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The Adaptation Problem in Medical Case–Based Reasoning Systems

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Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications - I

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Case-Based Reasoning has become a successful technique for medical applications. However, one of the problems that prevent it from becoming even more wide spread in medicine is the difficulty of carrying out the adaptation task. In Case-Based Reasoning just very few general adaptation techniques exist. Furthermore, in medicine adaptation is often more difficult than in other domains, because usually more and complex features have to be considered. So, in medical applications adaptation usually requires domain specific adaptation rules. Over the years, we have developed a couple of medical case-based systems. In this chapter, we do not present all of them, but only those ones where adaptation was performed in an interesting way. This means, for example, why in specific situations specific adaptation techniques seem to be appropriate or why in other specific situations adaptation might even be rather simple. We do not only summarise our experiences with adaptation in medicine, but we want to elaborate typical medical adaptation problems and hope to indicate possibilities how to solve them.

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Schmidt, R., Vorobieva, O. (2010). The Adaptation Problem in Medical Case–Based Reasoning Systems. In: Montani, S., Jain, L.C. (eds) Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications - I. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 305. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14078-5_6

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