title: Instantiating and monitoring treatment protocols.
abstract: This paper presents a system for protocol-based treatment planning, plan execution, and execution monitoring. The approach, named SPIN, is developed as a component of the Guardian system. Guardian is an experimental architecture for intelligent patient monitoring and control. The paper describes and illustrates SPIN in a clinical scenario.
authors.affiliation: Rockwell International Science Center, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uckun
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted