Updated: Feb 1, 97
ESTEEM

European Standardised Telematic Tool to Evaluate Electromyographic Knowledge-Based Systems and Methods

Project Code: A2010 Project value: 2527 KECU EC contribution: 1318 KECU No of partners: 4 No of countries: 4 Duration: 36 months

Contact Dr. Mario Veloso Hospital Egas Moniz Dept. Neurology Rua da Jungueira 126 P-1300 Lisboa, Portugal Tel.: +351-1-362.00.50 / 362.23.10 Fax: +351-1-363.34.09

Industrialised countries have expressed hopes that expert systems will contribute to a more efficient medicine. Pooling specialised expertise in widely distributed information system over Europe could be a way to overcome the increasing complexity of many medical domains and insure that the most appropriate cure is offered to patients. Prototype research is already done in the USA and in Japan, but Europe, with the diversity of its cultures and its high education level, could become a leader in the domain. ESTEEM approached the problem from a very pragmatic angle. In order to ensure success within a reasonable time, it concentrateed on a well circumscribed domain of medicine: electromyography. Still, it conceived a general tool for developing and testing knowledge based systems but it applied it, as a pilot, only to electromyography. Such a restriction was essential for a critical assessment of the expert systems technique and it was the first step to a generalisation in other medical domains.

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