The probabilistic Noisy OR model has been widely used as a means of reducing the amount of probabilistic information that is needed to specify the interaction between groups of variables. Motivated by our work on the diagnosis of faults in satellite subsystems , which required a similar synthesis of partial possibilistic information on interactions , we consider a number of ways of gener-alisin...

Intramural cardiac masses were detected antenatally in three fetuses by echocardiography. The masses were initially thought to be rhabdomyomas. All three pregnancies were terminated and histology showed dystrophic calcification in all, with no evidence of tumour. Therefore, dystrophic calcification of the fetal myocardium may have a similar appearance to single or multiple rhabdomyomas. This sh...

Differential diagnoses of cardiac masses include primary benign and malignant neoplasms, secondary neoplasms, and non-neoplastic masses, such as thrombi. Owing to different therapeutic approaches and the way these affect the prognosis, the early and correct diagnostic determination of the etiology of a cardiac mass is of utmost importance and essential for the appropriate management of patients...