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From: igor@ai-vie.UUCP (Igor Mozetic)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: MODEL BASED DIAGNOSTIC EXPERT SYSTEM
Message-ID: <712@ai-vie.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 10:04:43 GMT
References: <1357@ziggy.EDU> <1990Jul4.002349.8729@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Dept. Med.Cyb.&AI, Univ.Vienna, Austria
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In article <1990Jul4.002349.8729@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> sticklen@cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen) writes:
>From article <1357@ziggy.EDU>, by cds@ziggy.EDU (Cindy Sarmiento):
>
>> I am looking for advice or comments from anyone who has 
>> experience in developing expert systems using model based reasoning
>> or knowledge representation.
>
>there is an exploding literature on model based reasoning, but very
>little of it is in the medical area. you should look at the compilation

An example of a medical model-based expert system is KARDIO, for
ECG diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias:

Bratko, I., Mozetic, I., Lavrac, N. KARDIO: A Study in Deep and
Qualitative Knowledge for Expert Systems. The MIT Press, 1989.

It incorporates a deep model of the heart which simulates its
electrical activity, represents the model at several levels of
abstraction, and automatically derives an efficient, surface
diagnostic rule-base. More recent papers and core parts of the 
system (written in Prolog) are available (free-of-charge) from:

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