van Ginneken A M, Smeulders A W, Jansen W
Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1987 Nov-Dec;25(3):339-47. doi: 10.1016/0169-2607(87)90093-9.
Diagnostic Encyclopaedia Workstation (DEW) is the name of a digital encyclopaedia constructed to contain reference knowledge with respect to the pathology of the ovary. Comparing DEW with the common sources of reference knowledge (i.e. books) leads to the following advantages of DEW: it contains more verbal knowledge, pictures and case histories, and it offers information adjusted to the needs of the user. Based on an analysis of the structure of this reference knowledge we have chosen AIDA to develop a relational database and we use a video-disc player to contain the pictorial part of the database. The system consists of a database input version and a read-only run version. The design of the database input version is discussed. Reference knowledge for ovary pathology requires 1-3 Mbytes of memory. At present 15% of this amount is available. The design of the run version is based on an analysis of which information must necessarily be specified to the system by the user to access a desired item of information. Finally, the use of AIDA in constructing DEW is evaluated.
诊断百科全书工作站（DEW）是一个数字百科全书的名称，其构建目的是包含有关卵巢病理学的参考知识。将DEW与常见的参考知识来源（即书籍）进行比较，可得出DEW具有以下优点：它包含更多的文字知识、图片和病例史，并且能根据用户需求提供信息。在分析了这些参考知识的结构后，我们选择了AIDA来开发一个关系数据库，并使用视频光盘播放器来存储数据库的图片部分。该系统由数据库输入版本和只读运行版本组成。本文讨论了数据库输入版本的设计。卵巢病理学的参考知识需要1至3兆字节的内存。目前只有该容量的15%可用。运行版本的设计基于对用户为访问所需信息项必须向系统指定哪些信息的分析。最后，评估了AIDA在构建DEW中的使用情况。
