Medical Decision Support with CBR

The increasing use of Electronic Patient Records in hospitals provides vast stores of knowledge. MedicACE is a decision support software tool that aids medical diagnosis by applying a Case-Based Reasoning approach using Electronic Patient Records. Records of previous patients who have similar symptoms and test results to the current patient are retrieved and used to suggest a diagnosis.

The ability of medical systems to explain their decisions is particularly important. MedicACE incorporates novel visualization tools that aim to make knowledge used by the system more transparent to the user in a bid to instil confidence by providing an explanation of the solution.

MedicACE formed part of a demonstration Telemedicine Booth at the Royal Highland Show 2005.