffe's and Buchanan's disenchantment with the interactive features o.l traditional diagnostic programs t...

... of co textual knowledge within an artificial intelligence framework (Pople et aI., 1975; Shortliffe et aI., 1973; Wortman, 1972) (see also Chapter 6). Several fundamental AI issues are rai...

...Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN Edward Hance Shortliffe...

...ial Intelligence Series Nils J. Nilsson, Editor 1. Sussman A Computer Model of Skill Acquisition 2. Shortliffe Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN...

...The Addison-Wesley Series in Artificial Intelligence Buchanan and Shortliffe (eds.): Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Proj...ect. ( 1984) Clancey and Shortliffe (eds.): Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade. (1984) Pearl: Heuristics: In...

...11 A Model of Inexact Reasoning in Medicine Edward H. Shortliffe and Bruce G. Buchanan Inexact reasoning is common in the sciences. It is characterized by such phra...