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Consultation System for Congenital Malformation Syndrome *
Author(s) -
SUGIYAMA Kohachiro
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
congenital anomalies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-4520
pISSN - 0914-3505
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4520.1993.tb00534.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , task (project management) , medicine , plan (archaeology) , inference , knowledge base , pediatrics , genetic counseling , computer science , artificial intelligence , biology , genetics , engineering , paleontology , systems engineering
Accurate diagnosis of a specific birth defect is a necessary prerequisite to a plan for management of an affected infant, as well as genetic counselling for the parents. But it requires much knowledge on the part of the physician about birth defects from textbooks or journals. Remembering each diagnostic model of a particular birth defect is no easy task, because birth defects by whatever definition exhibit great variety or complexity, and often overlap. With these problems in mind, we have been developing a consultation system for congenital malformation syndromes, which is composed of a knowledge data base and an inference‘engine.’Here our consultation system will be introduced, and several points to put the system into practical use will be mentioned.