Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence 2780) 9:86-90 (2003)
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Abstract

Medical science conceives the human body as a system comprised of many subsystems at a variety of levels. At the highest level are bodily systems proper, such as the endocrine system, which are central to our understanding of human anatomy, and play a key role in diagnosis and in dynamic modeling as well as in medical pedagogy and computer visualization. But there is no explicit definition of what a bodily system is; such informality is acceptable in documentation created for human beings, but falls short of what is needed for computer representations. Our analysis is intended as a first step towards filling this gap.

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Katherine Dormandy
University of Innsbruck
Barry Smith
University at Buffalo

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