Expert system for a neurosurgical clinic — Standardization and optimization of the interface between clinical information retrieval system and expert system

Abstract

In the course of the project Neurosurgical Expert System for the Support of Decisins in Dignosis and Therpy research work has also been done to facilitate an efcient integration of the expert system within the environment of a clinical information retrieval system. The achieved improvement of the interface concern the way of Inserting new patient data in the information system, the portability of the sofware in relation to the underlying database management system and performance increasing measures with regard to extracting information out of the datbase as the input facts of the expert system.