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title: "A Multi-Agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care"
authors:
  - "Vijay Kumar Mago"
  - "M. Syamala Devi"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/225"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0225.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2007
pages: "1396-1400"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# A Multi-Agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care

Vijay Kumar Mago, M. Syamala Devi

*Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1396-1400.

## Abstract

In this paper, a Multi-agent System (MAS) is presented for providing clinical decision support to healthcare practitioners in rural or remote areas of India for young infants or children up to the age of 5 years. The government is unable to appoint child specialists in rural areas because of inadequate number of available pediatricians. It leads to a high Infant Mortality rate (IMR). In such a scenario, software agents provide a realistic solution. The agent-based prototype has been developed that involves a knowledge component called an Intelligent Pediatric Assistant (IPA); and User Agents (UA)along with their Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). The GUI of UA provides the interface to the healthcare practitioner for submitting sign-symptoms and displaying the expert opinion as suggested by IPA. Depending upon the observations, the IPA decides the diagnosis and the treatment plan. The UA and IPA form client-server architecture for knowledge sharing.