A CASE-BASED ASSISTANT FOR DIAGNOSIS AND ANALYSIS OF DYSMORPHIC SYNDROMES

This report describes the development of a case-based reasoning (CBR) system designed to provide assistance to specialists within the dysmor phology field. An interactive CBR model is described which aids medica l experts in arriving at potential diagnoses, and has an explicit lear ning goal in order to provide further analytical assessment of syndrom e categories. The complexity of this real world domain has highlighted a number of important empirical issues with respect to CBR techniques , which are discussed along with the system design.