Medical Informatics Driven by Intelligent Multi-agents

Abstract

To start with, as we all are aware of the fact that over a time period of more than two decades software agent technology represents one of the rapidly developing areas of research. The highlighted achievement of this trend of research was the creation and development of new programming models that address both the basic features of agent-hood (autonomy, reactivity, pro-activity and social abilities) in addition to more advanced, human-like features usually collectively devise in the agent literature as ―mental attitudes‖ (beliefs, desires, intentions, commitments). Agent oriented technologies, artful engineering of agent systems, agent languages, development tools, and methodologies are an active and progressing research area. In this study the contributions of multi-agent systems in medical or health care domain have been reflected. The intent of this research is to do the comparative study of techniques being used in telemedicine with agent. Multi-agent system is most fitting for healthcare hypothesis; it is so because the properties of agent based systems takes care of heterogeneous multiple agents. Data distribution and data management in a vibrant and distributed environment with multi-user cooperation has made multi-agents system even more significant in this arena. This research also provides a hybrid approach which deals with diagnosis and monitoring. This thesis gives the proposed approach for monitoring and regulating observations of the patients who are staying at home. It also gives the diagnosis technique for the patients who belong to unreachable remote areas. An advanced scheme of agent-based healthcare and medical diagnosis system can take care of every stage of patient„s progress such as initial check up, treatment and reports of the patient. A user friendly interface is also required to provide rapid, high performance, reliability and smooth functionality in this regard. Using the knowledge base, collaborative as well as co-operative intelligence agents and residing on a multi-agent platform, that facilitates a communicative task-sharing environment.