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ANABEL: Intelligent blood-gas analysis in the intensive care unit

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International journal of clinical monitoring and computing

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ANABEL (ANalysis of Acid-Base status by Evaluating Lisp) is a prototype medical intelligent decision-support system aiming to assist clinicians in an Intensive Care Unit environment with the interpretation of blood-gas measurements. Its architecture is based on the merging of representations for declarative (domaindescriptive) and procedural (problem-solving) medical knowledge. The system performs diagnosis in two stages (tentative and differential) by first evaluating elementary computational units of procedural knowledge (procedures) and then abstracting their symbolic outputs in generating text. Thus, a ‘semantic trace’ is built which reflects the system's line of reasoning in reaching its conclusion. This paper describes the design aspects, development and clinical validation of ANABEL.

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Abbreviations

ANABEL:

Analysis of Acid-Base status by Evaluating Lisp

CDS:

Computer-assisted Decision Support

ICU:

Intensive Care Unit

MIDSS:

Medical Intelligent Decision Support System

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  1. Centre for Measurement & Information in Medicine, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    G. Zarkadakis, E. R. Carson & D. G. Cramp

  2. School of Engineering, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    L. Finkelstein

  3. Department of Medical Informatics & Computing, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Pond Street, NW3 2QG, London, UK

    D. G. Cramp

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Zarkadakis, G., Carson, E.R., Cramp, D.G. et al. ANABEL: Intelligent blood-gas analysis in the intensive care unit. J Clin Monit Comput 6, 167–171 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01721029

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