PMACLIN@UTMEM1.BITNET (06/26/88)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 88 17:01 EDT From: PMACLIN%UTMEM1.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: oral surgery expert system proposal To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU X-Original-To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU, PMACLIN Two of us -- a faculty member in the College of Dentistry and a knowledge engineer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee at Memphis -- have developed the following proposal: Develop an expert system to teach undergraduate oral surgery students the most appropriate means of patient evaluation and thereby provide the best treatment plans for patients at our clinics. Students will enter facts relating to specific patients into a database on a Macintosh II. Using expertise in the knowledge base, the computer will determine appropriate preoperative patient evaluation and then print those findings for students to use in patient treatment and study later. Patient histories and data in the database will be used for further research and evaluation. Programming, hardware and development will cost an estimated $25,000. THE BIG QUESTION: Does anyone out there know any possible places for funding of this project? Any ideas for sources of funding would be appreciated. Thanks much. Contact BHIPP@UTMEM1 or PMACLIN@UTMEM1. Dr. B.R. Hipp (901 528-6234) or Philip Maclin The University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN.