SAGE Guideline Workbench Knowledge Acquisition Wizard

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SAGE Guideline Workbench Knowledge Acquisition
Wizard

• Ravi Shankar
• Stanford Medical Informatics

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Knowledge-Acquisition Wizard
An environment that facilitates the users to
enter, modify and review guideline knowledge
Protégé-2000, a General-purpose
Knowledge- Acquisition Tool
KA Wizard
Custom Guideline Encoding Application
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Knowledge Acquisition Wizard

• Main Functions
• Hides the complexities of the underlying
  computable knowledge model from the user
• Provides intelligent guidance to the user through
  the knowledge acquisition process

• Modes of Operation
• Turbo Tax mode
• Words PaperClip mode

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The Composition of the Knowledge-Acquisition
Wizard
Guideline Patterns
Customized GUI Forms
Library of Guideline Elements
KA Wizard
Step-by-step Guidance
Context-specific Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition WizardCustomized GUI Forms
Guideline Patterns
Customized GUI Forms
Library of Guideline Elements
KA Wizard

• Simple concepts can be logically grouped to be
• acquired via single GUI form
• Complex concepts can be acquired via multiple
  forms or special-purpose widgets

Step-by-step Guidance
Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition WizardGuideline Patterns
Guideline Patterns
Customized GUI Forms
Library of Guideline Elements
KA Wizard

• Encapsulate high-level guideline knowledge.
• Provide a skeletal framework
• Allow reuse of common designs
• Example Recommendation Sets

Step-by-step Guidance
Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition WizardLibrary of Guideline
Elements
Guideline Patterns
Library of Guideline Elements
Customized GUI forms
KA Wizard

• A repository of already entered guideline
  knowledge.
• Example Enrollment criteria
• Promotes reuse

Step-by-step Guidance
Context-specific Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition WizardContext-specific Help
Guideline Patterns

• Tooltips that provide concise definitions of
  guideline elements
• Graphical text that describe the elements.
• Knowledge-acquisition instructions.
• Examples that illustrate the elements

Customized GUI forms
KA Wizard
Library of Guideline Elements
Step-by-step Guidance
Context-specific Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition WizardKnowledge Validation
Guideline Patterns

• Guideline knowledge is validated for
• Consistency
• Appropriate type
• Any other specified constraint

Customized GUI forms
KA Wizard
Library of Guideline Elements
Step-by-step Guidance
Context-specific Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition WizardStep-by-step Guidance
Guideline Patterns

• The encoding process is broken up into
  manageable chunks
• These chunks are modeled as scripts.
• GUI module interprets the scripts
• A sequence of GUI forms is presented to the user
  for knowledge entry.

Customized GUI forms
Library of Guideline Elements
KA Wizard
Step-by-step Guidance
Help
Knowledge Validation
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Knowledge-Acquisition Wizard