This book presents the research efforts in the U. S. in artificial intelligence application techniques to medical decision making. It has grown out of a Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine presented at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Biography
Peter Szolovits is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A specialist in artificial intelligence (AI) with an emphasis on medical applications, he is currently concerned with fundamental issues of representation and reasoning, including protocol analysis to discover how clinicians reason about probability and causality, and with programs which model human expert performance in some areas of medical diagnosis and care.
