Sistema de Aquisição de Conhecimento para Apoio à Consulta de Subvisão

April 18, 2001

Some medical domains require patient monitoring when the patient has lost some abilities due functional changes at the organ level, caused by a lesion in that organ. Low vision is a particular case of this type of medical domain, and is expressed as a partial vision loss. Most of the time, in emerging domains where the population is reduced (such as Low vision), traditional studies are very difficult to conduct and not statistically representative. This work contributes with the creation of an integrated information system, that supports the entire low vision consultation, and is based on two fundamental components: a transactional system and a knowledge acquisition system. With the transactional system, patient’s data recording/management is done in a distributed way, making it possible to expand the system’s utilization to every consultation of the same type in the different hospitals of a country. The main goal of the knowledge acquisition system is to help on the discovery of relations between the changes at the organ level and the changes at the individual abilities level. This system is based on knowledge discovery from database techniques, and is independent of the database design. Besides the system description, is presented a description of each step of the knowledge acquisition process, referring the most relevant data mining mechanisms, and their compliance to each situation.

Authors in the community:

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  Claudia Martins Antunes

  ist14046

  Affiliations and sources

  IST > DEI

  Departamento de Engenharia Informática

  IST > IDMEC

  Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica

  In: cienciavitae

  ID: 4934090

computer-and-information-sciences - Computer and information sciences

Keywords

• Decision support system for oftalmology
• Data mining
• Inteligent Information Systems

eng - English

http://web.ist.utl.pt/claudia.antunes/artigos/antunes01msc.pdf