Bartels P H, Thompson D, Weber J E
Dept. of Statistics, U. of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Pathologica. 1995 Jun;87(3):221-36.
Diagnostic decision support systems provide a quantitative evaluation of diagnostic evidence and the capability to combine diagnostic evidence in such a manner that a numeric measure of certainty in a final diagnostic recommendation results. Generally, expert systems serve to establish a diagnostic decision, inference networks allow a detailed analysis of the diagnostic value of diagnostic clues, case-based reasoning systems are designed to provide a prognostic assessment targeted to an individual patient. In all of these systems, symbolic information, i.e., traditional diagnostic, linguistic terms and concepts are processed and quantitatively evaluated.
诊断决策支持系统提供对诊断证据的定量评估，并具备以一种方式组合诊断证据的能力，从而得出最终诊断建议的确定性数值度量。一般来说，专家系统用于做出诊断决策，推理网络允许对诊断线索的诊断价值进行详细分析，基于案例的推理系统旨在针对个体患者提供预后评估。在所有这些系统中，符号信息，即传统的诊断、语言术语和概念，都要经过处理和定量评估。
