On representation of medical knowledge by a binary data model

On representation of medical knowledge by a binary data model Article

Rishe, N. (1987). On representation of medical knowledge by a binary data model . MATHEMATICAL MODELLING, 8(C), 623-626. 10.1016/0270-0255(87)90656-7

A binary data model is shown to be most suitable for representation of medical knowledge, such as description of diseases, symptoms, drugs, drug interaction. The knowledge is represented by a lattice of categories of abstract objects (some of which are included in other categories or intersect them), binary relations among objects of these categories and non-total attributes of these objects. The representation is very flexible for changes both in particular knowledge and in general concepts of knowledge. The model accomodates for uncertainty, conditionality, and incompleteness of information. © 1987.