NESTOR swMATH ID: 22096 Software Authors: Cooper, G.F. Description: NESTOR: A Computer-Based Medical Diagnostic Aid that Integrates Causal and Probabilistic Knowledge. n order to address some existing problems in computer-aided medical decision making, a computer program called NESTOR has been developed to aid physicians in determining the most likely diagnostic hypothesis to account for a set of patient findings. The domain of hypercalcemic disorders is used to test solution methods that should be applicable to other medical areas. A key design philosophy underlying NESTOR is that the physicians should have control of the computer interaction to determine what is done and when. In order to provide such controllable, interactive aid, specific technical tasks to be addressed. The unifying philosophy in addressing them is the use of knowledge-based methods within a formal probability theory framework. A user interface module gives the physician control over when and how these tasks are used to aid in diagnosing the cause of a patient’s condition. This dissertation presents the problems that are addressed by each of the three tasks, and the details of the methods used to address them. In addition, the results of an evaluation of the hypothesis scoring and search techniques are presented and discussed. Additional keywords: artificial intelligence; expert systems; medical applications; computer aided diagnosis; medical computer applications. Homepage: http://www.dbmi.pitt.edu/node/51148 Related Software: TETRAD; DENDRAL; ElemStatLearn; MICE; pcalg; impute; GeNIe; C4.5; UCI-ml; OEIS Cited in: 27 Publications all top 5 Cited by 38 Authors 4 Shimony, Solomon Eyal 3 Cooper, Gregory F. 2 Dagum, Paul 2 Gordon, Jean 2 Luby, Michael G. 2 Pearl, Judea 2 Shortliffe, Edward H. 2 Sy, Bon K. 1 Charniak, Eugene 1 Chen, Daqing 1 Chrisman, Lonnie 1 Clancey, William J. 1 Di, Ruohai 1 Evdokimova, Marina A. 1 Feelders, Ad J. 1 Ganjali, Mojtaba 1 Gao, Xiaoguang 1 Güntzer, Ulrich 1 Guo, Zhigao 1 Kießling, Werner 1 Kwisthout, Johan 1 Maslennikov, Evgeny D. 1 Monti, Stefano 1 Neapolitan, Richard E. 1 Niloofar, Parisa 1 Nosikov, Valery V. 1 Ren, Hao 1 Santos, Eugene jun. 1 Savkin, Igor A. 1 Suermondt, H. Jacques 1 Sulimov, Alexey V. 1 Sulimov, Vladimir B. 1 Thöne, Helmut 1 van der Gaag, Linda C. 1 Wellman, Michael P. 1 Wen, Wilson X. 1 Yang, Yu 1 Zateyshchikov, Dmitry A. all top 5 Cited in 6 Serials 11 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 10 Artificial Intelligence 2 Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 2 Journal of Applied Statistics 1 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 1 Mathematical Biosciences Cited in 5 Fields 24 Computer science (68-XX) 4 Statistics (62-XX) 2 Mathematical logic and foundations (03-XX) 2 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 1 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) Citations by Year