MYCIN, an early expert system, or artificial intelligence (AI) program, for treating blood infections. In 1972 work began on MYCIN at Stanford University in California. MYCIN would attempt to diagnose patients based on reported symptoms and medical test results.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is largely an experimental science—at least as much progress has been made by building and analyzing programs as by examining theoretical questions. MYCIN is one of several well-known programs that embody some intelligence and provide data on the extent to which intelligent behavior can be programmed.

Shortliffe E. H., Davis R., Axline S. G., Buchanan B. G., Green C. C., Cohen S. N. Computer-based consultations in clinical therapeutics: explanation and rule acquisition capabilities of the MYCIN system.

2015年9月11日 · MYCIN was a clinical decision support system developed in 1972 at Stanford University by Edward Shortliffe as a consultation system that focused on appropriate management of patients who had infections. The system was never publicly used in clinical practice settings.

Explore how MYCIN, an early expert system, transformed medical diagnosis by using AI to provide accurate treatment recommendations.

1978年5月1日 · MYCIN is a computer-based consultation system designed to assist physicians in the diagnosis of and therapy selection for patients with bacterial infections. In addition to the consultation system itself, MYCIN contains an explanation system which can answer simple English questions in order to justify its advice or educate the user.

What does MYCIN do? • Provides consultative advice • Diagnoses bacterial blood infections & meningitis • Recommends drugs • Explains itself

MYCIN is an expert system (Duda and Shortliffe, 1983). By that mean that it is an AI program designed (a) to provide expert-level solutions to complex problems, (b) to be understandable, and (c) to be flexible enough to accommodate new knowledge easily.

1977年10月1日 · This report describes progress in the development of an interactive computer program, termed MYCIN, that uses the clinical decision criteria of experts to advise physicans who request advice ...

The prototypical rule-based expert system is MYCIN, a computer program developed in the 1970's to diagnose and recommend therapy for serious infections. MYCIN is able to explain its reasoning at any point in a consultation by listing the rules …