Enabling the use of hereditary information from pedigree tools in medical knowledge-based systems.

The use of family information is a key issue to deal with inheritance illnesses. This kind of information use to come in the form of pedigree files, which contain structured information as tree or graphs, which explains the family relationships. Knowledge-based systems should incorporate the information gathered by pedigree tools to assess medical decision making.

eXiT*CBR: A framework for case-based medical diagnosis development and experimentation.

Objective: Medical applications have special features (interpretation of results in medical metrics, experiment reproducibility and dealing with complex data) that require the development of particular tools. The eXiT*CBR framework is proposed to support the development of and experimentation with new case-based reasoning (CBR) systems for medical diagnosis.

Method: Our framework offers a modular, heterogeneous environment that combines different CBR techniques for different application requirements.