Consistent knowledge discovery in medical diagnosis: Eliminating contradictions among rules in computer-aided systems, experts rules, and databases

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 26-37

  Kovalerchuk, Boris ^a   Vityaev, Evgenii ^b,c,d,e   Ruiz, James F ^c,f,g,h  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c WOMAN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e Soviet Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h American Roentgen Ray Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; MAMMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCIENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034235632     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.853479     Document Type: Review

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