The Internet-based Knowledge Acquisition and Management Method to Construct Large-scale Distributed Medical Expert Systems

Authors

Hongmei Yan, Chongqing UniversityFollow
Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Jun Zheng, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Bingmei Fu, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Shouzhong Xiao, Chongqing University
Chenglin Peng, Chongqing UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2004

Publication Title

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volume

74

Issue

1

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity to construct powerful large-scale medical expert systems (MES). In these systems, a cost-effective medical knowledge acquisition (KA) and management scheme is highly desirable to handle the large quantities of, often conflicting, medical information collected from medical experts in different medical fields and from different geographical regions. In this paper, we demonstrate that a medical KA/management system can be built upon a three-tier distributed client/server architecture. The knowledge in the system is stored/managed in three knowledge bases. The maturity of the medical know-how controls the knowledge flow through these knowledge bases. In addition, to facilitate the knowledge representation and application in these knowledge bases as well as information retrieval across the Internet, an 8-digit numeric coding scheme with a weight value system is proposed. At present, a medical KA and management system based on the proposed method is being tested in clinics. Current results have showed that the method is a viable solution to construct, modify, and expand a distributed MES through the Internet.

Keywords

Client/server computing; Data mining; Distributed databases; Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems); Medical care--Decision making

Disciplines

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Computer and Systems Architecture | Digital Communications and Networking | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Health Information Technology | Systems and Communications

Language

English

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Repository Citation

Yan, H., Jiang, Y., Zheng, J., Fu, B., Xiao, S., Peng, C. (2004). The Internet-based Knowledge Acquisition and Management Method to Construct Large-scale Distributed Medical Expert Systems. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 74(1), 1-10.