Knowledge-based generation of diagnostic hypotheses and therapy recommendations for toxoplasma infections in pregnancy

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-214

  Kopecky, Dieter ^a   Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a   Prusa, Andrea Romana ^a   Hayde, Michael ^a   Hayashi, Yoichi ^b   Panzenböck, Birgit ^a   Rappelsberger, Andrea ^a   Pollak, Arnold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Knowledge based decision support; ToxoNet; Toxopert; Toxoplasmosis; Web based expert system

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 34548139417     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230701446570     Document Type: Article

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