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Introduction

What is artificial intelligence? In short, artificial intelligence (AI) is the the art of creating intelli­gent machines. It divides more or less into two schools: symbolic AI and compu­tational intelli­gence. Symbolic AI is one of the oldest approaches within AI. It deals with expert systems, case-based reasoning (CBR), behavioural AI and Bayesian networks. Compu­tatio­nal intelli­gence is a more recent approach. It covers neural networks, evolu­tionary models and fuzzy systems. Due to real world inter­action, AI research is also inter­ested in robotics.

What is medical informatics? In short, medical informatics (MI) is a science developing methods for medical data pro­cess­ing. It covers a variety of disciplines: medical classi­fication and coding, medical image pro­cessing, medical decision support and depart­ment systems, bio­sta­tis­tics and bio­signal analysis, health infor­mation systems, medi­cal com­puter-based edu­cation and training, clinical support systems, medical tele­commu­nica­tion and net­working etc.

What is medical artificial intelligence? Medical artificial intelligence (MAI) started with AI programs that performed dia­gnosis and recommen­ded therapies. This focus has broadened meanwhile. Today, medical arti­ficial intelli­gence covers also moni­toring, infor­mation retrieval, image pro­cess­ing and recog­nition, labo­ratory infor­mation systems, medical edu­cation, and much more. Due to its objec­tive, medical arti­ficial intelli­gence is the inter­section of infor­mation science, arti­ficial intell­igence, medi­cine and health care.

Services of this Site

Meva. Medical information retrieval is one of the fastest-growing MAI disci­plines. Due to the elec­tronic availa­bility of more and more articles, scien­tists are able to retrieve infor­mation of interest in short time. With PubMeds database, the scien­tific commu­nity can access over 12 million cita­tions to date! But a simple search in PubMed will often result in a very long cita­tion list which is hard to analyze. Iden­tifi­cation of insti­tutio­nal or author profiles by counting cita­tion fields will be time-consuming. On this site, you can use Meva to solve this problem. Meva is a MedLine Post­processor, a medical data mining service analyzing PubMed literature search results from PubMed. Meva condenses the endless list of a MedLine retrieval outcome into a well-structured result, showing a graphical represen­tation of counts and relations of biblio­graphic Med­Line fields. [...]

Intelligent agents. Besides, some "classic" AI programs are provided by this site. Chat bots (avatars) can act as an intelligent human-com­puter inter­face. Eliza is the well­known arti­ficial therapist. It was one of the first AI programs in the sixties and shows some fasci­nating aspects, so it is still worth studying its behaviour. The bot tries to rephrase the questions of the client and reacts on certain keywords. If no keyword is found, Eliza replies with fixed phrases to keep the con­ver­sation going. The Eliza chat bot on this site is a modified example of the original. [...]

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