Collecting and Interpreting Temporal Data in an Expert System

12/22/98


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Table of Contents

Collecting and Interpreting Temporal Data in an Expert System

Introduction

Heart Disease Program

State of example case to be diagnosed

Temporal properties of data

Temporal patterns needed

Physician enters case:

Physician adds details

Physician describes chest pain

Temporal menus needed to capture patient state

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Intervals determined by HDP

Challenges interpreting descriptions

Temporal boundary knowledge

Findings indicating a progressive disease appear in several ways

Defaults are needed to fill in the data the user leaves unspecified

Defaults can lead to mistakes

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HDP diagnosis

Future directions

References

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Author: Bill Long

Email: wjl@mit.edu

Home Page: /people/wjl/