Cooperative case-based agents for acute stroke diagnosis

This paper presents a multi-agent case-based system designed to support acute stroke diagnoses and management. Even though an acute stroke can be diagnosed by physicians, the final clinical category and treatment of the stroke often depends on the skills and experience of neurologists in using new technology. From the Spanish Neurological Society a data base of experiences in hospitals have been collected in the last years. From this database, we have designed case-based agents to support diagnosis. These case-based agents keep information about experiences in a single hospital and outline the particular decision criteria employed by the main physician. They collaborate when they show a lack of confidence in the isolated decision problem. In this paper both the multi-agent collaboration mechanism and the case-based decision making process are described.