Title
Medical Diagnosis using a probabilistic causal network
Abstract
This paper relates our experience in developing a mechanism for reasoning about thedifferential diagnosis of cases involving the symptoms of heart failure using a causal modelof the cardiovascular hemodynamics with probabilities relating cause to effect. Since theproblem requires the determination of causal mechanism as well as primary cause, the modelhas many intermediate nodes as well as causal circularities requiring a heuristic approachto evaluating probabilities. The method we have...
Year
DOI
Venue
1989
10.1080/08839518908949932
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical diagnosis
Heuristic,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Machine learning,Medical diagnosis,Causal model
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
3
2-3
20
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.67
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William J. Long121827.94