Applying Qualitative Reasoning to Commonsense Physiology
Arana Inés, Hunter Jim · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1993
This paper describes ongoing basic research in the context of reasoning about naive physiology. A qualitative representation of commonsense physiology at various levels of abstraction and detail and high levels of interrelationships is described. This representation is then used to derive the behaviour of a physiological process from the behaviour of its subprocesses and the relationships between them. The model is then perturbed (possibly representing pathophysiology) and a method to derive the effect of such a perturbation by propagating it throughout the model is presented.