TY - GEN
T1 - MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY IN MEDICINE.
AU - Cohen, Paul
AU - Day, David
AU - Delisio, Jeff
AU - Greenberg, Mike
AU - Kjeldsen, Rick
AU - Suthers, Dan
AU - Berman, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
* This researchis fundedb y a grantf rom the NationalS cienceF oundationI,S T 8409623,a nd DARPA-RADC Contract,F 30602-85-C-0014T.h e authorsg ratefullya cknowledgeth e many contributionosf ThomasG rubert o the MUM Project.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - MUM is a knowledge-based consultation system designed to manage the uncertainty inherent in medical diagnosis. The primary task of the system is to plan which questions, tests, and treatments to order at each point in a consultation given its current uncertainty knowledge about the patient's diseases. Managing uncertainty means planning what to do when uncertain; it is suggested that this ability must be designed in, not added on, to the architectures of knowledge-based systems. MUM is based on one such architecture, implemented as a generalized inference network and planner. The network facilitates local combination of evidence; the planner reads the state of the network after each piece of evidence is integrated and then decides which evidence to seek, based on its several goals.
AB - MUM is a knowledge-based consultation system designed to manage the uncertainty inherent in medical diagnosis. The primary task of the system is to plan which questions, tests, and treatments to order at each point in a consultation given its current uncertainty knowledge about the patient's diseases. Managing uncertainty means planning what to do when uncertain; it is suggested that this ability must be designed in, not added on, to the architectures of knowledge-based systems. MUM is based on one such architecture, implemented as a generalized inference network and planner. The network facilitates local combination of evidence; the planner reads the state of the network after each piece of evidence is integrated and then decides which evidence to seek, based on its several goals.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0023168305
SN - 0818607653
T3 - Conference Proceedings - Annual Phoenix Conference
SP - 501
EP - 506
BT - Conference Proceedings - Annual Phoenix Conference
PB - IEEE
ER -