Artificial intelligence research in medicine

Abstract

Professor Edward Feigenbaum will open the panel with comments on the current status of the field. Short presentations of specific current research will be made by the panelists: (1) Professor C. Kulikowski of Rutgers describing work on a causal-associative network developed with an associated model of the therapies to serve as a basis of a consultation program in glaucoma; (2) Dr. P. P. Tsiang of University of Missouri and (3) Dr. A. Gevins, University of California Medical Center, discussing their respective papers "Computer Analysis of Chest Radiographs" and "Heuristic Real Time Feature Extraction of the EEG", abstracts of which appear elsewhere in the program booklet; (4) Dr. Bruce Buchanan, on applications of AI to structure elucidation based on gas chromatography/mass spectrometry data; (5) Dr. Edward Shortliffe, Stanford University, on an antimicrobial therapy consultation system utilizing a flexible representation of knowledge and (6) T. Rindfleisch describing SUMEX-AIM, a new nationally shared resource for application of AI to medicine.