HMI

I shall describe briefly some early work in applying computing systems to clinical laboratory, diagnosis, and medical records problems. If we compare the early work with what can be done now, we shall see many examples of enormous improvements in speed ...

As agreed with your organizers, this will be a somewhat personal history. They have given me permission to recall how I came to work with Ed Feigenbaum on DENDRAL, an exemplar of expert systems and of modeling problem-solving behavior. My recollections ...

The reconstruction of history is always a difficult task. The important decisions, the critical issues never seem to be adequately documented and cannot easily be recalled. It is difficult enough in affairs of national importance to try to establish “...

The LINC represents one of the earliest attempts to put the stored program computer into the form of a general instrument for laboratory use. In a deliberate departure from the technology of Timesharing then just beginning nearly two decades of ...

The Brain Research Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit of the UCLA Medical School, supporting basic research in fields which contribute to an understanding of brain mechanisms and behavior. In 1960 the School of Medicine was relatively young,...

The processing of biomedical signals took many steps forward in the two decades that followed the introduction of digital computers to the field in the late 50s. Along with my colleagues at the Central Institute for the Deaf and at the Biomedical ...

The clinical laboratory environment represents a microcosm in which practical solutions to operational problems in medical informatics have gone hand in hand with the development of laboratory instrumentation and computer technologies. These ...

Until the mid 1960's we had two separate streams of development of medical information systems. One proceeded from efforts under the Hill-Burton Program to develop management systems for hospitals and community health planning, with little stress placed ...

As I scanned through old papers and reports in preparation for these remarks, I became depressed in the “sameness” of those proposals and descriptions with what is happening today. Then I realized there are major differences - today's systems work and ...

During my tenure as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, 1955 to 1970, two points became clear in regard to diagnosis in internal medicine. The first was that the knowledge base in that field had become vastly too ...

Methods of artificial intelligence were gradually introduced into clinical decision-making research from 1970 to 1974. Evolving from pattern recognition and general A.I. problem-solving ideas, such methods helped researchers crystallize the notions of ...