TY - GEN
T1 - Bodily systems and the modular structure of the human body
AU - Smith, Barry
AU - Papakin, Igor
AU - Munn, Katherine
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Medical science conceives the human body as a system comprised of many subsystems at a variety of levels. At the highest level are bodily systems proper, such as the endocrine system, which are central to our understanding of human anatomy, and play a key role in diagnosis and in dynamic modeling as well as in medical pedagogy and computer visualization. But there is no explicit definition of what a bodily system is; such informality is acceptable in documentation created for human beings, but falls short of what is needed for computer representations. Our analysis is intended as a first step towards filling this gap.
AB - Medical science conceives the human body as a system comprised of many subsystems at a variety of levels. At the highest level are bodily systems proper, such as the endocrine system, which are central to our understanding of human anatomy, and play a key role in diagnosis and in dynamic modeling as well as in medical pedagogy and computer visualization. But there is no explicit definition of what a bodily system is; such informality is acceptable in documentation created for human beings, but falls short of what is needed for computer representations. Our analysis is intended as a first step towards filling this gap.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0242339501
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-39907-0_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-39907-0_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0242339501
SN - 3540201297
SN - 9783540201298
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 86
EP - 90
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2003, Proceedings
T2 - 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence on in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2003
Y2 - 18 October 2003 through 22 October 2003
ER -