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...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...
...PUFF and ONCOCIN are brainchildren of SUMEX-AIM (Stanford University Medical Experimental Computer-Artificial Intelligence in Medicine). SUMEX is an interlocking of two sophisticated computer facilities at Stanford in California and Rutgers University in New Jersey, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Half the transcontinental system's capacity is devoted to development of an artificial intelligence for diagnostic medicine. At the moment, SUMEX's two bi-coastal computers also link 20 research projects in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Says Saul Amarel, chairman of the Rutgers department of computer science: "The purpose of SUMEX...
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