An Intelligent
Autonomous Agent for Medical Monitoring and Diagnosis
Michal Ļurdina
Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Information Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Ilkovičova 3, 831 02 Bratislava, Slovakia
Elaborated according to: Hayes-Roth B. et al, Guardian: A Prototype Intelligent Agent for Intensive-Care Monitoring, Journal Of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 4, pp. 165-185, 1992
Abstract: Computer technology has a great impact on monitoring and diagnosis in medicine. It is reasonable to consider the employment of an intelligent autonomous agent intended as knowledge-based system. Such an intelligent agent according to its knowledge is capable of (a) sensing a range of patient data, (b) construction and implementation of short-term and long-term therapy plans, (c) detection, diagnosis and correction of immediate disease conditions, (d) control of designated patient-management parameters, (e) recommendation of diagnostic and therapeutic actions to physicians, (f) explanation of actions and (g) patient presentation and question answering. Most of these features are implemented by the prototype named Guardian which was created to validate the given agent. Architecture and knowledge base of the agent is described using the Guardian as reference. Studying this prototype one can get sufficient overview of solutions in the class of monitoring and diagnosis tasks.