HealthAgents: distributed multi-agent brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis

  • Authors:
  • Horacio González-Vélez;Mariola Mier;Margarida Julià-Sapé;Theodoros N. Arvanitis;Juan M. García-Gómez;Montserrat Robles;Paul H. Lewis;Srinandan Dasmahapatra;David Dupplaw;Andrew Peet;Carles Arús;Bernardo Celda;Sabine Huffel;Magí Lluch-Ariet

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas, Valencia, Spain;Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas, Valencia, Spain;University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;University of Birmingham and Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat de València and Instituto de Salud Carlos III, València, Spain;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;MicroArt S.L. Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 08028

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present an agent-based distributed decision support system for the diagnosis and prognosis of brain tumors developed by the HealthAgents project. HealthAgents is a European Union funded research project, which aims to enhance the classification of brain tumors using such a decision support system based on intelligent agents to securely connect a network of clinical centers. The HealthAgents system is implementing novel pattern recognition discrimination methods, in order to analyze in vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and ex vivo/in vitro High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (HR-MAS) and DNA micro-array data. HealthAgents intends not only to apply forefront agent technology to the biomedical field, but also develop the HealthAgents network, a globally distributed information and knowledge repository for brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis.