Hematex

Hematex assists in the interpretation of full blood counts and blood smears in a hematology laboratory using information supplied by Technicon H1 blood cell analyzers. The H1 enables a technologist or hematologist to evaluate a patient's blood picture through the interpretation of a combination of numeric results, morphology flags, cytograms, and histograms. By combining this information with the visual evaluation of blood smears, a large number of hematologic diseases can be diagnosed. Hematex extracts information from the H1 and then interprets it, in order to facilitate with the diagnosis of a particular blood disorder.

The system was developed at the University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein,South Africa.

Tolmie, C., et at., Expert system for the interpretation of full blood counts and blood smears in a hematology laboratory, Artif. Intell. Med., vol.3, no.5, pp.271-285, Oct. 1991.