The rise and 'fall' of expert systems in medicine

Expert Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-188

  Heathfield, Heather ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence in medicine; Clinical decision support systems; Expert system in medicine; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040017638     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0394.00107     Document Type: Article

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