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Some mathematical aspects of the diagnostic process. II: A mathematical model of electrocardiographic diagnosis

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In a previous paper (Bartholomay, 1971), a general mathematical model of the medical diagnostic process was described. The present paper amounts to a relization of that process in terms of conventional 12-lead electrocardiographic diagnosis as enunciated by Dr. Harold D. Levine (1966) in the course of a collaborative study by Dr. Levine and the present author at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of the Harvard Medical School between 1963 and 1966. The main details of the cognitive component of that model are described in detail here. The model has been programmed onto a computer system consisting of an analog-digital converter and general purpose digital computer and amounts to a simulation of Dr. Levine’s electrocardiographic analysis procedure.

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  1. Anthony F. Bartholomay

    Present address: Department of Community Medicine, CMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School, 08854, Piscataway, New Jersey

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  1. Department of Mathematical Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, 43614, Toledo, Ohio

    Anthony F. Bartholomay

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Bartholomay, A.F. Some mathematical aspects of the diagnostic process. II: A mathematical model of electrocardiographic diagnosis. Bltn Mathcal Biology 35, 535–547 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02575196

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