Data creating, storage and processing system.

摘要

Apparatus for the creation, editing and utilising a knowledge base which contains textual information, quantitative information and pictorial images. A computer system comprised of text and image input devices, a display, a mass storage unit for the knowledge base and a programmed processor. When used as an expert authoring system, for example, in medical applications, features which are characteristic of respective conditions in a disease are established by the author and values are assigned thereto, thus creating a knowledge base of features having associated values. This created information is used by the author to evaluate what he observes in a patient or histological sample. The "valuing" of these previously established features within the parameters for values that also were established previously form a case record that also includes one or more pictorial images of valued features. The retrievability of case records and editing of valued features insures internal consistency of the knowledge base.