US-United Kingdom Collaborative Research on Intelligent Instrumentation

该奖项将支持范德比尔特大学智能系统中心的Janos Sztipanovits博士和Benoit Dawant博士以及英国伦敦城市大学医学测量和信息中心的E.R.Carson博士在智能仪器方面的合作研究。这项合作的目的是为两家机构的研究人员提供机会，将他们的想法和经验结合起来，推动智能仪器的总体水平，更具体地说，开发用于重症监护医学的新一代患者监护系统。范德比尔特大学电气工程系的主要研究目标之一是开发通用、智能、实时和人工智能技术，以提高仪器的灵活性。城市大学在医疗器械领域有很长的研究历史，并对将新技术应用于重症监护监测问题感兴趣。这一合作努力将结合两个小组的互补专业知识。多图架构将为该项目的整体设计和实施提供框架。拟议合作的主要方面将是转让范德比尔特大学开发的技术，获取和表示城市大学现有医学专业知识的知识库，以及系统原型的实施和评估。最初的技术转让将通过科学报告、选定的出版物和软件交换的方式进行。然后，城市大学将作为测试拟议方法的实验背景。这项测试的结果将报告给范德比尔特大学，并作为修改和改进整体架构的动力。

This award will support collaborative research in intelligent instrumentation between Dr. Janos Sztipanovits and Dr. Benoit Dawant, Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, and Dr. E. R. Carson, Center for Measurement and Information in Medicine, City University, London, England. The objective of this collaboration is to provide opportunities for the researchers at both institutions to combine their ideas and experience to advance the state-of-the-art in intelligent instrumentation in general, and more specifically, to develop a new generation of patient monitoring systems to be used in critical care medicine. One of the main research targets in the Vanderbilt University Department of Electrical Engineering has been the development of generic intelligent real-time and artificial intelligence techniques to improve the flexibility of the instruments. The City University has a long research history in the area of medical instrumentation, and is interested in applying new technologies to the problem of critical care monitoring. This collaborative effort will combine the complementary expertise of the two groups. Multigraph Architecture will provide the framework for the overall design and implementation of this project. The main aspects of the proposed collaboration will be the transfer of the technology developed at Vanderbilt University, the capture and the representa- tion in terms of knowledge-bases of the medical expertise available at City University, and the implementation and evaluation of a system prototype. The initial transfer of technology will be done by means of scientific reports, selected publications, and exchange of software. City University will then serve as an experimental background for testing the proposed approach. Results of this test will be reported to Vanderbilt University and serve as a driving force for modifications and improvement to the overall architecture.