TY - GEN
T1 - Finding similar patients in a multi-agent environment
AU - Mansour, Ayman
AU - Ying, Hao
AU - Dews, Peter
AU - Ji, Yanqing
AU - Yen, John
AU - Miller, Richard E.
AU - Massanari, R. Michael
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Finding similar patients is highly desirable in many clinical applications. In this paper, we address the issue of how to find similar patients in a multi-agent environment where software agents, located in different places, work collaboratively and proactively help one another to empower their human users to achieve a common healthcare goal. We show how the agents, equipped with fuzzy similarity rules developed by the physicians on the team, collaborate to find similar patients in each agent's patient database. We describe the architecture, design and implementation of the system. Using the popular agent language JADE and clinical information on 1,000 patients treated at the Detroit Veterans Affairs Medical Center, we have implemented a five-agent system and generated some preliminary simulation results.
AB - Finding similar patients is highly desirable in many clinical applications. In this paper, we address the issue of how to find similar patients in a multi-agent environment where software agents, located in different places, work collaboratively and proactively help one another to empower their human users to achieve a common healthcare goal. We show how the agents, equipped with fuzzy similarity rules developed by the physicians on the team, collaborate to find similar patients in each agent's patient database. We describe the architecture, design and implementation of the system. Using the popular agent language JADE and clinical information on 1,000 patients treated at the Detroit Veterans Affairs Medical Center, we have implemented a five-agent system and generated some preliminary simulation results.
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U2 - 10.1109/NAFIPS.2011.5752003
DO - 10.1109/NAFIPS.2011.5752003
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79955926755
SN - 9781612849676
T3 - Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS
BT - 2011 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, NAFIPS'2011
T2 - 2011 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, NAFIPS'2011
Y2 - 18 March 2011 through 20 March 2011
ER -