Wearable AI-Powered Decision Support for Time-Critical Medicine

Wearable AI-powered trauma-care system (1992), demonstrating the power of delivering handsfree assessments and recommendations in time-critical settings. The system employed speech understanding--enhanced with inferences about likelihood of different utterances, context, heads-up display, and a Bayesian-network--based trauma-care diagnostic system that reasoned about the criticality of injuries from observations, and that employed value-of-information to recommend the next best patient findings to evaluate. The system was implemented on an early portable PC that was attached to the caregiver's belt. The project was partly funded by DARPA.

Handsfree AI-powered trauma decision-support (1992). Eric Horvitz, playing role of paramedic, and Jim White, starring as injured cyclist, demonstrate handsfree trauma decision support system, employing sequential diagnosis.

E. Horvitz and M. Shwe, Handsfree Decision Support: Toward a Non-invasive Human-Computer Interface, Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Toward Cost-Effective Clinical Computing, November 1995.

E. Horvitz, Handsfree Decision Support, First Workshop on Wearable Computing, August 1996.

Short video showing use of the system.

Longer video with additional background and details on Bayesian-network--powered sequential diagnosis with an abdominal pain knowledge base.

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