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LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012)

LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012)

1926 – 2012

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Fred Ledley, Member and Chair of the National Biomedical Research Foundation · email from Fred Ledley · CC BY-SA 3.0

1959 CE

#6908

Reasoning foundations of medical diagnosis.

The beginning of the development of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) — interactive computer programs, or expert systems, designed to assist physicians and other health professionals with decision making …

1965 CE

#7356

Use of computers in biology and medicine.

1974 CE

#6909

Computerized transaxial x-ray tomography of the human body.

Ledley and team developed the developed the ACTA 0100 CT Scanner (Automatic Computerized Traverse Axial)— the first whole-body computed tomography scanner. With G. Di Chiro, A. J. Luessenhop, and H.L. Twigg. For…