Selected topics in medical artificial intelligence

the long version

"The book contains a collection of current papers in the field of medical artificial intelligence. The contributions center on the following three topics: the use of causal models in medical expert systems; the problems of knowledge acquisition and knowledge verification in medical expert systems; and the problems of evaluating medical expert systems. These areas all pose questions of particular research interest. For each area the book includes a chapter giving an overview of the subject and then presents several papers where leading specialists discuss their experiences with particular projects in addressing these problems. The book will be of interest to those in medical artificial intelligence and in medical computing in general, as well as to expert system designers in other fields."--Publisher description (LoC).