title: Visual knowledge processing in computer-assisted radiology: a consultation system.
abstract: This paper presents Visual Heuristics, a consultation system for diagnosis based on thorax radiograph recording. Visual Heuristics uses both prototypical representations of physiological and pathological states and reasoning aimed to infer conclusions from pathological or physiological conditions, establishing correspondences between pathological or physiological states and semantic descriptions of images. Images are assembled with groups of descriptors that guide the recognition process, achieving the possibility of comparisons with real images on the basis of 'expected' images. The system may be employed to generate a dynamic atlas that does not contain proper images, but generates them.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Radiology, University of Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bonadonna
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gaglio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giacomini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ruggiero
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software