Knowledge acquisition in the fuzzy knowledge representation framework of a medical consultation system

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-26

  Boegl, Karl ^a,b   Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a,b   Hayashi, Yoichi ^c   Rothenfluh, Thomas E ^d   Leitich, Harald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set theory; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge representation; Knowledge based systems; Medical consultation system

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

FUZZY KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY MEMBERSHIPS;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONSULTATION; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0346848885     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(02)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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