A User Vocal Interface for the Intra-Operative Staging

In this paper the Authors present the prototype of a vocal interface for the storing in real time of intra-operative staging informations into a knowledge base of an expert system and, at the same time, into a medical record of a data base integrated with it. A brief discussion about the medical problem (the pancreatic cancer) is made, and the acquisition of the staging informations by voice is presented. Finally, the vocal query language is discussed, and an example by visual representation of a partial result of the staging is shown.