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A medical knowledge-based shell prototype is being developed in Prolog within the Interactive Medical Diagnosis (IMD) project. In contrast with DYSMOR, an early rule-based system for diagnosis of genetic dysmorphic syndromes, the IMD shell allows the structuring of medical knowledge with similarities to that obtained with frame-based systems. This paper summarises this knowledge representation, and presents generic control issues integrated with it.
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Barahona, P., Veloso, M., Amador, R., Menezes, F. (1989). Some Issues in the Control of Interactive Differential Diagnosis. In: Hunter, J., Cookson, J., Wyatt, J. (eds) AIME 89. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93437-7_8
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