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Title | ||
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A Customisable Framework For The Assessment Of Therapies In The Solution Of Therapy Decision Tasks |
Abstract | ||
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In current medical research, a growing interest can be observed in the definition of a global therapy-evaluation framework which integrates considerations such as patients preferences and quality-of-life results. In this article, we propose the use of the research results in this domain as a source of knowledge in the design of support systems for therapy decision analysis, in particular with a view to application in oncology. We discuss the incorporation of these considerations in the definition of the therapy-assessment methods involved in the solution of a generic therapy decision task, described in the context of Al software development methodologies such as CommonKADS. The goal of the therapy decision task is to identify the ideal therapy, for a given patient, in accordance with a set of objectives of a diverse nature. The assessment methods applied are-based either on data obtained from statistics or on the specific idiosyncrasies of each patient, as identified from their responses to a suite of psychological tests. In the analysis of the therapy decision task we emphasise the importance, from a methodological perspective, of-using a rigorous approach to the modelling of domain ontologies and domain-specific data. To this aim we make extensive use of the semi-formal object oriented analysis notation UML to describe the domain level. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2000 | 10.1016/S0933-3657(99)00029-9 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
therapy decision task, heuristic-multiattribute methods, quality of life measures in health | Decision analysis,Ontology (information science),Data mining,Notation,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Software development process,Medical research,Evidential reasoning approach,Object-oriented analysis and design,Management science | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
18 | 1 | 0933-3657 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.42 | 6 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Angeles Manjarrés Riesco | 1 | 33 | 4.80 |
| Rafael Martínez Tomás | 2 | 27 | 3.41 |
| José Mira | 3 | 543 | 71.44 |