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_id: '51343'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper presents preliminary work on the formalization of three prominent
    cognitive biases in the diagnostic reasoning process over epileptic seizures,
    psychogenic seizures and syncopes. Diagnostic reasoning is understood as iterative
    exploration of medical evidence. This exploration is represented as a partially
    observable Markov decision process where the state (i.e., the correct diagnosis)
    is uncertain. Observation likelihoods and belief updates are computed using a
    Bayesian network which defines the interrelation between medical risk factors,
    diagnoses and potential findings. The decision problem is solved via partially
    observable upper confidence bounds for trees in Monte-Carlo planning. We compute
    a biased diagnostic exploration policy by altering the generated state transition,
    observation and reward during look ahead simulations. The resulting diagnostic
    policies reproduce reasoning errors which have only been described informally
    in the medical literature. We plan to use this formal representation in the future
    to inversely detect and classify biased reasoning in actual diagnostic trajectories
    obtained from physicians.
author:
- first_name: Dominik
  full_name: Battefeld, Dominik
  id: '91864'
  last_name: Battefeld
  orcid: 0000-0002-5480-0594
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Kopp, Stefan
  last_name: Kopp
citation:
  ama: 'Battefeld D, Kopp S. Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning.
    In: <i>Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning</i>.
    ; 2022.'
  apa: Battefeld, D., &#38; Kopp, S. (2022). Formalizing cognitive biases in medical
    diagnostic reasoning. <i>Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive
    Reasoning</i>. 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR), Trier.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Battefeld_Kopp_2022, title={Formalizing cognitive biases
    in medical diagnostic reasoning}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on
    Formal and Cognitive Reasoning}, author={Battefeld, Dominik and Kopp, Stefan},
    year={2022} }'
  chicago: Battefeld, Dominik, and Stefan Kopp. “Formalizing Cognitive Biases in Medical
    Diagnostic Reasoning.” In <i>Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive
    Reasoning</i>, 2022.
  ieee: D. Battefeld and S. Kopp, “Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic
    reasoning,” presented at the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR),
    Trier, 2022.
  mla: Battefeld, Dominik, and Stefan Kopp. “Formalizing Cognitive Biases in Medical
    Diagnostic Reasoning.” <i>Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive
    Reasoning</i>, 2022.
  short: 'D. Battefeld, S. Kopp, in: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and
    Cognitive Reasoning, 2022.'
conference:
  end_date: 2022-09-23
  location: Trier
  name: 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR)
  start_date: '2022-09-19 '
date_created: 2024-02-14T09:06:04Z
date_updated: 2024-10-31T10:00:01Z
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: '660'
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  date_created: 2024-10-31T09:59:46Z
  date_updated: 2024-10-31T09:59:46Z
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has_accepted_license: '1'
keyword:
- Diagnostic reasoning
- Cognitive bias
- Cognitive model
- POMDP
- Bayesian network
- Epilepsy
- CDSS
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '128'
  name: 'TRR 318 - C5: TRR 318 - Subproject C5'
publication: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning
type: conference
user_id: '91864'
year: '2022'
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