Description of the product
Modern medicine offers very diverse treatment approaches, which are rapidly evolving through intensive research. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult for healthcare professionals to stay up-to-date and find the best solution from many options for each patient. A medical expert system, like a human expert, helps to find solutions to medical problems.
Functions
Keystone of an expert systems is a knowledge base that represents expert knowledge, such as how to treat a disease. Since this knowledge is often only available in the form of publications or as results of clinical studies, it must be consolidated and converted into a formal knowledge model. During the use of the expert system, this model is then applied to input values, e.g. current blood levels. As a result, the expert system can offer information visualizations up to concrete recommendations for actions.
In the project OnkoLeit a software product of the same name is developed, which supports the treating physician with respect to diagnosis and therapy decisions for oncological diseases.
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB