PATRICIA: An expert system that incorporates a patient-oriented approach for the management of ICU patients

Vicente Moret-Bonillo, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Edward J. Truemper, Esteban Garcia Martin, Alejandro Pazos Sierra

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Abstract

This paper describes PATRICIA, a medical expert system (MES) designed to analyze clinical data, develop adaptive interpretations and elaborate therapeutic guidelines for the management of patients receiving mechanical ventilatory support. PATRICIA is the first application of a new patient-oriented approach that uses two primary modules for representing knowledge. Initially a deterministic module perorms an analysis in which significant demographic and clinical characteristics of each subject are used to speci patient-adapted ranges for clinical variables. Clinical data are then compared to individualized ranges to obtain speciic symbolic information for each patient. The results of the symbolic pre-processing task are then used by the heuristic module to obtain Clinically-adapted conclusions and provide a set of therapeutic options.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 1992
EditorsJean Louis Coatrieux, Robert Plonsey, Jean Pierre Morucci, Swamy Laxminarayan
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages876-877
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)0780307852
DOIs
StatePublished - 1992
Event14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 1992 - Paris, France
Duration: Oct 29 1992Nov 1 1992

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Volume3
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 1992
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period10/29/9211/1/92

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Health Informatics

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