title: Combining conceptual graphs and argumentation for aiding in the teleexpertise.
abstract: Current medical information systems are too complex to be meaningfully exploited. Hence there is a need to develop new strategies for maximising the exploitation of medical data to the benefit of medical professionals. It is against this backdrop that we want to propose a tangible contribution by providing a tool which combines conceptual graphs and Dung׳s argumentation system in order to assist medical professionals in their decision making process. The proposed tool allows medical professionals to easily manipulate and visualise queries and answers for making decisions during the practice of teleexpertise. The knowledge modelling is made using an open application programming interface (API) called CoGui, which offers the means for building structured knowledge bases with the dedicated functionalities of graph-based reasoning via retrieved data from different institutions (hospitals, national security centre, and nursing homes). The tool that we have described in this study supports a formal traceable structure of the reasoning with acceptable arguments to elucidate some ethical problems that occur very often in the telemedicine domain.
authors.affiliation: Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Génie de Production (LGP), EA 1905, 47 Avenue d׳Azereix, BP 1629, 65016 Tarbes Cedex, France; Université de Toulouse, Faculté de droit, 2 rue du Doyen Gabriel Marty, 31042 Toulouse cedex 9, France. Electronic address: mdoumbou@enit.fr.
authors.forename: Mamadou Bilo
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Doumbouya
authors.affiliation: Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire de Génie de Production (LGP), EA 1905, 47 Avenue d׳Azereix, BP 1629, 65016 Tarbes Cedex, France. Electronic address: bernard.kamsu-foguem@enit.fr.
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kamsu-Foguem
authors.affiliation: Université de Toulouse, Faculté de droit, 2 rue du Doyen Gabriel Marty, 31042 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
authors.forename: Hugues
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kenfack
authors.affiliation: Université de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l׳Alimentation(CSGA), UMR 6265 CNRS, UMR 1324 INRA, 9 E Boulevard Jeanne d׳Arc, Dijon 21000, France; Hôpital Auban Moët, Epernay 51200, France.
authors.forename: Clovis
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foguem
mesh_terms: D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Argumentation; Collaboration; Conceptual graphs; Decision making; Ethical problems; Telemedicine; Traceability