An expert system to diagnose anemia and report results directly on hematology forms

Computers and Biomedical Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-26

  Birndorf, Norman I ^a,b   Pentecost, Jeffrey O ^b   Coakley, James R ^c   Spackman, Kent A ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EXPERT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029919833     PISSN: 00104809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cbmr.1996.0002     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. BAQUAR, M. S., KHURSHID, M., AND MOLLA, A. Does red cell distribution width (RDW) improve evaluation of microcytic anemia? J. Pak. Med. Assoc. 43, 149 (1993).
2. BESSMAN, J., GILMER, P., AND GARDNER, F. Improved classification of anemias by MCV and RDW. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 80, 322 (1983).
3. CESANA, B. A., MAIOLO, A. T., GIDIULI, R., DAMILANO, I., et al. Relevance of red cell distribution width (RDW) in the differential diagnoses of microcytic anemias. Clin. Lab. Haematol. 13, 141 (1991).
4. LIN, CHUNG-KING, LIN, JOENG-SHI, CHEN, SHENG-YU, JIANG, MEI-LAN, AND CHIU, CHANG-FANG. Comparison of hemoglobin and red blood cell distribution width in the differential diagnosis of microcytic anemia. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 116, 1030 (1992).
5. FLYNN, M. A., REPPUN, T. S., AND BHAGAVAN, V. N. Limitations of red blood cell distribution width (RDW) in evaluation of microcytosis. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 85, 445 (1986).
6. JOHNSON, C. S., TEGROS, C. AND BEUTLER, E. Thalassemia minor: Routine erythrocyte measurements and differentiation from iron deficiency. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 80, 31 (1983).
7. BENTLEY, S. A., AYSCUE, L. H., WATSON, J. M., AND Ross, D. W. The clinical utility of discriminant functions for the differential diagnosis of microcytic anemias, Blood Cells 15, 575 (1989).
8. ENGLAND, M. Discriminant functions. Blood Cells 15, 463 (1989).
9. GREEN, R., AND KING, R. A new red cell discriminant incorporating volume dispersion for differentiating iron deficiency anemia from thalassemia minor. Blood Cells 15, 481 (1989).
10. HAN, P., AND FUNG, K. P. Discriminant analysis of iron deficiency anemia and heterozygous thalassemia traits, a 3 dimensional selection of red cell indices, Clin. lab. Haematol. 13, 351 (1991).
11. HOUWEN B. The use of inference strategies in the differential diagnosis of macrocytic anemia, Blood Cells 15, 509 (1989).
12. MAKRIS, E. P., Utilization of a new index to distinguish heterozygous thalassemic syndromes, comparison of its specificity to five other discriminants. Blood Cells 15, 497 (1989).
13. SHINE, I. Non random distribution of genotypes among red cell indices. Blood Cells 15, 476 (1989).
14. BACUS, J. W., AND WEENS, J. H., An automated method of differential red blood cell classification with application to the diagnosis of anemia, J. Histochem. Soc. 25, 614 (1977).
15. BATES, J., AND BESSMAN, J. D. Evaluation of BCDE, a microcomputer program to analyze automated blood counts and differentials. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 86, 314 (1987).
16. IMBERT, M., PRIOLET, G., DADI, W., AND SULTAN, C. An expert system applied to the diagnosis of anemia with special reference to myelodysplastic syndromes. Blood Cells 15, 563 (1989).
17. PATERAKIS, G. S., TERZOGLOU, G., AND VASILIOY, E. The performance characteristics of an expert system for the "on-line" assessment of thalassemia trait and iron deficiency - Micro Hema Screen. Blood Cells 15, 541 (1989).
18. NGUYEN, D. T., DIAMOND, L. W., PRIOLET, G., AND SULTAN, C. Expert system design in hematology diagnosis. Methods Inf. Med. 82, 31 (1992).
19. RUMMELHART, D. E., HINTON, G. E., AND WILLIAMS, R. J. Learning representations by back-propogating errors. Nature 323, 523 (1986).
20. RUMMELHART, D. E., AND MCCLELLAND, J. L. "Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition." MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.
21. WEISS, S. M., AND KUILDOWSKI, C. A. "Computer Systems That Learn," pp. 95-97. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1991.
22. HERTZ, J., KROGH, A., AND PALMER, R. "Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation." Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1991.
23. HECT-NIELSEN, R. "Neurocomputing." Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990.