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Papa, Frank; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1990
In this study an artificial intelligence assessment tool used disease-by-feature frequency estimates to create disease prototypes for nine common causes of acute chest pain. The tool then used each subject's prototypes and a pattern-recognition-based decision-making mechanism to diagnose 18 myocardial infarction cases. (MLW)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Construct Validity, Decision Making