Neural Network and Rules-based Filter for Diagnostic System.
Francesco Pia, Andrea Casanova, Alessandra Fanni, Stefano Mariotti · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · 2001
The use of computerized support to the medical diagnosis is a domain in which the principal difficulties are that only few experienced physicians are available because of their multiple clinical duties and above all due to the particular difficulty in knowledge domain representation. Aim of this work was to assure that an integrated application of Neural Networks and filter rules could be applied to a complex diagnosis problem such as the diagnosis of different types of hyperthyroidism. In fact these pathologies require a particular attention on the coming about of certain clinical reports in the moment when one wants to perform a computerized analysis.