A transputer-based EMG-system with integrated knowledge-base for diagnostic-support

Abstract

A system is described which should assist the physician during an EMG (electromyographic) examination and in the diagnostic process and should help to reduce the examination time. For the realization of the system, a multiprocessor environment (transputer network) is used to build a fully integrated system on which tasks like data acquisition, signal display in real time, signal processing and analysis with different methods, expert system and general program management can run in parallel and easily communicate with one another. The prototype of the expert system consists of about 200 rules which are responsible for planning the examination process, doing the parameter classification, and giving information about the type of lesion.<>