Cross-Hierarchy Representation of Medical Knowledge as Applied in Antibiotic Medication Counseling and Side Effect Information

Two kinds of knowledge, i.e. declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge, should be represented and used in applied Al system in medicine. The authors constructed a knowledge representation form which is suitable for the description of declarative knowledge. Basic classifications can be represent...

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Main Authors: Kimura, Michio, Shimizu, Kihachiro, Tsuchiya, Fumito, Tsuchiya, Itsuko, Koyama, Teruo, Kaihara, Shigekoto, Yashiro, Naobumi, Iio, Masahiro
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Clinical Decision Support. Computer-Aided Treatment
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Summary:Two kinds of knowledge, i.e. declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge, should be represented and used in applied Al system in medicine. The authors constructed a knowledge representation form which is suitable for the description of declarative knowledge. Basic classifications can be represented in a form of hierarchy. The authors introduced description of relations between hierarchies(cross-hierarchy representation) instead of former 2-dimensional tabular descriptions. The authors applied this form of knowledge representation to an antibiotics medication counseling system called ANTICIPATOR. In this paper, this knowledge representation form is described with examples of application to antibiotic medication selection recommendation and side effect information retrieval, followed by discussions of how adopting this representation form is important and convenient in describing medical knowledge.
ISSN:0195-4210