DESIGN OF CONSISTENT SYSTEM FOR RADIOLOGISTS TO SUPPORT BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS
Boris Kovalerchuk, Evgenii E. Vityaev, James F. Ruiz · 1997
The overall purpose of this study is to develop a prototype radiologic consultation system. The system should provide a second diagnostic opinion based on similar cases, incorporating the experience of many radiologists, their diagnostic rules and a data base of previous cases. The system allows a radiologist to enter the description of a particular case using the lexicon such as BI-RADS of American College of Radiology and retrieve the second diagnostic opinion (probable diagnosis) for a given case. The system also allows a radiologist to get more important information in comparison with known Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD) systems. These advances are based on a new computational intelligence technique. We implemented a rule-based prototype diagnostic system. The diagnosis is based on the opinions of radiologists in combination with the statistically significant diagnostic rules extracted from the available data base.