A Multi-Agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care
Abstract
In this paper, a Multi-agent System (MAS) is presented for providing clinical decision support to healthcare practitioners in rural or remote areas of India for young infants or children up to the age of 5 years. The government is unable to appoint child specialists in rural areas because of inadequate number of available pediatricians. It leads to a high Infant Mortality rate (IMR). In such a scenario, software agents provide a realistic solution. The agent-based prototype has been developed that involves a knowledge component called an Intelligent Pediatric Assistant (IPA); and User Agents (UA)along with their Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). The GUI of UA provides the interface to the healthcare practitioner for submitting sign-symptoms and displaying the expert opinion as suggested by IPA. Depending upon the observations, the IPA decides the diagnosis and the treatment plan. The UA and IPA form client-server architecture for knowledge sharing.
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Mago and Devi. "A Multi-Agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.Markdown
[Mago and Devi. "A Multi-Agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2007/mago2007ijcai-multi/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{mago2007ijcai-multi,
title = {{A Multi-Agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care}},
author = {Mago, Vijay Kumar and Devi, M. Syamala},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2007},
pages = {1396-1401},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2007/mago2007ijcai-multi/}
}