MANY CLINICAL SETTINGS REQUIRE WAVEFORM ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES ARE BEING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS FOR ANALYZING WAVEFORM MORPHOLOGY.

MANY CLINICAL SETTINGS REQUIRE WAVEFORM ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES ARE BEING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS FOR ANALYZING WAVEFORM MORPHOLOGY. UNLIKE THE GENERALITY COMMONLY AVAILABLE IN STATISTICAL PACKAGES, THE INABILITY TO TRANSFER SHAPE ANALYSIS PROGRAMS ACROSS PROBLEM AREAS LEADS TO MUCH DUPLICATION OF EFFORT. L.N.K. HAS DEVELOPED A WAVEFORM ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING SYSTEM (WAPSYS), USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS AND SEARCH PROCEDURES, AND AN INTERACTIVE PATTERN ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (IPACS). AS CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED, THE PROGRAM ALLOWS INPUT OF WAVEFORM STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS, BUT THE USER IS REQUIRED TO WRITE SOME SPECIALIZED CODE WHICH MUST BE LINKED WITH THE REST OF THE SYSTEM FOR EACH NEW PROBLEM DOMAIN. THE PURPOSE OF THE PHASE I SEARCH IS TO DESIGN A GENERAL WAVEFORM ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM THAT WILL COMBINE WAPSYS WITH IPACS. THE COMBINED SYSTEM WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED ON AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKSTATION IN PHASE II. THIS WOULD PROVIDE A SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE AND RAPID MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF STATISTICAL AND NONSTATISTICAL STRUCTURE.