Abstract: A graphics endowed, computer-based system, and an associated methodology, for performing diagnoses of medical problem-types. The system and methodology utilize (a) a digital computational engine, (b) a database operatively connected to the engine including a storage medium which contains medical-problem-type-related, anatomical, graphics data components, some of which have characteristics of non-normalization that are linked through relevance short-cutting to other components which have characteristics of normalization, and (c) a user-interactive, graphical interface including a display screen operatively connected both to the engine and to the database, operable under engine control to display selected ones of the mentioned graphics data components in both user-interactive sensitized-input, and user-informative-output, modes during medical problem-type diagnosis performed by the system.

Abstract: A computer-based method and apparatus for assessing problems and situations in a defined knowledge domain, employing both (a) an inferential database of elemental data components, as domain-wide as possible, which are relevant to the domain, and (b) periodic statistical reviews of reported Assessment results in relation to that database to establish the certainty levels of such results. The invention employs nonlinear assessment techniques likenable to human reasoning, and thereby, as well as in other ways, conducts Assessment tasks in a manner that differentiates it from conventional, machine-based, linear problem resolution.