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Expert Systems
ESL Acad. year 2003/2004 Summer semester 6 credits
The use of artifficial intelligence in medicine. Computer-aided medical diagnostics (CAMD), its applications, design of CAMD systems, meaning and the use of knowledge. Principles of decision making in medicine, medical data, interpretation of diagnoses. Uncertainty in medical data, reasoning under uncertainty. Principles of fuzzy representation of uncertain information. Fuzzy logic for CAMD. Structure of expert systems, meaning of knowledge and facts, inference. Representation of medical knowledge. Programming of expert systems. Knowledge engineering, cooperation of a knowledge engineer and a medical expert.
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Advanced knowledge in computer-aided medical diagnostics with particular emphasis to expert systems.
Learning objectives
The course should provide the student with the basic theoretical principles of expert systems and computer-aided diagnostics in medicine. Design of simple diagnostic expert systems used in medicine.
Progress assessment
solving of given projects will be evaluated (maximum 30 points total)