A heuristic approach to the multiple diagnoses problem

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1211, Issue , 1997, Pages 187-198

  Miller, Randolph A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEURISTIC APPROACH; HEURISTIC MODEL; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; MODELING CONSTRUCT; PATIENT CASE;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84958060230     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0029451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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