Fuzzy cognitive maps for medical decision support - a paradigm from obstetrics.

Medical Decision Support Systems can provide assistance in crucial clinical judgments, particularly for inexperienced medical professionals. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) is a soft computing technique for modeling complex systems following an approach similar to human reasoning and decision-making. FCMs successfully represent knowledge and human experience, introducing concepts to represent the essential elements and the cause and effect relationships among the concepts to model the behavior of any system.