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An expert system for diagnosis and therapy in lung transplantation. 1996

B N Prasad, and S M Finkelstein, and M I Hertz

Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA.

An expert system for diagnosis and therapy after lung transplantation has been developed and evaluated by domain experts. The system captures a total of 21 diagnoses encompassing rejection, pulmonary infection, and some diseases of gastrointestinal origin. The disease hypotheses are scored and ranked by their ability to explain the patient findings. A hypothesis is accepted as a candidate disease if it is ranked high on the list and is able to account for the cardinal findings of the disease. The therapy knowledge is captured in the form of rules. The results demonstrate the feasibility of an expert system for diagnosis and therapy after lung transplantation.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D005069	Evaluation Studies as Topic	Works about studies that determine the effectiveness or value of processes, personnel, and equipment, or the material on conducting such studies.	Critique,Evaluation Indexes,Evaluation Methodology,Evaluation Report,Evaluation Research,Methodology, Evaluation,Pre-Post Tests,Qualitative Evaluation,Quantitative Evaluation,Theoretical Effectiveness,Use-Effectiveness,Critiques,Effectiveness, Theoretical,Evaluation Methodologies,Evaluation Reports,Evaluation, Qualitative,Evaluation, Quantitative,Evaluations, Qualitative,Evaluations, Quantitative,Indexes, Evaluation,Methodologies, Evaluation,Pre Post Tests,Pre-Post Test,Qualitative Evaluations,Quantitative Evaluations,Report, Evaluation,Reports, Evaluation,Research, Evaluation,Test, Pre-Post,Tests, Pre-Post,Use Effectiveness
D005103	Expert Systems	Computer programs based on knowledge developed from consultation with experts on a problem, and the processing and/or formalizing of this knowledge using these programs in such a manner that the problems may be solved.	Expert System,System, Expert,Systems, Expert
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016040	Lung Transplantation	The transference of either one or both of the lungs from one human or animal to another.	Grafting, Lung,Transplantation, Lung,Graftings, Lung,Lung Grafting,Lung Graftings,Lung Transplantations,Transplantations, Lung