Case-based reasoning for medical decision support tasks: The Inreca approach

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-41

  Althoff, Klaus Dieter ^a   Bergmann, Ralph ^a   Wess, Stefan ^a   Manago, Michel ^b   Auriol, Eric ^b   Larichev, Oleg I ^c   Bolotov, Alexander ^c   Zhuravlev, Yurii I ^d   Gurov, Serge I ^d  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b AcknoSoft   (France)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Russian Federation)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Induction; Medical decision support; Toxicology domain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TOXICITY;

CASED BASED REASONING; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DRUG INTOXICATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0031883352     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(97)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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