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HealthAgents: distributed multi-agent brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis

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We present an agent-based distributed decision support system for the diagnosis and prognosis of brain tumors developed by the HealthAgents project. HealthAgents is a European Union funded research project, which aims to enhance the classification of brain tumors using such a decision support system based on intelligent agents to securely connect a network of clinical centers. The HealthAgents system is implementing novel pattern recognition discrimination methods, in order to analyze in vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and ex vivo/in vitro High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (HR-MAS) and DNA micro-array data. HealthAgents intends not only to apply forefront agent technology to the biomedical field, but also develop the HealthAgents network, a globally distributed information and knowledge repository for brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis.

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Abbreviations

API:

Application Programming Interface

DSS:

Decision Support System

EbSS:

Evidence-based Search Service

FIPA:

Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents

GUI:

Graphical User Interface

HAL:

HealthAgents Language

HR-MAS:

High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

LCC:

Lightweight Coordination Calculus

LDA:

Linear Discriminant Analysis

LS-SVM:

Least-Squares Support Vector Machines

LTE:

Long Time Echo

MRI:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MRS:

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

MRSI:

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

OWL:

Web Ontology Language

RDF:

Resource Description Framework

STE:

Short Time Echo

SVM:

Support Vector Machines

YP:

Yellow Pages

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  1. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Horacio González-Vélez & Mariola Mier

  2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Margarida Julià-Sapé & Carles Arús

  3. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Theodoros N. Arvanitis

  4. Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas, Valencia, Spain

    Juan M. García-Gómez & Montserrat Robles

  5. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Paul H. Lewis, Srinandan Dasmahapatra & David Dupplaw

  6. University of Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK

    Andrew Peet

  7. Universitat de València and Instituto de Salud Carlos III, València, Spain

    Bernardo Celda

  8. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Sabine Van Huffel

  9. MicroArt S.L. Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac, 4-6 Torre D, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Magí Lluch-Ariet

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González-Vélez, H., Mier, M., Julià-Sapé, M. et al. HealthAgents: distributed multi-agent brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis. Appl Intell 30, 191–202 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-007-0085-8

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