Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001, Volume 2101/2001, 199-202, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48229-6_28

Knowledge Acquisition and Automated Generation of Bayesian Networks for a Medical Dialogue and Advisory System

Joachim Horn, Thomas Birkhölzer, Oliver Hogl, Marco Pellegrino, Ruxandra Lupas Scheiterer, Kai-Uwe Schmidt and Volker Tresp

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Abstract

Probabilistic models such as Bayesian networks [6] are well suited for medical decision support and are the basis of many successful applications [1],[3],[4],[8],[9],[10]. Bayesian networks provide a rigorous and efficient framework for inference, i.e. for calculating the probability of each stochastic variable given a set of observations. However, knowledge acquisition and generation of the network are still demanding tasks when large medical domains have to be modelled.

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