title: Diagnostic and prognostic decision support systems.
abstract: Diagnostic decision support systems provide a quantitative evaluation of diagnostic evidence and the capability to combine diagnostic evidence in such a manner that a numeric measure of certainty in a final diagnostic recommendation results. Generally, expert systems serve to establish a diagnostic decision, inference networks allow a detailed analysis of the diagnostic value of diagnostic clues, case-based reasoning systems are designed to provide a prognostic assessment targeted to an individual patient. In all of these systems, symbolic information, i.e., traditional diagnostic, linguistic terms and concepts are processed and quantitatively evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Statistics, U. of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Bartels
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D019044:Image Cytometry; D011379:Prognosis