Cognitive Reasoning in UBIAS Systems Supporting Interpretation of Medical Images

Cognitive processes that occur in the human brain as part of the processes of perception, of acquiring information/data, then analysing, interpreting, recognising and understanding it, and also as part of the reasoning process have become the basis for the development of computer systems for cognitive data analysis. A characteristic feature which distinguishes cognitive data analysis systems from other intelligent information systems used to interpret and analyse data is the process of semantic data analysis conducted in the course of interpreting the meaning of the analysed data. This process can be executed thanks to the precise model structures, parameters and indicators collected in the system (in the form of a database). This publication presents cognitive systems called UBIAS (Understanding Based Image Analysis Systems) which are used to analyse and interpret medical image data. These systems have been used, inter alia, to support diagnostic and therapeutic tasks in the process of diagnosing foot bone lesions.