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A number of calculators that compute the risk of atherosclerosis has been developed and made available on the Internet. They all are based on computing weighted sum of risk factors. We propose instead to use more flexible expert systems to estimate the risk. The goal of the AtherEx expert system is to classify patients according to their atherosclerosis risk into four groups. This application is based on the Nest rule–based expert system shell. Knowledge for the AtherEx was obtained (using the machine learning algorithm KEX) from the data concerning a longitudial study of atherosclerosis risk factors and further refined by domain expert. AtherEx is available for consultations on web.
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Berka, P., Laš, V., Tomečková, M. (2005). AtherEx: An Expert System for Atherosclerosis Risk Assessment. In: Miksch, S., Hunter, J., Keravnou, E.T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527770_11
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