This book addresses the issue of the best way to build effective knowledge-based systems for handling different types of diagnostic problems. It presents exampl

What is knowledge? How can it be successfully assessed? How can we best use the results? As questions such as these continue to be discussed and the learning sc

Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in medicine is the result of a large amount of effort expended in the interface of medicine and computer science. As some CAD sys

Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisio