This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Spitzer, K. Articles by Kunze, K. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Spitzer, K. Articles by Kunze, K.

Stroke, Vol 20, 1353-1356, Copyright © 1989 by American Heart Association

ARTICLES

The MICROSTROKE expert system for stroke type diagnosis

K Spitzer, A Thie, LR Caplan and K Kunze
Neurologische Universitatsklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf, Federal Republic of Germany.

MICROSTROKE is a prototype expert system designed to categorize and diagnose stroke types based on clinical information. The knowledge base of MICROSTROKE includes information from large stroke registries. The system first queries the physician-user for details of the patient's history, information about the onset of stroke, accompanying symptoms, and pertinent neurologic findings and then sums the individual data items, factors in the a priori odds, and arrives at the probabilities of different stroke types for a given patient. Specific diagnosis of stroke type includes thrombosis, embolus, lacune, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Stroke type diagnoses by MICROSTROKE were correct in 72.8% of 250 cases in the Hamburg Stroke Data Bank. MICROSTROKE runs on any MS-DOS microcomputer and is intended as a practical aid for physicians not fully familiar with the diagnosis of stroke types.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				Cluster-randomized, controlled trial of computer-based decision support for selecting long-term anti-thrombotic therapy after acute ischaemic stroke QJM, February 1, 2003; 96(2): 143 - 153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				K. Berger, C. S. Kase, and J. E. Buring Interobserver Agreement in the Classification of Stroke in the Physicians' Health Study Stroke, February 1, 1996; 27(2): 238 - 242. [Abstract] [Full Text]