title: A knowledge based system for analysis of gated blood pool studies.
abstract: A system for obtaining a complete diagnostic description of an image sequence taken in nuclear medicine from the human heart has been developed, implemented, and tested. The knowledge about these images is represented in a semantic net, conclusions are drawn by a production rule approach, and scoring of alternative diagnoses is based on fuzzy membership functions. On the low level, image pixels are smoothed and organ contours are extracted; these are the input for the high level processing. Tests with several image sequences gave correct descriptions as compared to the diagnosis of a physician.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung), University Erlangen-Nürnberg, West Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niemann
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bunke
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sagerer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feistel