CASE-BASED REASONING FOR MEDICAL DECISION-SUPPORT TASKS - THE INRECA APPROACH

We describe an approach for developing knowledge-based medical decisio n support systems based on the new technology of case-based reasoning. This work is based on the results of the Inreca European project and preliminary results from the Inreca + project which mainly deals with medical applications. One goal was to start from case-based reasoning technology for technical diagnosis and 'scale-up' to more general non- technical decision support tasks as typically given in medical domains . Inreca technology has been used to build an initial decision support system at the Russian Toxicology Information and Advisory Center in M oscow for diagnosing poison cases caused by psychotropes. (C) 1998 Els evier Science B.V.