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ESTEEM (European Standardised Telematic Tool to Evaluate EMG Knowledge-Based Systems and Methods): AIM Project A2010.

S Vingtoft·M Veloso·A Fuglsang-Frederiksen·B Johnsen·A Vila·P Barahona·P Fawcett·I Scofield·A Ljørring·G Otte
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ESTEEM is an AIM project which is primarily concerned with how to develop, integrate and clinically test knowledge-based systems for electromyography (EMG) in order to get them generally acceptable, useful and applicable into disseminated clinical routines. A medical workstation entitled the 'EMG-Platform' on which different kinds of application modules including KBSs can be interfaced to a kernel is being developed. Accordingly, an EMG communication protocol is being developed. The ESTEEM consortium is composed of a technical specialist group and a group of clinical experts in EMG from seven European countries. The last group has, besides extensive data collection for building up a multicentre EMG database, agreed on a common EMG terminology and a subsequent general EMG data set specification which covers the informatic needs for describing an EMG examination of different 'EMG schools'.

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S Vingtoft, M Veloso, A Fuglsang-Frederiksen, B Johnsen, A Vila, P Barahona, P Fawcett, I Scofield, A Ljørring, G Otte. 1994. ESTEEM (European Standardised Telematic Tool to Evaluate EMG Knowledge-Based Systems and Methods): AIM Project A2010.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-2607(94)90017-5

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