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MEDCAT: an APL program for medical diagnosis, consultation, and teaching

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, Volume 15, Issue 4

Pages 308 - 314

https://doi.org/10.1145/255315.255705

Published: 12 May 1985 Publication History

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This is a description of MEDCAT, a computer program which makes diagnoses, explains each step in its reasoning in response to questions, increases its knowledge and reasoning ability by conversing with expert physicians, and uses its logical and communicative skills to help and evaluate medical students in the proper approach to medical diagnosis. The mechanism for each of these features is discussed. MEDCAT is coded in APL and implemented on a 68000 based microcomputer.

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MEDCAT: an APL program for medical diagnosis, consultation, and teaching
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad Volume 15, Issue 4

May 12, 1985

304 pages

ISSN:0163-6006

DOI:10.1145/255315

Editor:
Jerry R. Turner

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APL '85: Proceedings of the international conference on APL: APL and the future
June 1986
304 pages
ISBN:0897911571
DOI:10.1145/17701
Editor:
Jerry R Turner

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 12 May 1985

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