title: [Medical informatics systems exemplified by the diagnosis of equilibrium disorders].
abstract: An interdisciplinary field, namely the differential diagnosis of balance disorders and vertigo, is used to describe how a medical expert system can be developed using modern computer analysis, medical expertise, and human pattern recognition techniques. The advantages, results, and unresolved issues of close cooperation between biomedical engineers and physicians are described. The aim of this cooperation was to ensure that complicated data were presented in simple graphic form and that large amounts of diagnostic data were optimally linked together for the generation of a recommended diagnosis. Similar techniques may usefully be employed in other areas of medicine.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für experimentelle Audiologie und Neurootologie, HNO-Universitätsklinik, Kantonsspital Basel.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Allum
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Honegger
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tschopp
mesh_terms: D002150:Caloric Tests; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D004584:Electronystagmography; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D014717:Vertigo / Q000175:diagnosis; D015837:Vestibular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests
vernacular_title: Medizinische Informatiksysteme am Beispiel der Diagnostik von Gleichgewichtsstörungen.