title: BRAINDEX: an interactive, knowledge-based system supporting brain death diagnosis.
abstract: BRAINDEX (Brain-Death Expert System) is an interactive, knowledge-based expert system offering support to physicians in decision making concerning brain death. The physician is given the possibility of communicating in almost natural language and, therefore, in terms with which he is familiar. This updated version of the system is implemented on an IBM-PC/AT with the expert system shell PC-PLUS and consists of about 430 rules. The determination of brain death is realized with backward chaining and for the optional coma-scaling a forward-chaining mechanism is used.
authors.affiliation: Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute of Medical Informatics, Graz University of Technology.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rom
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grims
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rumpl
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pfurtscheller
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Haase
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface