Using a symbiotic man/machine approach to evaluating visual clinical research data

John M. Long; Erach A. Irani; David W. Hunter; James R. Slagle; John P. Matts; Wilfrido Castaneda; Malcolm Pearce; Joseph Bissett; Henry Sawin; Alan Edmiston; Frederic Weber; Kurt Amplatz; Miguel Sanmarco

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Using a symbiotic man/machine approach to evaluating visual clinical research data

John M. Long, Erach A. Irani, David W. Hunter, James R. Slagle, John P. Matts, Wilfrido Castaneda, Malcolm Pearce, Joseph Bissett, Henry Sawin, Alan Edmiston, Frederic Weber, Kurt Amplatz, Miguel Sanmarco

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Some candidate medical expert system applications have a significant visual component. Knowledge engineers usually dismiss such task domains as potential expert systems applications. Our success in developing ESCA, a system for evaluating serial angiograms, shows that such task domains should not be dismissed so quickly. We used a symbiotic approach between man and machine, where technologists provide the visual skills with an expert system imitating the conceptual skills of the expert, to produce a partially automated system that is more consistent and cost effective than one that is fully manual. The agreement between the system's conclusions and that of a panel of experts is good. The expert system actually has a slightly higher agreement rate with the expert panel than the agreement rate between two expert panel teams evaluating the same film pair.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	327-339
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Medical Systems
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00996583
State	Published - Oct 1988

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Information Systems
Health Informatics
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Using a symbiotic man/machine approach to evaluating visual clinical research data. / Long, John M.; Irani, Erach A.; Hunter, David W.; Slagle, James R.; Matts, John P.; Castaneda, Wilfrido; Pearce, Malcolm; Bissett, Joseph; Sawin, Henry; Edmiston, Alan; Weber, Frederic; Amplatz, Kurt; Sanmarco, Miguel.

In: Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 12, No. 5, 10.1988, p. 327-339.

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Long, John M. ; Irani, Erach A. ; Hunter, David W. ; Slagle, James R. ; Matts, John P. ; Castaneda, Wilfrido ; Pearce, Malcolm ; Bissett, Joseph ; Sawin, Henry ; Edmiston, Alan ; Weber, Frederic ; Amplatz, Kurt ; Sanmarco, Miguel. / Using a symbiotic man/machine approach to evaluating visual clinical research data. In: Journal of Medical Systems. 1988 ; Vol. 12, No. 5. pp. 327-339.

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