[net.ai] Seminar - Expert System for Medical Consultation

Shortliffe@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (06/26/84)

From:  Ted Shortliffe <Shortliffe@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>

         [Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]

There will be a special seminar presented by Mario Fieschi from Marseilles
on Tuesday, July 10, from 2:30-3:30pm in the TC-135 conference room at the
medical school.  Mario has done some interesting work on medical expert
systems, and is spending a few months at MIT with Peter Szolovits (who was on
his thesis committee).  He will be visiting Stanford from July 9-11.

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        Speaker:     Mario Fieschi, MD, PhD
        Affiliation: University of Marseilles, France
        Title:       SPHINX: An Expert System for Medical Consultations
        Place:       Room TC-135, Medical School
        Time:        Tuesday, July 10, 2:30-3:30pm

        I will present an outline of the program SPHINX, designed for the
definition of medical knowledge and construction of a rule-based system,
currently being used in:

        . Therapeutic decisions : Application in diabetes
        . Diagnostic decisions : Application in jaundice
        . Tool for education : Application in jaundice