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AN EVALUATION OF THE USEFULNESS OF EXPLANATION IN A CASE‐BASED REASONING SYSTEM FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN BRONCHIOLITIS TREATMENT
Author(s) -
Doyle Dónal,
Cunningham Pádraig,
Walsh Paul
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2006.00288.x
Subject(s) - bronchiolitis , context (archaeology) , decision support system , software deployment , clinical decision support system , computer science , management science , artificial intelligence , psychology , psychiatry , engineering , paleontology , respiratory system , biology , operating system
The research presented here explores the hypothesis that the deployment and acceptance of decision support systems in medicine will be enhanced if the basis for the recommendation produced by the system is apparent. We describe a decision support system for advising on patients suffering from bronchiolitis. This system supports its recommendations with precedent cases selected to support the recommendation along with justification text that highlights aspects of these cases relevant to the query case. It also presents an estimate of its confidence in the recommendation. The main contribution of this paper is an evaluation of this system in a clinical context. The evaluation shows that this type of explanation does enhance the usefulness of the system for practitioners.