Computer-based medical consultations, MYCIN

By Edward H. Shortliffe. 1976

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Goal-Based Explanation Evaluation (1991, unknown): “justify system decision-making (Shortliffe, 1976).”
Explaining and Justifying Expert Consulting Programs (1981, background): “…during the course of this research 2 Some medical consultant programs include MYCIN—a program that aids physicians with antimicrobial therapy [Shortliffe76], INTERNIST—a program that makes diagnoses in internal medicine [Pople77] and PIP—a program that makes diagnoses primarily in the area…”
Case-Based Reasoning: A Research Paradigm (1991, unknown): “Early programs such as DENDRAL (Buchanan, Sutherland, and Feigenbaum 1969) and MYCIN (Shortliffe 1976) demonstrated the possibility of simulating the problem-solving ability of human experts, such as chemists or physicians.”
The Use and Effects of Knowledge-Based System Explanations: Theoretical Foundations and a Framework for Empirical Evaluation (1996, background): “Why Are Explanations Provided? MYCIN first introduced the reasons for having an ex planation facility as an integral component of a KBS (Shortliffe 1976).”
Studies of Expertise from Psychological Perspectives (2006, background): “As the field developed and researchers started to address richer, complex, and knowledge-laden task environments, such as medicine (Pauker, Gorry, Kassirer, & Schwartz, 1976; Shortliffe, 1976) and chemical spectral analysis (Buchanan & Feigenbaum, 1978), the need for ever-stronger methods became cle”
The Coming of Age of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (2008, methodology): “Several early AIM systems including Internist-1 [4], CASNET [5], and MYCIN [6], were developed using these shared national resources, supported by the Division of Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health.”
Explanatory Power for Medical Expert Systems: Studies in the Representation of Causal Relationships for Clinical Consultations (1982, background): “One example of this ap proach is the explanation system for MYCIN, our rule based program to assist in the selection of antimicrobial therapy for patients with bacteremia or meningitis [17, 21].”
Emerging paradigms of cognition in medical decision-making (2002, background): “Clancey's research on intelligent tutorial systems (by extending and then reconfiguring MYCIN [72] led to a highly influential cognitive model of medical problem solving [73].”
Geographic Profiling: The Fast, Frugal, and Accurate Way (2004, background): “Such techniques have now been developed and implemented in a variety of contexts, which range from diagnosing and treating infectious diseases (Shortliffe, 1976) to developing winwin agreements in conflict resolution (Sainfort, Gustafson, Bosworth, & Hawkins, 1990).”
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Training and Tutoring (2005, background): “One prominent example, MYCIN, used a complex set of rules to diagnose illness and suggest treatments based on patient statistics and test results [6].”