MARVIN, multi-agent softbot to retrieve multilingual medical information on the Web

Baujard, Olivier; Baujard, Vincent; Aurel, S; Boyer, Célia; Appel, Ron D.

doi:10.3109/14639239809001397

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“…• Information agents may help both citizens and health care professionals to obtain up-to-date and relevant health care information from Internet, for example see [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is an elderly care management system [22] in which one agent is associated with each elderly person that is responsible for receiving medical data, giving reminders to the person, and alerting the medical centre if something is wrong. • Information access: the deluge of medical information available on the Internet has led to the development of information agents to collect and organise this information, such as the Multi-Agent Retrieval Vagabond on Information Networks (MAR-VIN) [23], developed by the Health On the Net Foundation and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, or a multi-agent system that helps to manage the UK National Electronic Library for Communicable Diseases [24]. An information agent, based on a user profile, has proactively performed the role of locating, assessing, retrieving, filtering and presenting information from many distributed sources on a periodic basis [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Agent-Based Applications in Health Care

Nealon

Moreno

2003

Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain

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Abstract. In this paper we introduce the main issues related to the deployment of agent-based systems in health care. First, we comment on the characteristics of health care problems and we argue that multi-agent systems are a good choice to tackle problems with these features. This belief is supported with a number of exemplar applications of agent-based systems in medical domains. We also discuss several lines of research that have to be covered before multi-agent systems can be successfully deployed in real health care settings. We conclude that multi-agent systems do have an increasingly important role to play in health care domains, because they significantly enhance our ability to model, design and build complex, distributed health care software systems.

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“…• Information agents may help both citizens and health care professionals to obtain up-to-date and relevant health care information from Internet, for example see [23].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fields Of Application Within Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Agent-Based Applications in Health Care

Nealon

Moreno

2003

Applications of Software Agent Technology in the Health Care Domain

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“…Recently there has been growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care. The most frequent medical domains in which agents have already been considered are: retrieval of medical knowledge from the Internet (Baujard et al, 1998), decision support systems for monitoring and diagnostic tasks or for home care, and distributed patient scheduling within a hospital (Decker and Li, 1998).…”

Section: Multiagent Systems In the Medical Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agent architecture for smart adaptive systems

Lhotská

Štěpánková

2004

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control

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This paper discusses the possibility of utilizing a multiagent system as a platform for development of a smart adaptive system in medicine. A knowledge-based model of the agents' mutual awareness (social knowledge) is presented. The tri-base acquaintance (3bA) model formalizing the agent's social behaviour knowledge and co-operation neighbourhood knowledge is enhanced to support attention focussing and to ensure a holistic complex perception of the problem. The paper focuses on an analysis of the content of 3bA knowledge bases for applications in medical decision support. An architecture for a multiagent system, ADAM, for medical decision support and monitoring is proposed.

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“…HON claims the right to be considered one of these authorities. It first offers medical information search tools such as the MedHunt full text medical search engine powered by MARVIN (Multi-Agent Retrieval Robot on Information Network) (38,39) and HONselect, a multilingual encyclopedia of 33000 medical terms (40).…”

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A Humanist’s Legacy in Medical Informatics: Visions and Accomplishments of Professor Jean-Raoul Scherrer

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Methods Inf Med

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Summary Objective: To report about the work of Prof. Jean-Raoul Scherrer, and show how his humanist vision, his medical skills and his scientific background have enabled and shaped the development of medical informatics over the last 30 years. Results: Starting with the mainframe-based patient-centered hospital information system DIOGENE in the 70s, Prof. Scherrer developed, implemented and evolved innovative concepts of man-machine interfaces, distributed and federated environments, leading the way with information systems that obstinately focused on the support of care providers and patients. Through a rigorous design of terminologies and ontologies, the DIOGENE data would then serve as a basis for the development of clinical research, data mining, and lead to innovative natural language processing techniques. In parallel, Prof. Scherrer supported the development of medical image management, ranging from a distributed picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to molecular imaging of protein electrophoreses. Recognizing the need for improving the quality and trustworthiness of medical information on the Web, Prof. Scherrer created the Health-On-the-Net (HON) foundation. Conclusions: These achievements, made possible thanks to his visionary mind, deep humanism, creativity, generosity and determination, have made of Prof. Scherrer a true pioneer and leader of the human-centered, patient-oriented application of information technology for improving healthcare.

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MARVIN, multi-agent softbot to retrieve multilingual medical information on the Web

Cited by 25 publications

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Agent-Based Applications in Health Care

Agent-Based Applications in Health Care

Agent architecture for smart adaptive systems

A Humanist’s Legacy in Medical Informatics: Visions and Accomplishments of Professor Jean-Raoul Scherrer

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