Some observations on fuzzy diagnosis and medical computing.
Wechsler has advocated the use of fuzzy logic for medical diagnosis, but it is pointed out that simpler systems have proved more successful than is apparent from his paper. The proposal raises a broad range of issues concerning the role of sophisticated information-processing techniques in the development of medical computing. These issues are discussed and it is suggested that a more evolutionary view of this development would be of greater benefit in the long run.
D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D008722:Methods