Clinical Decision Support Systems: a Review of Knowledge Representation and Inference under Uncertainties

DOI

10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.2.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

clinical decision support system, inference mechanism, knowledge representation scheme, knowledge acquisition tool, group clinical decision making, uncertainty handling.

Abstract

This paper provides a literature review in clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) with a focus on the way knowledge bases are constructed, and how inference mechanisms and group decision making methods are used in CDSSs. Particular attention is paid to the uncertainty handling capability of the commonly used knowledge representation and inference schemes. The definition of what constitute good CDSSs and how they can be evaluated and validated are also considered. Some future research directions for handling uncertainties in CDSSs are proposed.

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© 2008, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Guilan Kong
AU  - Dong-Ling Xu
AU  - Jian-Bo Yang
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2008/05/01
TI  - Clinical Decision Support Systems: a Review of Knowledge Representation and Inference under Uncertainties
JO  - International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
SP  - 159
EP  - 167
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SN  - 1875-6883
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.2.6
DO  - 10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.2.6
ID  - Kong2008
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