Multi-Agent Model for Clinical Decision Support System

Abstract

Clinical process contains a highly complex and sensitive set of activities. To minimize errors that may occur during the process, a system called clinical decision support system, or CDSS, has been widely suggested and researched. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been introduced as part of the engine for the CDSS. Unfortunately, due to complexing of the clinical process, to the authors' knowledge, most of works propose that AI is used as small individual process for each of the task required in CDSS. This clearly does not mimic how human works in the real-world clinical process. This chapter discusses a novel AI-based CDSS model, which has been designed based on five senses of human. This results in a model that allows the CDSS system to be incrementally developed and maintained, according to the increasing complexity of human reasoning/decision making activities in the clinical process.