MYCIN

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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MYCIN was an early medical expert system that both diagnosed bacterial infections of the blood and prescribed drugs for treatment. It used rules with certainty factors.

Also known as: rule, mycin rule

Used in glossary entries: certainty factors, expert system

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