An expert system for psychiatric diagnosis using the DSM-III-R, DSM-IV and ICD-10 classifications

Making a systematic and comprehensive psychiatric evaluation of mental disorders in a patient can be a rather complex and involving process. We describe an expert system, MILP, which is designed to produce such systematic diagnoses of mental disorders using selected categories from the classification and diagnostic guidelines published in DSM-III-R, DSM-IV and ICD-10. An innovative part of the MILP design is the incorporation of constraint-based reasoning as a key part of the system. We believe that the MILR design gives a flexible framework which is suitable in general for the automated diagnoses of large classes of mental disorders.