An integrated system to represent and manage medical knowledge

Medinfo. 1995:8 Pt 2:931-3.

Abstract

This paper describes an integrated system in Prolog that permits the creation of a personal Knowledge Base to express and formalize specialist knowledge in medicine. Formalisms used are production rules and frames. The integrated system is able to manage data and knowledge stored in a database built in M Technology (MUMPS).

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / diagnosis
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / therapy
  • Adult
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Decision Making, Computer-Assisted*
  • Decision Trees
  • Humans
  • Information Systems*
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnosis
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / therapy
  • Software
  • Systems Integration*
  • User-Computer Interface