A desktop expert system for the differential diagnosis of dementia. An evaluation study.
EVINCE-I is a desktop expert system for the differential diagnosis of dementia, implemented on a personal computer. It is intended to assess the effectiveness of this new technology in modeling a psychiatrist who uses international guidelines for diagnosing dementia. EVINCE-I was tested in diagnosing 19 patients with varying stages of dementia and 10 patients showing other disorders except dementia. EVINCE-I and the human expert were in perfect agreement on the diagnosis of dementia and correlated highly on the diagnosis of dementia of the Alzheimer type and multiple infarct dementia. EVINCE-I thus offers important possibilities as a tool in investigating the data and procedures used by the human expert.
State University of Limburg.
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D000368:Aged; D003663:Decision Trees; D003704:Dementia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results