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            the same time, the service asks which values of which signs   and the personalization to the patient, (iii) the transparency
            need to be obtained additionally.                  of all applicable knowledge, (iv) the explainability of advice
              The new cloud service and a declarative method for   based on the essence of the knowledge and with a link
            accessing it (based on the existing solver) demonstrate the   to the source, and (v) the integrability of ExClDSS with
            feasibility of the technique and approach for evolving KESs   neural network services, capable of inputting data from
            and the adequacy of the proposed infrastructure for the   a structured document, such as the medical history. Our
            development and ongoing evolution of KESs.         participation in piloting the (Ex)ClDSS in some medical
                                                               clinical institutions aligns with the rhetoric of conferences
            7. Conclusion                                      emphasizing the importance of AI for healthcare.
            The application of the proposed approach ensured the   Some of the limitations of the study include the lack of
            construction of scalable medical software services to   pre-existing converters of formalized knowledge (e.g., in
            support specialists of different profiles at different stages of   the Protégé paradigm) into our development and support
            work. It has been demonstrated that the proposed method   environment (this would provide an opportunity for both
            for producing medical software assistants brings them to   the integration of high-quality knowledge and the quality
            the level of explainable AI, which is the consequence of the   control of the accumulated archives of precedents), a high
            interpretability of clinical guidelines and knowledge about   “entry threshold” to the IACPaaS platform for Python-
            the course of diseases and their management.       savvy programmers, and insufficient attention to colorful
              The   proposed  methodology   and  production    visualization tools and flexibility of data input.
            environment for viable systems proved easy to learn and   Today, we are helping to bridge the gap between AI
            convenient for teamwork. For a medical diagnostic system,   innovation and real-world applications. The experience of
            each significant knowledge extension (more than 20 such   moving to trial operations in 2024 has shown that doctors
            acts were performed in total) required from 5 h to 2 working   welcome such important general characteristics of these
            days for an expert, 5 – 8 h for quality control, 20 min for   systems. These include the ability to explain hypotheses
            an architect, and without a programmer, which would be   (results), a mechanism for adding specific knowledge (e.g.,
            unattainable  in  another  production  environment.  After   new in the clinical information guidelines), and specific
            each update, the product characteristics analysis showed   properties of specific software systems (for risk assessment,
            that the results were consistent with the case samples   diagnosis, and prognosis). Doctors particularly appreciate
            received from real practice.                       systems that facilitate a dialogue to increase the result’s
              Further research should focus on integrating the   accuracy. For treatment-related software systems, the
            developed tools with textual facts, knowledge parsers, and   ability to apply knowledge from modern, regularly
            third-party diagnostic  and  predictive tools. A  detailed   updated clinical research is also crucial. Developers of
            study is required to demonstrate whether the components   ExClDSS, using our technology, emphasize the importance
            working with structured information, verbal text, images,   of features such as procedures for regular evaluation of the
            and digital arrays can be combined into a single complex.   knowledge base by subsets of precedents (from archived
            This approach would save valuable time for users in critical   sets and cases from the practice of specialists), as well as
            areas of activity.                                 reading and directly evaluating the knowledge contained
                                                               in a specific system.
              Work is currently underway to expand the capabilities
            of the approach further. Today, the bottleneck for us is an   As technology developers, we consider it important to
            adaptable  user  interface.  The  technology  allows  you  to   have a procedure to verify the accuracy or correctness of
            generate three user interfaces based on the explanation   hypotheses based on any subsets of precedents provided
            ontology, but these features are insufficient. We are currently   by clients or potential users. Therefore, we believe there is
            working on creating tools for automatically generating an   potential for this ontological technology to bridge the gap
            interface based on the user model, considering the usability   between AI innovations and their real-world applications.
            requirements.                                      Acknowledgments

              The main contributions of the study are: (i) the
            automation of multiple physician tasks by filling a single   None.
            structured “medical history” (integrated with full electronic   Funding
            medical record), (ii) the integration of formalized
            knowledge from clinical guidelines and other reliable   The work was supported by the Ministry of Education and
            sources to satisfy both the relevance of the methods used   Science of Russia (No.: FWFW-2021-0004).


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