Case-Based Decision Support and Experience Management for Ultrasonogrphy

We describe the FM-Ultranet approach to provide decision support and experience management for a medical doctor in the course of conducting an ultrasonographical examination of a fetus in the mother’s uterus. Based on the medical background and the requirements of the examination we introduce a knowledge representation of fetal malformation and its utilization in a Case-Based Reasoning system to assist the examiner. We conclude with a description of our results from working with domain experts and give directions for future work.