Rule-Based Reasoning For Medical Diagnosis

• Main Author: Bukhari, Mohd Safwan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2009
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9130/1/2009%20-%20Rule-Based%20Reasoning%20for%20Medical%20Diagnosis.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9130/

Medical diagnosis is a major part of health care services. Clinicians are always looking for a way to better the services and quality of healthcare. This project purpose is to develop a knowledge based system in order to assist clinicians in medical diagnosis. The use of such system is expected to increase the quality of medical and healthcare. The system main purpose is to act as a reminder system to the clinicians. Ultimately, the clinicians themselves are the one who will be making the diagnose decision. The system is there to assist them, by giving timeliness medical information, and to help refresh their memory and reduce the error that could happen during diagnosis. Methodology used in developing the system is phased development of the Rapid Application Development methodology. Several versions of the system will be developed. The result will be an expert system that takes input, which are clinical symptoms from user and then list several disease that the patient might have suffered according to the symptoms. Besides that, suggested treatment will also be display for each listed disease. The system also acts as repository system where it has patient records functions. 111