EMYCIN
Shell derived from MYCIN with its medical rules removed, providing a reusable inference engine for building new rule-based expert systems.
2 milestones
PUFF expert system interprets pulmonary function tests at Stanford
In 1983, Janice S. Aikins, John C. Kunz, and Edward H. Shortliffe of Stanford University published a description of PUFF, a rule-based expert system that automated interpretation of pulmonary function test data at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, producing physician-reviewed diagnostic reports without manual analysis.
MYCIN: A Rule-Based Expert System for Infectious Disease Diagnosis, Developed at Stanford University
Beginning around 1972, Edward Shortliffe at Stanford University developed MYCIN, a rule-based expert system written in Lisp that used approximately 600 if-then rules to diagnose bacterial blood infections and recommend antibiotic treatments adjusted for patient body weight, establishing a widely studied model for clinical decision support.