Bayesian Network Based Intelligent Pediatric System
In this paper, a Bayesian Network (BN) based system
is presented for providing clinical decision support to healthcare
practitioners in rural or remote areas of India for young infants or
children up to the age of 5 years. The government is unable to
appoint child specialists in rural areas because of inadequate number
of available pediatricians. It leads to a high Infant Mortality Rate
(IMR). In such a scenario, Intelligent Pediatric System provides a
realistic solution. The prototype of an intelligent system has been
developed that involves a knowledge component called an Intelligent
Pediatric Assistant (IPA); and User Agents (UA) along with their
Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). The GUI of UA provides the
interface to the healthcare practitioner for submitting sign-symptoms
and displaying the expert opinion as suggested by IPA. Depending
upon the observations, the IPA decides the diagnosis and the
treatment plan. The UA and IPA form client-server architecture for
knowledge sharing.
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Handbook for IMNCI (Integrated Management of Neonatal and
Childhood Illness)", 2003.
[2] Nealon, J. and Moreno, A., "The application of agent technology to
health care", Proceedings of the Workshop AgentCities: Research in
Large-scale Open Agent Environments, in the 1st International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS
ÔÇÿ02), pages 169-73, Bologna, Italy, 2002.
[3] Lieberman, H. and Mason, C. , "Intelligent agent software for medicine",
Stud Health Technol Inform ÔÇÿ02, No. 80, pages 99-109, 2002.
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Optimization and Management of Clinical Processes", Proceedings of
the 16th European Conference on Artifical Intelligence (ECAI-04)-The
2nd Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, 2004.
[5] Susan L. Mabry, Caleb R. Hug, Russell C. Roundy. "Clinical Decision
Support with IM-Agents and ERMA Multi-agents," cbms, page. 242,
17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
(CBMS'04), 2004.
[6] Ludger Zachewitz, " A multi-agent system for Establishing electronics
Healthcare record ", ECAI 2004 16th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence -Workshop 7: Agents Applied in HealthCare , pages. 31-37,
August 2004.
[7] Greenwood, S., Nealon, J.L. and Marshall, P., "Agent-Based User
Interface Adaptivity in a Medical Decision Support System" in
Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain,
Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, Birkhäuser Verlag,
Basel, pages 35-48, 2003.
[8] Nealon, J.L. and Moreno, A.,"Agent-Based Applications in Health Care"
in Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care
Domain , Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, Birkhäuser
Verlag, Basel, pages 3-18, 2003.
[9] Riaño, David, Prado, Susana, Pascual, Antonio and Martín, Silvestre, "A
Multi-Agent System Model to Support Palliative Care Units",
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical
Systems, 2002.
[10] Vincenzo Della Mea, "Agents acting and moving in healthcare scenario:
a paradigm for telemedical collaboration", IEEE Transaction on
Information Technology in Biomedicine. pages 10-13, 2001
[11] Hashmi, Zafar Iqbal , Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza and Cheah, Yu-N , "An
Intelligent Agent-based Knowledge Broker for Enterprise-wide
Healthcare Knowledge Procurement", pages. 173, Proceedings of the
15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2002.
[12] Vassilis G. Koutkias, Ioanna Chouvarda, and Nicos Maglaveras, "A
Multiagent System Enhancing Home-Care Health Services for Chronic
Disease Management", IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in
Biomedicine. Volume 9, issue 4, pages 528-537, December 2005.
[13] Tian, Jiang and Tianfield , Huaglory, "A Multi-agent Approach to the
Design of an E-medicine System", MATES 2003, LNAI 2831, pages
85-94, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg ,2003
[14] V.K. Mago, M.S. Devi, "A Multi-agent Medical System for Indian Rural
Infant and Child Care", International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, 2007, pp. 1396-1401.
[15] Fabio Bellifemine, A. Poggi, and G. Rimassi, "JADE: A FIPA-compliant
agent framework,"in Proceedings of the Practical Applications of
Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, pages 97- 108, April 1999. IJCAI-
07.
