title: Symbolic reasoning about myocardial scintigrams in PROLOG.
abstract: PROLOG (PROgramming in LOGic) is the declarative programming language at the heart of the Japanese fifth-generation computer project. It is proposed that PROLOG is a suitable tool for symbolic image processing, once standard preprocessing has been done. In the present application, the problem of prediction of coronary anatomy from myocardial scintigrams is addressed. Uncertainty is dealt with by a combination of fuzzy-set theoretic and probabilistic reasoning. Heuristic classification rules are based on clinical experience and on a set of 247 myocardial scintigrams with their corresponding coronary angiograms.
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012984:Software