Medicine
2020
Despite all standardization efforts, medical diagnosis is still considered an art. Much of this status is owed to the fact that medical diagnosis requires a proficiency in coping with uncertainty simply not found in today’s computing machinery. Offering a generic and powerful framework for the remodeling of existing systems and the paradigms they are based on, fuzzy set theory promises to be a valuable contribution to the advancement of medical computing, particularly as implementations begin to proliferate. Here, we provide an overview of fuzzy medical systems covering three different aspects of diagnosis: scoring, consultation, and diagnostic monitoring.