{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"The Role Of Hypothesis in Medical Diagnosis","authors":[{"name":"A. Rubin","slug":"a-rubin","given":"A.","family":"Rubin","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Thia paper describee sole aepecta of a computer eystem for doing medical dlagnoala In the epeclalized field of kidney diseaae. A four-etep process which coneiets of disposing of findings, activating hypotheses, evaluating hypotheses locally and combining hypotheses globally ia eMamined for Its heurletic implications. The work attempts to fit the problem of medical dlagnoeie into the framework of other Artificial Intelligence probleMs and paradigms and in particular eKplorea the notions of pure search vs. heuristic methods, I inearity and interaction, local vs. global knowledge and the structure of hypotheses within the world o·f kidn•y disease.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/135","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0135.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/135.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/bibtex/135","volume":{"slug":"1975","title":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1975","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/","year":1975,"location":"Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR","dates":"","editors":"Patrick Winston and Carl Hewitt","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Miscellaneous Applications Of A.I.","track":"Miscellaneous Applications Of A.I.","number":135,"pages":{"first":856,"last":861},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}