A knowledge acquisition tool in analytical pathology based on multi-media relational database.

The need for a knowledge based expert system for efficient decision making in the field of pathology has been well accepted. To build the knowledge-base for such an expert system is a painstaking task. This work is an attempt to provide the pathologists a powerful and user-friendly tool that will help them in the process of building the knowledge-base for medical diagnosis by closely looking at the specimen images and their extracted feature values. The tool is based on multi-media relational database and software like VAX Rally (4GL), ILIAD and SAS to provide a wide-range comparative study between feature data and image data; and also their statistical analysis.