Development of medical expert systems with fuzzy concepts in a PC environment.

by So Yuen Tai.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.Bibliography: leaves [144]-[146].ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.T.1ABSTRACTChapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1.1Chapter 1.1 --- Inexact Knowledge in Medical Expert Systems --- p.1.1Chapter 1.2 --- Fuzzy Expert System Shells --- p.1.2Chapter 1.2.1 --- SPII-2 --- p.1.3Chapter 1.2.2 --- Fuzzy Expert System Shell for Decision Support System --- p.1.4Chapter 1.3 --- Medical Expert Systems --- p.1.6Chapter 1.3.1 --- EXPERT --- p.1.6Chapter 1.3.2 --- DIABETO --- p.1.8Chapter 1.4 --- Impact from Micro-computer --- p.1.10Chapter 1.5 --- Approach --- p.1.11Chapter 2. --- SYSTEM Z-ll --- p.2.1Chapter 2.1 --- General Description --- p.2.1Chapter 2.2 --- Main Features --- p.2.2Chapter 2.2.1 --- Fuzzy Concepts --- p.2.2Chapter 2.2.2 --- Fuzzy Certainty --- p.2.3Chapter 2.2.3 --- Fuzzy Comparison --- p.2.5Chapter 2.2.4 --- Rule Evaluation --- p.2.7Chapter 2.2.5 --- Certainty Factor Propagation --- p.2.9Chapter 2.2.6 --- Linguistic Approximation --- p.2.10Chapter 2.3 --- Limitations and Possible Improvements --- p.2.11Chapter 3. --- A FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM SHELL (Z-lll) IN PC ENVIRONMENT --- p.3.1Chapter 3.1 --- General Description --- p.3.1Chapter 3.2 --- Programming Environment --- p.3.1Chapter 3.3 --- Main Features and Structure --- p.3.3Chapter 3.3.1 --- Knowledge Acquisition Module --- p.3.5Chapter 3.3.1.1 --- Object Management Module --- p.3.5Chapter 3.3.1.2 --- Rule Management Module --- p.3.6Chapter 3.3.1.3 --- Fuzzy Term Management Module --- p.3.7Chapter 3.3.2 --- Consultation Module --- p.3.8Chapter 3.3.2.1 --- Fuzzy Inference Engine --- p.3.8Chapter 3.3.2.2 --- Review Management Module --- p.3.11Chapter 3.3.2.3 --- Linguistic Approximation Module --- p.3.11Chapter 3.3.3 --- System Properties Management Module --- p.3.13Chapter 3.4 --- Additional Features --- p.3 14Chapter 3.4.1 --- Weights --- p.3.15Chapter 3.4.1.1 --- Fuzzy Weight --- p.3.16Chapter 3.4.1.2 --- Fuzzy Weight Evaluation --- p.3.17Chapter 3.4.1.3 --- Results of Adding Fuzzy Weights --- p.3.21Chapter 3.4.2 --- Fuzzy Matching --- p.3.24Chapter 3.4.2.1 --- Similarity --- p.3.25Chapter 3.4.2.2 --- Evaluation of Similarity measure --- p.3.26Chapter 3.4.3 --- Use of System Threshold --- p.3.30Chapter 3.4.4 --- Use of Threshold Expression --- p.3.33Chapter 3.4.5 --- Playback File --- p.3.35Chapter 3.4.6 --- Database retrieval --- p.3.37Chapter 3.4.7 --- Numeric Variable Objects --- p.3.39Chapter 3.5 --- Implementation Highlights --- p.3.41Chapter 3.5.1 --- Knowledge Base --- p.4.42Chapter 3.5.1.1 --- Fuzzy Type --- p.4.42Chapter 3.5.1.2 --- Objects --- p.3.45Chapter 3.5.1.3 --- Rules --- p.3.49Chapter 3.5.2 --- System Properties --- p.3.53Chapter 3.5.2.1 --- System Menu --- p.3.53Chapter 3.5.2.2 --- Option Menu --- p.3.54Chapter 3.5.3 --- Consultation System --- p.3.55Chapter 3.5.3.1 --- Inference Engine --- p.3.56Chapter 3.5.3.2 --- Review Management --- p.3.60Chapter 3.6 --- Comparison on Z-lll and Z-ll --- p.3.61Chapter 3.6.1 --- Response Time --- p.3.62Chapter 3.6.2 --- Accessibility --- p.3.62Chapter 3.6.3 --- Accommodation of Large Knowledge Base --- p.3.62Chapter 3.6.4 --- User-Friendliness --- p.3.63Chapter 3.7 --- General Comments on Z-lll --- p.3.64Chapter 3.7.1 --- Adaptability --- p.3.64Chapter 3.7.2 --- Adequacy --- p.3.64Chapter 3.7.3 --- Applicability --- p.3.65Chapter 3.7.4 --- Availability --- p.3.65Chapter 4. --- KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING --- p.4.1Chapter 4.1 --- Techniques used in Knowledge Acquisition --- p.4.1Chapter 4.2 --- Interviewing the Expert --- p.4.2Chapter 4.3 --- Knowledge Representation --- p.4.4Chapter 4.4 --- Development Approach --- p.4.6Chapter 4.5 --- Knowledge Refinement --- p.4.7Chapter 4.6 --- Consistency Check and Completeness Check --- p.4.12Chapter 4.6.1 --- The Consistency and Completeness in a nonfuzzy rule set --- p.4.13Chapter 4.6.1.1 --- Inconsistency in nonfuzzy rule-based system --- p.4.13Chapter 4.6.1.2 --- Incompleteness in nonfuzzy rule-based system --- p.4.18Chapter 4.6.2 --- Consistency Checks in Fuzzy Environment --- p.4.20Chapter 4.6.2.1 --- Affinity --- p.4.21Chapter 4.6.2.2 --- Detection of Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Fuzzy Environment --- p.4.24Chapter 4.6.3 --- Algorithm for Checking Consistency --- p.4.25Chapter 5. --- FUZZY MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEMS --- p.5.1Chapter 5.1 --- ABVAB --- p.5.1Chapter 5.1.1 --- General Description --- p.5.1Chapter 5.1.2 --- Development of ABVAB --- p.5.2Chapter 5.1.3 --- Computerisation of Database --- p.5.4Chapter 5.1.4 --- Results of ABVAB --- p.5.7Chapter 5.1.5 --- From Minicomputer to PC --- p.5.15Chapter 5.2 --- INDUCE36 --- p.5.17Chapter 5.2.1 --- General Description --- p.5.17Chapter 5.2.2 --- Verification of INDUCE36 --- p.5.18Chapter 5.2.3 --- Results --- p.5.19Chapter 5.3 --- ESROM --- p.5.21Chapter 5.3.1 --- General Description --- p.5.21Chapter 5.3.2 --- Multi-layer Medical Expert System --- p.5.22Chapter 5.3.3 --- Results --- p.5.25Chapter 6. --- CONCLUSION --- p.6.1REFERENCES --- p.R.1APPENDIX I --- p.A.1APPENDIX II --- p.A.2APPENDIX III --- p.A.3APPENDIX IV --- p.A.1