Bemmel, J. H. van, F. Grémy, J. Zvárova, (Eds): Medical Decision Making: Diagnostic strategies and Expert Systems. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam, New York, Oxford 1985, XIII, 393 pp., $ 62.25; Dfl. 168,–
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- Book ID
- 101713718
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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✦ Synopsis
This book is preaented as the Proceedings of the IFIP-IMIA International Working Conference on Computer-Aided Medical Decision-Making, the second one of this kind, which was held from 30 September till 4 October, 1985 in Prague. It is more than only 79 documented papers a t about 390 pages. Although it is not a textbook, i t conveys a very good aurvey about all the matters, already solved or not yet solved, of computer assisted medical decision-making. And, as the editors say, it is a very attractive circumstance, that these Proceedings offer a t the same time the state-of-the-art both in Western and East European countries. What are the reasons, that this new field is arousing more and more interest? First of all, it concerns the core of medicine: diagnosis and therapy and both patients and physicians are involved in this procese. The growing interest is closely related to improved possibilitiea of thaw days, as "(1) the availability of special languages and ehells to build expert system, (2) the fact that such syatems are also operational on rather small systems, even microcomputere, (3) the interest of . . . medical administrators to develop medical protocolls and increase the efficiency of medical care, (4) the appearance of a new generation of mesearchers who are acquainted with computers and quantitative methods." The development is still a t the beginning. It will be succmsful only then, when the different disciplines, medicine, mathematics, computer ecience and informatics, cooperate in that way as i t is shown in this book. Very important are the two Introductory Chapters: "Formalization of medical knowledge, the basis for diagnostic etrategiea and expert systems", written by J. H. van Bgararm and "Ethics of the person and of the community in medical decision making", written by F. G R ~M Y . This Introduction is followed by 5 parts covering the entire field. Part I: ArtificiJ intelligence in medicine (16 papers a t about 80 pages) Part 11: Applications of diagnostic and expert systems (22 papers at about 100 pages) Part III: Theoretical approaches to medical decision making (11 papers a t about 60 pages) Part IV: Special applications in medical decision making (11 papers a t about 60 pages) Part V : Developments in medical decision making (17 papers at about 90 pages)
It is not possible to accentuate any of the contributions of this book. They give the wide range of the field of medical decision-making, its present state and, by the aid of good referencgs, its history and. not only in the last part, the vision of future development.