title: Fundamentals of clinical methodology: 1. Differential indication.
abstract: Progress in the theory and practice of artificial intelligence in medicine requires awareness of basic issues in medical problem solving. To stimulate discussion and research on this subject, in a series of articles some logical, methodological and meta-theoretical problems of clinical practice will be studied. The present paper reconstructs clinical decision-making as a computable process of action planning.
authors.affiliation: University of Münster Medical Institutions, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sadegh-Zadeh
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003657:Decision Making; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011340:Problem Solving