Herbalist Diagnostic Support System: A Prototype
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Date
2009Author
Terah, Stephen A A
Type
ThesisLanguage
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The Herbalist Diagnostic Support System has been built using expert system techniques.
Expert Systems are useful in capturing rare knowledge from a human expert into a
computer system, thereby allowing a non-expert to be able to use the knowledge captured
intothe computer to solve problems from the associated problem domain. The knowledge
acquisition bottleneck is a fundamental problem in building expert systems. This work
gives a report on how a Herbalist Diagnostic Support System has been built in spite of the
knowledge acquisition bottleneck. In this report a framework where the knowledge based
system approach is applied to assist attend to patients in a herbalists setting has also been
formulated. The resulting prototype that was designed was evaluated by doctors,
herbalists and system analysts, and found to be acceptable. They also found the system
interface acceptable.
Publisher
School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi
Subject
Diagnostic Support SystemDescription
MSc