Probabilistic similarity networks
By: David E. Heckerman.
Series: ACM doctoral dissertation awards ;; 1990; ACM doctoral dissertation award ;; 1990.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Artificial intelligence -- Medical applications.; Expert systems (Computer science); Medicine -- Decision making -- Data processing.; Lymph nodes -- Diseases -- Diagnosis -- Data processing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Figures
pagenum: xi; title: List of Tables
pagenum: xiv; title: Foreword
pagenum: xv; title: Preface
pagenum: xix; title: A Guide for the Reader
pagenum: xxi; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xxiii; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1.1
title: Pathfinder: A Normative Expert System
pagenum: 3; label: 1.1.1
title: A Pathfinder Dialog
pagenum: 5; label: 1.1.2
title: Diagnosis: A Decision
pagenum: 13; label: 1.1.3
title: A Problem with Knowledge Acquisition
pagenum: 13; label: 1.2
title: Similarity Networks and Partitions
pagenum: 16; label: 1.3
title: Historical Background and Contributions
pagenum: 17; label: 1.3.1
title: Medical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence
pagenum: 17; label: 1.3.2
title: Decision Analysis
pagenum: 22; label: 1.4
title: Overview of the Book
pagenum: 26; label: 2
title: Similarity Networks and Partitions: A Simple Example
pagenum: 27; label: 2.1
title: Similarity Networks: The Construction of a Knowledge Map
pagenum: 27; label: 2.1.1
title: Composition of a Similarity Network
pagenum: 27; label: 2.1.2
title: A Valid Knowledge Map
pagenum: 33; label: 2.1.3
title: An Exhaustive Construction
pagenum: 34; label: 2.1.4
title: Advantages of Using Similarity Networks
pagenum: 35; label: 2.1.5
title: Soundness and Consistency: Theoretical Considerations
pagenum: 36; label: 2.1.6
title: Assertions of Asymmetric Conditional Independence
pagenum: 41; label: 2.2
title: Partitions: The Assessment of a Knowledge Map
pagenum: 42; label: 2.2.1
title: Use of Similarity Networks for Assessment
pagenum: 42; label: 2.2.2
title: Use of Partitions for Assessment
pagenum: 44; label: 2.2.3
title: Partitions and Classification Hierarchies
pagenum: 46; label: 2.2.4
title: Representation of Subset Independence in Ordinary Knowledge Maps
pagenum: 49; label: 2.2.5
title: Research Related to Partitions
pagenum: 51; label: 3
title: Theory of Similarity Networks
pagenum: 53; label: 3.1
title: Background
pagenum: 53; label: 3.2
title: Overview
pagenum: 61; label: 3.3
title: Definitions and Examples
pagenum: 64; label: 3.4
title: Soundness: Preliminary Results
pagenum: 71; label: 3.5
title: Consistency: Preliminary Results
pagenum: 75; label: 3.6
title: Soundness: Ordinary Similarity Networks
pagenum: 86; label: 3.7
title: Consistency: Ordinary Similarity Networks
pagenum: 89; label: 3.8
title: Another Definition of Ordinary Similarity Networks
pagenum: 93; label: 3.9
title: Proof of Exhaustiveness
pagenum: 97; label: 3.10
title: Use of Similarity Networks for Assessment
pagenum: 98; label: 3.11
title: Summary
pagenum: 101; label: 4
title: Pathfinder: A Case Study
pagenum: 105; label: 4.1
title: History of Pathfinder
pagenum: 105; label: 4.2
title: Highlights of Knowledge-Base Composition
pagenum: 106; label: 4.2.1
title: Similarity Network
pagenum: 107; label: 4.2.2
title: Partitions
pagenum: 116; label: 4.3
title: Construction Statistics
pagenum: 118; label: 4.4
title: Insights
pagenum: 123; label: 4.4.1
title: Insights About Similarity Networks
pagenum: 123; label: 4.4.2
title: Insights About Partitions
pagenum: 126; label: 4.4.3
title: An Insight About Probability Assessment
pagenum: 127; label: 4.5
title: The Pathfinder Inference Algorithm
pagenum: 129; label: 5
title: An Evaluation of Pathfinder
pagenum: 133; label: 5.1
title: Selection of Cases
pagenum: 133; label: 5.2
title: Entry of Features
pagenum: 133; label: 5.3
title: Phase 1: An Expert-Rating Metric
pagenum: 134; label: 5.4
title: Phase 2: A Case-by-Case Analysis
pagenum: 135; label: 5.4.1
title: Causes of Increased Diagnostic Accuracy
pagenum: 136; label: 5.4.2
title: Causes of Decreased Diagnostic Accuracy
pagenum: 137; label: 5.5
title: Phase 3: A Decision-Theoretic Metric
pagenum: 137; label: 5.5.1
title: Gold-Standard Distributions
pagenum: 138; label: 5.5.2
title: A Utility Model for Diagnosis
pagenum: 139; label: 5.5.3
title: The Computation of Inferential Loss
pagenum: 144; label: 5.5.4
title: Results
pagenum: 145; label: 5.6
title: Discussion
pagenum: 146; label: 6
title: Conclusions and Future Work
pagenum: 149; label: 6.1
title: Weaker Conditions for Soundness
pagenum: 149; label: 6.1.1
title: Local Knowledge Maps for More Than Two Diseases
pagenum: 149; label: 6.1.2
title: Distinguished Node with Predecessors
pagenum: 149; label: 6.1.3
title: Multiple Hypotheses
pagenum: 150; label: 6.2
title: Applications Other Than Coherent Knowledge Acquisition
pagenum: 157; label: 6.2.1
title: Inference and Explanation
pagenum: 157; label: 6.2.2
title: Heuristic Applications
pagenum: 159; label: 6.2.3
title: Utility Assessment
pagenum: 160; label: 6.3
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 160; label: A
title: Background
pagenum: 163; label: B
title: Proof of Theorems and Notation
pagenum: 193; label: C
title: Glossary of Pathfinder Terms
pagenum: 211; label: D
title: Evaluation Results
pagenum: 219; label: E
title: Transformation for Multiple Hypotheses
pagenum: 221; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 223; title: Index
pagenum: 231; title: Notation
pagenum: 235