Molino G, Molino F, Torasso P, Console L, Ardissono L, Pogliano P
Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, Universita' di Torino Italia, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino, Italia.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1992:344-8.
The package EMPTY has been developed with the aim of providing a tool based on well assessed methodological principles which can support both the organisation and use of medical knowledge for diagnostic and educational purposes. EMPTY is domain-independent and results in two interactive programs: ASK guides the acquisition of medical knowledge and RUN supports medical decision-making and provides facilities for medical education. The knowledge bases developed on ASK have a standard formal structure: they include taxonomies, definitions and descriptions of diseases, clinical findings and investigations; production rules for activation and refinement of diagnostic hypotheses; frame-like profiles of diseases; and quantitative criteria for scoring the clinical evidence on the base of available data.
“空包”（EMPTY）软件包的开发目的是提供一种基于经过充分评估的方法原则的工具，该工具可支持为诊断和教育目的而进行的医学知识组织与应用。“空包”与领域无关，它产生两个交互式程序：“询问”（ASK）指导医学知识的获取，“运行”（RUN）支持医学决策并提供医学教育设施。在“询问”基础上开发的知识库具有标准的形式结构：它们包括疾病、临床发现和检查的分类法、定义及描述；用于激活和完善诊断假设的产生式规则；疾病的框架式概况；以及根据现有数据对临床证据进行评分的定量标准。
