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Scopeandobjectives
sionmaking[26,201].However,therearemanyfactorscomplicatingeffective
retrievalofevidencefromonlinerepositoriesofmedicalliterature.Theonline
medicalliteratureisvastanditsinvestigationcanrequiresignificanttimeand
effortonbehalfofthephysician.Otherfactorsincludeimpreciseindexing
schemaswhichfailtoadequatelydescribemedicalcontent,andsimplisticand
ineffectivequerymechanisms.Thus,thereisaneedforanewmethodologyfor
evidenceindexingandretrievalthatwilladdresstheseshortcomingsbyallowing
forautomaticprovision(withoutrequiringthephysiciantospecifyaquery)of
availableevidencerelevantinthecurrentcontextofapatient-physicianencoun-
ter.SuchmethodologycanbeemployedbyICDSSstoenhancerecommenda-
tionsgeneratedbydecisionmodelsorsuggestionselaboratedbyphysicianswith
relatedevidence,resultinginmoreinformeddecisions.
1.3.Objectives
Themajorobjectivesofthiscontributioncorrespondtothethreegroupsof
motivationspresentedinSection1.2andarethefollowing:
Toproposeanewconceptualsystemarchitecturethatcanbeusedasablu-
eprintfordevelopingICDSSs.Thisdesignwillallowconstructingsystems
thatsupportphysiciansincompletingalltasksinthedecisionmaking
processandareavailableatthepointofcare.
Toproposedataminingtechniquestoconstructdecisionmodelsfromclin-
icaldata,takingintoaccounttheundesirablecharacteristicsofsuchdata.
Theroughsetapproachallowsadequatehandlingofdataimperfections,
sinceitisabletodealwithincompleteandinconsistentdata,andto
representdiscoveredknowledgeinacomprehensibleformatofrobustde-
cisionrules.Createddecisionmodelsaremeanttobeembeddedin
ICDSSstosupportcliniciansindiagnostictasks.
Toproposeanewframeworkforindexingandretrievalofevidencethatis
relevantinthecurrentcontextofapatient-physicianencounter.Thisme-
thodwillsupplyevidencethatsupportsdiagnosisandtreatment,suggested
eitherbyaphysicianorbyasystem,andmatchesthecharacteristicof
apatient.Implementationoftheproposedmethodframeworkisplannedto
beembeddedinICDSSsforenhancedsupportofthetreatmentplanning
task.
Themajorobjectiveslistedabovecanbefurtherdecomposedintospecific
objectivesofscientificandpracticalnature.Theformerareconcernedwithpro-
posingnewtheoreticalsolutions(architectures,algorithmsandframeworks),and
thelatterfocusonpracticalimplementationandverificationofthetheoretical
proposals.Thespecificobjectivesofthisworkareasfollows: