MESICAR-A MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEM INTEGRATING CAUSAL AND ASSOCIATIVE REASONING
Werner Horn, Werner Horn · Applied Artificial Intelligence · 1989
A fundamental understanding of the anatomy of the human body is a prerequisite for the successful application of a rheumatological expert system designed for use in an outpatient setting. MESICAR incorporates extensive anatomical knowledge that provides the basis for the reasoning methods, which try to explain which structures may be the cause of visible problems of the patient. Associative relations between diseases and manifestations are combined with expressions that define conditions on the manifestations. These conditions are evaluated following the causal relations in the anatomical net. This paper concentrates on the associative and causal reasoning methods of MESICAR and their integration.