ERUDIT-Workshop
Fuzzy Diagnostic and Therapeutic Decision Support
11–12 May 2000, Vienna, Austria

Abstract

Fuzzy Constraint Networks for the Recognition of Temporal Patterns in Medical Data

Paulo Félix^1,2, Manuel Lama², Senén Barro², Roque Marín², and Francisco Palacios²

¹Department of Medical Computer Sciences, Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems
University of Vienna Medical School, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

e-mail: paulo.felix@akh-wien.ac.at

²Departamento Electrónica y Computación
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

e-mail: paulo@dec.usc.es

Abstract. This article deals with the applicability of the constraint network formalism in the representation and reasoning on the evolution of patients admitted to a medical unit. This is carried out on the integration of the Multivariable Fuzzy Temporal Profile (MFTProfile) model, which undertakes the recognition of patterns in the evolution of a set of physical parameters; and the Fuzzy Temporal Pattern (FTPattern), which describes a network of hypothetical diagnoses and their corresponding manifestations.

(In: Adlassnig, K.-P. (ed.) Fuzzy Diagnostic and Therapeutic Decision Support. Proc. of the ERUDIT Workshop, Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, Vienna, p.165.)