[1] World Health Organization (WHO) and Government of India," Students-
Handbook for IMNCI (Integrated Management of Neonatal and
Childhood Illness)", 2003.
[2] Nealon, J. and Moreno, A., "The application of agent technology to
health care", Proceedings of the Workshop AgentCities: Research in
Large-scale Open Agent Environments, in the 1st International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS
ÔÇÿ02), pages 169-73, Bologna, Italy, 2002.
[3] Lieberman, H. and Mason, C. , "Intelligent agent software for medicine",
Stud Health Technol Inform ÔÇÿ02, No. 80, pages 99-109, 2002.
[4] Heine, Christian , Kirn, Stefan, and Herrler, Rainer, "Agent-based
Optimization and Management of Clinical Processes", Proceedings of
the 16th European Conference on Artifical Intelligence (ECAI-04)-The
2nd Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, 2004.
[5] Susan L. Mabry, Caleb R. Hug, Russell C. Roundy. "Clinical Decision
Support with IM-Agents and ERMA Multi-agents," cbms, page. 242,
17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
(CBMS'04), 2004.
[6] Ludger Zachewitz, " A multi-agent system for Establishing electronics
Healthcare record ", ECAI 2004 16th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence -Workshop 7: Agents Applied in HealthCare , pages. 31-37,
August 2004.
[7] Greenwood, S., Nealon, J.L. and Marshall, P., "Agent-Based User
Interface Adaptivity in a Medical Decision Support System" in
Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain,
Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, Birkhäuser Verlag,
Basel, pages 35-48, 2003.
[8] Nealon, J.L. and Moreno, A.,"Agent-Based Applications in Health Care"
in Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care
Domain , Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, Birkhäuser
Verlag, Basel, pages 3-18, 2003.
[9] Riaño, David, Prado, Susana, Pascual, Antonio and Martín, Silvestre, "A
Multi-Agent System Model to Support Palliative Care Units",
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical
Systems, 2002.
[10] Vincenzo Della Mea, "Agents acting and moving in healthcare scenario:
a paradigm for telemedical collaboration", IEEE Transaction on
Information Technology in Biomedicine. pages 10-13, 2001
[11] Hashmi, Zafar Iqbal , Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza and Cheah, Yu-N , "An
Intelligent Agent-based Knowledge Broker for Enterprise-wide
Healthcare Knowledge Procurement", pages. 173, Proceedings of the
15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2002.
[12] Vassilis G. Koutkias, Ioanna Chouvarda, and Nicos Maglaveras, "A
Multiagent System Enhancing Home-Care Health Services for Chronic
Disease Management", IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in
Biomedicine. Volume 9, issue 4, pages 528-537, December 2005.
[13] Tian, Jiang and Tianfield , Huaglory, "A Multi-agent Approach to the
Design of an E-medicine System", MATES 2003, LNAI 2831, pages
85-94, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg ,2003
[14] V.K. Mago, M.S. Devi, "A Multi-agent Medical System for Indian Rural
Infant and Child Care", International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, 2007, pp. 1396-1401.
[15] Fabio Bellifemine, A. Poggi, and G. Rimassi, "JADE: A FIPA-compliant
agent framework,"in Proceedings of the Practical Applications of
Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, pages 97- 108, April 1999. IJCAI-
07.
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is presented for providing clinical decision support to healthcare
practitioners in rural or remote areas of India for young infants or
children up to the age of 5 years. The government is unable to
appoint child specialists in rural areas because of inadequate number
of available pediatricians. It leads to a high Infant Mortality Rate
(IMR). In such a scenario, Intelligent Pediatric System provides a
realistic solution. The prototype of an intelligent system has been
developed that involves a knowledge component called an Intelligent
Pediatric Assistant (IPA); and User Agents (UA) along with their
Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). The GUI of UA provides the
interface to the healthcare practitioner for submitting sign-symptoms
and displaying the expert opinion as suggested by IPA. Depending
upon the observations, the IPA decides the diagnosis and the
treatment plan. The UA and IPA form client-server architecture for
knowledge sharing.", keywords = "Network, Based Intelligent, Pediatric System", volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "105-5", }
