Online argumentation-based platform for recommending medical literature

Abstract

In medical practice, choosing the correct treatment is a key problem [1]. In this work, we present an online medical recommendation system, RecoMedic, that selects most relevant medical literature for patients. RecoMedic maintains a medical literature repository in which users can add new articles, query existing articles, compare articles and search articles guided by patient information. RecoMedic uses argumentation to accomplish the article selection. Thus, upon identifying relevant articles, RecoMedic also explains its selection. RecoMedic can be deployed using single-agent as well as multi-agent implementations. The developed system has been experimented with by senior medical Ph.D students from SouthernMedical University in China.