Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to E Kacki.
The paper presents a description of a system that exploits possibilities offered by WWW and assists postgraduate education of physicians preparing for examinations in their medical specialisation. The system, which is a modification of the educational oncological system ONCOL1 designed earlier by the authors, is constructed so as to operate within the Polish medical education structure.
The paper presents a concept of an experimental module designed to recognise spoken utterances that cover a limited range of words indispensable in dialogues with computer medical systems. Research into the recognition of spoken words by a module based on artificial neural network is described. Usefulness of the obtained results for surgery-assisting multimedia systems and for a patient simulator supporting medical education of students in case history-taking and diagnosing is also discussed.
The paper describes a pilot project of TELONC computer system designed to assist oncology education. At present the system is being implemented and its elements are subject to more detailed preliminary examinations. The system is of module structure and at the present stage of implementation special attention is being paid to patterns for histopathological examinations, information on drugs with aggressive impact on human organism together with suitable instructions on their usage, as well as to certain elements of the training simulator module.
The paper presents a concept of a computer system designed to assist a surgeon's work both before and during a surgical operation. The aim of multimedia in the system is to ensure comfort in communication between an operating surgeon and his assistants. The elements of artificial intelligence, on the other hand, are to assist the surgeon in taking optimal decisions in difficult and untypical situations.
The paper presents a concept of an educational system for medical students designed to help them learn taking case history and diagnosing oncological patients. The system is a modification of the SYMULPA system worked out by the authors and implemented and tested at the Chemotherapy Clinic of the Medical Academy of Lódź. The main changes lie in the introduction of multimedia to the system, which improves communication capabilities of the system and enables a wider range of results to be considered and examined during case history taking.
Certain problems exist in the automation of knowledge acquisition (identification of phenomena, their description, formalization and coding), for medical diagnosis, therapy and scientific investigations. Issues concern the comparison of various approaches and their ability to be implemented and utilized.
In this paper, the application and use of microcomputers as an educational tool in oncology education is presented. The software packages of the system consists of two basic parts: exercises dealing with different subjects of oncology and a training module of diagnosis. The system STUD2 worked successfully in the Oncology Department of the Medical University of Lodz.